Betty Lou Williams, age 90 and longtime resident of Arco passed away Friday, August 26, 2016, at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello from complications of a stroke.
She was born March 18, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Richard Donald Iverson and Emma Lucretia Heath.
At a very young age Betty’s family moved to a farm in Kimberly, Idaho owned by her grandparents, C.M. and Eunice Heath.
During the great depression, when Betty was 8 years old, her mother went to the Panama Canal Zone for one year to work as a government nurse at Gorgas Hospital. Betty and her younger sister Patty stayed behind on the Heath farm in Kimberly.
In 1937, her mother married Geyer McVey, a Twin Falls businessman and in 1940, at the age of 13, Betty and her sister Patty were adopted by Geyer.
As a young lady, Betty enjoyed spending summers at the McVey ranch on Champion Creek near Stanley, Idaho. She had fond memories of the annual cattle drive from Stanley Basin over Galena Summit to Jerome. Betty graduated from Twin Falls High in 1942 and that same year at the age of 16, she began nurse’s training at Salt Lake County General Hospital in Salt Lake City.
To alleviate a critical shortage of nurses during World War II, Congress established the United States Cadet Nurse Corps and Betty enrolled in this program at Salt Lake General to help pay for her nurses training and graduated in 1945. She also received training at Bushnell General Military Hospital in Brigham City, Utah during World War II where she achieved second lieutenant as an Army Cadet Nurse.
One time while traveling home to Idaho from nurses training for Christmas vacation she met her future husband, Joseph LaVon Williams, on a Greyhound bus. They were married March 23, 1945 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple while he was home on leave from the US Navy.
Betty and Joe moved to the Lost River Valley in 1954 and she worked as a registered nurse at the Lost River Hospital for many years until her retirement in 1971.
Betty later obtained certification as a Doctor of Nutripathy from Eck Institute of Applied Nutrition and Bioenergetics in Phoenix, Arizona. She was well known in the Lost River Valley for her knowledge of vitamins, herbs and natural remedies. Joe and Betty always had a fabulous garden and they considered themselves amateur mycologists and enjoyed attending mushroom forays throughout the state. They enjoyed going on rides throughout the valley looking for watercress, mushrooms and asparagus. Backpacking was a favorite family tradition and Betty hiked into Iron Bog Lake with her family at age 71. She was a 4H leader and member of VFW.
Betty loved genealogy and served as a Family History Consultant in the Arco Ward for many years. She also served in the Primary, Young Womens, Relief Society and was also Girls Camp Director at Loristica. Betty and Joe were temple workers in the Idaho Falls Temple, Stake Missionaries and door greeters in the Arco Ward.
She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph LaVon Williams (2012) and daughter Amanda Eunice (1955).
She is survived by children: Barry (Camille) Meridian, ID; Spencer (Valorie) Twin Falls, ID; Mike (Dorothy) Moore, ID; Tim (Ardith) Arco, ID; Susan Fuger (Don) Pocatello, ID; Joseph (Deena) Hurricane, UT; Lucy Rojas (Tony) Moore, ID; brother, Eugene McVey, Boise, ID; and sister, Ella McVey, Jerome, ID; 35 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, September 3, 2016 at the Arco, Idaho LDS Church with a viewing one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery in Arco. The family will meet with friends on Friday evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hawker Lost River Funeral Chapel, 345 Sunset Street in Arco. Condolences may sent to the family at www.hawkerfuneralhome.com
She was born March 18, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Richard Donald Iverson and Emma Lucretia Heath.
At a very young age Betty’s family moved to a farm in Kimberly, Idaho owned by her grandparents, C.M. and Eunice Heath.
During the great depression, when Betty was 8 years old, her mother went to the Panama Canal Zone for one year to work as a government nurse at Gorgas Hospital. Betty and her younger sister Patty stayed behind on the Heath farm in Kimberly.
In 1937, her mother married Geyer McVey, a Twin Falls businessman and in 1940, at the age of 13, Betty and her sister Patty were adopted by Geyer.
As a young lady, Betty enjoyed spending summers at the McVey ranch on Champion Creek near Stanley, Idaho. She had fond memories of the annual cattle drive from Stanley Basin over Galena Summit to Jerome. Betty graduated from Twin Falls High in 1942 and that same year at the age of 16, she began nurse’s training at Salt Lake County General Hospital in Salt Lake City.
