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POCATELLO_ Daryl Anderson Maynard went home to be with the Lord on May 26, 2010 three days after her 88th birthday. She was born in Holbrook, Idaho, the third of four daughters of Mary and Martin Anderson.
As a child she loved to write poetry, do acrobatics, paint, tap dance and “act”. She learned dance steps by watching Ginger Rogers at the movie theater and filled her childhood room with pictures of movie stars. Even though she grew up during the Depression she said she never felt that any family had more than she did. All the kids in the neighborhood always ended up at her house for the delicious homemade bread her mother baked every day. Though she moved frequently as a child, from fourth grade until she began teaching, she remained in the same place, a house her father built just two blocks from Idaho State University. She graduated from high school and entered college in Pocatello and started student teaching when she was only 17 years old.
Daryl had never lived away from home when she began her teaching career in Malad, Idaho in 1941, with a salary of $765 for the entire year. During this time, war was declared. It seemed hard at the time, but she received excellent appraisals on her teaching and was really hooked on a profession that she would love throughout her years of teaching.
After her first two years of teaching, Daryl returned to Pocatello to teach at Washington School where she had spent so much of her life. She had attended that school as a child, did her student teaching there with many of the teachers she had as a child, and retired from there in 1966 at the age of 74 after 46 years of teaching. In between there were many other schools, places and adventures.
Daryl married Richard Eugene Maynard in December 1952 and moved several times to places he was stationed. She had two children, and after being a stay at home Mom for eight years, she began teaching first grade in Roy, Utah, in 1965. She was asked to teach Special Education when this program was just beginning.
From Roy, Utah, Daryl returned to Pocatello and began teaching in the Resource Room and by this time, had received her Master’s Degree in Special Education. She then went on to train hundreds of college student teachers in her classroom and finally retired from teaching in May of 1966 at the age of 74. The school had a fabulous reception attended by many former students and teachers. The highlight was when her son sang “My Way” and “Young at Heart”. He said that anyone who had ever known his mother had to know that “she did it her way”. She was always independent and strong-willed but totally devoted to her family.
Daryl was always very proud of her family and loved them very much. She said that the most important message she could give to each of her 12 grandchildren: Kelli, Chris, Kim, Lindsay, Thomas, Katie, Michael, Kristin, Anna, Miranda, Chase and Drew, and her two great-grandchildren Ayden and Sienna – is her great love for them and the value of having the Lord in your life. Her favorite bible verse was Psalm 23 because she lived that it showed Faith in God.
Daryl is survived by her son, Richard Maynard and daughter-in-law, Stacy Maynard, of Pocatello; daughter, Linda McGee and son-in-law Robert McGee of Long Beach, California; and Kathryn Justessen, her niece whom she loved as a sister.
Visitation and an informal life sketch will be presented at Colonial Funeral Home, 2005 S. Fourth Ave., on Monday evening, May 31, 2010 from 6 to 8 p.m. Burial will be private. Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.Colonial-Funeral-Home.com.