Virginia H. Prince
March 14, 1928 – September 15, 2022
Virginia Hurd Astle Prince
94 years old
Virginia passed away September 15, 2022, following a long illness. She was born March 14, 1928, in Grover, Wyoming. She is a daughter of Charles Arnold Hurd and Annie Christena Nielsen. Virginia’s mother passed away five days following her birth, so Virginia never had the opportunity to meet her mother.
Virginia was raised by her grandparents, Mark and Sarah Hurd for her first six years. She then went home to live with her father and some of her siblings and started school.
She grew up in Grover Wyoming surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins. She graduated from Star Valley High School in 1946.
She married George Elzo Astle September 19, 1946, in the Salt Lake Utah Temple and they made their home in Grover, Wyoming. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where she taught and served in various callings including Primary and was always busy doing genealogy. She would often meet with other sisters in the church and go to Salt Lake City to do genealogy research.
Virginia and George moved to Payson Utah around 1950 where they farmed and milked cows there until around 1961 when they moved to Wendell, Idaho. Virginia and George also farmed and ran the Western Auto store in Wendell. Virginia helped with farming; she raised lots of chickens for their eggs, milked cows, and absolutely loved growing vegetable and beautiful flower gardens. They moved to Grand View Idaho in 1973 where they continued farming.
George and Virginia divorced in the early 1980’s. She then bought a home in Jerome Idaho where she lived until 2004. Virginia married Cleo Frances Prince on June 6, 1987, and they lived in her home in Jerome. Cleo passed away December 21, 1993.
In August of 2004, she moved to Mountain Home Idaho where she lived until March of 2022 (she wanted to have her 94th birthday in her home in Mountain Home), when she moved to Arimo, Idaho to live with her daughter, Sandra and Craig.
Virginia is survived by her son Layne (Michelle) Astle of Grand View, Idaho, daughter Sandra (Craig) Smith of Arimo, Idaho, and son Kim Astle of Grand View, Idaho. She had thirteen grand-children and 31 + great- grand-children.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her previous husbands, George Elzo Astle, and Cleo Frances Prince, her three sisters LaRue, Lorna and Dorthy and one brother Doyle, a daughter-in-law, Carleen Peck Astle, and one great grandson Milo Doyle.
Services will be held September 22, 2022, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grover Wyoming. There will be a visitation from 12:00 -12:45 followed by her funeral at 1:00 PM. Burial will take place at the Grover Cemetery immediately following the service.