This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Welker, Hall, Christopherson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADI/1743 Message Board Post: Rexburg Standard Journal, 10/12/06 Nellie Ida Hall Welker, 97, of Rigby, Idaho, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006, at Idaho Falls, Idaho Health and Rehabilitation Center. Nellie was born July 28, 1909, in Annis, Idaho, a daughter to Cumer Green Hall and Zola Christopherson Hall. She attended Cache and Oasis Elementary Schools in Teton Basin and was honored as the school’s best speller. She lived in Annis, Driggs and Rigby, and Glen (Rheitley) Montana. She worked for neighbors and relatives in many domestic capacities and for Roger’s Brother’s Seed House in Rigby, prior to her marriage. She married Clinton Welker, June 28, 1928, in Driggs. They moved to Bear Lake to the family homestead and then to the Rigby and Annis area. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. She was an active member of the LDS Church and served as a visiting teacher and supervisor for 49 years. She enjoyed crocheting, quilting, embroidery, sewing, reading, flower gardening and fishing. She is survived by two daughters, Betty L. (Warren) Thompson of Idaho Falls, and Zola (Richard) Lindbloom of Rigby; three sons, Robert C. (Thelma) Welker of Shelley, Orrin L. (Eula) Welker of Rigby, and Willis H. (Susan) Welker of Idaho Falls; one half -sister, Addie (Earl) Blodget of Ogden, Utah; 27 grandchildren, 101 great-grandchildren and 33 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, and stepmother, her husband, a daughter, Dolores; a sister, Carrie; brothers, Ervin and Leslie; a half brother, Lawrence; one granddaughter, two grandsons, one great-grandson and one greatgranddaughter. Funeral services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Menan LDS Stake Center. The family will visit with friends at the Menan LDS Stake Center on Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Burial will be in the Annis Little Butte Cemetery under the direction of Eckersell Memorial Chapel in Rigby. Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.eckersellfuneralhome.com.