Larry Stills

Larry Daniel Stills went home to his Heavenly Father on April 5, 2025 at Ashley Manor in Payette, Idaho.  Services will be held at the Vale Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 11:00 am with a visitation from 10:00 am - 10:45 am at the church. Graveside services will be held at the Rosdale Memorial Gardens in Payette following services

Larry was born in LaGrande, Oregon to Leo Daniel Stills and Charlana Maye (Fisher) Stills.  His family moved from LaGrande to Ontario when Larry was 6 years old.

He was working for the Forest Service in California in the summer months.  He worked at Ore-Ida Foods in Ontario in the winter months.  This is where he met his wife (of 58 years) Shirley Parkhurst.  They were married June 10, 1966.  They went to California where he fought fires.  Winter came so they moved back to Ontario where both worked at Ore-Ida Foods until they moved to Moscow, Idaho for school.  He went to the U of I and also worked on the farm of U of I.  They found a small farm in Troy, Idaho where they lived 10 years.  

Both children were born in Moscow, Idaho (Leon D Stills & Koren V. Stills)  They moved back to Ontario where he worked on his Father-In-Law's frarm until he got a job at Amalgamated Sugar Co where he worked for 15 years.  After he retired he worked 3 years at the Boise Temple until he went on a service mission for the L.D.S. Church in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife as a companion

Larry is preceded in death by his parents, Sister-In-Law Lois Diane Parkhurst, 4 Brothers-in-Law Frank Gardner, Marion Hall, Ralph and William Parkhurst.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley (Parkhurst) Stills, Son, Leon Stills, daugher, Koren Stills, 2 granddaughter, Jasmine and  Morgan Stills, 2 great granddaughters, Kyra and Abbi Stills, great grandson Lucas Soto, and his sister Joyce (Bob) Charlton of Middleton, Idaho.

The family wishes to thank the staff at Ashley Manor and Horizon Hospice nurses for their compassion and Care.

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