Nola and Dale Stark

“Nola graduated from Kuna High School in May of 1955 and spent the summer working at Yellowstone Park. That fall she attended Brigham Young University. She worked again the next summer at Yellowstone in the Reservation Department at Mammoth Hot Springs. In the fall of 1956 she entered nurses training at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise. She spent nine months, from March until December in Wichita, Kansas in special training for her nursing career. It was there that she met Dale Stark. They were married October 18, 1958 at Miami, Oklahoma. Another couple, good friends of theirs where married at the same time, Charles and Marilyn Campbell. The girls came back to Idaho to finish their training. Nola and Dale were sealed to each other in the Idaho Falls Temple on August 11, 1959. Nola graduated from St. Alphonsus at St. John’s Catholic Church in Boise on August 13, 1959. We had a reception for them on August 14 at the Kuna Grade School. That was a busy week for Nola and the rest of our family.Nola and Dale lived in Caldwell where Dale worked for a funeral home and then they moved to Bellingham, Washington where he worked for Jones Funeral Home. They decided to move to Logan so Dale could attend college. He graduated with his Bachelors Degree in 1965 from Utah State University. Their son David was born while they were in Logan on July 14, 1960. Jerry was born on October 10, 1962 in Bellingham. While they were in Logan, Nola worked the Logan LDS Hospital for three years. Dale worked for the Boy Scouts of America as a District Executive in Nampa and Payette, and then later for the State Department of Public Assistance in Payette.

Nola, Dale and family later moved to Nampa where Nola worked for Mercy Hospital and Dale taught in the Caldwell school system. They adopted Kimberly who was born May 13, 1968. She was sealed to them in the Salt Lake Temple in August, 1968.”

-Beatrice Gardner Straubhaar

Excerpt from Straubhaar Family History, July 1990