To alleviate a critical shortage of nurses during World War II, Congress established the United States Cadet Nurse Corps and Betty enrolled in this program at Salt Lake General to help pay for her nurses training and graduated in 1945. She also received training at Bushnell General Military Hospital in Brigham City, Utah during World War II where she achieved second lieutenant as an Army Cadet Nurse.
One time while traveling home to Idaho from nurses training for Christmas vacation she met her future husband, Joseph LaVon Williams, on a Greyhound bus. They were married March 23, 1945 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple while he was home on leave from the US Navy.
Betty and Joe moved to the Lost River Valley in 1954 and she worked as a registered nurse at the Lost River Hospital for many years until her retirement in 1971.
Betty later obtained certification as a Doctor of Nutripathy from Eck Institute of Applied Nutrition and Bioenergetics in Phoenix, Arizona. She was well known in the Lost River Valley for her knowledge of vitamins, herbs and natural remedies. Joe and Betty always had a fabulous garden and they considered themselves amateur mycologists and enjoyed attending mushroom forays throughout the state. They enjoyed going on rides throughout the valley looking for watercress, mushrooms and asparagus. Backpacking was a favorite family tradition and Betty hiked into Iron Bog Lake with her family at age 71. She was a 4H leader and member of VFW.
Betty loved genealogy and served as a Family History Consultant in the Arco Ward for many years. She also served in the Primary, Young Womens, Relief Society and was also Girls Camp Director at Loristica. Betty and Joe were temple workers in the Idaho Falls Temple, Stake Missionaries and door greeters in the Arco Ward.
She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph LaVon Williams (2012) and daughter Amanda Eunice (1955).
She is survived by children: Barry (Camille) Meridian, ID; Spencer (Valorie) Twin Falls, ID; Mike (Dorothy) Moore, ID; Tim (Ardith) Arco, ID; Susan Fuger (Don) Pocatello, ID; Joseph (Deena) Hurricane, UT; Lucy Rojas (Tony) Moore, ID; brother, Eugene McVey, Boise, ID; and sister, Ella McVey, Jerome, ID; 35 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, September 3, 2016 at the Arco, Idaho LDS Church with a viewing one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery in Arco. The family will meet with friends on Friday evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hawker Lost River Funeral Chapel, 345 Sunset Street in Arco. Condolences may sent to the family at www.hawkerfuneralhome.com
Betty Lou Williams, age 90 and longtime resident of Arco passed away Friday, August 26, 2016, at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello from complications of a stroke.
She was born March 18, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Richard Donald Iverson and Emma Lucretia Heath.
At a very young age Betty’s family moved to a farm in Kimberly, Idaho owned by her grandparents, C.M. and Eunice Heath.
During the great depression, when Betty was 8 years old, her mother went to the Panama Canal Zone for one year to work as a government nurse at Gorgas Hospital. Betty and her younger sister Patty stayed behind on the Heath farm in Kimberly.
In 1937, her mother married Geyer McVey, a Twin Falls businessman and in 1940, at the age of 13, Betty and her sister Patty were adopted by Geyer.
As a young lady, Betty enjoyed spending summers at the McVey ranch on Champion Creek near Stanley, Idaho. She had fond memories of the annual cattle drive from Stanley Basin over Galena Summit to Jerome. Betty graduated from Twin Falls High in 1942 and that same year at the age of 16, she began nurse’s training at Salt Lake County General Hospital in Salt Lake City.
To alleviate a critical shortage of nurses during World War II, Congress established the United States Cadet Nurse Corps and Betty enrolled in this program at Salt Lake General to help pay for her nurses training and graduated in 1945. She also received training at Bushnell General Military Hospital in Brigham City, Utah during World War II where she achieved second lieutenant as an Army Cadet Nurse.
One time while traveling home to Idaho from nurses training for Christmas vacation she met her future husband, Joseph LaVon Williams, on a Greyhound bus. They were married March 23, 1945 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple while he was home on leave from the US Navy.
Betty and Joe moved to the Lost River Valley in 1954 and she worked as a registered nurse at the Lost River Hospital for many years until her retirement in 1971.
Betty later obtained certification as a Doctor of Nutripathy from Eck Institute of Applied Nutrition and Bioenergetics in Phoenix, Arizona. She was well known in the Lost River Valley for her knowledge of vitamins, herbs and natural remedies. Joe and Betty always had a fabulous garden and they considered themselves amateur mycologists and enjoyed attending mushroom forays throughout the state. They enjoyed going on rides throughout the valley looking for watercress, mushrooms and asparagus. Backpacking was a favorite family tradition and Betty hiked into Iron Bog Lake with her family at age 71. She was a 4H leader and member of VFW.
