Wendell, Gooding County, Idaho Genealogy

United States Idaho  Gooding County  Wendell

City Hall
Wendell City Clerks P.O. Box 208/157 W. Main Street Wendell, Idaho 83355 (208) 536-5161

Current
There are three congregations in Wendell.

Historic
Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City or at its Family History Centers.



Current
Christ Lutheran Church 175 2nd Avenue West, Wendell, ID 83355 (208) 536-2588

Current
Methodist Church 175 East Main Street, Wendell, ID 83355 (208) 536-2305

Current
Living Waters Presbyterian Church 821 East Main PO Box 218 - Wendell, ID 83355 208-536-6270

Current
St Anthony Catholic Church 585 2nd Avenue East, Wendell, ID 83355 (208) 536-2345

Historic
The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has microfilmed St Anthony Church records (1925-1964) found in the Roman Catholic Diocese Archives in Boise. These films are available at the Library in Salt Lake or in any of its Family History Centers.

Other
Wendell Church of Christ 811 East Main Street Wendell, ID. 83355 (208) 536-6296

New Life Community Church 800 West Main Wendell, Idaho 83355 208-536-6223 nlccwendell@gmail.com

Directories
The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a collection of city, county, state and regional directories.

Funeral Homes
Demaray's Shoshone Funeral 737 Main St Gooding, Idaho 83330 (208) 934-4406 http://www.demarayfuneralservice.com/ Hove-Robertson Funeral Chapel 629 3rd Ave E Jerome, Idaho 83338 (208) 324-4555 http://www.hove-robertsonfuneralchapel.com/ Farnsworth Mortuary 1343 S Lincoln Ave Jerome, Idaho 83338 (208) 324-7777

History
Wendell is a station on the Rupert-Bliss cutoff (a branch of the Oregon Short line Railroad). Wendell is surrounded by a rich farming district; it is 15 miles northwest of Jerome, and about15 miles south of Gooding. In 1918 a few families resided in Wendell.

Additional history of Wendell, Idaho and the early Mormon settlers there can be found in: Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 937.

Newspapers
Copies of issues of some Wendell newspapers are in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.