Stanley Newman

STANLEY R. NEWMAN IDAHO FALLS, ID -- Stanley Ray Newman was born March 5, 1923, at Milo, Idaho, to Franklin Hughes Newman and Ethel Amelda Crowley. He was the fifth child born to them. He attended Milo and Iona grade schools and Idaho Falls High School where he graduated in 1940. His brothers and sisters were Marjorie Corey, Alden Newman, Robert (Bob) Newman, Eldred Newman and Delsa Jean Newman (all deceased as are his parents.) He has five children by a previous marriage. Trudy Giampaolo of Newburgh, New York; Susan Kemer of Middletown, Delaware; Karen Smith of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Dan Newman of Mentor, Ohio; and Phillip Newman of Orem, Utah (all living). Stanley met and married Madelyn Wycherly of Salt Lake City in the Salt Lake Temple on January 10, 1991. They were later sealed in the Washington, D.C. Temple. She has three children; Heidi LaBar of Las Vegas, Nevada; Heather Waite of Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Aimee Kener of Salt Lake City, Utah. Stan and Madelyn together have 22 grandchildren (1 deceased). Upon graduation from high school, Stanley attended the University of Utah where he received a B.S. and PhD in chemistry. During this period he also served in World War II in the U. S. Army Signal Corps. He also attended Texas A & M where he completed the sixth term in advanced Electrical Engineering. Upon graduation from the University of Utah he accepted a job in Beacon, New York at the Texaco Research Center as a Chemist where he progressed through various positions and was a Senior Technologist at retirement thirty-one years later. At retirement he had 33 U. S. Patents and had worldwide responsibility for fuels for Texaco. He was a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Ssociation for the Advancement of Science, the New York Fruit Testing Association, President of the Dutchess County (New York) Genealogical Society for six years, member of the Karl G. Maeser Scholastic Society, member of the Dutchess County (New York) Solid Waste Management Board, Chairman of the Fishkill (New York) Planning Board, and member of the Fishkill Village Board. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many callings, most recently as a temple worker in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 8, 2005, at the Idaho Falls LDS Woodhaven Ward (260 Castlerock), with Bishop Baird McNaught officiating. The family will visit with friends on Friday from 7-8:30 p.m. at Wood Funeral Home (273 N. Ridge) and for one hour prior to the services at the church. Burial will be in Fielding Memorial Park under the direction of Wood Funeral Home. Military Rites will be performed by the Bonneville County Veterans Team.