- Date Of Death: December 1, 2016
- State: Idaho
Eugene Butler Stucki died December 1, 2016 after a short stay at a local assisted living center in Logan, Cache County, Utah. He was ninety-eight years old at the time of his passing. Eugene B. Stucki was born on 5 September 1918 in Paris, Idaho, the oldest son and first child of E. Woodruff and Rhea Peterson Stucki and was one of six children. As a child he lived in Salt Lake City and then in Moroni, Utah before moving back to Paris. After moving to Paris, he went through grade school and graduated from the 8th grade in Paris, and went on to high school.
Eugene became aware of Leonora Spencer, who lived on the same street, while they were in high school. They started dating a year or two before his mission. He graduated from Fielding High School in 1937. In November, 1938 he left on his mission to the Western States Mission with Denver, Colorado as the headquarters. Some of the areas he served in were Montrose, Delta, Cortez, and Salina, Colorado; he also served in Columbus, Nebraska. His mission covered Colorado and Nebraska. He served until December, 1940. Eugene and Leonora were married on June 6, 1941 in the Salt Lake City, Utah temple. He and Leonora were the parents of six children.
Eugene worked at the co-op creamery about a year, then started farming with his dad and
started building up a dairy herd. In the Fall of 1949 he began work with the Idaho State Police Department as a highway patrolman. He left Paris and worked with the Idaho State Police from the Fall of 1949 to April 1952. They lived in Blackfoot, Idaho and then moved to Lincoln, a suburb of Idaho Falls, during that time. In the Spring of 1952 he ended his employment with the Idaho State Police and moved back to Paris to to help his dad on the family farm.
During these years he was very involved in the community serving as the Chairman of the Bear Lake Farm Bureau Board and the Chairman of the Bear Lake County Republican Party. He also was secretary of the Paris Lions Club. Other community positions were: Bear Lake Co-Op Creamery Board, School Board, and Board of Directors for Tri-State Bank. He was also on the Soil Conservation District Board of Supervisors and was a member of the Bear Lake Regional Commission coordinating government issues between Utah and Idaho and their respective counties as it relates to Bear Lake and the Bear River..
