A memorial service for Iver J. Longeteig of Lewiston will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Malcom's Brower-Wann Memorial Chapel at Lewiston. Members of the Masonic Lodge, Prairie Lodge No. 62, AF & AM, will officiate.
The retired Craigmont-area farmer died Sunday at Lewiston of causes related to Parkinson's disease and a stroke. He was 77.
He was born March 9, 1917, on a farm near Mohler, Idaho, to I.J. and Frances Mason Longeteig. When he was 2 years old, the family moved to a farm west of Craigmont, where he lived for most of the remainder of his life.
He attended grade and high school at Craigmont and graduated from the University of Idaho at Moscow in 1939 with a bachelor's degree in education. While there, he was a member of the Chi Alpha Pi and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternities.
He taught history at Plummer (Idaho) High School for three years, then returned to Craigmont to farm, first with his father and then for himself.
He married Margaret Nell Waters June 13, 1940, at Nezperce.
He was active in community organizations and organized a Toastmasters group. He was president of the Craigmont Chamber of Commerce, and served on the school board, the soil conservation board and the highway district.
A member and master of the Craigmont Grange, he was also a board member of the Grange Supply and served on the board of the Grange Cooperative Wholesale, a regional cooperative, for 20 years. He served as president for seven years.
He was also on the UI Alumni Board, serving as president in 1964, was a member of the Masonic fraternity, master of Prairie Lodge No. 62 of Craigmont and a member of the Scottish Rite and the Shriners. He helped the Calam Temple of the Shrine organize the first Shrine Food Caravan to the Crippled Children's Hospital at Spokane and served as grand master of the Masons in Idaho in 1963.
He was a builder and constructed several of the barns and buildings in the area, including the Craigmont Post Office.
He enjoyed traveling and had visited Vietnam, Taiwan, France, England and Switzerland.
He retired from farming in 1976 and he and his wife moved to Lewiston in 1984.
Survivors include his wife of Lewiston; two sons, Iver J. Longeteig III of Boise and Wilfrid W. Longeteig of Craigmont; a daughter, Karen Longeteig-Khan of Lexington, Mass.; four sisters, Norma Smith of Wenatchee, Lois Wallace of Wilmington, N.C., Mary Meagher of Tualatin, Ore., and Shirley Strom of Craigmont; and seven grandchildren.
A brother, Wynne Longeteig, and an infant daughter died previously.
The family suggests memorials be sent to the University of Idaho Foundation or to the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children, P.O. Box 2472, Spokane, Wash. 99210-2472.
