This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Monroe, Grover, Ricks, Wallentine Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADI/1612 Message Board Post: The Standard-Journal, 01/28/06 Lucile Grover Monroe, 97, of Payette, died at her home Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006, following a stroke. She was born in Rexburg March 10, 1908 to Daniel Wells and Martha May Ricks Grover. She spent her early childhood in Salem, while her father was called on a mission to England. Then the family moved to Sugar City. She went to school in Rexburg and graduated from Ricks College with a teaching certificate. She also attended Utah State Agriculture School in Logan, Utah, and the University of Idaho in Moscow. She taught school in Rexburg, Clementsville, Paris and Logan, Utah, from 1929 until 1973. When her husband, Robert Wallentine, died in 1939, she went to Salt Lake the church office buildings. In June 1946, she married Lawrence Monroe of Pocatello. She taught school in Pocatello. Later they moved to Payette, where she taught elementary school until she retired in 1973. She has lived in Payette since her husband died in 1989. She was an active member of the LDS Church, fulfilling many positions and responsibilities. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, a national school teacher’s sorority, and enjoyed her membership there. She also enjoyed needlepoint and other handy crafts. She had a zeal for life and appreciated those with whom she spent time with. She will be missed by friends and family. She was preceded in death by two husbands, her parents, six brothers and one sister. She is survived by a brother, Lawrence Grover of Sugar City; stepchildren, Shirley Chandler of Pocatello, Norman Jensen of Nyssa and Larry Monroe; and 17 grandchildren. Funeral services are Saturday in Payette in the LDS 2nd Ward. Funeral services will be held in Rexburg at Flamm Funeral home Monday at 11 a.m. Family will meet with friends one hour before services. Burial will be in the Rexburg Cemetery.