We will miss you...

Robert Rainey Robert Tolman Rainey, 67, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed his final test in mortality and was called home April 10, 2010.

Helen Tolman and William Webster Rainey welcomed Bob into their family July 29, 1942, in Monterey Park, Calif. The family later moved to Yucaipa, where Bob helped with the family chicken farm. He attended Yucaipa Junior High School, but went to Redlands High School for two years because Yucaipa didn't have a high school. He graduated from Baldwin Park High School and continued his education at what was then called the Church College of Hawaii. His LDS mission call was to the Gulf States which included Missouri, Louisiana and Mississippi. After his mission, Bob enrolled at Brigham Young University, where he met Marion Francis Hornor. They were married in the Los Angeles LDS Temple on June 11, 1965.

Bob taught seventh- and eighth-grade geography and history for more than 30 years at Terreton Elementary School and coached the eighth-grade basketball team for many years. His love of sports, besides BYU games, included coaching Little League football, Babe Ruth baseball, West Jefferson high school baseball and faithfully attending sports events for his children and grandchildren. He had an incredible gift for remembering and teaching geography and history, but his greatest gift was loving his children and grandchildren. He also loved to sing in the ward choir and enjoyed fishing at his cabin at Henry's Lake.

Bob is survived by his wife, Marion Rainey of Terreton; children, Marion F. (George) Avery of Lava Hot Springs, Jennifer (Tim) Beaman of Woodbridge, Va., Melanie (Neil) Baird of Macomb, Ill., Camila Rainey of Billings, Mont., Jessie Pearl (Devro) Brinkerhoff, James W. (Summer) Rainey and Robert T. Rainey, all of Terreton, Dan R. Rainey and William T. Rainey, both of Pocatello, Andrew J. (Nohemi) Rainey of Yorktown, Va., and Jacob H. (Julia) Rainey of St. George, Utah; sisters, Lareine (Bud) Stephens of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Christa (Jay) Fittinger of Molalla, Ore.; and 19 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Jack Rainey; and a granddaughter, Rachel Hope Hunting.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 17, at the Terreton LDS Stake Center. The family will receive friends from 6 p. m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a. m. prior to the services, both at the church. Burial will be in West Jefferson Cemetery, under the care of Eckersell Memorial Chapel in Rigby. Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.eckersellfuneralhome.com.