Obituary from Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID) | 29 July 2008:
Jessie "Colleen" Fife Gneiting, 80, passed away on July 26, at Bingham Memorial Hospital with family and friends by her side, having fought a courageous battle against the lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, when her loving heart finally gave up.
She was born the second child of eleven to Aaron and Jessie Miller Fife on the December 1, 1927, in Idaho Falls. Her family later moved to the Lewisville area and then on to the Menan area where she became the head cheerleader of Midway High School.
While in high school, she fell in love with Thayne Gneiting -- member of her rival school's basketball team. He became her lifetime partner when they married June 1, 1946, before he was shipped out to Saipan with the Navy during World War II. She moved back home with her family during their separation of 18 months. They were later sealed for eternity in the Idaho Falls temple on November 7, 1948. They had five children, two of which passed on before her. Farming took Thayne and Colleen to Marsing, Idaho, for two years and then back to Blackfoot, where they spent most of their lives raising their family in the Groveland. In her later years, Colleen and Thayne began spending their winters in St. George, where they made lots of new friends.
Colleen spent much of her life in the service of her community, family, and friends. Her devotion to her son, Ricky, during his young fight with bone cancer was exceptionally admirable. He lost that fight at age 12.
While her children were in school, she held the position of PTA president of the Junior High. She also was also fondly remembered for working for the clothing store, Blocks, during this time. She then made her mind up to study and obtain her real estate license and soon went to work for Remy-Johnson Realty and then Western Reality. She was also a fantastic cook. Her hobbies include gardening, camping and fishing with her family, shopping, traveling, and spoiling her 19 grandchildren.
Colleen was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She held many positions in the church, including those in Primary, Young Women, the ward choir, chorister, and as the ward organist. She loved music and taught herself to play the piano, organ, and harmonica.
Colleen is survived by her loving husband of 62 years, Thayne Richard Gneiting, her children, Trudy (Dean) Kirkpatrick of Blackfoot, Clint (Valorie) Gneiting of Moreland and Terese Gneiting Gibson of Blackfoot; two sisters, Glenda (Vern) Kidwell of Idaho Falls and Karen (Tom) Jenson of Rigby; and seven brothers, Aaron (Cecilia) Fife of Rigby, Dwayne (Lida) Fife of Twin Falls, Kenneth (Dorothy) of Idaho Falls, Roy (Helen) Fife of Idaho Falls, Darwin (Marilyn) Fife of Rexburg, Ronald ( Sheila) Fife of Parker and Paul (Cheryl) Fife of Idaho Falls; 19 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Zane Richard (Ricky) Gneiting and Bradley Gneiting (Joanne Gneiting Henderson); and her sister, Eldora (Veldon) Miller of Iona.
She will be dearly missed by all the lives that she loved and touched.
Funeral services will be conducted by Bishop Rob Wray. Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 31, at the Northwest LDS Stake Center at 95 N. 740 W., in Blackfoot, Idaho. The family will meet with family and friends Wednesday, July 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Hawker Funeral Home and Thursday morning before the service from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at the Northwest Stake Center. Burial will be in Groveland Cemetery under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home in Blackfoot.
Jessie "Colleen" Fife Gneiting, 80, passed away on July 26, at Bingham Memorial Hospital with family and friends by her side, having fought a courageous battle against the lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, when her loving heart finally gave up.
She was born the second child of eleven to Aaron and Jessie Miller Fife on the December 1, 1927, in Idaho Falls. Her family later moved to the Lewisville area and then on to the Menan area where she became the head cheerleader of Midway High School.
While in high school, she fell in love with Thayne Gneiting -- member of her rival school's basketball team. He became her lifetime partner when they married June 1, 1946, before he was shipped out to Saipan with the Navy during World War II. She moved back home with her family during their separation of 18 months. They were later sealed for eternity in the Idaho Falls temple on November 7, 1948. They had five children, two of which passed on before her. Farming took Thayne and Colleen to Marsing, Idaho, for two years and then back to Blackfoot, where they spent most of their lives raising their family in the Groveland. In her later years, Colleen and Thayne began spending their winters in St. George, where they made lots of new friends.
