After returning home from serving his second Latter-day Saints mission with his loving companion, Roger Ward Marlowe, age 70, suffered a heart attack and passed away on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, in his home in Rexburg.
Roger was born in Vancouver Washington, on March 9, 1940, to Hilding Mauritz and Mary Ward Marlowe. He was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He later attended Brigham Young University and Idaho State University, where he met the love of his life, Dolores Rodriguez. They were married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on Sept. 21, 1973. They lived in Provo, Utah, while attending school and then lived in Malad, for a short time thereafter. They then moved to Burley, and lived there for a brief time. In 1984, they moved to St. Anthony, where they raised their four children.

While in St. Anthony, Roger worked as a chaplain at the Juvenile Corrections Center for the State of Idaho till 2001. He was also a veteran and retired from the United States Air force as a Master Sergeant. He was an active member of the LDS Church and found joy in serving his family and loved ones. He spent many hours attending the temple including fulfilling a session on the day he died.
He loved playing the piano and organ. He had a love for truth and spent his life in serving his wife and family. He has left us to return to his Heavenly Father and he will be dearly missed.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his loving wife, Delores Rodriguez Marlowe of Rexburg; his four children, John (Amy) Marlowe, Elizabeth (Dan) Dümmar, James (Adrianna) Marlowe, and Mary (Don) Hausen; ten grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; his brothers, Darold Marlowe, Roy (Irene) Marlowe, and Kent (Anne) Marlowe; and two sisters, Lanea (Layne) Blatter and Marilyn Richards.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 31, at the Rexburg LDS 9th Ward Church, 345 South 3rd West, with Bishop E. Scott Lee officiating. Burial will take place at 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon at the Oakley Cemetery, 600 S. Church St., in Oakley, Idaho, with military rites provided by the Hill Air Force Base Honor Guard.
Friends may call from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. Friday, July 30, at the Flamm Funeral Home, 61 N. 1st E., in Rexburg, and from 10 until 10:45 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Flamm Funeral Home of Rexburg.