This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCracken, Scott, Hymas, Williams Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hd.2ADI/1576 Message Board Post: Idaho State Journal, 12/01/05 MONTPELIER — Gerald Scott Mc-Cracken, 75, our beloved husband, father, grandfather, returned home to his Heavenly Father on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005, at his home in Montpelier. We are confident that he was lovingly welcomed home by his wife, family and friends who have previously passed on. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends he left behind. Jerry was born in Soda Springs, Idaho, on Aug. 27, 1930, the third child of Charles and Martha Scott Mc-Cracken. He served in the United States Navy. He had worked over 40 years at Monsanto. He loved hunting, fishing and camping. He enjoyed traveling and visiting with people. He loved rodeos, and he did bull riding and bare back. He also enjoyed watching rodeos. He loved four-wheeling, snowmobiling and boating. Jerry married Jane Hymas Williams on Nov. 20, 1954. When he married her he instantly took on a family of three children from her previous marriage. The three children never considered him a step-dad; he was truly their father. To add to their happiness they were blessed with a son. Jerry was preceded in death by his wife, parents, and his son, Thomas Avin Williams. He is survived by a son, Gerald Dee (Carla) Williams of Pocatello; a daughter, Mary Merintha (Karl) King of Layton, Utah; a son, Ted Scott (Loye) McCracken of Green River, Wyo., 12 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Evelyn Doris Wuthrich and Mary Sue Evans, both of Boise, Idaho; and one brother, Steven Scott McCracken of Seattle, Wash. Funeral services will be Friday, Dec. 2, at 1 p.m. in the Montpelier Fifth Ward Chapel. Friends may visit with family at Matthews Mortuary on Thursday evening, Dec. 1, from 7 to 9 p.m. and on Friday at the church from 11:30 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. Interment will be in the Liberty Cemetery.