Margaret Snarr

At the age of 102, Margaret Whitehead Oliverson Snarr died peacefully in her sleep on July 23, 2016, in Mesa, Arizona. She moved to Arizona a few years ago to be with her daughter, Sherlene, and husband Octavio Galindo after living over sixty years on Snarr Road near Idaho Falls. She leaves behind a rich legacy of wife, mother, grandmother, LDS church leader, and bank official.

Margaret was born March 12,1914, the youngest of ten children to Margaret Elizabeth Whitehead and James Henry Oliverson at home in Egypt, four miles east of Preston, Idaho. As a child, Margaret enjoyed helping her mother cook and clean and her father work on the farm. She also loved sitting on her father's knee at meal time, and it was he who first started calling her "Sis," a name by which family and friends have known her through the years.

Walking over a mile each way and riding in a two-seat cutter when snow was heavy, Margaret received her elementary education in a two-room school. She attended Preston High school following graduation from eighth grade and lived with a brother in Whitney, Idaho, so she would have transportation. Some of that transportation was provided by Ezra Taft Benson, who lived in Whitney at the time and went on to serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and, later, the thirteenth president of the LDS Church.

Margaret was very popular in high school and served as a class officer. At the end of her junior year, she and her parents and brother Eldon (Dee) moved to Idaho Falls where they lived with Annie and Royal Keller, her sister and brother-in-law, and their three children. She attended Idaho Falls High School and worked part-time at Woolworth's. In the fall of 1931, she met the love of her life, Delmar (Dick) Snarr at a church dance. After two months of dating, the couple eloped to Logan, Utah, and were married May 28,1932. They were later sealed in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple.

Margaret and Dick were blessed with three children, K. Delmar, Sherlene, and DeeAnn. In the spring of 1942, they moved to the Snarr Road farm where they raised their family. The farm became a family endeavor with Margaret and the children often working in the fields. In addition to her family responsibilities, Margaret served in several positions in the LDS Church, including Stake Young Women's President, and was instrumental in starting a hot lunch program at Eagle Rock School.

In 1953, Margaret started working at the Bank of Eastern Idaho (later Bank of Idaho) where she served in several capacities. She became one of the first female officers of a bank in the state of Idaho and retired after twenty-three years. Following retirement, Margaret and Dick continued to live on the farm but spent their winters in St. George, Utah. They loved to travel and not only visited West Coast sites, but also took trips to Hawaii and Germany. At the age of 92, Margaret visited several LDS church sites on the East Coast and attended the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra, New York, with some of her great nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Margaret Whitehead and James Henry Oliverson, husband Delmar (Dick), son K. Delmar, daughter DeeAnn Whipple, all nine siblings, and granddaughter Pamela Jean Snarr. Survivors include her daughter Sherlene (Octavio Galindo), twelve grandchildren, twenty-six great-grandchildren, and seven great-great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, August 5, 2016, at the Osgood LDS Ward, 7940 North 35th West, with Bishop Brad Reed officiating. The family will visit with friends from 10:00 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. prior to services at the church. Burial will be in Fielding Memorial Cemetery.

Funeral Services will be held