Our much-loved 100-year-old Granny, Juanita Smith, died Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in Arimo.
She was born July 19, 1907, in Crescent, Utah, one of eight children. When she was 6, the family made a two-week trip by horse and wagon to homestead in the Ashton area, where she grew up. Her chores were cleaning the lamp chimneys and herding the cows, which she loved because she could read a book while they grazed. She loved learning and even taught her little sister to read one harsh winter when there was no school. Next fall, her sister skipped three grades. She and her husband, Irvin, raised their own three girls in Montana and Idaho. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and loved all children. She said, "I can enter a child's world and understand them much better than I can adults!" We remember her skipping rope with us at 72-years-old! She told us many stories about surviving smallpox, about curing an abscess with fresh cow manure when the doctor couldn't help her.
Juanita was preceded in death by her husband, parents, seven siblings and one granddaughter. She is survived by three daughters, Sharon (Bob) Rowe of Twin Falls, Dory Woolston of Butte, Mont., and Jill Barber (Roy Hansen) of Arimo; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Published in Twin Falls, Idaho Times News
She was born July 19, 1907, in Crescent, Utah, one of eight children. When she was 6, the family made a two-week trip by horse and wagon to homestead in the Ashton area, where she grew up. Her chores were cleaning the lamp chimneys and herding the cows, which she loved because she could read a book while they grazed. She loved learning and even taught her little sister to read one harsh winter when there was no school. Next fall, her sister skipped three grades. She and her husband, Irvin, raised their own three girls in Montana and Idaho. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and loved all children. She said, "I can enter a child's world and understand them much better than I can adults!" We remember her skipping rope with us at 72-years-old! She told us many stories about surviving smallpox, about curing an abscess with fresh cow manure when the doctor couldn't help her.
Juanita was preceded in death by her husband, parents, seven siblings and one granddaughter. She is survived by three daughters, Sharon (Bob) Rowe of Twin Falls, Dory Woolston of Butte, Mont., and Jill Barber (Roy Hansen) of Arimo; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Published in Twin Falls, Idaho Times News
Our much-loved 100-year-old Granny, Juanita Smith, died Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in Arimo.
She was born July 19, 1907, in Crescent, Utah, one of eight children. When she was 6, the family made a two-week trip by horse and wagon to homestead in the Ashton area, where she grew up. Her chores were cleaning the lamp chimneys and herding the cows, which she loved because she could read a book while they grazed. She loved learning and even taught her little sister to read one harsh winter when there was no school. Next fall, her sister skipped three grades. She and her husband, Irvin, raised their own three girls in Montana and Idaho. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and loved all children. She said, "I can enter a child's world and understand them much better than I can adults!" We remember her skipping rope with us at 72-years-old! She told us many stories about surviving smallpox, about curing an abscess with fresh cow manure when the doctor couldn't help her.
Juanita was preceded in death by her husband, parents, seven siblings and one granddaughter. She is survived by three daughters, Sharon (Bob) Rowe of Twin Falls, Dory Woolston of Butte, Mont., and Jill Barber (Roy Hansen) of Arimo; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Published in Twin Falls, Idaho Times News
She was born July 19, 1907, in Crescent, Utah, one of eight children. When she was 6, the family made a two-week trip by horse and wagon to homestead in the Ashton area, where she grew up. Her chores were cleaning the lamp chimneys and herding the cows, which she loved because she could read a book while they grazed. She loved learning and even taught her little sister to read one harsh winter when there was no school. Next fall, her sister skipped three grades. She and her husband, Irvin, raised their own three girls in Montana and Idaho. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and loved all children. She said, "I can enter a child's world and understand them much better than I can adults!" We remember her skipping rope with us at 72-years-old! She told us many stories about surviving smallpox, about curing an abscess with fresh cow manure when the doctor couldn't help her.
Juanita was preceded in death by her husband, parents, seven siblings and one granddaughter. She is survived by three daughters, Sharon (Bob) Rowe of Twin Falls, Dory Woolston of Butte, Mont., and Jill Barber (Roy Hansen) of Arimo; seven grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Published in Twin Falls, Idaho Times News
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