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Funeral services for Gertrude
Sparks, 81, of Brazil, Ind., and formerly of the Black Canyon
area north of Caldwell, who died Thursday, Feb. 6, in a Brazil
nursing home, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the north
Caldwell LDS Stake Center. Bishop Joe Roberts of the
Middleton Third Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints will officiate under the direction of Flahiff Funeral
Chapel of Caldwell. Burial will follow in the Middleton
Cemetery.
Mrs. Sparks, a retired
employee of the J.R. Simplot Co., was born Nov. 8, 1904, at
Clarkston, Utah, a daughter of John and Mary Myler Burt. She
was reared and educated in Clarkston.
She married Lawrence C. Sparks Dec. 21, 1925, at Smithfield,
Utah, where they farmed for four years. They moved to
Ogden, Utah, in 1929, and to Garland, Utah, in 1930.
They moved to Burley in 1934, Mountain Home in 1935, and to
Boise in 1936.
She worked for the Roy C.
Davidson Ford Garage from 1941 until 1945. In 1950 they
moved to a farm in the Black Canyon area north of Caldwell.
She worked at the J.R. Simplot Co., in Caldwell for many
years. Her husband died in May 1983.
She was a member of the Middleton LDS Church. She was
active in the Relief Society in Middleton, and was a member of
the Yonette Community Club.
She is
survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Kenneth and Aileen
Sparks of Boise, and Warren and Helen Sparks of La Mesa,
Calif.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Jessie and John Thomas
of Brazil, Ind. and Athlene and Richard Fuller of Boise; a
sister, Emma Compton of Laguna Hills, Calif; 12 grandchildren;
nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Two brothers and two sisters also died earlier.
Friends may call Monday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Flahiff
Funeral Chapel in Caldwell, |