Betty loved genealogy and served as a Family History Consultant in the Arco Ward for many years. She also served in the Primary, Young Womens, Relief Society and was also Girls Camp Director at Loristica. Betty and Joe were temple workers in the Idaho Falls Temple, Stake Missionaries and door greeters in the Arco Ward.
She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph LaVon Williams (2012) and daughter Amanda Eunice (1955).
She is survived by children: Barry (Camille) Meridian, ID; Spencer (Valorie) Twin Falls, ID; Mike (Dorothy) Moore, ID; Tim (Ardith) Arco, ID; Susan Fuger (Don) Pocatello, ID; Joseph (Deena) Hurricane, UT; Lucy Rojas (Tony) Moore, ID; brother, Eugene McVey, Boise, ID; and sister, Ella McVey, Jerome, ID; 35 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, September 3, 2016 at the Arco, Idaho LDS Church with a viewing one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery in Arco. The family will meet with friends on Friday evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hawker Lost River Funeral Chapel, 345 Sunset Street in Arco. Condolences may sent to the family at www.hawkerfuneralhome.com
She was born March 18, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Richard Donald Iverson and Emma Lucretia Heath.
At a very young age Betty’s family moved to a farm in Kimberly, Idaho owned by her grandparents, C.M. and Eunice Heath.
During the great depression, when Betty was 8 years old, her mother went to the Panama Canal Zone for one year to work as a government nurse at Gorgas Hospital. Betty and her younger sister Patty stayed behind on the Heath farm in Kimberly.
In 1937, her mother married Geyer McVey, a Twin Falls businessman and in 1940, at the age of 13, Betty and her sister Patty were adopted by Geyer.
As a young lady, Betty enjoyed spending summers at the McVey ranch on Champion Creek near Stanley, Idaho. She had fond memories of the annual cattle drive from Stanley Basin over Galena Summit to Jerome. Betty graduated from Twin Falls High in 1942 and that same year at the age of 16, she began nurse’s training at Salt Lake County General Hospital in Salt Lake City.
To alleviate a critical shortage of nurses during World War II, Congress established the United States Cadet Nurse Corps and Betty enrolled in this program at Salt Lake General to help pay for her nurses training and graduated in 1945. She also received training at Bushnell General Military Hospital in Brigham City, Utah during World War II where she achieved second lieutenant as an Army Cadet Nurse.
One time while traveling home to Idaho from nurses training for Christmas vacation she met her future husband, Joseph LaVon Williams, on a Greyhound bus. They were married March 23, 1945 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple while he was home on leave from the US Navy.
Betty and Joe moved to the Lost River Valley in 1954 and she worked as a registered nurse at the Lost River Hospital for many years until her retirement in 1971.
Betty later obtained certification as a Doctor of Nutripathy from Eck Institute of Applied Nutrition and Bioenergetics in Phoenix, Arizona. She was well known in the Lost River Valley for her knowledge of vitamins, herbs and natural remedies. Joe and Betty always had a fabulous garden and they considered themselves amateur mycologists and enjoyed attending mushroom forays throughout the state. They enjoyed going on rides throughout the valley looking for watercress, mushrooms and asparagus. Backpacking was a favorite family tradition and Betty hiked into Iron Bog Lake with her family at age 71. She was a 4H leader and member of VFW.
Betty loved genealogy and served as a Family History Consultant in the Arco Ward for many years. She also served in the Primary, Young Womens, Relief Society and was also Girls Camp Director at Loristica. Betty and Joe were temple workers in the Idaho Falls Temple, Stake Missionaries and door greeters in the Arco Ward.
She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph LaVon Williams (2012) and daughter Amanda Eunice (1955).
She is survived by children: Barry (Camille) Meridian, ID; Spencer (Valorie) Twin Falls, ID; Mike (Dorothy) Moore, ID; Tim (Ardith) Arco, ID; Susan Fuger (Don) Pocatello, ID; Joseph (Deena) Hurricane, UT; Lucy Rojas (Tony) Moore, ID; brother, Eugene McVey, Boise, ID; and sister, Ella McVey, Jerome, ID; 35 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, September 3, 2016 at the Arco, Idaho LDS Church with a viewing one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery in Arco. The family will meet with friends on Friday evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hawker Lost River Funeral Chapel, 345 Sunset Street in Arco. Condolences may sent to the family at www.hawkerfuneralhome.com
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