Gary Lynn Blyleven, of Genesee, Idaho, died Monday, April 2, 2007, at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow, Idaho. He was 52.
Gary was born Feb. 18, 1955, in Long Beach, to Janice Beltramo Thompson of Lakeport and Gerard Blyleven of Genesee, Idaho. He graduated high school in Woodlake, Calif., and married Danette Hallsted in Reno, Nev., on July 31, 1976.
Gary worked for a time for American Yearbook as a pressman, and then in construction for several years in Southern California.
He and his family moved to Lakeport (they lived at the “Beltramo Ranch,” his grandfather”s) in the 1980s. He was head cook at Anthony”s Restaurant for his mom, and stepfather, Jan and Bill Thompson, for several years. He loved playing the guitar.
Gary then became disabled, due to his long time work as a sheet rocker, and moved to Genesee, Idaho, with his family. He then worked as “house husband” and according to his family “did a damn good job.”
Gary is survived by his wife, Danette, at their Genesee home; sons, Nathan Jon Blyleven of Lewiston, and Shane Ericison Blyleven, a student at the University of Moscow; mother and stepfather, Jan and Bill Thompson of Lakeport; father and stepmother, Gerard and Ruth Blyleven of Genesee, Idaho; siblings, Kathy Gonzales and Tony Blyleven of Lakeport, Therese Blyleven of Lucerne, Dana Blyleven of Friday Harbor, Wash., Cindy Hardin of Visalia, Mark Blyleven of Genesee, Idaho and Aaron Thompson of Deary, Idaho. Numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces, and great nephews also survive him.
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(Published in the Record-Bee on Saturday, May 12, 2007.)
