- Date Of Birth: March 28, 1923
- Date Of Death: April 2, 2015
- State: Idaho
Thursday, April 2, 2015 saw the passing of Jerry (Geraldine) Aretta Cuber. Attended by her son and his family, she died peacefully in her assisted living home in Meridian. Jerry was born March 28, 1923 to James and Maime Wright in Atoka, Oklahoma.
When she was only five, she lost her mother at the same time she and her father, sister and two brothers would enter the great depression. The next decade forged the family tightly together as they worked farms across the state. Those times and memories gave her a set of values and a strong work ethic that would define the rest of her life. In her late teens she worked in a laundry and then retail sales.
The outbreak of WWII brought the construction of Camp Maxie, an Army training base, just outside the town of Antlers, along with the young soldier who would share the next 61 years of her life. She would marry Charles L. Cuber, originally from Mesa, Arizona on April 8, 1944, and await his fate on Okinawa until Japan‘s surrender. Jerry said goodbye to her father, siblings and Oklahoma to set out with Charles for California, looking for work like so many others where they could find it. While living in Alhambra she gave birth to her only child, Wayne Charles Cuber in 1947.
In 1992 they relocated the last time to Meridian, Idaho to be close to her son, Wayne and her grandsons in Eagle. During her married life, Jerry devoted her life to her family, raising her son Wayne and later his son Michael. She volunteered for school and rehab functions as well as working hospice for several terminal family members. She was active with the senior’s Meals on Wheels Program at its start as well as V.F.W. functions.
She is survived by her son Wayne, grandsons, Scott and Michael, great-grandchildren, Ashley, Elias and Natalie Cuber as well as many others who she adopted in her heart!
