Betty Mustoe

7/11/1932 — 8/12/2024

• Service Date: 8/17/2024
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Betty Mustoe passed away peacefully Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, at the age of 92.

Betty was born July 11, 1932, to Thelma and Wilbur Colwell in Yakima. She and her sister Barbara and parents lived in Pomeroy until they moved to Seattle in 1941 where her parents worked for Boeing. After the war they moved to Inglewood Calif., a suburb of LA. While in school she enjoyed participating in operettas and became a baton twirler for the school and even getting to taste test the first version of Frito’s snack chips. They were always her favorite. In 1948 they moved to Southwick to be close to family as her great-grandparents the Andrew Wilsons had homesteaded just west of town in 1881. Betty’s parents co-owned a shake mill on the North Fork of the Clearwater. She attended Kendrick High School and was a majorette in the marching band. Having moved frequently in her youth she enjoyed school and her new friends. While at Southwick she met the love of her life, Jack Mustoe. They got married on Oct. 5, 1951. They had one son, Mark.

Jack started farming with his folks in 1951 on rented ground and the Mustoe home place that his grandparents Chambers and Elizabeth had homesteaded in 1893. Betty worked at Kendrick High School as secretary for several years after they were married. Together they farmed and raised cattle until their retirement in 1994. Betty and Jack were a great pair together, each bringing their own talents together to get things done. They built a new home in Lewiston and moved there 2002. They enjoyed traveling in their fifth-wheel throughout the northwest with family and friends

Betty was active in her community. She served on the election board for the Leland District for many years and canvassed door-to-door for donations for the American Cancer Society. From 1957 to 1959 she was an honorary member of the U.S. Airforce Air Defense team as a ground observer. Betty, with friend Priscilla Armitage, collected signatures and petitioned the county to name the road from the bottom of the grade to town “Southwick Road” and they were successful. She loved the farm, her home, history, reading, hummingbirds, collecting and polishing rocks, and especially chocolate chip cookies with tea. She enjoyed reading the comic section on Sunday, which she jokingly called the “intellectual section” and the wonderful sunsets she could see from her window in their Southwick home.

Most of all Betty loved all of her family and friends. She was a wonderful wife, mom, grandma, great-grandma, neighbor and friend. She was a kind, thoughtful person with a great sense of humor, warm laugh and a positive outlook on life.

She will be greatly missed, and always remembered by those who loved her.

Betty is survived by her son Mark and partner Barry James, granddaughter Mollie Mustoe and husband Ross Freeden, granddaughter Marie and husband Tom Linehan, and great-grandchildren McKenzie and Jack.

Thank you to the wonderful care staff at “Just like Home” and the thoughtful hospice staff.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, at Southwick Pine Hill Cemetery. A lunch will follow at the Southwick Community Center.

Memorial donations may be made to the Southwick Community Center or the Kendrick Memorial Pool or to a charity of your choice.

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Saturday, August 17, 11:00 AM

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Southwick Cemetery (Pine Hill Cemetery)
N. Road
Southwick, Idaho 83537

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