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Obituary
Duane Stanley ( Tuffy) LeFevre
Duane Stanley ( tuffy) LeFevre, 58 died Wednesday October 3, 2001, at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls.
He was born in Blackfoot on July 3, 1943, the 7th child of Charles Dee and Helen Mickich LeFevre.
Duane graduated from Snake River High School and married Nanette King. They were later divorced but remained friends. He was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad for 10 years, and then he moved to Portland Oregon where he worked as a welder for Pacific Steel.
Duane loved the outdoors, fishing and spending time with his grandkids. During the past 10 years in lived in Blackfoot with his mother, working at Nonpareil as a forklift operator. He loved driving his old “64” GMC pickup, and doing little things around the house for his mother. He enjoyed helping his family when he could, offering his advice in a number of areas. He loved working for Carl Leaman and fishing with as a kid in Mackay.
Give him the material and he could build a house to code.
Following a stroke several years ago he was very limited in what he could do, and had been hospitalized in Idaho Falls prior to his death.
Duane is survived by his mother of Blackfoot; two sons, Duane Stanley (Carrie) LeFevre, Jr., and troy Dee (Melinda) of Blackfoot; six brothers, Clarence of Richmond, Utah, Max Leonard, Grant Roy (Joanne) and Vaughn Allen of Blackfoot; Jimmy of Portland, Oregon, and Dennis Oscar, Denver, Colorado; Three sisters, Millie (Mike) Harrington and Jessie Lois (Steven) Faulkner of Blackfoot, and Marie Lucy of Idaho Fall; six grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was Proceeded in death by his father, three brothers, Joe Mikael, Lynn Darwin, and Charles Lee and one sister Alvera Hernandez.
Cremation took place in Afton Wyoming and no funeral services are planned.
A dinner for the family will be held at St, Bernard’s Catholic parish Hall Saturday at 4 P.M.
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