Local couple who got married hours after Teton Dam collapsed look back on historic day
March 12, 2026
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18:41Now PlayingLocal couple who got married hours after Teton Dam collapsed look back on historic day
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IDAHO FALLS – Gerald and Millie McNabb were hours away from getting married when they heard the Teton Dam had collapsed.
It was just before noon on Saturday, June 5, 1976. The couple — who will be celebrating 50 years of marriage on the anniversary of the disaster — had met in Blackfoot on March 30, 1975. The daughter of the minister at First Baptist Church had helped introduce them at her birthday party. Millie was from Blackfoot, but she’d been teaching in northern Idaho. Gerald lived in Pocatello and worked as a radio chemist at the nuclear testing site near Arco — what is now Idaho National Lab.
The wedding date had been determined months in advance, and just before the wedding, the rehearsal dinner was scheduled that evening at the Riverside Inn, a building in Blackfoot that no longer exists.
“That was the last event held at that facility before it was wiped out by the flood,” Millie tells EastIdahoNews.com.
The Pocatello couple recalled the events of that day and where they were when they first heard the news.
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