Carol Nelson (LaDell) Handy

GLENNS FERRY • E. LaDell Handy, 82, of Glenns Ferry, loving husband, father, grandfather and brother, died Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, at a Boise hospital.

A viewing will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Glenns Ferry. Services will be held Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Glenns Ferry, with a viewing from 10 until 10:45 a.m. and funeral at 11 a.m.; burial will follow at Glenn Rest Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

LaDell was the oldest of four children born to Ernest W. and Edith B. Handy on Feb. 23, 1929, in Heyburn, Idaho. LaDell was raised in the Heyburn area. He moved with his family to the Rogerson/Three Creek, Nev., area when he was 8. It was there that he started a lifelong love of cowboying. He started working on the Brackett Ranch at the young age of 9 and continued going back and working throughout all his years in school after his family moved back to Heyburn. LaDell enjoyed playing football and basketball during his high school years.

LaDell married Carol Nelson on Aug 25, 1950, in the Logan Utah LDS Temple. They had three daughters. They moved to Twin Falls, where LaDell worked for Shelby’s Foodliner and managed the meat department. They moved back to Burley when Shelby’s expanded and built a store there. LaDell and Dale Shelby bought and ran numerous ranches in the Albion, Moulton and Malta areas, where they received the Idaho State Grass Man of the Year Award. They moved to the Pitchfork Ranch in King Hill after selling the grocery stores. There they ran a cattle operation.

LaDell and Carol moved to Utah, where LaDell worked for Bell Meat Packaging and at Utah State University. They then moved to Jackpot, Nev., where LaDell ran and managed the W/D Ranch for JK Wheeler. When retiring, they moved to Glenns Ferry, where he has been running a large cattle operation with his son-in-law, Mark Noble, and grandson, Tyler Bunn, until the time of his death. LaDell was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he served as branch president, bishop and held many other callings. He was a member of the Burley Fair Board and served as president. He was a member of the Cassia County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse and served as captain.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Carol Nelson Handy; his three daughters, Debra H. Johnson and Jerry of Utah, Denise H. Bunn and Greg of Boise, and Jerrolynn H. Noble and Mark of Glennsferry; 12 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; his sister, Arlene (Glen) Badger of Bountiful, Utah; brothers, Gerald (Lois) Handy and Duane (Beverly) Handy and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; a granddaughter, Shelby Nelson Noble; and a grandson, Riley Greg Bunn.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Perpetual Education Fund or Missionary Fund through the LDS Church.

LaDell Handy Funeral Program