Homedale
High School
Class of 1965
Parents of Leon Search
Owyhee
Avalanche
March 25, 2009
Burt Search
Burt Search, 90, of Nampa,
passed away Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at a local hospital, of natural causes. A
viewing was held from 9-10:00 a.m. Saturday, March 21, 2009 at the Zeyer Funeral
Chapel, 83 N Midland Blvd
in Nampa, followed by a graveside service at
11:00 a.m. at the Wilder
Cemetery, 20431 Batt Corner Road
in Wilder. A Memorial service was held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at the Montana Avenue
Baptist Church,
3120 S. Montana Ave
in Caldwell.
Burt was born in Killa,
Montana on Sept. 10, 1918. He was
the fourth of 13 children born to William and Kathryn Serles Search. The family
moved to Burley, Idaho
when Burt was quite young and then later, to Wilder.
Burt started buckarooing for Ralph Stark at 18, in the Owyhee
Mountains. While working there, he met the girl who
was to become his wife, Ruby Maxine Dines. She was working for her Aunt Nora
Stark. They were married on June 20, 1942 in
Emmett, Idaho and for the first three years they
lived in a cow camp at Alkali Springs. They would remain there all spring and
summer until early fall.
In 1944, Burt decided to start farming and bought a farm in
Ridgeview, Oregon. This is where the four sons joined
the family. He later sold that farm and in 1955 bought another farm in the
Homedale area. In 1969, Burt sold that farm and moved to Boise, before going to work for the Forest
Service and BLM fire lookouts. Finally in 1972 he bought another farm outside of
Nampa, where he
lived until retiring in 1978. They built a new home in Nampa and traveled in their motor home. They
soon moved to their home in Silver Crest Estates, where Burt had a stroke in
2001, but with therapy and Maxine’s loving care he came back, then began to fail
again. He was a man who liked working with his hands. He could do most anything
if he put his mind to it. He was heard saying “My wife and my boys think I can
do anything.” He was always willing to give a helping hand to anyone who needed
it.
He was a member of the Montana
Avenue Baptist
Church in Caldwell.
Burt is survived by his wife of 62 years, Maxine, and four sons: LeRoy, Larry
(Sheri), Leon (Vickie) and Allen (Mary) Search, 12 grandchildren and many great
grandchildren, one brother, Melvin and six sisters: Katheran Hockhalter, Jane
Abbot, Nell Crawford, Myrtle Baldwin, Rila Rotheamich and Thelma Jones, one
sister-in-law, Arlene Search and many nieces and nephews and cousins. He was
preceded in death by three brothers: Ray, William and
Vernon, three sisters: Sheila, Wilma, an infant sister
and an infant granddaughter.
The family requests no flowers. Instead, a donation could be made to the Nampa
Lighthouse Rescue Mission, or a charity of your choice.
“Don’t shed any tears for me, I am in a much better place. We loved and took
care of each other
And some day we will be together again.”
Ruby Maxine Dines Search
Maxine Search was born in 1924, and currently resides in Nampa.