Birth date: Jan 8, 1942 Death date: Apr 28, 2019
Carl Max Barnum 1942 - 2019 Carl Max Barnum, 77, of Payson Utah, passed away from complications from a heart attack, Sunday, April 28, 2019, surrounded by his loving family. Max was born to LaRue Barnum and Wanda Cooper Barnum, Read Obituary
We became quick friends with Max. He introduced us to the funeral plans but didn't pressure us. In March last year we purchased two plans from him, we didn't even know he was ailing. We loved his humor and his testimony he exemplified Daily in his example. We moved to trxas in June and until a question came up regarding our policy,we weren't aware of his passing. He will be missed. God bless you.
Max & I
We started a business together after both our mission
Stacking baled hay for growers we received 5 to 10 cents per bale & made the stacks 22 bales high where ever the farmer’s wanted it.
My younger brother drove tractor for us. He remembers Max will as good fellow and fun to work for! Max made everything fun and will all miss him!
He always called me Cob. That’s an endearing name I’ll miss hearing
He set a great example for all of us
I hope we all enjoy life as much as he did and make the world a better place like he did!
Good bye to my good friend until we meet again
Love you Brother
LeRoy Cobia
Max and Connie lived with us for several weeks in our Guilford CT home and we were honored to host this wonderful couple. He will always be with me because he was kind enough to wire my small barn so..... each and every time I turn on the barn lights I will remember the light he and Connie brought to our home many years ago! I look forward to a joyous reunion one day soon!
Craig Yerkes
Max moved to Las Vegas in the spring of 1964 and was selling Watkins products door to door. He found an apartment in our ward with a couple other single fellows.
He was so handsome and sweet. Loved his voice. I got the bright idea of telling people at church that we were engaged. I have to admit we were kissing cousins. One weekend that summer we went to St. George and stayed with his Grandma Moses.
His best friend in Las Vegas was Kay Peterson who was the brother of our bishop’s wife, Mignon and Art Coombs, a young couple with children. Kay was living with them.
We all participated in a stake young adult a’capella choir after my first year at BYU in the summer of 1965. Walter Fullerton was a high school music teacher and was our conductor. We learned wonderful music and performed in sacrament meetings around the stake. Heavenly Father (Schubert’s Ave Maria), When You Wish Upon A Star, O Clap Your Hands are some that I remember. Walter’s daughter Martha was in the choir and she and Kay were engaged for a while.
That summer he dated a French showgirl Maryse who worked on the strip. Somehow she had met one of the Sampson boys who had returned from a mission in France. Max brought her once to our backyard for a barbecue. It was a rocky relationship, and he soon learned she wasn’t the kind of girl he wanted to marry. He also dated Sally Swain who was a school teacher and older than him. They were engaged for a while.
At the end of the summer, Max and I went up to BYU. I think he was living with Roger in a house on Cedar just east of campus. I lived on campus also. Anita’s future husband Keith and I had an education class together. Anita and Susan and her little boy Kerry were living off campus. It was fun to have everyone there.
Max met his wife Connie that year. She lived a few dorms west of me. She was a very cute red headed girl from Oregon.
Through the years Max made the effort to stay in touch when things were hard in my life. He was always a dear cousin, and he had a big impact on my life, for which I am grateful.
God bless you, Connie, and all your family. He leaves a big hole. It makes me happy that Max is now with his son, parents, grandparents and all the other Cooper and Barnum families who welcomed him home.
Carma Lynne Cooper Hyde
