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Bruce Mansfield Tanner1

#37276, (1924-2012)
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Bruce Mansfield Tanner
1924-2012

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Children with Carolyn Jackson

Biography

  • Bruce Mansfield Tanner was born on 28 May 1924 in Idaho Falls, Idaho.1
  • He appeared on the 1930 US Federal Census of 228 Second South, Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho, enumerated on 11 April 1930, in the household of his mother Orea Bean.2
  • He enlisted in the Army Air Force. They sent him to meteorology school at Pomona College, and was then sent to the Middle East and Masirah Island in the Indian Ocean.3
  • He graduated from Brigham Young University about 1951 where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.3
  • He graduated from San Jose State University about 1953 with a Masters degree in Public Administration.3
  • Bruce Mansfield Tanner was an Urban Planner for the County of Santa Clara CA, which he held until 1984.3
  • He died on 6 July 2012 in Saratoga, California, at age 88.1
  • He was cremated and his ashes spread over the Pacific Ocean off Asilomar Beach CA.3

Obit Notice

An obituary was published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on 12 July 2012

Bruce M. Tanner

Resident of Saratoga

Died peacefully in his sleep at the Saratoga, California, home he shared with his wife, Carolyn, on Friday morning, July 6, 2012; he was surrounded by his wife and three children when he went to sleep for the last time. He was 88, and had been suffering from pneumonia and congestive heart failure.

Bruce was born in 1924 in Idaho Falls, the third of three sons, to Orea Bean Tanner and Bertrand Myron Tanner. Bruce's father died when he was six months old, and his mother raised him with his two older brothers until the U.S. entered World War II. They had moved from Idaho to Provo, Utah (his parents' birthplace) when Bruce was six years old; there they moved five times in four years, finally settling in the house his mother built with the life insurance proceeds from his father's untimely death.

He attended Brigham Young Elementary School and Brigham Young High School, later transferring to Provo Central High, where he served as Senior Class President. He remained close to and regularly communicated with several of his childhood friends over the years, at least one of whom he had known since they were six years old.

His marriage in 1981 to Carolyn Bridgers lasted 31 years, and gave him great happiness, something he mentioned to his children often. He attended the University of Washington before transferring to, and receiving his bachelor's degree from, Brigham Young University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He held a Master's degree in Public Administration from San Jose State University.

Bruce was still in his last year of high school when the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941, and after attending an aircraft instrument school in Logan, Utah, he enlisted in the Army Air Force ("AAF"), which immediately sent him to Meteorology school at Pomona College in California. He deployed to the Middle East, and later Masirah Island in the Indian Ocean, as an AAF meteorologist. Although he was in New York City on VJ-Day, he had just arrived at the nearest Army base from overseas, and could not get a pass signed as no one was available to sign it: he was forced to listen to the renowned Times Square celebrations on the radio as they were occurring just a few miles from where he was.

After discharging from the AAF as a corporal in February 1946, he attended UW and BYU, and eventually found employment with the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, working on large public works, before getting a position with Stanlin Oil and Gas, where he worked primarily in Oklahoma. In 1957, as he had taken a new position as an Urban Planner for the County of Santa Clara (a position he would hold until his retirement in 1984), he left for California and made it his home for the rest of his life.

After taking an early retirement at age 60, he and his wife Carolyn launched an ambitious plan to travel. Throughout his life he was an avid reader, and an even more avid purchaser of books, always assuming that he could get to the books he purchased today "sometime in the future." It was, then, doubly tragic when he began to go blind from macular degeneration in his late seventies, just before effective treatments for the disease began to appear. By the time clinical treatments were available, he was for most practical purposes, blind. The majority of the books he had procured to enjoy in his retirement would remain inaccessible to him, and when he died, he left extensive and full bookshelves, in addition to boxes upon boxes of books, many unread.

But he focused on those things that he could continue to enjoy, including radio and television news, audio books, music, conversation and food, each of which assumed outsized positions of importance in his life to replace the activities in which he could no longer engage, and he woke every day with a near-unimpeachable joie de vivre that astonished those around him. Although he had a reputation of self-imposed frugality with respect to his own expenses, he was uncommonly generous to individuals and charitable organizations alike (local church and secular aid organizations, American Indian charities, etc.), in addition to those organizations he felt were engaged in the broader public good (Zero Population Growth, public television and radio, etc.), to the point that loved ones counseled that he curtail his donations at least somewhat to ensure his retirement accounts lasted through retirement (advice which he acknowledged with genuine gratitude, then summarily ignored). By general consensus, his most unusual traits were honesty and loyalty, examples of which are legion. And while his honesty could sometimes be painful, the surprising salve of his loyalty often softened its sting. He spared few opportunities to express and demonstrate his love to his wife and children, and they loved him well in return.

