Blanche Black Stoddard, 100, of Egin, passed away 19, February, 2017, at the Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg, Idaho of complications due to old age.

Blanche was born July 12, 1916, at Wilford, Idaho, to Lydia Birch and Henry Harrison Black. She was the sixth of seven children. She married Marion Leslie Stoddard on October 3, 1935 in the Salt Lake Temple.


She grew up in Wilford on their family farm and enjoyed her mother's vegetable and flower gardens, berry patch, and farm animals. Her father was a contract painter. She enjoyed her childhood friends, school friends, and neighbors and kept in touch for many years.

Music was an important part of her life. She had a beautiful voice and participated in the school choir and several ward choirs. She sang solos and played the piano by ear. Lawrence Welk was her favorite television show.

Marion Stoddard caught her eye in 1933 at a dance at the Del Rio in Twin Groves. After she graduated from Sugar City High School, they were married on Oct 3, 1935. They lived and farmed in St. Anthony, Parker, and Egin. She served in many church callings as Assistant Ward Clerk, Stake Missionary, Stake Missionary for the Spanish speaking, a counselor in two Relief Society Presidencies, Visiting Teacher, and several Primary positions. She was an active member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.


Margaret Moon instilled in her a love for oil painting, and many of her pieces hang in the homes of her children and friends. She loved raising flowers and surrounded her home with their beauty. She enjoyed traveling and spent several winters in Quartzite, Arizona, in their trailer. She and Marion enjoyed their trip to Hawaii.

She is survived by her sons, DeVerl (Patty) Stoddard, Sugar City, Idaho; E. Gene (Judy) Stoddard, Egin, Idaho; Neil (Shelle) Stoddard, Egin, Idaho; and daughters M. Arlene (Sylvan) Orr, Salmon, Idaho; JoAnn (Bradley) Jensen, Rexburg, Idaho; and a daughter-in-law Alane Burgener Morley, Salt Lake, Utah. She is also survived by 26 grandchildren, 91 great grandchildren, and 33 great great grandchildren.


Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Marion Leslie Stoddard; a son Gary Lynn Stoddard; a grandson Jared Bradley Jensen; two great grandsons Mason Taft Fisher and Braden Sylvan Orr; a daughter-in-law Lana McBride Stoddard; sisters Mary Irene Pratt, and Wilma Minnie Johnston; brothers George Warren (Martha) Black, LeRoy Reed (Melbourne) Black, Blaine Black, Virgil (Winnie Fae) Black.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Egin Bench Ward Chapel with Bishop LaVar Hunter officiating. Friends may visit at Bert Flamm Mortuary in St. Anthony Friday evening from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and at the Egin Bench Church Saturday morning from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. just prior to services. Burial will be in the Parker Cemetery.