Gloria Jean Fox

BURLEY – Gloria Jean Fox, age 68, of Heyburn, passed away Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, at Parke View Rehabilitation and Care Center in Burley.

Gloria was born to Dean J. and Alice Sarah Clement Fox on September 30, 1949, in Blackfoot, Idaho. She attended grade school in Blackfoot until the fifth grade and then attended Heyburn Elementary and Junior High and graduated from Minico High School in 1967.

She worked as a parts clerk for Mini-Cassia Equipment after high school; she then went on to attend Patricia Stevens Career College in Fashion Merchandising in Salt Lake City, Utah. She worked for Auerbacks in Salt Lake during the Christmas holiday in 1968, after which she worked at the Ponderosa Inn for seven years, followed by a job as a sales clerk at the Hirch Center for a year, and then went to work for the JR Simplot Company for many years in Heyburn where she concluded her working career. She then decided to move to Nampa, Idaho.

Gloria was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in the Young Women’s program where she became the Young Women’s sports coach. She had a love for sports and received many awards; she also loved writing poetry.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Marie; a brother, Fred; and a nephew, Shawn LeRoy Barnett. She is survived by her sister, Joanne (Steven) Pearson of Burley; and her nieces and nephews.

As a family, we thank the loyal caregivers at Parke View Rehabilitation and Care Center for their kind attention to Gloria’s needs.

The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, January 29, at the Rasmussen Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, with Bishop Kerry McMurray officiating. A viewing will be held one hour prior to the funeral service on Monday, at the funeral home. Burial will follow at the Riverside Cemetery in Heyburn.