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Max Hymas Obituary
1934 ~ 2025
Bakersfield, California-Max Richards Hymas, age 90, loving husband, son, father, grandfather and great grandfather passed away on July 9, 2025 in Bakersfield, California. He was born on November 17, 1934 in Cedar City, Utah to Charles Alfred and Ruth Richards Hymas.
Max was preceded in death by his eternal sweetheart, Mary Alice Yardley. They were married in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple on June 5, 1959.
Max is remembered for his kind and gentle nature which helped him in his career as a Veterinarian and throughout his church service. He served as the Stake President of the Torrance California Stake, worked in the Jordan River Temple with his wife and was the Sandy Utah West Stake Patriarch. Max served a mission at age 19 for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand and helped build the Hamilton New Zealand Temple. He worked tirelessly on genealogy and indexing and through his unwavering testimony of the gospel, is a strong example of what it is to be Christlike.
Max is survived by his children, Kelly Ann Martinez, Mary Denise Davis, Douglas Max (Brenda) Hymas, Devin Charles (Jill) Hymas and his 15 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on July 19, 2025 at 11:00 am-12:00 pm at the LDS chapel, 1950 N. Coral Canyon Blvd. Washington, Utah. There will be a viewing from 10:00 am-10:50 am at the same location. Interment at the Washington Utah City Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a contribution be made in memory of Max Hymas to the Dementia Society of America by mail to PO Box 600, Doylestown, PA 18901, or online.
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Steven Royall
September 14, 2025
President Hymas was very instrumental in reactivating my parents in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Which changed the course of my life. I am so grateful for his great example and service.
Mary Burkett Goulding
July 20, 2025
Max will be deeply missed. He and Mary were the first people we met when we moved to Coral Canyon. They were the best home teachers imaginable. We knew they genuinely cared.
So sorry I cannot attend his service. On a mission in Argentina.
Love to the Hyman family!
Mary Burkett Goulding
Jay Shields
July 16, 2025
Max has been a good friend since Tooele Jr. High. I had been in his home many times and had conversations with Ruth and "Sheriff" Hymas. Wonderful, exceptional people.
Stake Conference had ended so Max and I got in the car and headed up Middle Canyon. It was early spring and there was still a lot of snow up there. We got stuck and had to walk home through the snow with our Sunday suits and shoes on. Another time we were trying to reach the T on the mountain in an automobile. It was steep and scary and Max was driving. I remember his
leg and foot on the accelerator were shaking badly. I'm grateful to him that we made it safely home.
Max got the prestigious Bausch and Lomb science award when we graduated from High School. I've had contact with him over the years since high school and I have always held him in high esteem as an intelligent and kind man of faith the devotion to his religious convictions. He has always been proud of the Richards name that he bore and well he should. He's a credit to that name which has been prominent in Church history.
And so we express our love for Max and Mary and all their family. It has been an honor to have known Max Richards Hymas.
Jay and Barbara Shields
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