This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Willie, Caldwell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qg.2ADE/319 Message Board Post: Idaho State Journal, 10/08/02 HOLBROOK - William (Bill) Willie, 71, passed away Sunday, Oct. 6, 2002, at home after a long illness. He was born on July 31, 1931, in Samaria, Idaho, a son of Les and Eunice Willie. He was raised and educated in Holbrook and Malad. He served in the Navy from 1951 to 1954. Bill married Gaylene Caldwell on May 12, 1957, in Elko, Nevada. They enjoyed 45 years of married life. They had three children, Debra, Leslie and Shane. Bill worked many jobs over the years; he laid tile, worked for the Union Pacific Railroad, Malad Lumber, drove the Holbrook school bus and ran a dairy farm for 27 years, but the love of his life was farming and raising beef cattle in Holbrook, which he did for most of his life. Bill and his wife of 45 years lived in Holbrook, Idaho. He was a member of the LDS Church. He enjoyed snowmobiling, bowling, water skiing, hunting and being with family and friends. He had a special relationship with his granddaughters, and loved them and his new great-granddaughter very much. He is survived by his loving wife, Gaylene, of Holbrook; two sons, William Leslie Willie of Greenville, N.C., Shane C. (Lisa) Willie of Holbrook; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild; three sisters, Roberta (Marion) Price of Malad, Kathryn Jones of Malad, Ruth (Hank) Zwart of Ogden, Utah; one brother, Leslie Kay Willie of Gooding, Idaho. He was preceded in death by his parents, Leslie and Eunice Willie, one daughter, Debra C. Braker, one brother, Dave Willie, and one sister, Betty Talbert. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at noon in the Holbrook LDS Ward Chapel. Friends may call at the Horsley Funeral Home, 132 W. 300 N., Malad, this evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and on Wednesday at the funeral home from 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Burial will be in the Holbrook Cemetery, with military rites by the American Legion, Ernest W. Jones Post No. 65.