He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Bridgers Tanner; children John Tanner, Amy Fall and Margaret Angelopoulos; children-in-law Jane Tanner, Jerry Fall and Spiros Angelopoulos, grandchildren David Tanner, Bruce Tanner, Alexandra Fall, Christine Fall, Gabrielle Fall and Nicolas Angelopoulos, and many nephews, nieces, their children, and their children's children. Bruce was predeceased first by his brother Robert Leigh Tanner, who died from injuries received in a sailplane accident, then by his brother Champ Bean Tanner, who died of pancreatic cancer, both in 1990.

A memorial service will be held at a banquet facility located at the base of Coyote Peak, which Bruce hiked so many times with his children when they were young; the facility is part of the Santa Teresa Golf Club located at 260 Bernal Rd., San Jose [phone: (408) 225-2650], on Saturday, July 21 at 3:00 pm. As he requested, Bruce's ashes shall be spread upon the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Asilomar Beach, the site of his honeymoon with Carolyn Bridgers, at a time to be determined. You may call John Tanner at (858) 344-8087 for more information.

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Story

Throughout his life Bruce was an avid reader, and an even more avid purchaser of books, always assuming that he could get to the books he purchased today "sometime in the future." It was, then, doubly tragic when he began to go blind from macular degeneration in his late seventies, just before effective treatments for the disease began to appear. By the time clinical treatments were available, he was for most practical purposes, blind. The majority of the books he had procured to enjoy in his retirement would remain inaccessible to him, and when he died, he left extensive and full bookshelves, in addition to boxes upon boxes of books, many unread.

...from his obituary notice.



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  1. [S5065] Find A Grave: Middleton Junction Cemetery, Middleton, Wisconsin, Clarke Bean Tanner, created by The Tree Whisperer, 4flakes, added Feb 2012, memorial number 85015641.
  2. [S5072] 1930 US Federal Census, Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho, digital image Ancestry, National Archives micropublication, Orea B Tanner head of household, roll 400, enumeration district 0013, page 12B .
  3. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Carolyn Bridgers1

#37277
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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

John Amos Tanner1,2

#37278
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Parents

Children with Jane (née unknown) Tanner

Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.
  2. [S1469] Veromi, a current name and address on-line database, www.veromi.net, viewed Nov 2016.

Jane (née unknown) Tanner1

#37279
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Children with John Amos Tanner

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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Amy Louise Tanner1,2

#37280
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Children with Jerry Fall

Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.
  2. [S1469] Veromi, a current name and address on-line database, www.veromi.net, viewed Nov 2016.

Jerry Fall1

#37281
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Children with Amy Louise Tanner

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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Margaret Tanner1

#37282
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Child with Spiros Angelopoulos

Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Spiros Angelopoulos1

#37283
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Child with Margaret Tanner

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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Nicolas Angelopoulos1

#37284
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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

David Tanner1

#37285
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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Bruce Tanner1

#37286
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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Alexandra Fall1

#37287
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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Christine Fall1

#37288
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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Gabrielle Fall1

#37289
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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.

Robert Leigh Tanner1

#37290, (about 1923-1990)
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Biography

  • Robert Leigh Tanner was born about 1923 in Idaho.2
  • He appeared on the 1930 US Federal Census of 228 Second South, Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho, enumerated on 11 April 1930, in the household of his mother Orea Bean.2
  • He died in 1990 at age ~67.1
  • The cause of his death was injuries from a sailplane accident.1

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Citations

  1. [S2485] Find A Grave: cremated, ashes were scattered, Bruce Mansfield Tanner, created by Mark Utley, added Jul 2012, memorial number 93476446.
  2. [S5072] 1930 US Federal Census, Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho, digital image Ancestry, National Archives micropublication, Orea B Tanner head of household, roll 400, enumeration district 0013, page 12B .

Carolyn Jackson1

#37291
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Children with Bruce Mansfield Tanner (b. 28 May 1924, d. 6 July 2012)

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Citations

  1. [S5479] California Marriage Index, 1949-1959, online image of printed material, digitized by The Vitalsearch Company Worldwide Inc, 2007, ancestry.com. (Original publication: California Department of Health and Welfare California Vital Records, Pleasanton, CA,).

