Marilyn Peters
1941 — 2021
Marilyn Margaret (Becker) Peters, 79, passed away June 5, 2021, at her son's home in Idaho Falls, surrounded by her family. Marilyn was born on July 19, 1941, in Portland, Oregon. By the time she was 6, she had lived in California, Colorado, Virginia, Missouri, and Ohio. At 7, she contracted rheumatic fever and was bedridden for nearly a year and a half. When she was 11, her forestry father moved the family to East Pakistan, and she and her older sister attended a boarding school in the Himalayan Mountains of Northern India for two years. They returned briefly to Ohio, then moved to Ft. Collins, Colorado where Marilyn completed three years of high school before spending her senior year in...