This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Willie, Atkinson, Sweeten, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qg.2ADE/345 Message Board Post: Idaho State Journal, 01/03/2003 MALAD — Selina Fern Atkinson Willie, 96, passed away December 31, 2002, at the Idaho Falls Care Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She was born January 11, 1906, at Holbrook, Oneida County, Idaho, to Melvin Atkinson and Mary Amanda Sweeten. The Atkinsons were among the very first homesteaders in the Curlew Valley, and Fern was born in the log cabin built in that homestead. She attended schools in Ogden and Bountiful, Utah, and Holbrook, Idaho, graduating from Malad High School. She married Arthur Golden Willie in the Salt Lake City Temple October 3, 1928. They lived and farmed in Holbrook but moved their winter residence to Malad in 1939. Fern was an accomplished musician who joined with her brother, sister and father during the early days in Holbrook for many funerals. She continued that service to the church and community as a violinist, pianist and organist when she moved to Malad. An active member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Fern served faithfully in the Relief Society, genealogy program, Sunday School and Spanish Name Extraction. Her husband died Jan. 9, 1975. In 1991 she moved to Idaho Falls to live with a daughter. She was also preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Melvin Atkinson, a sister, Arlene Burnett, and a daughter, Lynda Collings (Lynn). She is survived by one son, Wells G. Willie (Marsha), Tremonton, Utah; two daughters, Marlene Villegas (Dan), West Valley City, Utah, and Lorna Hill (Roger), Idaho Falls, Idaho, 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Jan. 4, 2003, at noon at the Malad Fourth Ward LDS Chapel at 400 N. 200 W., with visitation at the Benson-Horsley Funeral Home at 132 W. 300 N., Saturday from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Burial will be at the Malad Cemetery.