This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hottel, Hoff, Solum Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADI/1731 Message Board Post: Idaho State Journal, 09/14/06 CHALLIS — Jeanne Hoff Hottel, 62, passed away suddenly, Monday, September 11, 2006, at her home in Challis, Idaho. She was born December 16, 1943, in Montpelier to Leslie Ray and Doris O. Solum Hoff. She lived most of her life in Georgetown. She attended Georgetown Elementary and Montpelier High School. She married H. John Hottel February 25, 1961, in Chubbuck, Idaho. She also lived in Pocatello, Idaho Falls, Enid, Oklahoma, and Lordsburg, New Mexico. Jeanne was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She loved to crochet and was very generous with what she had made. Her sons and grandchildren have many pretty things made especially for them as well as do her sisters. Jeanne was a very friendly person and would carry on a conversation with total strangers. She had many Internet friends and was as concerned about them as if she had met them personally Jeanne is survived by her husband of 45 years, John, of Challis; two sons, Leslie (Connie) Hottel of Superior, Wyoming, Lanny (Jana) Hottel of Star, Idaho; two sisters, Myrtle (Howard) Johnson, LaRae (Jim) Ahrens, both of Georgetown; a brother-in-law, Howard Smith of Georgetown, Idaho; her sister-in-law, Jean Hoff of Orem, Utah; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Jeanne was preceded in death by her parents, a son, Larry Hottel, a sister, Kathleen Smith, and two brothers, Lyndall and Baby Boy Hoff. Funeral services will be held Friday, September 15, 2006, at noon at the Georgetown LDS Second Ward. A viewing will be held beforehand from 10 to 11:45 a.m. in the church. Interment will be in the Georgetown Cemetery.