Mac B. Mills

ALBION – Mac B. Mills, age 80, of Albion, passed away on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at Countryside Care and Rehabilitation Center in Rupert, after a valiant battle with cancer.

He was born on Jan. 15, 1933, in Mauldin, Yell County, Arkansas, the youngest child born to Leslie B. and Nina McBee Mills. Mac was raised in Whittier, California, where he received his education. Following high school, he served honorably in the United States Marine Corps. He married Pat Woolery and they had four children. He, along with his parents, moved to the Blackfoot, Idaho area where they were engaged in the dairy business. He attended Idaho State University in Pocatello where he received his degree in education. He then taught school and coached sports in the Burley area. He later married Susan Evans and helped raise her five children.

Education was very important to Mac. He received a Master’s degree in education and continued teaching and coaching in the states of Oregon and Washington prior to returning to Idaho to care for his parents. He married Sharon Hardy in 1999, having eloped in Elko, Nevada – once in a blue moon. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and seeing where the road went.

Mac was preceded in death by his parents; and one brother, Bobby; and he is survived by his sister, Betty (Gary) Ozunas; his first wife, Pat and her husband, Lee; his children, Lori Adams, Mark (Kelly) Mills, Dana (Meb) Bowler, and Nancy (Kirk) Lindholm; his second wife, Susan Moore and her children, Nikki Fogg, Samantha Nielson, Angie Fogg, Mindy (Roy) Nelson, and Isaac Fogg; his present wife, Sharon Hardy-Mills and her children, Tiffany (Brett) Anderson, Command Master Chief Loren (Amber) Rucker, Heather (Reuben) Winder, and Crystal (Mel) Tracy; 40 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, March 11, at the Albion LDS Church with Bishop Randy Brackenbury officiating. Military rites will be provided by the American Legion, Albion Post No. 124, and the Mini-Cassia Veterans Organization. Burial will be at 3 p.m. in the Grove City Cemetery, 1 Willow Dr., in Blackfoot.

Friends may call from 5 until 7 p.m. Sunday, March 10, at the Rasmussen Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, and from 10 until 10:45 a.m. Monday at the church.

The family suggests memorials be directed to the Albion Senior Center or the American Legion, Albion Post No. 124.