Woozley_Edward_’Pa’_16_Jun_1902

MALAD-Edward “Pa” Woozley, loving grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, passed away peacefully Monday, May 15, 1995 at South Davis Community Hospital in Utah.

He was born June 16, 1902 to Timothy Morgan and Mary Ellen Jones Woozley in Malad, Idaho. He married his childhood sweetheart, Iona Palmer in 1920. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake City Temple in 1922.

He graduated from Malad High School and Brigham Young College, Logan, Utah. He lived in Idaho, Maryland, California, and Utah. He was an accomplished musician. He spent most of his life in government service, first in the state of Idaho, where the fieldman for the Eastern Idaho production Credit Association, and later managed the Oneida County Federal Farm Loan Office.

The he was appointed the Idaho Land Commissioner. From 1953 to 1961 he served as the director of the Bureau of Land Management in the United States Department of Interior in Washington, D.C. He spent the remainder of his career working as an assistant to Sen. Dworkshak and Sen. Jordan of Idaho.

Survivors include Peggy Beyer, Dixie Jacobs and Suzy Woozley, granddaughters who had cared for him over the past four years; he is also survived by 10 other grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren; one sister, Mary Jensen Bountiful, Utah; and one son Winston Woolzey, Maryland. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, two daughters, Lucy Woozley and Leonore Stayner, and a son Weldon Woozley.

Funeral services will be Sat, May 20, at 1 p.m. At the Benson-Horsley Funeral Home in Malad, where friends may call for one hour prior to services. Burial will be at the St. John Cemetery.