Eva Stanger

EVA B. STANGER IDAHO FALLS, ID -- Eva Bybee Stanger departed her earthly life Tuesday, November 16, 2004. She was born September 8, 1906, to David Byram and Minnie Elizabeth Clark Bybee. Eva was the second of seven children with a span of 19 years between the oldest and youngest. Five of the seven children are still living today - Marcella Oswald, June Clark, Minnie Christensen, David C. Bybee, and E. Warren Bybee. Eva started the First Grade at the Eagle Rock School with the remainder of her early education in Idaho Falls, graduating from Idaho Falls High School in 1924. During her Senior year in high school, she took the Idaho State Teacher Exams. Upon successful completion of these exams and a session of summer school at Idaho Technical Institute, she began teaching at Taylor School south of Idaho Falls at age 18. She continued taking correspondence and summer sessions while teaching and raising a family. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from BYU in 1958 and a Masters Degree in 1964 from Utah State University. After a long and infrequent courtship, Eva married Reed Stanger of Iona in 1929. She and Reed lived in the Bone, Willow Creek and Sheep Mountain areas the first few years of their married life and eventually homesteaded a place in Lone Valley on Sheep Mountain. They later sold it and moved to a farm in Menan, Idaho. In 1945 Eva, Reed and family moved to the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. They lived on several different ranches before returning to Idaho Falls in 1948. Eva's teaching history includes schools near Bone, Glenore, Rock Creek, Birch Creek, Menan and Annis. She also taught at the remote Hatchet Ranch school near Moran, Wyoming and at Wilson, Wyoming. She was a teacher and principal at Fairview Elementary School for eight years before moving to School District #91, where she taught at BelAire (Dora Erickson) before becoming principal of Eagle Rock Elementary. Her teaching career spanned a total of 35 years. During this time she was both classroom teacher and elementary principal. When she retired in 1972, she was principal of Temple View School Elementary in Idaho Falls. After her retirement, she remained active in her church, traveling, and teaching adult education classes for BYU/Ricks. At age 86, she wrote and published a book, Before and After 50 which talks of her life as a country school teacher. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, Delta Kappa Gamma Teacher's Sorority, Idaho Falls Round Table Club, a life time member of the National Education Association and a past noble grand of the Rebekah Lodge. She is survived by two sons, Steve R. (Phyllis) Stanger and David L. (Kris) Stanger both of Idaho Falls and two daughters, Sharon Stanger Kauffroath of Chandler, Arizona and SuzAnne (Frank) Owings of Shell Knob, Missouri, eight grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren and three great, great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, one son, Joseph Earl Stanger, and a sister, Edris Wood. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, November 20, 2004 at Trinity Methodist Church, 237 N. Water Ave, with Reverend Thom Larsen officiating. The family will meet with friends from 7-8:30 p.m. on Friday, November 19, at Wood Funeral Home, 273 N. Ridge Ave, in Idaho Falls and for one hour prior to the services on Saturday. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.