Idaho State Journal, 11/18/02

SODA SPRINGS - Darrell Raymond Lindsay, 78, of Soda Springs, passed away Saturday, Nov. 16, 2002. He was born Jan. 14, 1924, in Bennington, Idaho, the son of Hyrum Lester and Vera Mouritsen Lindsay. Darrell graduated from Montpelier High School and had attended vo-tech in Pocatello. 

He married Gwenn VanderSteen Dec. 17, 1947, in the Logan LDS Temple. He had served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. 

Darrell had been a telegrapher and clerk for the Union Pacific Railroad, retiring after 55 years. He had lived several places while working for the railroad, living the last 40 years in Soda Springs. 

Darrell was a high priest in the Soda Springs LDS Third Ward. He had been a member of three bishoprics, ward clerk for two bishops and a counselor for one bishop. He had also been an officiator in the Logan LDS Temple. 

Darrell had been a scout master and he also coached baseball and basketball for a number of years. His hobbies included hunting, horseback riding, fishing, tying flies, reloading shells and storytelling. 

Darrell is survived by his wife, Gwenn Lindsay, of Soda Springs, two sons and two daughters and their spouses, Darrell R. and Tina Lindsay, Joe and Nancy Lindsay, Jane and Claude Garbett and Shelley and Kevin Coziah, all of Soda Springs. 

Also surviving are nine grandchildren, five step grandchildren and two great grandchildren and a sister, Immogene Rich, Boise, Idaho. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, a grandson, Matthew Reid Lindsay; a great granddaughter, Mattie Joe Whitney Lindsay; and four sisters and two brothers, May Call, Elizabeth Williams, Adelia Olsen, Shirley Alleman, Theron Lindsay and Edwin Lindsay. 

Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at noon at the Soda Springs LDS Stake Center with Bishop Randy Hubbard officiating. 

Burial will be in the Fairview Cemetery with military honors by the VFW and the American Legion.