Colleen spent much of her life in the service of her community, family, and friends. Her devotion to her son, Ricky, during his young fight with bone cancer was exceptionally admirable. He lost that fight at age 12.
While her children were in school, she held the position of PTA president of the Junior High. She also was also fondly remembered for working for the clothing store, Blocks, during this time. She then made her mind up to study and obtain her real estate license and soon went to work for Remy-Johnson Realty and then Western Reality. She was also a fantastic cook. Her hobbies include gardening, camping and fishing with her family, shopping, traveling, and spoiling her 19 grandchildren.
Colleen was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She held many positions in the church, including those in Primary, Young Women, the ward choir, chorister, and as the ward organist. She loved music and taught herself to play the piano, organ, and harmonica.
Colleen is survived by her loving husband of 62 years, Thayne Richard Gneiting, her children, Trudy (Dean) Kirkpatrick of Blackfoot, Clint (Valorie) Gneiting of Moreland and Terese Gneiting Gibson of Blackfoot; two sisters, Glenda (Vern) Kidwell of Idaho Falls and Karen (Tom) Jenson of Rigby; and seven brothers, Aaron (Cecilia) Fife of Rigby, Dwayne (Lida) Fife of Twin Falls, Kenneth (Dorothy) of Idaho Falls, Roy (Helen) Fife of Idaho Falls, Darwin (Marilyn) Fife of Rexburg, Ronald ( Sheila) Fife of Parker and Paul (Cheryl) Fife of Idaho Falls; 19 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Zane Richard (Ricky) Gneiting and Bradley Gneiting (Joanne Gneiting Henderson); and her sister, Eldora (Veldon) Miller of Iona.
She will be dearly missed by all the lives that she loved and touched.
Funeral services will be conducted by Bishop Rob Wray. Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 31, at the Northwest LDS Stake Center at 95 N. 740 W., in Blackfoot, Idaho. The family will meet with family and friends Wednesday, July 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Hawker Funeral Home and Thursday morning before the service from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at the Northwest Stake Center. Burial will be in Groveland Cemetery under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home in Blackfoot.
Obituary from Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID) | 29 July 2008:
Jessie "Colleen" Fife Gneiting, 80, passed away on July 26, at Bingham Memorial Hospital with family and friends by her side, having fought a courageous battle against the lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, when her loving heart finally gave up.
She was born the second child of eleven to Aaron and Jessie Miller Fife on the December 1, 1927, in Idaho Falls. Her family later moved to the Lewisville area and then on to the Menan area where she became the head cheerleader of Midway High School.
While in high school, she fell in love with Thayne Gneiting -- member of her rival school's basketball team. He became her lifetime partner when they married June 1, 1946, before he was shipped out to Saipan with the Navy during World War II. She moved back home with her family during their separation of 18 months. They were later sealed for eternity in the Idaho Falls temple on November 7, 1948. They had five children, two of which passed on before her. Farming took Thayne and Colleen to Marsing, Idaho, for two years and then back to Blackfoot, where they spent most of their lives raising their family in the Groveland. In her later years, Colleen and Thayne began spending their winters in St. George, where they made lots of new friends.
Colleen spent much of her life in the service of her community, family, and friends. Her devotion to her son, Ricky, during his young fight with bone cancer was exceptionally admirable. He lost that fight at age 12.
While her children were in school, she held the position of PTA president of the Junior High. She also was also fondly remembered for working for the clothing store, Blocks, during this time. She then made her mind up to study and obtain her real estate license and soon went to work for Remy-Johnson Realty and then Western Reality. She was also a fantastic cook. Her hobbies include gardening, camping and fishing with her family, shopping, traveling, and spoiling her 19 grandchildren.
Colleen was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She held many positions in the church, including those in Primary, Young Women, the ward choir, chorister, and as the ward organist. She loved music and taught herself to play the piano, organ, and harmonica.
