Esther Wesche Obituary Esther Louise Rinker Wesche, 89, of Boise, passed away on May 18, 2024. Esther was born June 18,1934 to Walter and Melba Rinker in Doniphan, Nebraska. She became a follower of Jesus Christ when eight years old and began her education in a one room country school in Adams County, Nebraska, then moved from the family farm to 'town' [Hastings} where she lived with family friends and completed high school. In 1951, determined to attend college, the first in her extended family to do so, and attracted by the reputation of the music program at Northwest Nazarene College, she took the train 1500 miles from home to Nampa, Idaho. That year in a college play she met Lilburn Wesche. They were married in Hastings, Nebraska on August 21, 1953. Esther received her AB degree in elementary education from NNC and MA in Curriculum from Boise State University. She began her teaching career after her first year of college teaching nine students in all eight grades in a one room country school in Roseland, Nebraska. Subsequently Esther taught kindergarten in a private military school In San Antonio Texas, taught in Boise where she was Fifth grade team leader at Garfield Elementary school, music teacher at Hawthorne, Roosevelt, and Riverside schools and, for seven years, was choir and band instructor at Crista schools in Seattle. She was elected outstanding graduate student award at BSU, was voted teacher of the year several times and received the 'red apple' outstanding teacher award from the Boise School District. In the 1960s she started a Handbell Choir at College Church of the Nazarene and for over 30 years directed bell choirs in the churches and schools in Nampa, Seattle and Boise. In the summer of 1964, she toured Japan and Hong Kong as a member of the International Bell Choir. She served as president of the Idaho Orff Association for six years, was an officer in the Boise Education Association and adjunct professor of elementary music at Northwest Nazarene University. For several years Esther was active on the Nampa scholarship committee, served as president of the Central Junior High PTA in Nampa, co-president of the Nampa High School PTA, presenter for the Idaho Education Association in Service Mobile Lab, was a consultant for the International Church of the Nazarene Education Department and author of the Church of the Nazarene childrens program literature. She was also a member of several organizations including the Mayflower Society, National Music Teachers, Boise Education Association, Idaho Education Association, National Education Association; and two education fraternities; the Omicron chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma and Phi Delta Kappa. Esther was preceded in death by her husband, Lilburn Wesche, her parents and brother, David. She is survived by her sister, Martha (Bailey) of Mesa, AZ; three children: Kenneth (Nancy) of Minneapolis, Cheryl Childs (Kenton) of Albuquerque, NM; and Barbara of Boise; ten grandchildren: Christofer Bellomy, Christina (Emanuel) Sas, Bradley Childs, Robert (Leila) Childs, Kayla Anderson, and Sam Anderson, Sean Wesche (Rachel), Mark Wesche (Nadia), Nicholas Wesche (Jocelyn), and Katie Jubran (Jerry); and 16 great grandchildren: Corbin and Jayden Bellomy, Olympia, Damian and Lucia, Gabriel Sas, Michael and Sullivan Childs, Ivy and Maeve Lilywhite, Henry, George, John Lafayette. Luke, Benjamin and Noah, and Sebastian and Cyprian Wesche. The service will be live streamed and the link for the live stream is: https://my.gather.app/remember/esther-louise-wesche Services Celebration of Life Wednesday May 29, 2024 10:00 AM Nampa Funeral Home 415 12th Ave. So. Nampa, Idaho 83651