HENRY BENJAMIN PINGEL

Henry Benjamin Pingel

TREMONTON, Utah – Henry Benjamin Pingel, 77, 120 East 90 South, Malad, died Saturday [July 16, 1988] in a Tremonton, Utah nursing home.

He was born April 21, 1911, in Granger, Utah, to William Henry and Louisa Wilhilminia Sophia Nagel Pingel. He was reared and educated in Ashton and Malad, where he moved with his family in 1928.

He married Rosetta Peabody October 8, 1932, in Brigham City, Utah. The marriage was later solemnized November 13, 1956, in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple.

He worked for a grocery store in Malad and was sent for a short period of time to Green River, Wyoming, to learn management of the store. He worked at the old Skaggs store in Malad and for many years was a projectionist at the Malad Theater.

The couple moved to Blackfoot and he worked at the AEC site for 26 ½ years in a materials testing lab.

He was a member of the LDS church, where he served in several bishoprics, as ward clerk and financial clerk.

He is survived by his wife of Malad; two sons, Joseph Henry Pingel, Woodland, California and Rodney “Bud” Pingel, West Jordan, Utah; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mary Smith, Orland, California and Ruth Peabody, Baker, Oregon. He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers.

Funeral services were held Wednesday in the Benson-Horsley Funeral home in Malad with Bishop Frank Madsen officiating. Burial was in the Malad City Cemetery.