Vera Tessie Klamroth Parkhurst
June 13, 1915 - Sept. 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:48 AM PDT
Ontario
Vera Tessie Klamroth Parkhurst, 94, of Ontario, passed away Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, at home. Visitation will be from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, at Lienkaemper Chapel, Vale. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Vale. Viewing will take place one hour prior to services in the Relief Society Room of the church. Burial will follow at Valley View Cemetery, Vale. Condolences to the family may be made at
www.lienkaemper-thomason.com.
Having been born of good parents on June 13, 1915, in Fort Sumner, N.M. Having moved from there in 1938 to Vale, following her parents, she met and married Mayfred Parkhurst on Oct. 21, 1939, in Fruitland, Idaho. They raised eight children and, over the years, farmed 400 acres and raised cattle just southwest of Malheur Butte. She worked at Ore-Ida until she was 70 and then retired, but she never quit working. In 1991, she was called on mission to Virginia. In the family history department, she served for two years. Until about three months ago, she was helping her daughter, Shirley, in her quilt shop every day.
She is survived by two sons, Ralph (Pat) Parkhurst and Bill (Lorie) Parkhurst; five daughters, Cecelia Baune, Valeria Gardner, Shirley (Larry) Stills, Joyce Dutcher and Janice Hall; three sisters, Florence Page, Daisy Stewart and Sylvia Warrick; 25 grandchildren; 54 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren, with five on the way.
She was preceded in death by one daughter, Lois Dianne Parkhurst; two sons-in-law, Frank Gardner and Marion Hall; her husband, Mayfred Parkhurst; two sisters, Edna Parkhurst Gammill and Elsie Gammill; and one brother, Ralph Klamroth.
WE MISS YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!!
