TWIN FALLS - Joycelyn Beckstead Grow, 79, passed away May 22nd in Twin Falls. She has resided at Alpine Manor for the last year due to advanced Alzheimer's.

Jocelyn was born September 5, 1929, in Whitney, Indaho to Carl and Vida (Rosekelly) Beckstead, the second of eight children. Raised and educated in Preston, she also attended Ricks College and BYU. she accepted a position as an English teacher at Glenns Ferry High School in 1952.

It was in Glenns Ferry that she met Charles R. Grow. They were married on June 2, 1953. The marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. This union included two step-daughters and a step-son. In the next few years she and Charlie had two more daughters and another son.

Although she didn't countinue her teaching career, she did work briefly for a Howard Hughes company during the short span that missiles were based near Mountain Home AFB.

In 1973 she and Charlie moved to Pocatello where her two youngest daughters finished high school. In 1978 they moved to Ashton, Idaho and a year later Charlie retired from UPRR.

She spent the next decade working in the motel business in Ashton and Jackson Hole until Charlie passed in 1994. Jocelyn then served an LDS mission to Arizona from 1996 to 1998. After her return she lived in Twin Falls and Pocatello to be near her grandschildren.

Diagnosed with Alzheimer's she eventually needed constant care and a terrific facility was located in Twin Falls near another daughter until her death.

She is survived by three daughters: Joy Schulze, Fremont, Calif; Gayle (Steve) Cluff, Pocatello; Lorraine (Jim) Pratt, Twin Falls; a son Ronald (Lori) Grow, Pocatello; son-in-law, Jim Dickey, Carlin, Nev; 16 grandschildren and 21 great-grandchildren.

Jocelyn was preceded in death by her husband, Charles R.; a son, Charles J.; and a daughter Vicki Dickey; a son-in-law, Gregory Schulze; and a granddaughter Dawn Ann Schulze.

Funeral Services will be held Wdnesday, May 27, 2009, at 1 p.m. in the Foothill L.D.S. Ward Chapel on Oakwood Drive, Pocatello. The family will receive friends Tuesday evenin g from 7-9 p.m. at the Cornelison Funeral Home, 431 North 15th Ave,. and also at the Church from 12 Noon-12:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello, following services.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Cornelison Funeral Home, 431 N. 15th Ave. Pocatello.