Sylvia Ann Burrell Despain, 86, youngest daughter of Wallace Freeman and Ida Ann (Chapman) Burrell, died April 16, 2016, at the New Horizons Care Center in Lovell. Sylvia was born Oct. 18, 1929, in Pocatello, Idaho, joining sister Twila and three brothers, Wallace Freeman Jr., Lavon Welcome and Bud Russell Burrell.
Sylvia was raised in Pocatello, graduating from high school in 1947. She was active in high school in honor society, pep club and Future Nurses of America. She had a beautiful alto voice and sang in the high school choir. She also served as Music Clinic secretary during her junior and senior years.
After high school, she went to Brigham Young University on an art scholarship. During freshman orientation she met her husband, the love of her life, Dwight Steele Despain. They were married Sept. 13, 1948, in Pocatello and a year later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.
Dwight continued his education at BYU while she worked at Woolworths. After Dwight graduated in May of 1950, they went to Lovell to wait for some openings in Dwight’s major, geology. Dwight and Sylvia soon decided to stay permanently in Lovell.
Sylvia was very supportive of her four children: daughters Ginger, Debra and Tamara and her son Dwight Burrell “Bob” Despain. She encouraged them in their reading. She worked with them on special projects such as spelling contests, science projects, plays, concerts and much more. Any program or sporting event they were in, she and Dwight would attend.
This same encouragement and support carried over to her grandchildren. She was their biggest fan. She taught her children to be dependable through her example in everything she did whether in church callings, workplace or everyday life.
Sylvia was known as Grandma GG to her great-grandchildren and the neighborhood children. She was an amazing woman who was very thoughtful, always making others feel loved and special.
Sylvia was very talented artistically and an accomplished seamstress – from sewing her children’s clothes as they were growing up to drapes. Her love for flowers was evident every summer as you passed by her home. She would faithfully water them, even talking to them. Maybe that was why her flowers did so well. While her children were young, she worked part-time at JC Penney’s. Later, she worked at the Great Western Sugar Factory for 15 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents and siblings – Twila (Bob) Orr, Wally, Lavon and Bud. She is survived by her husband, Dwight; four children, Ginger (Alan) Parks, Bob (Janet) Despain, Debbie (Jim) Walker and Tammy (Dennis) Schiermeister; 16 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren with two on the way.
© Lovell Chronicle April 21, 2016
Sylvia was raised in Pocatello, graduating from high school in 1947. She was active in high school in honor society, pep club and Future Nurses of America. She had a beautiful alto voice and sang in the high school choir. She also served as Music Clinic secretary during her junior and senior years.
After high school, she went to Brigham Young University on an art scholarship. During freshman orientation she met her husband, the love of her life, Dwight Steele Despain. They were married Sept. 13, 1948, in Pocatello and a year later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.
Dwight continued his education at BYU while she worked at Woolworths. After Dwight graduated in May of 1950, they went to Lovell to wait for some openings in Dwight’s major, geology. Dwight and Sylvia soon decided to stay permanently in Lovell.
Sylvia was very supportive of her four children: daughters Ginger, Debra and Tamara and her son Dwight Burrell “Bob” Despain. She encouraged them in their reading. She worked with them on special projects such as spelling contests, science projects, plays, concerts and much more. Any program or sporting event they were in, she and Dwight would attend.
This same encouragement and support carried over to her grandchildren. She was their biggest fan. She taught her children to be dependable through her example in everything she did whether in church callings, workplace or everyday life.
Sylvia was known as Grandma GG to her great-grandchildren and the neighborhood children. She was an amazing woman who was very thoughtful, always making others feel loved and special.
Sylvia was very talented artistically and an accomplished seamstress – from sewing her children’s clothes as they were growing up to drapes. Her love for flowers was evident every summer as you passed by her home. She would faithfully water them, even talking to them. Maybe that was why her flowers did so well. While her children were young, she worked part-time at JC Penney’s. Later, she worked at the Great Western Sugar Factory for 15 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents and siblings – Twila (Bob) Orr, Wally, Lavon and Bud. She is survived by her husband, Dwight; four children, Ginger (Alan) Parks, Bob (Janet) Despain, Debbie (Jim) Walker and Tammy (Dennis) Schiermeister; 16 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren with two on the way.
