Roger Eugene Bejot

Roger Eugene Bejot left his earthly home and stepped into the arms of his Lord and Savior at his home on May 24, 2020, surrounded by his family. He was born to Jerome A. and Stella Bejot on October 13, 1939, in LongPine, Nebraska.

He spent his childhood on Buffalo Flats between Ainsworth and LongPine. There he started school in a one-room schoolhouse then went to Ainsworth until his parents moved to LongPine, where he finished high school and worked for his dad at Bejot Oil Co.

Joining the Federal Reserve in March 1958, he started basic training in Fort Collins, Colorado. From there he went to Texas, where he studied radar training. He then spent 9 1/2 months on the atol of Eniwetok in the South Pacific where the atomic bomb was tested. Afterward, he returned to Fort Gordon, Georgia, until he was discharged in March 1960.

He married Getha Vetter of Bassett on June 5, 1960. They lived in LongPine and he worked for his dad in the oil business. Because of his love for the mountains in 1966 he decided to move his family to Idaho where he learned the drywall trade and provided for his family.

In October 1966,he accepted Jesus as his Savior and told everyone about his conversion and about Jesus. He ministered in Emmett and Glenns Ferry, Idaho. He had a love for the Indian people and ministered on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. In January 1980 the family moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, where he took the pastorate of the Church of God. He retired in May 1988, but continued to minister and witness to all he met along the way.

As a boy of 5, he received his first gun and his love and passion grew from there. He took his family into the mountains and taught his girls how to enjoy the outdoors and passed his love of guns and the mountains onto them.

For those who knew him he loved to tell stories, reminiscing of old times. He enjoyed hunting, riding his ATV in the mountains, camp fires and fishing off the dock with family and friends.

He will be greatly missed by his wife, Getha Bejot; daughters and son-in laws, Patricia Clagg, Vergie and Tony Rutherford, Jennifer and Matt Tillberg, David Chinn, and Gary Goldsby; along with 15 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; and his brother, Arnold Bejot of Billings, Mont.; as well as many other family members and a host of friends.

Roger was preceded in death by his two daughters, Lori Bejot Goldsby and Vonnie Bejot Chinn; and a son-in-law, Jerry Clagg.

Family and friends are invited to sign Roger’s online guest book at coffeltfuneral.com.

Arrangements are under the care of Coffelt Funeral Service.