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Services for
Vergil Lee Grove, 74, of Caldwell, who died Friday, Jan. 17,
at the Caldwell hospital will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday
at the Flahiff Funeral Chapel. Caldwell Pastor Scott
LeMert and Pastor Merlin Knowles of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, Caldwell, will officiate. Interment will follow
at the wilder Cemetery.
Mr. Grove was born Jan. 7, 1912, in Norton County, Kan., to
Lee and Tenah Grove. He was reared and educted in Kansas
and married Ardis Foster on June 15, 1934, in Phillips County,
Kan. The couple farmed in Kansas and in Colorado until
moving to Idaho in 1953. He had worked at the Champion
Bakery near Caldwell and later in real estate at Eagle before
his retirement. He was a member of the Caldwell
Seventh-day Adventist Church where he had served as a church
elder, a sabbath school teacher, an investment leader and a
church treasurer.
He is survived by his wife of Caldwell; a son and
daughter-in-law, Doyle V. and Elaine Grove of Nampa; two
brothers, Rex Grove of Payette and Wayne Grove of Baker, Ore.;
two granddaughters, Linaya Arrell of College Place, Wash., and
Lori Shaw of Beaverton, Ore.; five great-grandchildren; two
nieces and three nephews. He was preceded in death by
his parents and two brothers.
Friends may call today from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. at the
Flahiff Funeral Chapel, Caldwell. The family suggests
that memorials may be given to the Worthy Student Fund at the
Caldwell Seventh-day Adventist Elementary School or to the Gem
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