- Date Of Death: December 16, 2017
- State: Idaho
Jo Ann Stephens Farnsworth, 80, passed away peacefully in her home on December 16, 2017, from natural causes.
She was born on August 3, 1937, in the old Montpelier Hospital, to Donovan J. and Geneva Wright Stephens. She grew up in Montpelier where she attended the Lincoln Elementary School, Montpelier Junior High School, and Montpelier High School. She attended BYU for one year, then worked at Hill Air Force Base for five years.
She married Marion D. (Bud) Farnsworth and they had two children: Patricia Ann Farnsworth Ward and Kathy Jo Farnsworth Boone. They lived in Montpelier, Idaho; Portland, Oregon; Cottonwood, Arizona; and Kennewick, Washington. Jo Ann was a Wang Word Processing Operator for the Department of Energy in Washington. She won an award there in 1980 for the Outstanding Handicapped Employee of the year – nationwide. After retirement they moved back to Montpelier.
Jo Ann worked part-time for a year writing feature stories for the News Examiner and wrote the histories that were in the addendum to the News Examiner on Idaho’s Centennial Celebration in 1990.
