Lewis Edgar Munk
Lewis Edgar Munk was born Sep 29, 1907 in Bennington to Lewis Edgar Munk and Frances Wright. He attended local schools and graduated from Montpelier High School in 1925. In 1929 he lettered several years as a member of the University's tennis team. For the next five years he taught England and was the first football coach at Snowflake high School in Arizona.
In the mid 1930s Munk returned to Bear Lake where except for one year, he taught a variety of subjects at Georgetown High School and grad school and at Montpelier and Bear Lake High Schools until his retirement in 1970. He was particularly known for his English classes and the encouragement he gave his students to pursue higher education.
As a young man Munk was a pitcher and catcher for a number of baseball teams in the Bear Lake area. He was also an avid fisherman and bowler. At age 83 he took up golf with great enthusiasm. At age 92 he made a hole in one at the Montpelier Golf Course. His last golf outing took place on his 98th birthday.
Munk married Vea Higginson of Hatch Idaho in 1938 in the Salt Lake Temple. He was an active member of the LDS church and served in a number of positions, including being a member of the Montpelier Stake Presidency, stake Sunday School president and Gospel Doctrine teacher in the Montpelier First Ward. He was a member of the board that made arrangements for the first town water system in Georgetown, he was a member of the hospital board at the time the Bear Lake Memorial Hospital was built and the representative for the 1951 session of the Idaho State House of Representatives.
Lewis Edgar Munk died 28 Nov 2005 and was buried in the Montpelier Cemetery along side his wife who died 23 June 1998.