Jack Alvaro Dunn

1925 - 2024

Jack Alvaro Dunn

February 23, 1925 - November 23, 2024

Jack Alvaro Dunn, 99, Boise, Idaho, was nearing 100 when he headed to the last round-up Nov. 23, 2024.

He was born to Three Creek, Idaho ranchers Thomas Alvaro "Al" and Opal Dunn Feb. 23, 1925 at the Twin Falls, Idaho Memorial Hospital where, in the 1950s, his three children would be born Deborah Jane, Rob Roy, and Kevin Alvaro; and in the 1990s, his grandson, Cameron Michael Dunn.

He and his sisters, Betty and Colleen, attended one-room grade schools at Three Creek in Owyhee County and House Creek, across the Twin Falls County line. He was a member of the Kimberly, Idaho class of 1941.

In the U.S. Army Air Corps that became the U.S. Air Force, he was in training to load ammunition onto aircraft when WWII ended. He was honorably discharged as a Corporal.

He studied law under the G.I Bill at the University of Montana, Missoula until called home to help with the family ranch.

In 1952, he and Vivian Lancaster, Filer, Idaho, married. He worked various jobs until 1961 when he was hired by the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), working in Shoshone, Idaho; Salem, Portland, and Vale, Ore. After an early retirement from the BLM, he rounded out his working years with Flying Realty, Vale, while caring for his wife through her illness and 1992 death from breast cancer.

In 1996, he wed Wanda (Johnson) Pierson, from Shoshone, then in Boise, where they made their home.

In 2013, he was selected for an Idaho Honor Flight to the WWII Memorial in Washington D.C. His Warhawk Air Museum interview is online.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents, parents, sisters, first wife Vivian (Lancaster) Dunn, son Rob Roy Dunn, uncles, aunts, cousins, a nephew, in-laws, and many dear friends.

He is survived by his wife, Boise; children Deborah Dunn, Richland, Wash., and Kevin Dunn (Crystal), Middleton, Idaho; grandson, Cameron Dunn (Sierra), Spokane, Wash.; great-grandchildren Lily Dunn, Nampa, Idaho, and Aizleigh and Jameson Dunn, Spokane; nieces Kathy Walton, Kimberly, and Karen (Walton) Brose (Brian), Waxahachie, Tex.; nephew Ritchie Lowe, Twin Falls; and by the families of Diane (Pierson) Atkinson, Boise; Donna (Griffin) Gabbitas, Boise; Julie (Pierson) Hebdon (Lynn), Finley, Wash.; and Dan Pierson (Debbie), Shoshone.

His life will be celebrated on his 100th birthday anniversary, Feb. 23, 2025, at 2 p.m. at the Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Boise. Cremation was by Bowman Funeral Parlor, where his full obituary is posted. Interment will be later at Dry Creek Cemetery, Boise.