Irel Thomas Kent 4354
- Born: 13 November 1912, Fairview, Twin Falls County, Idaho 4359,4360,4361
- Marriage: Rena Louise Maguire 1 December 1951 in Elko, Elko County, Nevada 4354,4355
- Died: 29 November 2001, Boise, Ada County, Idaho at age 89 4359,4361
- Buried: After 29 November 2001, Rupert, Minidoka County, Idaho at Minidoka Acequia Rupert Cemetery 4359,4361
The Times-News
Twin Falls, ID
Sunday, December 2, 2001
Irel Thomas Kent Shorty, 89, a long-time resident of Acequia, Idaho, died Thursday, November 29, 2001, at the Life Care Center of Treasure Valley, Boise, Idaho.
He was born on November 13, 1912, in Fairview, Idaho. He was the eleventh child, the fourth son, of Lucy Elvira Bodily Stevenson Kent and Thomas K. Jefferson Kent. He graduated from Acequia High School. He worked on ranches in the area, caring for cattle and sheep. He also worked many years for the railroad in Minidoka County. He loved to ride horses and to garden. He married Rena Louise Maguire on December 1, 1951. They had a daughter born to them, Marcia Faye, on October 29, 1952. On June 17, 1957, Rena and their second child died from complications during her pregnancy. His only daughter died December 27, 1965, in a snow accident.
Later in life, he had two other marriages to Hettie Gibson and Dorothy Smith, which both ended in divorce. With his health declining due to his sugar diabetes, he then moved to Boise to live with his sister, Mable K. and DuWayne Weaver, where they cared for him for several years. He lived with them until 1997, when Mable's health would not allow her to care for her brother any more. He moved into Life Care Center of Treasure Valley. He spent the last 3 3/4 years there surrounded by workers who came to love him.
He is survived by one brother, Ira B. and Velola Kent of Acequia, Idaho. He was preceded in death by his parents; half-sisters, Lucy Stevenson and Elvira Stevenson; one half-brother, James Jim Stevenson; sisters, Pearl K. Cole, Edna E. Kent, Iona K. Coleman and Mable K. Weaver; and brothers, George Arlo Kent and Willie B. Bill Kent.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, December 3, 2001, at the Acequia LDS Church with Bishop David Coats officiating. Burial will follow in the Rupert Cemetery. Family and friends may call one hour prior to the service at the church. Arrangements under the direction of Hansen Mortuary Rupert Chapel.
Events
• He appeared on the census in 1930 in Acequia, Minidoka County, Idaho. He lived in the household of his parents.
Irel married Rena Louise Maguire, daughter of Earl Clifton Maguire and Sara Nina Brewster, 1 December 1951 in Elko, Elko County, Nevada 4354.,4355 (Rena Louise Maguire was born 18 January 1915 in Leeds, Androscoggin County, Maine,272,4343 died 17 June 1957 in Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho 4354,4357,4358 and was buried after 17 June 1957 in Rupert, Minidoka County, Idaho at Minidoka Acequia Rupert Cemetery 4357.) The cause of her death was complications during pregnancy with her second child.
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