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obit for Vara Jones Pyfer of Three Forks, Montana

tigerlily =';'= (View posts)
Posted: 18 Oct 2003 4:31PM GMT
Classification: Obituary
The following obit is here with permission of the Challis Messenger, in Challis, Idaho.

Vara Jones Pyfer

Vara Jones Pyfer, 86, Three Forks, Montana, passed away September 30,
2003, in the Bozeman hospital. The cause of death was an aortic aneruism.

Vara was born November 27, 1917 to Edward Benjamin (Ward) and Nova
Shank Jones at the family ranch on Morgan Creek, near Challis.

Vara graduated from Challis High School in 1935. Her desire for further
education never ceased. She attended night school while working in Pocatello
and Berkley and Oakland, California. She met her future husband, Sgt. Lloyd
A. Pyfer while working at the Quarter Master Corps in Oakland. She and
Lloyd were Married August 31, 1942, in Berkley, California.

Lloyd was sent to England and at that time she moved to Butte, Montana
where her oldest daughter, Vicki was born. She and Vicki moved to Challis.
She worked as the clerk of the Custer County Draft Board until Lloyd was
discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1945. They moved to Three Forks to
live on the family ranch on the Old Trident Road.

Vara was a homemaker and long-time active 4-H leader on local and county
levels. She worked with youth groups during her child rearing days. In later
years she was active with the VFW and American Legion Auxiliaries; Three
Forks Senior Center; United Methodist Church and the Montana Association
for Blind and Low Vision. She was always there to do what was needed for
others. She loved working outside and took great pleasure in her success with
plants. She had a lifelong enjoyment of books and collecting. She loved yard
sales!

Vara is survived and will be greatly missed by daughters and sons-in-law:
Vicki and Allen Veltkamp, Three Forks; Linda and Pete Griego, Mead,
Washington; Terry and Bob McAnally, Poplar, Montana; a son, Tom Pyfer,
Elgin, Oklahoma; 14 grandchildren and 10-1/2 great-grandchildren; sisters
Velma and husband Ovide Guay, Elk Park, Montana; Idafay (Hessen) and
husband Harvey Savageau, Caldwell; a brother Verl and wife Hattie Jones of
Challis; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her
husband of 52 years; an infant son; a son, Randy Pyfer; daughter-in-law Mary
Ann Pyfer; her brother, Val Jones, and her parents.

Vara's remains were interred with her husband and infant son at the Sunset
Gardens Cemetery in Belgrade, Montana.

Memorials in Vara's name may be made to the Three Forks United Methodist
Elevator Fund; Headwaters Historical Museum at Three Forks; the Three
Forks Library, or to any organization of choice.

Note: I am of no relation, but my sympathies go out to those of you who are.
This is here as a lasting memorial for Mrs. Pyfer.

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