FARNWORTH, Iona Mae (Purcell)

Passed away February 16, 2024 at the age of 97. She was born in

McCloud, California in 1926. Iona graduated from McCloud High

School where she was a member of CSF. She later moved to

Sacramento to work for Anglo California National Bank. She was

baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints in 1953 and there met her future husband, Donald. They

were married in 1954 in the Idaho Falls Temple and in 1955

moved into a new house in West Sacramento where she lived for

68 years, finally moving in August of 2023 to live in her

daughter’s home in Post Falls, Idaho. Iona was a devoted member

of the church and loved her Savior, Jesus Christ. She taught piano

lessons in West Sacramento for many years. Iona was preceded in

death by her husband (in 1981) and is survived by her sister,

Barbara Lamson; son, Ross Farnworth, and his wife, Nancy; son,

Dale Farnworth, and his wife, Lisa; daughter, Dawna Hunter, and

her husband Kim. Iona also leaves behind fifteen grandchildren

and twenty-five great-grandchildren with another on the way.

On the morning of Saturday, March 2, 2024, at the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-Day Saints located at 2667 Linden Road, West

Sacramento, CA., a viewing will take place at 10:00am, followed

by a funeral service at 11:00am.

Burial will take place on Monday,

March 4, 2024 at Sacramento Memorial Lawn at 6100 Stockton

Blvd., Sacramento, California.