© Lovell Chronicle April 21, 2016
Sylvia Ann Burrell Despain, 86, youngest daughter of Wallace Freeman and Ida Ann (Chapman) Burrell, died April 16, 2016, at the New Horizons Care Center in Lovell. Sylvia was born Oct. 18, 1929, in Pocatello, Idaho, joining sister Twila and three brothers, Wallace Freeman Jr., Lavon Welcome and Bud Russell Burrell.
Sylvia was raised in Pocatello, graduating from high school in 1947. She was active in high school in honor society, pep club and Future Nurses of America. She had a beautiful alto voice and sang in the high school choir. She also served as Music Clinic secretary during her junior and senior years.
After high school, she went to Brigham Young University on an art scholarship. During freshman orientation she met her husband, the love of her life, Dwight Steele Despain. They were married Sept. 13, 1948, in Pocatello and a year later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.
Dwight continued his education at BYU while she worked at Woolworths. After Dwight graduated in May of 1950, they went to Lovell to wait for some openings in Dwight’s major, geology. Dwight and Sylvia soon decided to stay permanently in Lovell.
Sylvia was very supportive of her four children: daughters Ginger, Debra and Tamara and her son Dwight Burrell “Bob” Despain. She encouraged them in their reading. She worked with them on special projects such as spelling contests, science projects, plays, concerts and much more. Any program or sporting event they were in, she and Dwight would attend.
This same encouragement and support carried over to her grandchildren. She was their biggest fan. She taught her children to be dependable through her example in everything she did whether in church callings, workplace or everyday life.
Sylvia was known as Grandma GG to her great-grandchildren and the neighborhood children. She was an amazing woman who was very thoughtful, always making others feel loved and special.
Sylvia was very talented artistically and an accomplished seamstress – from sewing her children’s clothes as they were growing up to drapes. Her love for flowers was evident every summer as you passed by her home. She would faithfully water them, even talking to them. Maybe that was why her flowers did so well. While her children were young, she worked part-time at JC Penney’s. Later, she worked at the Great Western Sugar Factory for 15 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents and siblings – Twila (Bob) Orr, Wally, Lavon and Bud. She is survived by her husband, Dwight; four children, Ginger (Alan) Parks, Bob (Janet) Despain, Debbie (Jim) Walker and Tammy (Dennis) Schiermeister; 16 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren with two on the way.
© Lovell Chronicle April 21, 2016
Sylvia was raised in Pocatello, graduating from high school in 1947. She was active in high school in honor society, pep club and Future Nurses of America. She had a beautiful alto voice and sang in the high school choir. She also served as Music Clinic secretary during her junior and senior years.
After high school, she went to Brigham Young University on an art scholarship. During freshman orientation she met her husband, the love of her life, Dwight Steele Despain. They were married Sept. 13, 1948, in Pocatello and a year later sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.
Dwight continued his education at BYU while she worked at Woolworths. After Dwight graduated in May of 1950, they went to Lovell to wait for some openings in Dwight’s major, geology. Dwight and Sylvia soon decided to stay permanently in Lovell.
Sylvia was very supportive of her four children: daughters Ginger, Debra and Tamara and her son Dwight Burrell “Bob” Despain. She encouraged them in their reading. She worked with them on special projects such as spelling contests, science projects, plays, concerts and much more. Any program or sporting event they were in, she and Dwight would attend.
This same encouragement and support carried over to her grandchildren. She was their biggest fan. She taught her children to be dependable through her example in everything she did whether in church callings, workplace or everyday life.
Sylvia was known as Grandma GG to her great-grandchildren and the neighborhood children. She was an amazing woman who was very thoughtful, always making others feel loved and special.
Sylvia was very talented artistically and an accomplished seamstress – from sewing her children’s clothes as they were growing up to drapes. Her love for flowers was evident every summer as you passed by her home. She would faithfully water them, even talking to them. Maybe that was why her flowers did so well. While her children were young, she worked part-time at JC Penney’s. Later, she worked at the Great Western Sugar Factory for 15 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents and siblings – Twila (Bob) Orr, Wally, Lavon and Bud. She is survived by her husband, Dwight; four children, Ginger (Alan) Parks, Bob (Janet) Despain, Debbie (Jim) Walker and Tammy (Dennis) Schiermeister; 16 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren with two on the way.
© Lovell Chronicle April 21, 2016
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