Kenneth Deward 'Ken' Roos, 92
Kenneth Deward "Ken" Roos, 92, died July 16, 2004, at his home on Samuels Road after a prolonged battle with cancer.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 24, in the Sandpoint Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stake center. The church is located at Schweitzer Cutoff and Boyer across from the Bonner County Fairgrounds. Interment will follow in the Pack River Cemetery.
Friends may call to pay their respects on Friday, July 23, from 5-7 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Ken was born Aug. 9, 1911, in Afton, Wyo., the son of Carl William and Emma Jane Roos. He was married to Edna Louise Taysom in the Salt Lake City Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Oct. 7, 1930.
He moved to Sandpoint in 1937 and, during World War II, he served in the Alaskan Command with the Army Transportation Corps on Unalaska Island.
As a carpenter, he worked on the construction of the Cabinet Gorge and Albeni Falls dams and the Sandpoint High School. He was superintendent of construction with the Peter J. Young Construction Co. of Spokane, where he spent five years building three high schools and a National Guard armory in Washington state.
He was active in his church, serving in several offices in the Sandpoint ward and stake of the LDS church. In the 1960s, he and Louise spent three-and-a-half years on a mission for the church in Korea, where he built a chapel, remodeled two buildings for use as chapels, built a mission president's home and a dormitory for missionaries in Seoul. After being home for a year and a half, they returned to Korea for an additional 14 months, where he built a chapel in Pusan.
He is survived by three children, Marilyn (Gary) Jaggi of Ogden, Utah, Carl William (Teresa) Roos of Caldwell and Daniel Noel (Lois) Roos of Spokane Valley, Wash.; 12 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren; his wife, Dorthea Ann Roos of Kootenai; four stepchildren, John Sieber of Crescent City, Calif., Tom Reynolds of Ogden, Kathryn Reynolds of Riverton, Utah, and Northa Muirhead of Riverton; and 13 step-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Louise; a son, Kenneth T. Roos; three sisters and four brothers.
Ken requested that memorials be made to the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, in his memory.
Funeral arrangements are under the care of Coffelt Funeral Service of Sandpoint.