The Standard Examiner, Tue, Jan 8, 2002 00:00:00 

Our beloved wife, mother and grandmother, Doris Mae Hunter Folkman, 78, passed away peacefully in Provo, UT on Sunday morning, January 6, 2002 after a lengthy illness. She was born on September 6, 1923, in Bennington, Idaho, to Clifford Hunter and Annie Mae Smeath. She was the third of seven children.

Doris grew up on the family farm in Bennington, Idaho, and graduated from Montpelier High School. She worked for the Kings store in Montpelier, and managed the store for a time near the end of the war, until her future husband was sent to Montpelier to become the store manager.

She married Robert Vaughn Folkman in the Logan LDS Temple on December 7,1945. They have enjoyed 56 years together, eventually living in Tremonton and Ogden, Utah; Reno, Nevada; and finally retiring to Provo, Utah in 1986.

Doris was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She filled an LDS stake mission in the Montpelier Idaho Stake from 1943 to 1944. She served as a counselor in the Relief Society Presidency in the Ogden 15th Ward for many years, and later as Young Women"s President and on the Stake Relief Society Board in the Reno Nevada Mt. Rose Stake. She had been an active member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.

Wherever she lived, Mom created a warm and loving home where family always felt welcome and loved to be. She was the perfect grandmother, both in her beautiful appearance and her kind and loving ways, and was adored by her 15 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her husband; three sons and their wives, Robert and Iantha Folkman of Brigham City, Utah; David and Kathy Folkman of Highland, Utah; and Kevin and Katie Folkman of Redmond, Washington; two brothers, Donald Hunter (Betty) of St. George, and Vern Hunter (Rae) of Westerville, Ohio; and one sister, Geraldine Weatherston (Vern) of Ogden, Utah. Her parents, two sisters, Helen and Beverly, and one brother, Duaine, preceded her in death.

Funeral services will be held, Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 11 a.m. at the Provo 13th Ward Chapel, 965 East 1700 North. Interment, Highland City Cemetery.