{"id":19811,"date":"2023-07-12T01:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T01:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2023-07-11T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:14:44","slug":"christopher-abbett-millspaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/12\/christopher-abbett-millspaugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Abbett Millspaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 26,1941 \u2013 June 21, 2023<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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chris Millspaugh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s impossible to encapsulate a man of so many words in a few paragraphs, but here goes.<\/p>\n

After a brief illness, on the longest day of the year, Chris Millspaugh took his final curtain call surrounded by family and friends at St. Luke\u2019s Wood River, in Ketchum. Chris was born on August 26, 1941, to Clarence Arthur Millspaugh and Elva Abbett Millspaugh, in Mount Carroll, Illinois. After high school, Chris attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., before enlisting the U.S. Air Force in 1961. Following an honorable discharge, Chris shifted gears, using his natural talents, and began working in sales, becoming Clarol \u201cSalesman of the Year\u201d in 1968.<\/p>\n

Music and comedy are what brought the Millspaughs to the Wood River Valley, performing at the Holiday Inn in Ketchum (now Thunder Spring) in 1974 with his family and band, which included Stacy Rider and Gene Reppond. After completing engagements in Spokane and Twin Falls, the gang moved to Ketchum permanently in 1976 and Chris began a life of leisure as a man about town. He devised, originated and produced \u201cThe Whoop Show\u201d at The Kneadery in 1977 (which he revamped in the \u201990s at the nexStage Theatre). He always had a joke or two in his pocket so he also began writing a weekly humor column in the Idaho Mountain Express titled \u201cThe Way I See It,\u201d which ran until 2014. He wrote for The Wood River Journal, The County Times (Bellevue), and was editor of Sun Valley Magazine. He also wrote and distributed a parody of the local happenings known as \u201cThe Blatant County News,\u201d which he revised in 2014 in The Weekly Sun (Hailey).<\/p>\n

While all of this was going on he also had a radio show, \u201cAll My Bummers,\u201d on KECH and KSKI; a drive-time radio show with his granddaughter, Crystal; annually announced the Wagon Days and Trailing of the Sheep parades; was the director of The Community Library\u2019s Regional History Department, worked for a time at the SNRA, authored and co-wrote several books, including self publishing the masterpiece, \u201cThe Way I See It, Vol. 1 \u2013 The Greatest Hits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris knew that taking a step backwards after a step forward was not a disaster, it was more like a cha-cha. And while dancing wasn\u2019t really his cup of tea, Chris was active in local theater, which included his Interactive event play, \u201cThe Big Hitch.\u201d Never one to rest on his laurels, he also released a Christmas album with his sons, \u201cA Spa Family Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris liked to say he was a big-city man that moved to a small cabin in the woods. He adored sports, especially his beloved Seattle Mariners. He was an avid outdoorsman and would walk MILES every day. Of course, Miles was his cat and he rarely left his porch.<\/p>\n

Chris left a legacy in the Valley both in person and in print.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his sister, Pat (Rick) of Pennsylvania; his five children, Mark, Harry, Sarah, Liz and Emily; and grandchildren Crystal, Drake, Hannah, Mason, Sailor, P.J., and Cameron.<\/p>\n

A celebration of Dr. Spa\u2019s life (or Spalapalooza, if you will) will be held in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 26,1941 \u2013 June 21, 2023 It\u2019s impossible to encapsulate a man of so many words in a few paragraphs, but here goes. After a brief illness, on the longest day of the year, Chris Millspaugh took his final curtain call surrounded by family and friends at St. Luke\u2019s Wood River, in Ketchum. Chris was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,86,18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-ketchum","9":"category-news","10":"category-obituary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19813,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions\/19813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}