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Melvin J. Wibbels

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Melvin J. Wibbels

Mel Wibbels passed away peacefully January 1st, 2022. Mel was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, on August 4, 1936. He was the youngest of five children born to Algie and Lollie Anderson Wibbels. Mel rode a horse to a one-room country school and graduated from Wolbach High School in 1953. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1957 with an agriculture B.S. degree. He began his career in the meat packing industry in 1958 in Waterloo, Iowa. He met and married Beverly Silk of Griswold, Iowa in 1957. To this union were born four children: Anne Marie, Jay David, Mark John, and Kathryn Louise. The family returned to Nebraska in 1960, then moved to Great Falls, Montana, in 1967. In 1974 they moved to the Treasure Valley, locating in Fruitland, Meridian, then Boise. Mel retired from the USDA Meat Grading Service in 1993, then started a handy-man business, which he had for nearly 20 years. His family remembers him as a man who could fix anything and often had a story to go with it. One of Mel’s passions was supporting the robotics team son Mark mentored. He had happy memories of watching “Team Tators” compete from Arizona to Atlanta and many locations between.

Mel is preceded in death by his son Jay, parents Algie and Lollie, siblings and their spouses: Edsel and Cathy Wibbels, Leonard and Betty Wibbels, Ray and Veda Wibbels, and Florence and Stuart Teter. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Beverly; children Anne (Keith) Simila, Mark (Terry) Wibbels, and Kathryn (Vern) Wells; six grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews, and friends.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, January 7, 2022, at 1 p.m., at Discovery Church Boise. Flowers may be delivered after 9 a.m. on Friday to Discovery Church.

The memorial service will be available as a livestream and a recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wljP0b-JjUM

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