Julie West Staheli

1939 - 2018

Julie West Staheli
June 25, 1939 - April 23, 2018
Julie West Staheli passed away at her home on April 23rd, 2018. She was born on June 25, 1939, to her parents, Lucille McMullin West and Ray B. West Jr.
Julie attended Utah State University with her husband, Paul Staheli. During their college days she took classes in the Art Department as well as worked in the Theater Arts Department's costume shop and acted in several productions. Her work in the costume shop was where she discovered her affinity for costume design that led to her career as a designer for theater, television and film.
Like her father, Julie was also a talented writer and was recognized for her literary art. Her short story "Killer Horses" won first place in the William Van Wert Award for Fiction from Hidden River Arts; several of her stories where recognized by the League Utah Writers Guild, and she was published in Irreantum, a Mormon literary magazine. San Francisco's Troubador press also published her educational coloring book titled "Kachina Dolls: Color and Cut-Out Collection Adapted from Hopi Originals" for which she created all the art work and wrote the text.
Julie was an artist, intellectual, writer, feminist and creative force. She always set the bar high for herself in everything she did, whether it was her art, her writing, her costume design, her doll-making, her gardening or her mothering of her four children. She is deeply missed and is survived by her husband, Paul Staheli; her four children, Sarah Boyle (Ron Boyle), Heather Staheli, Jessica Staheli and Joshua Staheli (Ashley Wright); and her seven grandchildren Christopher Ezell, Matthew Staheli, Nicholas Ezell, Austin Ezell, Austin Travis, Madelyn Boyle and Audrey Boyle.