Services
for John Ralph Shelley, 65, of 567 6th Road N., Nampa, who
died Tuesday, June 7, at a local hospital, will be conducted
Saturday at the Dakan Funeral Chapel, Caldwell, at 10 a.m.
Bishop Ted Hess, Nampa First Ward LDS Church, will officiate.
Interment will be at Melba.
He was born Aug.
19, 1917, at Mt. Pleasant, Utah,
the son of John Mason and Agnes Brown Shelley. The
family moved to Richfield, Idaho,
where he received his education. The family later moved
to Melba, where he farmed for a number of years. He
married Edna Margaret Roberts July 3, 1940.
He retired after many years, from the Boise Project Board of
Control in 1981. In recent years he had resided in
Nampa. He was a member of Nampa First
Ward LDS
Church.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Verle (Linda) Beam,
Nampa, Mrs. Carol Talley, Pasco, Wash., and Mrs. Delores
Messuri of Coeur d'Alene; one son, Dennis Ralph Shelley of
Nampa; one brother, Richard B. Shelley, Nampa; three sisters,
Mrs. Robert (Annie) Baird, Melba, Mrs. Jack (Marian) DeWald,
Emmett, and Mrs. Robert (Mary) Hughes, Nampa; 11 grandchildren
and one great grandchild. He was
preceded in death by his parents.
Memorials may be made to Mercy Medical
Center's Intensive Care
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