- Date Of Birth: November 1, 1928
- Date Of Death: March 8, 2019
- State: Idaho
John A. Teichert (90) passed away March 8, 2019 at home. He was born November 1, 1928. He was the fifth and last child born to Herman Adolph and artist Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert and their only child born in Cokeville, WY. His parents had moved to Wyoming the previous year after their ranch, on the Fort Hall Bottoms in Idaho, had been inundated by the building of the American Falls Reservoir.
John grew up riding the range, putting up hay, feeding and milking cows. The family ran the town dairy for a number of years. During the war John and the boys in the community followed the threshing machines and helped those that didn’t have their hay in. This lasted until October so the only sport was basketball. He played basketball on a state championship team in 1946.
After High School he attended Brigham Young University for two years. He served a 2 1/2 year LDS mission to Finland. He then returned BYU and was involved in the Delta Phi chorus where he met his sweetheart Dorothy Black. They were married June 15, 1953 in the Salt Lake Temple just a week after his graduation in Geology. A month later he left for the army. John served in the Topographic Engineers, stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco, including a summer in Alaska with a survey company.
In Cokeville they built a home and raised 9 children (two girls and seven boys). With John’s travels, he needed a bunch of boys to take care of his ranching interest.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother’s Herman, Robert, and Hamilton Teichert and sister Laurie Eastwood. His daughter Patricia (Patty) and daughter-in-law Jan Teichert.
He is survived by his wife Dorothy and children Matthew (Chris), Ann (Val) Garn, Mark (Christine), Michael (Valerie), Melvin, Tim (Renae), Jonathan (Tryny), D.J. (Cindy), 44 grandchildren and 57 great-grandchildren, his sister-in-law Buhla Teichert and brother-in-law Charles Eastwood.
