Memorial services for Donald Ray Leeper Sr., 83, of
Middleton, who died from injuries sustained in an automobile
accident in Owyhee County, will be held at 10:30 a.m.,
Saturday, June 29, 1996, at the Flahiff Funeral Chapel,
Caldwell. Reverend
Donald J. Brown of the Star
Friends
Church will officiate.
Cremation was under
the direction of Flahiff Crematory, Caldwell.
Don was
born August 21, 1912, at Fountain Grove,
Missouri, a son of James L. and
Catherine Studebaker Leeper.
He moved with his family to
Montana
at the age of three and to
Idaho
in 1938. He worked
construction for a few years.
For fifteen years he
worked as a packer, taking big game hunters into the back
country. He worked
for Amalgamated Sugar Company, Nyssa Plant, for
approximately eight years, and shearing sheep all over the
Northwest in the off seasons until retiring eight years ago.
Don was an avid fisherman and hunter.
Survivors include his wife, Verna of Middleton; a son,
Donald Ray Leeper Jr; two stepsons, Ronald Heberger of
Caldwell and Lee Heberger of Nampa; two brothers, Lester
Leeper of Glenns Ferry and Bill Leeper of Caldwell; a
sis-ter, Helen Davidson of Caldwell; one grandchild; eight
stepgrandchildren; numerous stepgreat-grandchildren and
numerous nieces and nephews.
He
was preceded in death by his parents, a twin sister,
Dorothy; a sister, Mabel and a brother, Willis.
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