This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Armatage, Lewis, Shepherd Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADI/1531 Message Board Post: Idaho State Journal, 09/10/05 MONTPELIER - Marie Lewis Armatage, 88, passed away Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005, at the Bear Lake Memorial Skilled Nursing Facility after a long season with Alzheimer's. She was born Nov. 10, 1916, in Paris, Idaho, to Franklin William and Mary Elizabeth Shepherd Lewis. She was raised and attended school in Paris, graduating from Fielding High School. After 42 year in Pocatello, she spent the past five years in Montpelier. She married Ernest Samuel Armatage in the Salt Lake City Temple on June 14, 1939. They lived in Georgetown for a brief time and then moved to Paris. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, holding many church positions. She and her eternal companion served an LDS mission in the Tempe, Arizona Mission. She loved to camp with family and especially loved being and playing with the grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She loved her family, the gospel and her friends very much. Marie is survived by her children, Mary (Vernon) Bateman of Bloomington, Idaho, Myrna (Gene) Jorgensen of Pocatello, Richard (Kip) Armatage of Fish Haven, Idaho, Terry (Annie) of McCall, Idaho, Joyce (Clifford) Michaelis of Bountiful, Utah, Doris (Rickey) Garner of Woods Cross, Utah; 17 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three sisters, six brothers and one great-grandson. Funeral services will be on Monday, Sept. 12, at noon in the Pocatello Central Stake Center, 225 Oakwood Drive. Friends may visit with family on Sunday evening, Sept. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Matthews Mortuary, 702 Clay St., Montpelier, Idaho, and on Monday at the church in Pocatello from 10:30 until 11:45 a.m. The interment will be in the Georgetown Cemetery at 4 p.m.