Obituary from Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID) - 29 July 2008:
REXBURG -- Alwyn Nedrow, 90, of Ashton, died July 18, 2008, at Madison Memorial Hospital of natural causes.
He was born October 6, 1917, in Ora, Idaho, to Simon Albert and Mamie McBee Nedrow. He served in World War II in the European Theater with General Patton's Third Army all through France. He was involved in liberating several concentration camps. After
the war, he was assigned the task of helping gather all of the Lipizzaner horses that had been scattered by the war. He spent time at the Vienna Riding School, where he helped put on a Wild West Rodeo.
On July 1, 1942, he married Betty Goebel of Warm River. He farmed and raised registered quarter horses. He played in the family band for area dances and participated in local chariot races and won several championships. Alwyn participated in rodeos, often performing with his trick horse, Caruso. In 1997, he was inducted into the Eastern Idaho Horseman's Hall of Fame, and in 2001, he was honored as one of the first breeders of quarter horses by the American Quarter Horse Association.
Survivors include his wife; daughters, Ann Nedrow of Denver, Colo., Sharon (Syd) Cato, and Gena Nedrow of Ashton; siblings, Carol (Bob) Marotz Comstock and Jim (Dorothy) Nedrow, both of Ashton; a granddaughter; and his special friend and nurse. He was preceded in death by his siblings, Claude, Harold, Gordon, Mary and Ruth.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 2, at Zion Lutheran Church in Ashton, with Deacon Dan Haugen officiating. Following the service, military rites will be at 2 p.m. at the Ashton Pineview Cemetery by the American Legion Post 89.
REXBURG -- Alwyn Nedrow, 90, of Ashton, died July 18, 2008, at Madison Memorial Hospital of natural causes.
He was born October 6, 1917, in Ora, Idaho, to Simon Albert and Mamie McBee Nedrow. He served in World War II in the European Theater with General Patton's Third Army all through France. He was involved in liberating several concentration camps. After
the war, he was assigned the task of helping gather all of the Lipizzaner horses that had been scattered by the war. He spent time at the Vienna Riding School, where he helped put on a Wild West Rodeo.
On July 1, 1942, he married Betty Goebel of Warm River. He farmed and raised registered quarter horses. He played in the family band for area dances and participated in local chariot races and won several championships. Alwyn participated in rodeos, often performing with his trick horse, Caruso. In 1997, he was inducted into the Eastern Idaho Horseman's Hall of Fame, and in 2001, he was honored as one of the first breeders of quarter horses by the American Quarter Horse Association.
Survivors include his wife; daughters, Ann Nedrow of Denver, Colo., Sharon (Syd) Cato, and Gena Nedrow of Ashton; siblings, Carol (Bob) Marotz Comstock and Jim (Dorothy) Nedrow, both of Ashton; a granddaughter; and his special friend and nurse. He was preceded in death by his siblings, Claude, Harold, Gordon, Mary and Ruth.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 2, at Zion Lutheran Church in Ashton, with Deacon Dan Haugen officiating. Following the service, military rites will be at 2 p.m. at the Ashton Pineview Cemetery by the American Legion Post 89.
Obituary from Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID) - 29 July 2008:
REXBURG -- Alwyn Nedrow, 90, of Ashton, died July 18, 2008, at Madison Memorial Hospital of natural causes.
He was born October 6, 1917, in Ora, Idaho, to Simon Albert and Mamie McBee Nedrow. He served in World War II in the European Theater with General Patton's Third Army all through France. He was involved in liberating several concentration camps. After
the war, he was assigned the task of helping gather all of the Lipizzaner horses that had been scattered by the war. He spent time at the Vienna Riding School, where he helped put on a Wild West Rodeo.
On July 1, 1942, he married Betty Goebel of Warm River. He farmed and raised registered quarter horses. He played in the family band for area dances and participated in local chariot races and won several championships. Alwyn participated in rodeos, often performing with his trick horse, Caruso. In 1997, he was inducted into the Eastern Idaho Horseman's Hall of Fame, and in 2001, he was honored as one of the first breeders of quarter horses by the American Quarter Horse Association.
Survivors include his wife; daughters, Ann Nedrow of Denver, Colo., Sharon (Syd) Cato, and Gena Nedrow of Ashton; siblings, Carol (Bob) Marotz Comstock and Jim (Dorothy) Nedrow, both of Ashton; a granddaughter; and his special friend and nurse. He was preceded in death by his siblings, Claude, Harold, Gordon, Mary and Ruth.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 2, at Zion Lutheran Church in Ashton, with Deacon Dan Haugen officiating. Following the service, military rites will be at 2 p.m. at the Ashton Pineview Cemetery by the American Legion Post 89.
REXBURG -- Alwyn Nedrow, 90, of Ashton, died July 18, 2008, at Madison Memorial Hospital of natural causes.
He was born October 6, 1917, in Ora, Idaho, to Simon Albert and Mamie McBee Nedrow. He served in World War II in the European Theater with General Patton's Third Army all through France. He was involved in liberating several concentration camps. After
the war, he was assigned the task of helping gather all of the Lipizzaner horses that had been scattered by the war. He spent time at the Vienna Riding School, where he helped put on a Wild West Rodeo.
On July 1, 1942, he married Betty Goebel of Warm River. He farmed and raised registered quarter horses. He played in the family band for area dances and participated in local chariot races and won several championships. Alwyn participated in rodeos, often performing with his trick horse, Caruso. In 1997, he was inducted into the Eastern Idaho Horseman's Hall of Fame, and in 2001, he was honored as one of the first breeders of quarter horses by the American Quarter Horse Association.
Survivors include his wife; daughters, Ann Nedrow of Denver, Colo., Sharon (Syd) Cato, and Gena Nedrow of Ashton; siblings, Carol (Bob) Marotz Comstock and Jim (Dorothy) Nedrow, both of Ashton; a granddaughter; and his special friend and nurse. He was preceded in death by his siblings, Claude, Harold, Gordon, Mary and Ruth.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 2, at Zion Lutheran Church in Ashton, with Deacon Dan Haugen officiating. Following the service, military rites will be at 2 p.m. at the Ashton Pineview Cemetery by the American Legion Post 89.
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