James Clarence Siddoway1

#37292, (1889-1967)
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James Clarence Siddoway
1889-1967

Parents

Children with Ruth Bean (b. 8 June 1896, d. 18 May 1983)

Biography

  • James Clarence Siddoway was born on 22 April 1889 in Teton, Idaho.1
  • He married Ruth Bean, daughter of James William Bean and Olive Smoot, in October 1917.1
  • James Clarence Siddoway and Ruth appeared on the 1940 US Federal Census of Teton, Fremont County, Idaho, enumerated on 3 April 1940. They own their home with a reported value of $4,000.2
  • In 1966 James and Ruth lived in Teton, Idaho.3
  • He died on 24 August 1967 in Teton, Idaho, at age 78.1
  • He was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho.1
    Gravestone

Story

James Clarence Siddoway, president of the First State Bank of Teton, where he was born April 22, 1889, is a son of James W. and Ruth (Briggs) Siddoway, who were natives of Salt Lake City, Utah. The father followed farming in that state until 1885, when he removed to Fremont county, Idaho, which was then a part of Bingham county. He located on land near Teton, adjoining the town, and he also operated a flour mill and sawmill in connection with his farming interests. In 1902 he became an active factor in sheep raising in partnership with his son, James C. He was a real promoter and up-builder of Teton and was a very active man throughout his business life. In 1912 he was elected to the state legislature, in which he served for one term. He won success in all that he undertook and carried forward to successful completion everything that he attempted. He was the president of all the ditch companies in this section, including the Siddoway Canal & Irrigation Company, the Teton Manufacturing & Irrigation Company, the East Teton Canal Company and the Enterprise Irrigation District. He was likewise a director of the Farmers Implement Company of Rexburg. An active worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he was first counselor in the Teton ward bishopric and was chairman of the school board. At the time of his death he was the largest stockholder in the Teton Mercantile Company and he owned over two thousand acres of fine land. His political allegiance was given to the Republican party and in addition to the other offices which he filled he served as county commissioner. He passed away September 9, 1917, after an illness of six months, and is still survived by his wife. He was a most progressive and enterprising business man whose activities constituted a basic element in the growth and progress of the community in which he lived.

James C. Siddoway was reared and educated at Teton and also pursued a business course in Salt Lake City. In 1911 he was called to fill a mission in the eastern states and served for twenty-seven months. Upon his return in 1913 he took charge of his father's sheep interests, which he has since conducted, and he now runs six thousand head of breeding ewes and has largely bought and sold lambs, sometimes having as high as fifteen thousand head on hand. He has operated most extensively in the sheep industry and in addition is farming three hundred and fifty acres of finely improved land which he owns. He also has an interest in several other farms. In April, 1919, with others, he organized the First State Bank of Teton and became its president, with J. L. Briggs as vice president and R. C. Berry as cashier. The bank was capitalized for thirty thousand dollars and now has a surplus of three thousand dollars. Mr. Siddoway is also a stockholder and director in the Teton Mercantile Company, which he established in partnership with his uncle, F. H. Siddoway, in the year 1898. He is likewise a stockholder and director in the Farmers Implement Company and in the Farmers' Building Company, both of Rexburg.

In October, 1917, Mr. Siddoway was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Bean and they have become parents of a son, James W., who was born September 9, 1918. Mr. Siddoway belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has been president of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association for the past five years. His political endorsement is given to the Republican party and he stands loyally for every cause or interest which he believes will prove of public benefit. He is a most resourceful and forceful business man, in whose vocabulary there is no such word as fail, and his enterprise and close application have brought him prominently to the front as a leading figure in commercial, financial and agricultural circles.

(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 2 by James H. Hawley 1920; Obit courtesy Amanda Fox.)

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Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, James Clarence Siddoway, created by Collins Crapo, added Apr 2004 memorial number 8633532.
  2. [S5066] 1940 US Federal Census, Teton, Fremont County, Idaho, digital image Ancestry, National Archives micropublication, J Clarence Siddoway head of household, roll T627_745, enumeration district 22-33, page 61A .
  3. [S5054] Find A Grave: Lindquist's Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, South Ogden, Utah, Harriet Virginia Bean Rudd, created by Rags, added Feb 2011, memorial number 65914355.

James William Siddoway1

#37293, (1861-1917)
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Children with Ruth Ann Briggs (b. 19 March 1868, d. 30 September 1929)

Biography

  • James William Siddoway was born on 14 September 1861 in Salt Lake City, Utah.1
  • He married Ruth Ann Briggs estimated 1886.2,3
  • He died on 9 September 1917 in Teton, Idaho, at age 55.1

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Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, James William Siddoway, created by Collins Crapo, added Sep 2004 memorial number 9449285.
  2. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, Ruth Ann Briggs Siddoway, created by Collins Crapo, added Sep 2004 memorial number 9449300.
  3. [S204] Assumption of Researcher LSR.

Ruth Ann Briggs1

#37294, (1868-1929)
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Children with James William Siddoway (b. 14 September 1861, d. 9 September 1917)

Biography

  • Ruth Ann Briggs was born on 19 March 1868 in Salt Lake City, Utah.1
  • She married James William Siddoway estimated 1886.1,2
  • She died on 30 September 1929 in Teton, Idaho, at age 61.1

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Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, Ruth Ann Briggs Siddoway, created by Collins Crapo, added Sep 2004 memorial number 9449300.
  2. [S204] Assumption of Researcher LSR.

