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In Memory

Glenn Toomer - Class of 1955

Glenn Arlin Toomer, 25, was killed in a car accident at about 2:45 AM on Friday, January 6, 1961.  He apparently lost control of his car on the icy surface.  The son of Alfred Lee and Iretta Roberts Toomer, he was born May 17, 1935 at Lanark, Idaho.  He attended elementary school in Cokeville, Wyoming and continued his schooling in Montpelier.  For the past eight years he had been employed at the Burgoyne Cafe.  He was a member of the LDS Church and a teacher in the Montpelier Third Ward.  He was a sergeant in the Montpelier unit of the US Army Reserve.  Glenn married Jennie Warner May 9, 1959 in Montpelier.  Besides his widow he is survived by an infant daughter, Phyllis Jaleen, 81/2 months; parents, of Montpelier; three brothers, Alfred Jack Toomer of Grace, O. Blake and Roger D Toomer, both of Montpelier; three sisters, Mrs Richard (Uleta) Schrock of Pasadena, Texas, Mrs. Roger Janene) Pugmire of St Charles and Cheryl Toomer of Montpelier; and maternal grandfather. Owen Roberts of Lanark. Services were held at 2 pm,  Monday In the Montpelier LDS Third-Fifth Ward Chapel with Bishop Philip Hulme of the Third ward conducting. The Invocation was given by Jerry Eastman, followed by obituary and remarks, Bishop Hulme; vocal solo, "Just For Today," Max Haddock, accompanied by Mrs Philip Hulme; speaker, Jerry Glenn; song, "In The Garden," male trio, Eugene J. Grimes, Max Haddock and Bishop Hulme; speaker, President Eugene P. Shepherd; vocal solo, "Whispering Hope," Winslow Swensen; benediction, Vern Warren. The prayer at the mortuary was offered by Bishop Archie Parker. Interment was In the Montpelier cemetery. 

 

The accident occurred six tenths of a mile north of Montpelier city limits on old US 30N, also known as 8th Street alternate. Jerry King, Idaho State police. investigating officer, said Mr. Toomer, alone in his 1960 model car, was driving north. He apparently lost control of the car on the icy surface, and the vehicle skidded sidewise. going into the right borrow pit, shearing a utility pole and coming to rest upside down. Mr. Toorner, thought to have been killed instantly, was pinned under the demolished car.