Bertha Marie Pickering

Apr. 14, 1937 - Apr. 26, 2016

Date of Service: Apr. 29, 2016

Bertha Marie Hutcherson Pickering

RUPERT – Bertha Marie Hutcherson Pickering, a 79- year-old, professional hugger, beloved mother, wife, sister, grandma, aunt and daughter, passed away Tuesday, April 26, 2016, at Minidoka Memorial Hospital in Rupert, surrounded by those she loved.

Bert was the third of seven children and began brightening the world on April 14, 1937, in Bixby, Oklahoma.

Family and friends were Bert’s passion and delight. She always found a way to make time for all the yahoos she loved, and shared a special relationship with her sister, Zula, with whom she spent countless days shopping, gossiping, and cracking jokes together.

Her love, wit, and snappy humor live on in her surviving relatives, which include her siblings, Susan (Larry) Linney, Wanda (Ken) Pehrson, Albert (Drinda) Creekmore Sr., Eva (Cliff) Kostelecky, and Penny Timmons; children, David Hutcherson, Danny (Lisa) Hutcherson, Debbie (Mike) Painter, Dale (Melissa) Hutcherson; 13 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Maude Creekmore; husband, Bill Hutcherson; brother, C.E. Roberts; and sister, Zula Smithee.

The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Rasmussen Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, where friends may call from 6 until 8 p.m. Thursday, April 28, and from 1 until 1:45 p.m. preceding the service. Burial will follow in the Pleasant View Cemetery.