James W Siddoway1

#37295, (1918-2004)
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James W Siddoway
1918-2004

Parents

Children with Margaret Ann Ward (b. 5 November 1918, d. 4 November 1973)

Biography

  • James W Siddoway was born on 9 September 1918 in Teton, Idaho.1
  • He attended school at University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.1
  • He married Margaret Ann Ward in 1940.2,1
  • He appeared on the 1940 US Federal Census of Teton, Fremont County, Idaho, enumerated on 3 April 1940, in the household of his parents James Clarence Siddoway and Ruth.3
  • He was mayor of Teton, member and chairman of the Fremont County School Board and served as Fremont County Commissioner for 16 years.1
  • In 1976 after his wife died he married Betty Lovell of Ogden UT.1
  • He was received the Sidney Duncombe Award for Excellence in county givernment and was inducted into the Eastern Idaho Agricultural Hall of Fame and the Idaho Water Users Hall of Fame.1
  • James W Siddoway died on 20 May 2004 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, at age 85.1
  • He was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho.1
    Gravestone

Obit Notice

An obituary was published in Standard Journal on 25 May 2004

ames W. Siddoway, 85, of Teton City, died May 20, 2004, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls of natural causes.

He was born September 9, 1918, in Teton City to James Clarence Siddoway and Ruth Bean Siddoway. He graduated from Madison High School in Rexburg and attended the University of Idaho in Moscow.

He was married to Margaret Ward from 1940 until her death in 1973. He married Betty Lovell of Ogden, Utah, in 1976.

He was mayor of Teton City, member and chairman of the Fremont County School Board and served as Fremont County Commissioner for 16 years. He was president of several local irrigation districts, a member of the board of directors for Valley Bank (now Key Bank), and a charter member of the East Central Idaho Planning and Development Association. He has been honored with the Sidney Duncombe Award for Excellence in county government and was inducted into the Eastern Idaho Agricultural Hall of Fame, and the Idaho Water Users Hall of Fame.

Survivors are his wife, Betty; a son, Jim (Bernice) Siddoway; a daughter, Linda (Scott) Borresen; a stepson, Rick (Nikki) Lovell; and a stepdaughter Linda Minor. He has 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grand-children. He is also surived by a sister, Diana Richman; and two brothers, Grant Siddoway and Ted Siddoway. He was precded in death by his parents, James and Clarence and Ruth Siddoway; his first wife, Margaret, a daughter, Judith Ann Ayers and four brothers, Bill, Forest "Bud", Denton and Jack.

Funeral services were held at the Teton LDS Ward Church Tuesday at 11 a.m.

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Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, James W Siddoway, created by Ryan D Curtis, John Warnke, added Jun 2004 memorial number 8876375.
  2. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, Margaret Ann Ward Siddoway, created by Collins Crapo, added Sep 2004 memorial number 9448794.
  3. [S5066] 1940 US Federal Census, Teton, Fremont County, Idaho, digital image Ancestry, National Archives micropublication, J Clarence Siddoway head of household, roll T627_745, enumeration district 22-33, page 61A .

Margaret Ann Ward1

#37296, (1918-1973)
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Children with James W Siddoway (b. 9 September 1918, d. 20 May 2004)

Biography

  • Margaret Ann Ward was born on 5 November 1918 in Boise, Idaho.1
  • She married James W Siddoway, son of James Clarence Siddoway and Ruth Bean, in 1940.1,2
  • Margaret Ann Ward died on 4 November 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah, at age 54.1
  • She was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho.1
    Gravestone

Other Information

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Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, Margaret Ann Ward Siddoway, created by Collins Crapo, added Sep 2004 memorial number 9448794.
  2. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, James W Siddoway, created by Ryan D Curtis, John Warnke, added Jun 2004 memorial number 8876375.

Judith Ann Siddoway1

#37297, (1946-1986)
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Biography

  • Judith Ann Siddoway was born on 31 January 1946 in Rexburg, Idaho.1
  • She died on 21 January 1986 in Moscow, Idaho, at age 39.1
  • She was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho.1
    Gravestone

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Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, Judith Ann Siddoway Ayres, created by Collins Crapo, added Sep 2004 memorial number 9448834.

James Siddoway1

#37298
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Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, James W Siddoway, created by Ryan D Curtis, John Warnke, added Jun 2004 memorial number 8876375.

Bernice Walker1

#37299
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Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, James W Siddoway, created by Ryan D Curtis, John Warnke, added Jun 2004 memorial number 8876375.

Linda Siddoway1

#37300
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Parents

Citations

  1. [S5058] Find A Grave: Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Teton, Idaho, James W Siddoway, created by Ryan D Curtis, John Warnke, added Jun 2004 memorial number 8876375.
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