Ranel Hancock Hales

Wow! I cannot believe 40 years has passed! It sounds like 4 decades, almost a half a century! Are we old or what?Those 40 years have been busy, this is what I have been doing...I worked for the Internal Revenue Service for 15 years, where I met and married my husband, Don Hales.

I also worked at Country Boy Dairy for several years. I terminated my employment at the IRS, completing my service as a Remote Terminal Technician, when I started my family with Don, but continued my service at the dairy. There were many ineveitable changes that were about to happen at the dairy. So Don and I decided to move to a more rural area and farming community for our family out in Rockford, Idaho in July of 2000.

Rockford, west of Blackfoot, Idaho is my home town now. If you blink on HWY 39, you'll miss it! We enjoy our close-knit community. We raise hay and grain on our 1220 acre farm. Our family consists of our son, Adam, who is 25 years old, and recently got married to Morgan Pierce of Springfield, ID; and our daughter, Kaylee, who is 23 years old and got married to Ted Garling of Morgan, UT. They both live nearby with their spouses and work on the farm. Kaylee graduated from BYU-Idaho in 2007, and Adam is graduating in the Spring of 2009, also from BYU-Idaho. Adam, Morgan, and Ted all served LDS missions. Adam to Oakland, CA, Morgan to Washington D.C., and Ted to Cali, Colombia. We are all active in our LDS church callings.

We regretfully lost Don in November of 2007, and have had to make adjustments, which has been very challenging. We all love and miss him deerly. I am excited to see the class of 1968, and hope that we are all enjoying our 'mature' years.

Ranel Hancock Hales
ranelh@mstar2.net