Daniel Thomas Symms, of Caldwell, Idaho, passed away Tuesday afternoon at the age of 52 after a valiant battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his loving family and many devoted friends.
Dan was born in Helena, Montana, November 4, 1961, the first child of Steven and Frances Stockdale Symms. He grew up on Symms Fruit Ranch with his three loving sisters and many cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. At the age of six, he worked on the farm picking fruit. Even at that very young age, he knew he wanted to spend his life in Idaho, working the family farm.
When Dan was in grade school, he moved with his family to Washington, DC, to follow his father's political career. He liked to spend his summers in Sunny Slope and in high school he took night classes in Virginia to graduate early and hasten his return to Caldwell.
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