- Date Of Birth: August 23, 1940
- Date Of Death: December 5, 2018
- State: Idaho
Virgil Gene Payton, 78, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 5, 2018, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.
Gene was born August 23, 1940, in Emmett, Idaho, to Virgil Payton and Rosella Bucklin Payton. He grew up and attended schools in Emmett and graduated from Emmett High School. He also attended barber school at the Idaho Barber College in Boise.
On August 25, 1962, he married Renee Wheeler in Ririe, Idaho. To this union were born five children, Mary, Patty, Terry, Janice and Brian. Gene and Renee made their home in Idaho Falls, Idaho, where Gene worked as a barber for fifty years.
