Delwin Roy Fielding

Delwin Roy Fielding

By Mandy Simmons

            Delwin Roy Fielding was born August 18^th, 1928 to Roy Edmond Fielding and Ethel Marvel Soelberg. He was born in Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, USA. He attended Jameston Elmentary and then Shelley High School in 1943 where he met his lovely wife Marilyn Kelley during their seminary class as freshman. During their dating years, Delwin would ride his horse over to Marilyn’s house to visit on Sunday afternoons. Delwin had a friend that he would borrow a horse from that could pull an old horse drawn buggy and they would go for rides. He would then return home.

            His first real date with Marilyn was to take her to a movie at the Virginia movie theater there in Shelley. He also took her to a freshman dance before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the church they both belonged to) began to recommend to young people that they didn’t date before age 16. Marilyn was 14 years old. Delwin was a good dancer and loved to dance, especially the Jitter Bug. They would attend church sponsored dances on Saturday nights.

            Delwin attended the University in Logan, Utah and would hitch-hike to Provo, Utah where Marilyn was attending school. He usually informed her when he was coming but one day he decided to surprise her. When he reached her apartment she was out on a date with another guy. When she got home and the man left Delwin made himself known to her.

            Delwin proposed to Marilyn near the Shelley Cemetery one night when she was home from college. Though Delwin claimed that she proposed to him Marilyn states that he did indeed propose to her. From there they finished the semester they were in and were married for eternity on June 4^th, 1947 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. He then began farming his own land to support his family. They had 9 children, 4 boys and 5 girls. They moved to their home northwest of Firth around 1962 where they would finish raising their children. Their property bordered the Snake River on the East. Delwin lived in this home until he died of cancer on November 24^th, 2007. [1]

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[1] All information was taken from family records and an interview with his wife Marilyn