NAMPA — Services for Myron Albert Bacon, 66, Green Acres Trailer Court, Nampa, who died Wednesday in a Nampa hospital after an extended illness, will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Nampa Fourth Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment will be at the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at Alsip Funeral Chapel today and at the Nampa Stake Center Saturday from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. service time.
Bacon was born Jan. 1, 1905, at Georgetown, where he was raised and attended school. He married Versa Davis Dec. 23, 1940, at Blackfoot. They resided at Conda, Idaho, near Soda Springs where he was employed as a miner for Anaconda Copper Co. They moved to Nampa in 1946 where he worked for the Nampa Fire Department for two years and then moved to Reynolds Creek where he farmed for two years. They returned to Conda in 1949, residing there until 1956 when he was transferred to Butte, Mont., with Anaconda, retiring in 1970. He returned to Nampa that year where he had since resided.
Mr. Bacon is survived by his wife, Versa J. Bacon, Nampa; a son, Chief Petty Officer Robert Bacon, Camp George Mead, Md.; two daughters. Mrs. Mike (Leanne) McGrady, Santa Rosa, Calif., and Mrs. Robert (Joyce) Newlum, Hill Air Force Base, Utah; a brother, Eldred Bacon, Georgetown; four sisters, Mrs. Ardath Lee, Pocatello, Mrs. Elva Tanner, Montpelier, Mrs. Mirla Dunn, Georgetown and Mrs. Elaine Bourne, Blackfoot; eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother. Bacon was a member of the Nampa Fourth Ward, LDS Church, the Soda Springs Lodge IOOF, the United Steelworkers of America and was the founder and first president of Local 804, International Association of Firefighters.
The Idaho Statesman, August 20, 1971 Page 30
NAMPA — Services for Myron Albert Bacon, 66, Green Acres Trailer Court, Nampa, who died Wednesday in a Nampa hospital after an extended illness, will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Nampa Fourth Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment will be at the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at Alsip Funeral Chapel today and at the Nampa Stake Center Saturday from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. service time.
Bacon was born Jan. 1, 1905, at Georgetown, where he was raised and attended school. He married Versa Davis Dec. 23, 1940, at Blackfoot. They resided at Conda, Idaho, near Soda Springs where he was employed as a miner for Anaconda Copper Co. They moved to Nampa in 1946 where he worked for the Nampa Fire Department for two years and then moved to Reynolds Creek where he farmed for two years. They returned to Conda in 1949, residing there until 1956 when he was transferred to Butte, Mont., with Anaconda, retiring in 1970. He returned to Nampa that year where he had since resided.
Mr. Bacon is survived by his wife, Versa J. Bacon, Nampa; a son, Chief Petty Officer Robert Bacon, Camp George Mead, Md.; two daughters. Mrs. Mike (Leanne) McGrady, Santa Rosa, Calif., and Mrs. Robert (Joyce) Newlum, Hill Air Force Base, Utah; a brother, Eldred Bacon, Georgetown; four sisters, Mrs. Ardath Lee, Pocatello, Mrs. Elva Tanner, Montpelier, Mrs. Mirla Dunn, Georgetown and Mrs. Elaine Bourne, Blackfoot; eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother. Bacon was a member of the Nampa Fourth Ward, LDS Church, the Soda Springs Lodge IOOF, the United Steelworkers of America and was the founder and first president of Local 804, International Association of Firefighters.
The Idaho Statesman, August 20, 1971 Page 30
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