Barbara Johns

Barbara McRae Johns, of Mountain Home, passed away peacefully at the age of 88.

Services will be held on Friday, April 19, 2013, with a viewing from 10-11:45 a.m. and services beginning at noon at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Old Mountain Home Idaho Stake Center, located at 1150 N. 8th East. St. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

Barbara was born on Sept. 8, 1924, in Bisbee, Ariz., to Walter S. and Hazel Post McRae. She grew up in St. David, Ariz., the oldest of eight children.

She met Kenneth while attending the University of Arizona. They were married on Aug. 22, 1944, in the Salt Lake City Temple.

When Kenneth came home from serving as an airplane pilot during WWII, they lived in Provo, Utah, where Kenneth attended BYU. After a miscarriage and then her first baby passing away at two days old, Barbara and Kenneth were overjoyed with the birth of their daughter, Becky.

Becky was followed over the years by Paul, Quey, Janet, Rolf, Stan, Todd and Karen.

In 1951, Barbara, Kenneth and family moved to the ranch on Rattlesnake Creek east of Mountain Home. Mom was committed to dad and her family and was very active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

At the age of 85, she served a Family History Mission in Salt Lake City, Utah.

She was a hard worker. She kept a clean house, cooked for her large family, canned and bottled fruit and vegetables and made wonderful homemade bread.

Barbara is survived by her children, Becky and her husband Karl Simonson of Burley, Paul and his wife Linda Johns of Blackfoot, Quey Johns of Mountain Home, Janet and her husband Sumner Newman of Bountiful, Utah, Rolf and his wife Linda Johns of Brigham City, Utah, Stan and his wife Lisa Johns of Blackfoot, Todd and his wife Tracy Johns of Mountain Home, Karen and her husband Larry Fisher of Blackfoot, her brother Lorin and his wife Joyce McRae, sisters June Lofgreen, Dona and her husband Max Kartchner, Elizabeth and her husband Dale Kartchner, and Phyllis Murray, 38 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Kenneth Johns, her son, Kenneth, her sister, Nadine Kellis, and a brother, Stanley McRae.

Donations in Barbara's memory can be sent to Primary Children' Medical Center Foundation, P.O. Box 58249, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-0249.