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Ethel M. Rodden, Colfax, passed away January 31, 2021, at the Whitman Health & Rehab Center in Colfax. She was 100. Graveside Services will be Friday, February 5th, at 1 pm at the Colfax Cemetery with Pastor Bob Ingalls officiating.

Ethel was born June 12, 1920, at Parma, Idaho, the oldest child, of Milton and Alexandria Dahlquist Thomason. She grew up on a small farm just north of Gooding, Idaho, and attended school in the Thorn Creek Schoolhouse, a little one-room school. Ethel helped around the farm with the horses and cattle. She also rode horses in barrel racing competition at the...