Edna Myers

Edna F. Myers, 92, passed away on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Edna was born on the 6 th of September, 1919, in McCune, Kansas and about the age of 12 her family moved to Nampa, ID due to farming hardships in Kansas. She was the 4 th of 7 children born to her parents, including 1 brother and 5 sisters. She has 3 younger surviving sisters, one who was later added to the family when her mother re-married. She and her sisters loved to sing together and were quite entertaining when they talked pig latin together. Her sister, Joyce won second place in a singing contest when they were very young. And when the sisters gathered together they would always sing a lot of songs that their mother taught them. Mom (Edna) met a charming professional musician named Don Starr, who also moved to Idaho from Oregon as a young boy. He played many different musical instruments at many dances with his parents, and she attended those dances. They got engaged and soon married in 1938. She worked at the A&W Rootbeer stand in Nampa which began her long career of doing restaurant work for many years. She became a great cook, making the best gravy, pies, and friend chicken. To this marriage, came a son Charles, a daughter, Donna, and a son, Ken, plus one daughter that was stillborn. They lived in the Nampa area for several years and then spent some years in Buhl and Gooding and back to Nampa again. They then moved to West Linn, OR, for a new job opportunity. Edna and Don were married until 1961 when they divorced and went their separate ways. After a few years of trials and moving around, she was living in Bend, OR, where she was introduced to John Myers, who was quite taken with her cooking ability. They dated some and soon decided that marriage was for them. They were married about 25 years when he passed on at the age of 101 in Paradise, California. Edna was a lady of many crafty talents. Her most impressive works were making baskets of pine needles and also her many items that she crocheted. She also did oil painting, chalk drawing, beading (even made a lamp shade of beads), and became a real rock hound too. She was preceded in death by a daughter that was stillborn, her parents, her brother, 3 sisters, her son, Charles (Chuck Starr), her spouse, John Myers, 2 grandsons and one daughter-in-law Maryette (late spouse of son Ken). She is survived by her daughter, Donna (Paul) Rogers, son Ken (Julia Dee) Starr, 10 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at the Chubbuck 1 st Ward Chapel located on the corner of Hawthorne and Chubbuck Rd in Chubbuck, ID. A visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 4, 2012, at Colonial Funeral Home, 2005 S. 4 th Ave in Pocatello, and from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. prior to the funeral service at the church. Burial will be held following the funeral service at 4 p.m. at Kohlerlawn Cemetery in Nampa, ID.