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The Idaho State Journal 01-26-2001
Services for Maj. Gen. Louis O. Alder, 78, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, January 26, 2001, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Tabor Road in Corona, California. He died Monday, January 22, 2001, of multiple myeloma at Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center in Riverside, California. Graveside services will be held in Chesterfield Cemetery, Chesterfield, Idaho, on Monday, Jan. 29, at 1 p.m. Local arrangements are under the direction of Sims Funeral Home, Soda Springs.
Maj. Gen. Alder, son of Frank and Wanda Katie Whitworth, was born in Preston, Franklin County, Idaho, and was raised in Chesterfield County. He served in the U.S. Air Force 33 years before he retired as major general in 1975. His last assignment was a deputy chief of staff. He received a Distinguished Service Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster.
He also worked as deputy controller for a year in the Energy Research and Development Administration in Washington, D.C., until 1976. He worked for TRW in Redondo Beach, California, from 1980 until 1987, when he retired as manager of military satellite subcontracts.
Maj. Gen. Alder was president of the Manchester, England mission from 1976 to 1979. He was a sealer who married couples in the Los Angeles temple from 1984 until this year. He also was president of the Corona, California, stake from 1988 to 1995.
He volunteered for many different youth organizations, and received Boy Scouts Silver Beaver Award for service in Corona in 1993.
He is survived by his wife, Sue; three daughters, Joy Weinkauf of Norco, California, Gaye Gaskell of Corona, California, and Katie Libby of Sedona, Arizona; a son, Butch, of Salt Lake City, Utah; 18 grandchildren, one great-grandchild; three brothers, Eugene Whitworth of Blackfoot, John Whitworth of Longmont, Colo., and Larry, of Boise; and three sisters, Florence Manwaring of Rexburg,
June Shappart of Pocatello, and LaVi Thomas of Reno, Nevada. He was preceded in death by a sister, Marise Geddes, and brother, Ray Whitworth.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Multiple Myeloma Foundation, 12650 Riverside Drive No. 206, Hollywood, Calif. 91607. |
