Stanger_A. E._13 Mar 1872

A. E. Stanger

IDAHO FALLS–A. E. Stanger, 78, one of East Idaho’s earliest bankers, rancher, and businessman, died Wednesday in Phoenix, Ariz., of a heart ailment.

He was president of the Idaho Falls Bonded Produce and Supply Company at the time of his death. He helped found the company in 1918. The Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce presented him with a life membership in 1949.

In 1918 he helped organize the Idaho Falls National Bank serving as vice president one year and president for five years. He was president over the First Federal Savings and Loans Association until a year ago when he resigned.

Prominent in Idaho politics, he served two terms in the State Legislature and one year in the State Senate. He had been a stalwart in reclamation fields of the state for several decades.

For several years he was a member of the board of directors of the State Reclamation Association, and was president of the Progressive Irrigation District for six years.

He was born in Slaterville, Utah, March 13, 1872, a son of George and Elizabeth Etherington Stanger.

He came to Idaho at the age of 11, settling first in the American Falls area. Two years later he came to the Idaho Falls area with an older brother, the late A. J. Stanger. Since that time he has been a resident of Iona and Idaho Falls with the exception of last winter when he made his home at Mesa, Arizona.

He married Josephine Steele March 15, 1898. Early in his life he was associated with the Iona Sheep company, one of the largest in the state at the time. He remained with the company either as manger and president until it was dissolved.

The first few years of his marriage he lived at Iona, but moved to Lincoln to manage the Iona Mercantile Company. Lincoln Branch, when the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company was building their factory there.

He was manager of the Lincoln Branch of the store until 1910, when he resigned to fulfill a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Eastern States. He also served many years as bishop of the Lincoln Ward.

After serving two years in the mission field he returned and took up farming and livestock feeding operations for himself in the area.

His first wife died in April, 1948, and he married Alberta Sanderfus in August. 1949.

Besides his widow, he is survived by the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Vera Larsen, Rexburg; A. G. “Bert” Stanger, Glenn Stanger, Keith Stanger and LeRoy Stanger, all of Idaho Falls; 14 grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Susie Brandon, Seattle, Wash., also survives.

Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the LDS chapel at Lincoln, with a member of the Lincoln bishopric officiating.

Burial will be in the Iona Cemetery under direction of Wood Funeral Home.