Rose Mabel Thorpe

Rose Mabel Thorpe Rose Mabel Thorpe, 83, of Mountain Home, formerly of Jerome, went to be with her Heavenly Father on April 6, 2008, with loving family at her side. Services will be held on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home, with a viewing beginning at 12 p.m. and funeral services at 2:30 p.m. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Rose was born April 19, 1924 to Jackson and Sarah Mae Brown in White Oak, Ark. She attended school in Ozark, Ark. until she met and married Clifford Barker. They divorced and Rose met and married Gayle W. Pegram in Oklahoma City, Okla. Rose and Gayle migrated to Idaho in 1945 for work and they raised their family and was very involved in 4-H as their children grew up, until Gayle's death in 1975. Rose met and married Kenneth D. Thorpe in 1976 and they were involved on numerous bowling leagues. They were happily married until Ken's death in 1996. Rose is survived by her children, sons, Bobby Joe, and wife, Barbara Barker, of Hagerman, David G., and wife, Gerry Pegram, of Hagerman, Thomas V. Pegram of Garden Valley, and step-sons, Roy Pegram of California City, Calif., Jim and wife, Karen Thorpe, of Twin Falls, daughters, Margaret Crawford of Garden Valley, Rosemary, and husband Jim Crowder, of Cascadia, Ore., Susan, and husband, Doug Wood of Hammett, step-daughter Carol, and husband, Kenny Moore, of Idaho Falls, along with 25 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. She is preceded in death by three husbands, Clifford Barker, Gayle Pegram, and Kenneth D. Thorpe, and an infant daughter, her parents, one brother, one sister, and her son in-law Kenneth Crawford. Rose's greatest pleasure was spending time with her family and she loved to go fishing. She will be greatly missed by all that knew her.