Carolyn Marie McLaws

HEYBURN – Carolyn Marie McLaws, age 69, of Heyburn, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, at the South West Idaho Advanced Care Hospital in Boise.

Marie was born to Dean J. and Alice Sarah Clement Fox on June 8, 1943, in Blackfoot, Idaho. She attended school through the 11th grade in Blackfoot, and then graduated from Minico High School. She married Leroy Barnett and they were later divorced. Marie then married her sweetheart, Richard McLaws, on April 4, 1980, in Rupert.

Marie worked at the Village Kitchen, Ore-Ida Foods, the Ponderosa Restaurant, K-Mart and J.R. Simplot Company. She liked crafting, crocheting, quilting, camping, and her cats and dogs. She also enjoyed raising goats, and loved her outings with her sister-in-law, Sandy. As a child, she enjoyed playing with her brothers and sisters on her Grandfather Clements farm in Moreland, Idaho. She will be forever loved by her family.

Marie was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

She is survived by two children, Jacquiline Clegg of Aurora, Colo., and Kristyna (Gabriel) Reyes of Heyburn; two stepchildren, Mike McLaws of Paul, and Kathy Gummow of Burley; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Joanne (Steve) Pearson of Burley, and Gloria Fox of Nampa.

Marie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Richard Lee McLaws; one son, Shawn Leroy Barnett; one great-grandchild; and her brother, Fred Dean Fox.

The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the Rasmussen Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, with the Bishop Brett Thomas officiating. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery in Heyburn.

Friends may call from 6 until 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, and from 10 until 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at the Rasmussen Funeral Home.