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Services for George Nephi Jeppesen, 74, of Nampa, who died
Wednesday, Feb. 13, in a Nampa hospital, will be conducted at
10 a.m. Saturday in the Nampa Fourth Ward Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1500 Smith Ave., with Robert W.
Hughes, bishop of the ward officiating.
Interment will follow
in the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.
Services are under the
direction of the Alsip Funeral Chapel,
Nampa.
Mr.
Jeppesen was born June 15, 1910, in Provo, Utah,
where he was reared and educated.
He married Myrtle May
on Nov. 25, 1933, in Ogden, Utah, and their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls L.D.S. Temple
in 1958.
Following their marriage they made their home in
Provo
where he worked for U.S. Steel and Kaiser Steel.
In 1949 they moved to Nampa where be went to work as an electrician
for the Union Pacific Railroad and also farmed in the
Greenhurst area. In
1982 they moved into town where they had since resided.
He
was a member of the Nampa Fourth Ward and the High Priest
Quorum. He served a
work mission for the church and was currently serving a
mission at the Boise
Temple. He had been active in the
Boy Scout Program. He
was also a member of the Union Pacific Railroad Old Timers
Club and the Toastmasters.
He
is survived by his wife of Nampa; one son, Larry M. Jeppesen,
Boise; one brother, Rhodes Jeppesen, Orem, Utah; one sister,
Geraldine Bailey, Salt Lake City, Utah; four granddaughters,
Karis and Tambra, both of Boise and Heidi and Amy, both of
Newark, N.J..
He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother
and one sister.
Friends may call at the Alsip Funeral chapel Friday
from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and at the church on Saturday from 9 to
9:45 a.m.
Memorials may be made to the Boise L.D.S.
Temple Fund in care of the Nampa
Fourth
Ward L.D.S.
Church, 1500 Smith Ave.,
Nampa
83651, or flowers may
be sent.
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