Tragedy

On Friday afternoon we were headed to a family reunion in Swan Valley Idaho. We were about 10 minutes out of Idaho Falls when we got a devastating phone call. My sweet grandma had gotten into a horrible car accident. She was still stuck in her van but life flight was there and we were told to go straight to the Idaho Falls hospital. We got to the hospital and were shortly informed that she had passed away before they could get her in the helicopter. The police and invesigators said that she died instantly even though when help arrived she still had a pulse but was unconscious.

My grandma was my idle. She was an amazing woman and will be greatly missed by us all. She was going to be spending the week with our family in Utah for Thanksgiving. I will forever wish we could have spent this week with her but it was her time. I will always love and miss her.
Joylene B. Watson, 78, of Menan, died Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, near Menan from injuries received in an automobile accident.
Joylene was born Oct. 12, 1931, in Rigby, Idaho, a daughter to Ray Edward Browning and Thelma Kinghorn Browning. She attended schools in Annis and graduated from Midway High School.
She married Farrell Thain Watson Jr. on Aug. 20, 1951, in Menan. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a Primary teacher, Relief Society secretary and visiting teacher. She enjoyed cooking and recipes, spending time with her family and traveling with her husband, Thain, to see different places.
She is survived by her children, Sally (Mike) McKinley of Rexburg, Jill (Mitch) Tibbitts of Kaysville, Utah, and Ed (Dorothy) Watson of Rigby; a sister, June (L.M.) Rule of Idaho Falls; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Farrell Thain Watson Jr.; and a son, Thain Watson III.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, at the Menan Stake Center with Bishop Gary Asper officiating. The family will visit with friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, both at the stake center. Burial will be in Annis Little Butte Cemetery under the direction of Eckersell Memorial Chapel in Rigby. Condolences may be sent to the family online at http://www.eckersellfuneralhome.com/.