Marvin Earl Metcalf was born on 21 April 1916 in Iona, Bonneville, Idaho, on land called the John Ball
place. His loving parents Jesse Earl and Alice Lucinda Freeman Metcalf and was their oldest son and first-born child. He has 6 siblings.
He went to school in the Iona area, and graduated from High School, then he went to Brigham Young University. (The black and white picture on this page is from 1935.)
He met his dear wife Eva Bodily in about 1937 and married her in a civil ceremony on 20 September 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah, they were later married in the Logan Temple on 25 November 1939. They have 7 children.
He lived in different places during his life:
Ucon, Idaho for 21 years.
Iona, Idaho for 2 years.
Logan, Utah for 2 years.
Leslie, Idaho for 2 years.
Idaho Falls for 39 years.
He had spent his life working at different jobs, and they included:
Works Progress Administration in the U S Forest Service; Hill Air Force Base during World War II; service station attendant; milkman; farmer; and a U.S. Post Office mail carrier for 20 years; He retired in about 1980. He was also a caretaker of the Clair E Gale seminary building.
He died 15 March 1984 in the front room of his home at 465 Lomax Street in Idaho Falls, Idaho, when he was 67 years old. His funeral was held at the 20th Ward Chapel in Idaho Falls, Idaho; and he was buried on 20 March 1984 in the Iona Cemetery.
As I walked down the hallway prior to the funeral, on 20 March 1984, I remembered those days when we would see grandpa, and how he would greet me, when he saw me. The gifts he would sometimes have for us, his grand kids, and just the time spent with him. He was known to take us to Scotty's Drive In on May Street, for ice cream.
On that same day, following the funeral, we in the funeral procession went from the church at 651 Gladstone, and traveled to the Interstate 15 interchange off Riverside Drive, down from the Temple, and then got off the Interstate at the Anderson Street interchange, and as we all went by, many cars stopped to allow us to pass by, and it meant a lot to me that they did stop, because it was like they were paying their respects to someone they may or may not have known.
(Some information for this Bio came from his obituary; this bio was done by his 2nd oldest grandson David Metcalf).
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Honorable mention: the John Ball mentioned.
above is John Wesley Ball 1873 - 1943 Find A Grave # 8640326
and his wife Lumana Shurtliff 1882 - 1960 Find A Grave # 8640329
Both individuals are mentioned in the Iona History Book 1883 - 1983 page 180.
Marvin Earl Metcalf was born on 21 April 1916 in Iona, Bonneville, Idaho, on land called the John Ball
place. His loving parents Jesse Earl and Alice Lucinda Freeman Metcalf and was their oldest son and first-born child. He has 6 siblings.
He went to school in the Iona area, and graduated from High School, then he went to Brigham Young University. (The black and white picture on this page is from 1935.)
He met his dear wife Eva Bodily in about 1937 and married her in a civil ceremony on 20 September 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah, they were later married in the Logan Temple on 25 November 1939. They have 7 children.
He lived in different places during his life:
Ucon, Idaho for 21 years.
Iona, Idaho for 2 years.
Logan, Utah for 2 years.
Leslie, Idaho for 2 years.
Idaho Falls for 39 years.
He had spent his life working at different jobs, and they included:
Works Progress Administration in the U S Forest Service; Hill Air Force Base during World War II; service station attendant; milkman; farmer; and a U.S. Post Office mail carrier for 20 years; He retired in about 1980. He was also a caretaker of the Clair E Gale seminary building.
He died 15 March 1984 in the front room of his home at 465 Lomax Street in Idaho Falls, Idaho, when he was 67 years old. His funeral was held at the 20th Ward Chapel in Idaho Falls, Idaho; and he was buried on 20 March 1984 in the Iona Cemetery.
As I walked down the hallway prior to the funeral, on 20 March 1984, I remembered those days when we would see grandpa, and how he would greet me, when he saw me. The gifts he would sometimes have for us, his grand kids, and just the time spent with him. He was known to take us to Scotty's Drive In on May Street, for ice cream.
On that same day, following the funeral, we in the funeral procession went from the church at 651 Gladstone, and traveled to the Interstate 15 interchange off Riverside Drive, down from the Temple, and then got off the Interstate at the Anderson Street interchange, and as we all went by, many cars stopped to allow us to pass by, and it meant a lot to me that they did stop, because it was like they were paying their respects to someone they may or may not have known.
(Some information for this Bio came from his obituary; this bio was done by his 2nd oldest grandson David Metcalf).
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Honorable mention: the John Ball mentioned.
above is John Wesley Ball 1873 - 1943 Find A Grave # 8640326
and his wife Lumana Shurtliff 1882 - 1960 Find A Grave # 8640329
Both individuals are mentioned in the Iona History Book 1883 - 1983 page 180.
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