Colleen is survived by her loving husband of 62 years, Thayne Richard Gneiting, her children, Trudy (Dean) Kirkpatrick of Blackfoot, Clint (Valorie) Gneiting of Moreland and Terese Gneiting Gibson of Blackfoot; two sisters, Glenda (Vern) Kidwell of Idaho Falls and Karen (Tom) Jenson of Rigby; and seven brothers, Aaron (Cecilia) Fife of Rigby, Dwayne (Lida) Fife of Twin Falls, Kenneth (Dorothy) of Idaho Falls, Roy (Helen) Fife of Idaho Falls, Darwin (Marilyn) Fife of Rexburg, Ronald ( Sheila) Fife of Parker and Paul (Cheryl) Fife of Idaho Falls; 19 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Zane Richard (Ricky) Gneiting and Bradley Gneiting (Joanne Gneiting Henderson); and her sister, Eldora (Veldon) Miller of Iona.
She will be dearly missed by all the lives that she loved and touched.
Funeral services will be conducted by Bishop Rob Wray. Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 31, at the Northwest LDS Stake Center at 95 N. 740 W., in Blackfoot, Idaho. The family will meet with family and friends Wednesday, July 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Hawker Funeral Home and Thursday morning before the service from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at the Northwest Stake Center. Burial will be in Groveland Cemetery under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home in Blackfoot.
Jessie "Colleen" Fife Gneiting, 80, passed away on July 26, at Bingham Memorial Hospital with family and friends by her side, having fought a courageous battle against the lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, when her loving heart finally gave up.
She was born the second child of eleven to Aaron and Jessie Miller Fife on the December 1, 1927, in Idaho Falls. Her family later moved to the Lewisville area and then on to the Menan area where she became the head cheerleader of Midway High School.
While in high school, she fell in love with Thayne Gneiting -- member of her rival school's basketball team. He became her lifetime partner when they married June 1, 1946, before he was shipped out to Saipan with the Navy during World War II. She moved back home with her family during their separation of 18 months. They were later sealed for eternity in the Idaho Falls temple on November 7, 1948. They had five children, two of which passed on before her. Farming took Thayne and Colleen to Marsing, Idaho, for two years and then back to Blackfoot, where they spent most of their lives raising their family in the Groveland. In her later years, Colleen and Thayne began spending their winters in St. George, where they made lots of new friends.
Colleen spent much of her life in the service of her community, family, and friends. Her devotion to her son, Ricky, during his young fight with bone cancer was exceptionally admirable. He lost that fight at age 12.
While her children were in school, she held the position of PTA president of the Junior High. She also was also fondly remembered for working for the clothing store, Blocks, during this time. She then made her mind up to study and obtain her real estate license and soon went to work for Remy-Johnson Realty and then Western Reality. She was also a fantastic cook. Her hobbies include gardening, camping and fishing with her family, shopping, traveling, and spoiling her 19 grandchildren.
Colleen was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She held many positions in the church, including those in Primary, Young Women, the ward choir, chorister, and as the ward organist. She loved music and taught herself to play the piano, organ, and harmonica.
Colleen is survived by her loving husband of 62 years, Thayne Richard Gneiting, her children, Trudy (Dean) Kirkpatrick of Blackfoot, Clint (Valorie) Gneiting of Moreland and Terese Gneiting Gibson of Blackfoot; two sisters, Glenda (Vern) Kidwell of Idaho Falls and Karen (Tom) Jenson of Rigby; and seven brothers, Aaron (Cecilia) Fife of Rigby, Dwayne (Lida) Fife of Twin Falls, Kenneth (Dorothy) of Idaho Falls, Roy (Helen) Fife of Idaho Falls, Darwin (Marilyn) Fife of Rexburg, Ronald ( Sheila) Fife of Parker and Paul (Cheryl) Fife of Idaho Falls; 19 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Zane Richard (Ricky) Gneiting and Bradley Gneiting (Joanne Gneiting Henderson); and her sister, Eldora (Veldon) Miller of Iona.
She will be dearly missed by all the lives that she loved and touched.
Funeral services will be conducted by Bishop Rob Wray. Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 31, at the Northwest LDS Stake Center at 95 N. 740 W., in Blackfoot, Idaho. The family will meet with family and friends Wednesday, July 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Hawker Funeral Home and Thursday morning before the service from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at the Northwest Stake Center. Burial will be in Groveland Cemetery under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home in Blackfoot.
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