Mabel Knight Price

Sep. 19, 1913 - Dec. 7, 2013

Date of Service: Dec. 14, 2013

Mabel Price

BURLEY – Mabel Knight Price, age 100, of Burley, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, at Highland Estates Assisted Living in Burley.

Mabel was born on Sept. 19, 1913, in Driggs, Teton County, Idaho. She was the ninth child of 13 children born to Charles William and Mary Helbertina (Jensen) Knight. She was small in size, but she was her dad’s best “hired hand.” She loved horses and working outside on the farm. She was smart, and could still recite the alphabet backwards, and remember the lyrics to many songs and poems, including all 13 stanzas of “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

She married Charles Rulon Price on Nov. 2, 1931, in Driggs, Idaho. They later moved to Burley where they raised six children.

She was an active member of the LDS Church and served in many callings, including working in the Ogden Utah LDS Temple for several years.

She is survived by her children, Delores (Dan) Green of Burley, Gary (Rosemary) Price of Richfield, Utah, Wayne (Lorraine) Price of Draper, Utah, Kay (Dan) Black of Sugar City, and Connie (Jim) Radford, and Julie (Steve) Bailey all of Caldwell; 31 grandchildren; 93 great-grandchildren; and 30 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband who passed away in 1997; one granddaughter; and all of her siblings and their spouses and Rulon’s siblings and their spouses.

The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Burley LDS Stake Center, 2050 Normal Ave., in Burley, with Bishop Mark A. Dowdle officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Burley.

Friends may call from 6 until 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at the Rasmussen Funeral Home, 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, and from noon until 12:45 p.m. at the church.