Reginald Treece (Rex) Spiller

Reginald Treece (Rex) Spiller passed away on June 18, 2021, in Porthill, Idaho. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 2021, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

He was born on Aug. 26, 1949 in Edmonton, Alberta, the third of five sons born to Robert and Lucille [Thomson] Spiller. He was raised in British Columbia on his family’s orchards and mink ranches. He learned hunting from his father and taught his children.

Rex was a high school dropout, hired out to farms, and boxed in his teenage years. But at 19 he went to Douglas College, in Surrey to get his GED. Rex jogged around local farms and even tackled a marathon. While studying in Long Beach, Calif., he met his sweetheart, Susan, and married her on June 27, 1974, in Los Angeles. Eventually Rex earned his doctorate degree at Brigham Young University.

As an educational psychologist, he trained over 100,000 engineers in the aerospace industry for Rockwell International and was responsible for putting up the first satellites in the 1980s. But Rex’s hobby was buying houses in foreclosure, fixing them up and selling them. These actions lead him naturally into becoming a Realtor and then a mortgage broker.

Rex was gregarious. He was interested in people and liked finding things in common with everyone. However, Rex’s greatest joy and accomplishment became his family.

Rex is survived by his wife, Susan [Bennett]; his four brothers, Robert, Wayne, Graham and Fredrick; his five children, Regina Jacobson, Heidi Buker, Cassandra Sykes, Alexis Danshita and Jackson Spiller; and his 25 grandchildren, Emery Jacobson Callister, Cambria Jacobson Hawkins, Hunter, Eden, Remington, Zion, Elsa, Talon, Soren, Bennett, Levi Jacobson, Riley, Cara, Nigel, Genevieve, Diedrich, Thaddeus Buker, Schuyler, Hinckley, Seraphine, Cleo Sykes, Reginald, Byron, Theresa Danshita, and Evangeline Spiller.