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Eudora Webb Preston

8 Apr 1917 – 22 Jul 2004

Birth8 Apr 1917
Death22 Jul 2004
CemeterySunset Memorial Park Cemetery
Twin Falls , Twin Falls County , Idaho , USA
Added byDan & Susan Stallings on 03 Nov 2016
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172177125

Bio

Eudora Hannah Webb Preston Eudora Hannah Webb Preston, 87, died July 22, 2004, in Twin Falls of causes incident to old age. "Aunt Eudora" or, sometimes, Dora was born in Lehi, Utah, on April 8, 1907, the 10th of 11 children nine boys and two girls born to George W. Webb and Elizabeth Whimpey Webb. Ten of the 11 survived into adulthood. In 1919, the family, excepting the oldest son, moved to Camas County, Idaho, where the last of the 11 was born. The farming venture in Corral, Idaho, failed and the family moved to Hollister, Idaho, in 1922. Thereafter, all the Idaho family, except one daughter, Sylvia, who returned with her husband to Utah, settled in Twin Falls, where her father returned to the employment he had in Utah, at the local sugar factory. In 1932, the family entered upon a homestead near Milner. It was there that Aunt Eudora finished her eighth-grade education, earning a few dollars by cleaning the one room schoolhouse and starting its wood fire on cold mornings. As time passed, most of her brothers married and moved away. Aunt Eudora and two brothers, Sam and Don, stayed on to work the farm and to care for their parents. Don, after two stints in the service, married, leaving the farm and the parents in Eudora's and Sam's care, where they remained until the parents' death. Their care was long and devoted. Later, Sam married and Aunt Eudora went to work in Burley, where she met James Preston, a widower, marrying him on March 24, 1961. Theirs was a successful, loving marriage of 39 years which ended with Jim's death in December of 2000. They had no children. In 1996, Aunt Eudora and Jim retired and took up residence in the Highland Assisted Living Center in Burley. When Jim died, Eudora returned to Twin Falls, where she lived at the Woodstone Retirement Center until her death. Aunt Eudora was a loving woman, adored by over 40 nieces and nephews, 35 of whom have survived her. Our memories of stays at the farm near Milner are priceless and will remain with us as long as we live. Eudora loved her family, including her brothers and sisters-in-law. She also loved, and was loved by her late husband's 15 nieces and nephews, especially Jim's niece, Vivian Lewis of Kimberly, and his nephew, Grant Osterhout of Twin Falls. Eudora was a member of the LDS Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her nine brothers and one sister. Used to hard work and devoted care giving, Aunt Eudora had nobility that carried her through her last months with patience and little complaint. Her family is grateful for those who cared for her with those same attitudes, especially the staff at Woodstone, particularly Jennifer, and the ladies from Idaho Home Health and Hospice, especially Pam. This information was provided by her loving nephew and nieces, Lloyd Webb, Nola Higley, Sheelah Snyder and Cecille Griffith. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at White Mortuary "Chapel by the Park," with burial to follow at Sunset Memorial Park. A viewing will be held from 10 to 10:45 a.m. the day of the service at the mortuary. Times-News, The (Twin Falls, ID) - Sunday, July 25, 2004

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