Rod Schmier

Rodney (Rod) Fred Schmier, 85, passed away August 19, 2025, at home in Nampa, Idaho.  Funeral services will be held at 1:00 pm on Friday, September 12th at Eagle Christian Church, 100 Short Lane, Eagle, Idaho.  All are welcome.  Snacks will be served and there will be ‘memory cards’ available for you to write your favorite memory of Rod.  Rod’s cremains will be interred at a later date in two places: part at the VA Cemetery and part at Nancy’s family’s homestead ‘The Ranch’ in eastern Oregon.

Rod was born on February 13, 1940, to Fred Adam Schmier and Ilah Mae Culver Schmier in Idaho Falls, Idaho.  He has two siblings, a brother Kenneth L Schmier, and a sister Sharon Rose Philpott (deceased).

Rod married Katherine Christensen on August 1, 1958, and together they had three daughters, VaLinda (Val) Kaye Torres, Shelley Jean Hebdon, and Dana Lynette Weaver.  They also had a stillborn son, Ronald Rod. 

Rod joined the Air Force and was stationed in Germany, where he worked as a Special Vehicle Mechanic.

After his honorable discharge from the Air Force, his jobs included building roads, driving semi-trucks, dispatching semi-trucks, and writing computer programs for the trucking industry, which was one of his great passions.

In 1983, he relocated to Boise, Idaho and married Nancy Shold McReynolds, which gained Rod a stepson, Richard McReynolds.

Shortly after Rod and Nancy were married, they opened their own trucking brokerage company, Emerald Transportation Systems, where they were always together and worked side by side until they sold the business and retired in 1998.  After retiring, they relocated to Nampa, Idaho.

Rod and Nancy bought Honda Goldwing motorcycles for each of them, and they rode many miles on those bikes in the United States and in western Canada.  They were snowbirds and escaped the cold Idaho winters by buying property in Pahrump, Nevada and then later, in Yuma, Arizona.  They gained a whole network of like-minded friends from the United States, Canada, and Alaska while they lived in Pahrump and in Yuma.

Rod is survived by his wife and best friend Nancy; three daughters, and stepson; brother Ken; 6 grandchildren; 3 step-grandchildren; 6 great grandchildren; 10 step great grandchildren and a great-great granddaughter who will be born in September of 2025.

Arrangements are under the direction of Tami's Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services.  Online condolences may be shared at www.tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com

BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

Time will not dim the face I love,

the voice I heard each day,

the many things you did for me,

in your own sweet special way.

All my life I’ll miss you,

as the years come and go.

But in my heart, I’ll keep you,

because I love you so.