Born at Ballentine, Montana, the fifth of nine children to Jesse Vernon Parker and Eliza Vera Wilding Parker, Irene Louise Parker Albretsen attended grade school in Hibbard and high school in Rexburg. On June 8, 1940, she married John Peter Albretsen and they moved to Redwood City, Californa, where they lived much of their married life. The marriage was solemnized June 8, 1956 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. Besides California, she lived in Idaho Falls and Clearfield, Utah. Her husband died March 16, 1965 and in 1989 she moved back to Rexburg. Because of her dexterity, she was chosen as the technician to make the first electric cables to be used to show cancer on TV. Classified as a specialist in her field of electronics, she often made prototypes of electronic parts as models for other technicians to duplicate. Active member of the LDS Church she served as a Relief Society counselor, teacher and homemaking leader, stake and ward Mutual Improvement Association leader, stake missionary, visiting and family history teacher. A member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Read and Share Book Club and Madison County Republican Woman's Club, her interested include oil painting, making many kinds of art and craft project, growing and arranging flowers, decorating cakes, gardening, fishing, ceramics, crocheting, reading and genealogy research. Jack Vernon (Shann) Albretsen and Raymond Eugene (fiancee' Margaret Asire) Albretsen, sons; Jacob (Brooke) Albretsen, Aaron Albretsen, Ethan Albretsen and Erroll (Angie) Gillman, grandsons; three great-grandchildren; Marian Hamilton, Ethel (Bud) McFarlene, Cleo (Lynn) Anderson, and Sharon (Billy) Christensen, sisters, survive Irene. She was preceded by her husband, parents, three sisters - Jessie Ward, Leatha Wilson and Aldean Genther, a brother LeGrand Parker. At 83, death came at her home in Rexburg.