Ida Stauffer (1918 - 2010)

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Note NI597884Ida Stauffer Peirce.

Birth: Feb. 22, 1918.

Willard

Box Elder County.

Utah, USA.

Death: Sep. 19, 2010.

Ida Stauffer Peirce of Provo, Utah passed away on September 19, 2010. She was born February 22, 1918 in Willard, Utah to John Clarence and Lilley Elvira Woodyatt Stauffer.

She graduated from Box Elder High School in Brigham City, Utah. She graduated in 1940 from Utah State University with a degree in Home Economics and Elementary Education. At USU she participated in many campus activities which included being a member of the Spur Service Organization and Vice President of the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. married Earl H. Peirce of Brigham City in the Logan LDS Temple on August 8, 1941. She taught elementary school till 1942 when she went to work for Federal Public Housing in Ogden, while her husband was obtaining an Air Corps Commission at Yale University. She joined Earl in New Haven, Connecticut. Their assignment was Hobbs, New Mexico. She spent two years teaching elementary school in Hobbs while Earl was stationed at the Army Air Corps Base.

After the War and the birth of her two children, the family moved to Provo, Utah. Sometime later she resumed teaching and working with children. She loved these activities with children and was able to continue this service through most of her life. She was leader for some time of a Girl Scout troop.

She was very active in the LDS Church and had unbroken service in the primary, mutual, sunday school and relief society. She was a teacher Counselor and President of her Ward Relief Society and Counselor in her Ward Mutual Organization. She served as Stake Relief Society President in a Brigham Young University Stake. was a dedicated temple worker at the Provo Temple and with her husband served a full-time mission to the Pennsylvania, Harrisburg mission in 1984.

Over the years she enjoyed membership in various literary groups and organizations. She and her husband were able to travel extensively to many places around the world. Ida was interested in genealogy and her family history and was instrumental in arranging and organizing family meetings.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Harvey Peirce, two sisters, Mrs. Glad Stauffer (Robert) Reese of Brigham City and Mrs. Arlene Stauffer (Clyde) Jorgensen of San Diego, CA. She is survived by her daughter Pamela Peirce Alligood of Provo, son Jeffery Clair Peirce of Salt Lake City, five grandsons, one granddaughter, 5 great-grandsons and 5 great-granddaughters.

Graveside services will be held at 12:00 p.m., Friday, September 24, 2010 at the Provo City Cemetery, 610 South State, Provo. Friends may call at the Oak Hills 4th Ward Chapel, 925 East North Temple Drive, Provo, Friday morning from 10 until 11:30 a.m. prior to graveside services. The family has requested that no flowers be sent. 1 1

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Spouse:

Earl Harvey Peirce (1918 - 2004). 1 1 1

Burial:

Provo City Cemetery.

Utah County.

Utah, USA.

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