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- Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID)
May 4, 2000
MENAN - Joseph Marvin Gunderson, 86, of Menan, died May 2, 2000, at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. He was born Dec. 10, 1913, in Menan, Idaho, to Edward Casper and Rosetta Stay Gunderson.
He attended schools in Menan and Midway, Idaho. He worked in the Seattle shipyards during World War II and later worked for the Army Corps. Of Engineers building the dike from Ririe to Roberts. He farmed in the Menan area most of his life and worked for 27 years at the INEL as a janitor, in the labor pool, and as an instrument technician and boiler operator. On July 29, 1946, he married Afton Donna Drake in Menan. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a mission to the Southern States. Joseph enjoyed fishing, hunting, his grandchildren and his family.
Survivors include his wife, Afton Gunderson of Menan; daughters, Donna (Mark) Tanner of Shelley, Mary Christensen of Tucson, Calif., Roxie (Kevin) Ashbocker of Lewisville, Idaho, and Nina Afton (Jed) Hodges of Rigby; sons, Dean (Jeannette) Gunderson of Ririe, Ronald (Marsha) Gunderson of Roberts, and Robert Gunderson and Donald (Danni) Gunderson, both of Menan; a brother, Aden (Afton) Gunderson of Menan; 35 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by three brothers, one sister, and a daughter, Lela Glunz.
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