This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Zundel, Thomas, Jenkins Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qg.2ADE/330 Message Board Post: Idaho State Journal, 11/18/02 MALAD — Mary W. Zundel, devoted mother and respected teacher, passed away Friday, Nov. 15, 2002, in Soda Springs, Idaho. She was born in Samaria, Idaho, on Jan. 25, 1911, on the family farm during a raging storm. She was the fourth child of Ann Jenkins Thomas and James Benjamin Thomas. Mary attended Samaria grade school and graduated from Malad High School. She always wanted to be a teacher like her aunts who taught her in Samaria, and eventually graduated from Albion Normal School in Albion, Idaho. She began her teaching career in Juniper, Idaho, where she taught in a one-room school house. She then taught at Franklin, Pocatello, finally in the Oneida County school system. Mrs. Z., as she was known, was an educator in Malad for over 40 years before retiring in 1974. She married Verlin Zundel on Feb. 1, 1935, but subsequently was divorced. She is survived by three sons, Dick T. Zundel ( Isabel) of Soda Springs, Idaho, Thomas Verlin Zundel ( Beryl) of Las Vegas, Nev., and David Dee Zundel of St. George, Utah. These three boys were the love and the pride of her life. Mary was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and taught for many years in the Second Ward Sunday School of the Malad Stake. She went on a welfare mission for her church in Houston, Texas, from 1981 to 1982. Mary is survived by her three sons and their wives, 14 grandchildren, three step grandchildren, one sister, Ruth Hoyas of Boca Raton, Fla., sister-in-law Ardell of Malad, her great grandchildren, and many former students and friends throughout the world. She will be missed and fondly remembered. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002, at noon in the Horsley Funeral Home, 132 W. 300 N., Malad. Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday prior to services from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.