A. Rich

June Eskelsen Rich, devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, left this earthly life on December 24, 2013. Born on April 5, 1932, to Alice Wright and Irving Joseph Eskelsen in Pocatello, Idaho. She attended Emerson Grade School, Irving Junior High School and Graduated from Pocatello High School in 1950 where she wrote the music for her senior class song and was proud to be chosen "Outstanding Musician". She later attended Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

An accomplished pianist and organist, both as soloist and accompanist, she was very appreciative of distinguished music teachers. She was a student of Evelyn Lundgren McLeod in Pocatello and, while in her junior and senior years of high school, studied with Mabel Borg Jenkins at the McCune School of Music in Salt Lake City, traveling by train from Pocatello to Salt Lake for lessons. While living in Chateaureaux, France for two years, she studied with Madame Boutin-Renoit who was a graduate of Concours-Belan School of Music, the equivalent of our Julliard in this country. Upon returning to Ogden, she was a Student of Frederic Dixon.

During her High School years, she was employed at J.J. Newberry, Chief Movie Theater and as a pianist at Kasai Dance Studio in Pocatello. After marriage, she worked for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Continental Casualty Insurance Company in Los Angeles, California and at The Marquardt Corporation, Boeing Aircraft and Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah. She also taught piano for many years and was very proud of the accomplishments of her students. She was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; she served in the music of the church in one capacity or another for many years.

On August 23, 1950, she married her high school sweetheart, Max Shepherd Rich, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints temple in Logan, Utah. Their Children are daughter Debra and Son Scott Douglas Rich. They are also the proud grandparents of seven grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at 11 a.m. at Lindquist''s Layton Mortuary, 1867 No. Fairfield Road. Friends may visit family Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Tuesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the mortuary. Interment, Lindquist''s Memorial Park at Layton, 1867 No. Fairfield Road.