June 29, 1949 - September 25, 2025 (age 76)

Mary Ronda Barnes was born June 29, 1949, in Malad City, Idaho. She was born to parents LaMar and Lila Lewis Barnes. Ronda spent her first year or so living in Malad with her mother, while her father worked on the farm and built their home. He came to Malad on weekends when things weren’t busy. By 1951 they were all together at their home in Cambridge, northeast of Downey, Idaho. She was her Dad’s shadow until she started school. Of course, she had to learn to share him before that, as her sister Trudy was born in 1953, followed by her brothers: Tom, in 1957, Rory in 1963, and Chad in 1969.

She attended Downey Elementary, Downey Jr. High and Marsh Valley High School, graduating in 1967. She attended Ricks College (BYU-I) on a journalism sch

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