Beth Mable Thomsen

Beth Mable Thomsen, 96 of Boise, died January 16th 2024 peacefully at a local hospital. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 on Friday February 2nd 2024 at the Timber creek ward LDS building at 7200 Duncan Lane Boise. Burial will follow at the Idaho State Veteran's cemetery 1:00 PM.
Beth was born August 30th 1927 in Payette ID to Samuel Jackson Raby and Pansy Louisa Allen. Beth was raised in Payette ID. She moved to Boise at the age of 18. She became a PBX operator at the Idanha hotel. She met and married her first husband and had five children and later divorced. Eventually she bought the property where she lived the rest of her life. Beth supported her and the children by milking cows and selling it to the creameries.
She then met Ronald Mervin Thomsen and after many Grange square dances they were married in 1958 at the Grange. Beth and Ronald had three more children.
Beth also worked at Quangs berry patch and Moyles mink farm feeding the mink. She had her own custom rototilling business. She would load her John Deere tractor in the back of a custom-built Jeep that her husband Ronald Thomsen had built for her. She loved growing vegetable gardens and flowers. She could grow anything.
During this time of many jobs outside the home, she was also a homemaker. Beth had been a 4H leader, a Sunday school teacher, a Cub Scout leader, and many other Callings.
Beth delivered the Idaho Statesman for about 30 years starting with newspaper stands and then adding a very large delivery route. She delivered papers until she was 93 years old. Beth loved the outdoors, gardening, sewing, crocheting, and visiting with people.
Beth is survived by her eight children: Larry Thomsen of Nampa, Sandra Runkel of Boise, Randy Thomsen of Star, Richard Thomsen of Boise, Rodney Thomsen of Boise, Connie Thomsen of Emmett, Christine Robertson of Boise, and Timothy Thomsen of Nampa. Also 18 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, and 4 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ronald M. Thomsen, her parents, 3 sisters: Lillian Smith, Pearl Gallego, Hazel Mogensen, 2 brothers: Eugene Raby, Sammy J. Raby, and a grandson Jeffrey Scott Thomsen.