Burial at the Evergreen Cemetery.
Son of Albert Aofter Reynolds and Christina Jacobs; adopted by Robert Taylor Banks and Ellen Gudron Johnson.
Son of Lars Peter Jensen and Ane Johanna Mortensen.
Son of James Memory and Anna Jennette Randolph.
Marian Wright was born and raised in Springville, Utah, a town settled by her grandparents in the 1850's. It seemed she was related to most of the town; she attended school with 12 cousins. She was always active in the Mormon Church. She attended BYU before her marriage and later in life earned a Bachelor's Degree from Idaho State University. She fulfilled all the requirements and classes for a Master's Degree, but never completed her thesis.
Marian taught high school (English, Drama, Typing) in Council; grade school in Pocatello; and continued teaching 6th grade in Boise, Idaho. She retired from the Boise School District. She was widowed at age 54 and never remarried. She traveled extensively, especially with her sister-in-law Emily Jaynes Miner, both to visit family and for enjoyment. They visited Egypt as well as many locations in the United States. She died of cancer in 1991, while living near Gene & Brenda, her youngest son & his wife, in the Seattle, Washington area.
Son of Robert Lee Wright and Leah Anne Woolsey.
"Dick" Wright was born and raised in Sugar City, Idaho, the youngest of five surviving children. He attended Ricks College and University of Utah before marriage. He enjoyed acting and was in numerous plays over the years, especially during his college years. Many decades and many hours of study and commuting and struggle later, he earned a bachelor's degree at Idaho State College in journalism and sociology.
He met and married Marian Miner in Utah and they subsequently lived in California and Nevada before settling in southern Idaho. He worked at a variety of jobs. He delivered milk in Salt Lake City; he worked in the produce section of a grocery store in Coalinga, California (they moved there because his sister Gladys told them there might be work in the area and during the Depression you took any job you could.) In Reno, he worked again in a grocery store, which was located right near the base of what is now the classic Reno sign: The Biggest Little City in the World.
While the family was living in Burley in the 1940's, where he worked for the telephone company, installing poles and lines, he built the family a basement house, learned to fly and raised kennels full of dogs. Dick obtained a job with the Idaho Department of Fish & Game in 1948, a job he loved; he was with the Department until his death by a heart attack in 1970 at age 56. They lived in a variety of small and somewhat remote towns in southern Idaho - Challis, Fairfield, and Council - as the state transferred him about. He was instrumental in helping to establish Boy Scout troops as his boys were growing up. In 1954 they moved to Pocatello and remained there until their move to Boise in 1964.
Dad enjoyed music and studied violin and voice but was never as good as he wanted to be. He enjoyed woodworking and made several very nice pieces of furniture - his desk and bookcases and lamps. He enjoyed cooking certain things, like big pots of Border Beans, and lots and lots of apple pies all at once. He was always active and fit; he snowshoed over mountains; he hiked; he rode horses; and his love affair with motorcycles ended only with his death.