Lucelia F. Merkley, age 84, returned to Heavenly Father on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 at the Twin Falls Care Center in Twin Falls.
Lucelia was born Aug. 15, 1925, in Airpine, Ariz., the daughter of Joel W. and Elsie V. Owens Flake. She was raised in Snowflake, Ariz., and it was there that she graduated from high school. She received a scholarship and attended Brigham Young University in Provo.
It was on Nov. 17, 1944, that she married Emmett L. Merkley in the Mesa Arizona Temple. After their marriage, the couple resided in Mesa and Yuma, Ariz., until moving to Jerome, Idaho, in 1968 and later to Buhl in 1995. He preceded her in death in 1996.
Lucelia was an active member of the LDS church, especially in music and the Singing Mothers. She sang with the Jerome Melodians for several years.
Survivors include her children, two sons, Gerald and Donald Merkley, and six daughters, Martha Barton, Nancy Bowman, Helen Newey, Linda Sharp, Joan Heaton and Brenda Merkley; 38 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren.
Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID) - Sunday, August 23, 2009
Lucelia was born Aug. 15, 1925, in Airpine, Ariz., the daughter of Joel W. and Elsie V. Owens Flake. She was raised in Snowflake, Ariz., and it was there that she graduated from high school. She received a scholarship and attended Brigham Young University in Provo.
It was on Nov. 17, 1944, that she married Emmett L. Merkley in the Mesa Arizona Temple. After their marriage, the couple resided in Mesa and Yuma, Ariz., until moving to Jerome, Idaho, in 1968 and later to Buhl in 1995. He preceded her in death in 1996.
Lucelia was an active member of the LDS church, especially in music and the Singing Mothers. She sang with the Jerome Melodians for several years.
Survivors include her children, two sons, Gerald and Donald Merkley, and six daughters, Martha Barton, Nancy Bowman, Helen Newey, Linda Sharp, Joan Heaton and Brenda Merkley; 38 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren.
Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID) - Sunday, August 23, 2009
Lucelia F. Merkley, age 84, returned to Heavenly Father on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 at the Twin Falls Care Center in Twin Falls.
Lucelia was born Aug. 15, 1925, in Airpine, Ariz., the daughter of Joel W. and Elsie V. Owens Flake. She was raised in Snowflake, Ariz., and it was there that she graduated from high school. She received a scholarship and attended Brigham Young University in Provo.
It was on Nov. 17, 1944, that she married Emmett L. Merkley in the Mesa Arizona Temple. After their marriage, the couple resided in Mesa and Yuma, Ariz., until moving to Jerome, Idaho, in 1968 and later to Buhl in 1995. He preceded her in death in 1996.
Lucelia was an active member of the LDS church, especially in music and the Singing Mothers. She sang with the Jerome Melodians for several years.
Survivors include her children, two sons, Gerald and Donald Merkley, and six daughters, Martha Barton, Nancy Bowman, Helen Newey, Linda Sharp, Joan Heaton and Brenda Merkley; 38 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren.
Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID) - Sunday, August 23, 2009
Lucelia was born Aug. 15, 1925, in Airpine, Ariz., the daughter of Joel W. and Elsie V. Owens Flake. She was raised in Snowflake, Ariz., and it was there that she graduated from high school. She received a scholarship and attended Brigham Young University in Provo.
It was on Nov. 17, 1944, that she married Emmett L. Merkley in the Mesa Arizona Temple. After their marriage, the couple resided in Mesa and Yuma, Ariz., until moving to Jerome, Idaho, in 1968 and later to Buhl in 1995. He preceded her in death in 1996.
Lucelia was an active member of the LDS church, especially in music and the Singing Mothers. She sang with the Jerome Melodians for several years.
Survivors include her children, two sons, Gerald and Donald Merkley, and six daughters, Martha Barton, Nancy Bowman, Helen Newey, Linda Sharp, Joan Heaton and Brenda Merkley; 38 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren.
Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID) - Sunday, August 23, 2009
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