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Chad Nanney
Dec 18, 2016
Chad Clifton Nanney, 52, of Sugar City, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2016 at his home from health complications. He was born January 29, 1964 in Saint Anthony, Idaho to Darrell Ray and Vendla Rae Cummings Nanney. He grew up in the Wilford area and graduated from South Fremont High School. He later graduated with a Bachelors Degree from BYUI....
Julie Glenn
Dec 18, 2016
Julie Rose Glenn, 72, of Rexburg, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2016. She was born on October 30, 1944 in Afton Wyoming, to Wilford Fluckiger and Cella Cook. She was one of sixteen children. She lived in Afton until her family moved to Salt Lake City where she graduated from Olympus High School. She attended Ricks College as an art...
Gay Orr
Dec 15, 2016
Our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend passed away unexpectedly on December 15, 2016. Gay Blanchard Orr was born on February 14, 1939, in Chester, Idaho, to William Arthur Blanchard and Clara Marie Hansen Blanchard. She was the third of nine children. She grew up on the family farm in Chester. She loved going to school and learning....
Scott Tibbitts
Dec 10, 2016
Scott Pratt Tibbitts was born November 17, 1949 to Terrece Pratt Tibbitts and Byron M Jr. Tibbitts in St. Anthony Idaho. He passed away December 10, 2016 at EIRMC surrounded by his daughters, brother, and sister in law. He attended South Fremont High School where he played football. He grew up on the family farm working and raising potatoes and...
Arile Ottesen
Dec 8, 2016
Sarah Arile Ottesen, 91, of Idaho Falls and formerly of Teton City, died December 8, at her daughter's home, surrounded by her family. She was born September 26, 1925, in Burton, Idaho to John Richards and Margaret Painter Hill Beardall. Arile met and dated Max Ottesen while they were attending high school. They were married on February 4, 1944, in...
Reed Ricks
Dec 6, 2016
Robert Reed Ricks was born February 28, 1939, in Hibbard, Idaho, to Robert Russell Ricks and Opal Huskinson. He passed away at Banner Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona on December 6, 2016 from complications of infectious pneumonia. Reed was the second of four children born to Bob & Opal Ricks. They were Marilyn, Reed, Bart, and Brent. Reed grew up...
Danial Howard
Dec 5, 2016
Danial Micheal Howard passed away unexpectedly December 5th 2016 in his home in Idaho Falls, Idaho at the age of 43. Danial was born August 10th 1973, in Rexburg Idaho, to Micheal and Kathy Howard. He grew up farming with his father in Newdale. He attended and graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 1991 and served an LDS mission...
Price Davenport
Dec 5, 2016
Price Elmo Davenport, 80, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away December 5, 2016, two weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. Price was born to Elmo Ira Davenport and Ivie Mae Price Davenport, on June 10th, 1936, in Sugar City, Idaho. As a young boy, Price lived in San Diego, California while his father worked in aircraft production at Consolidated Aircraft during...
Clyde "Boy" Ricks
Dec 5, 2016
Clyde "Boy" Lee Ricks returned to the loving arms of his mother and father on December 5, 2016. He was born April 3, 1959, in Rexburg Idaho, the 5th son of Milton J Ricks and LaReena Nelson Ricks. In Rexburg, he had a loving and lively childhood with 3 older brothers and 3 sisters to play with. Clyde loved celebrating...
Damian Jonathan Secol
Dec 2, 2016
Damian Jonathan Secol, 35, returned to his Heavenly Father on December 2, 2016 at his home in Hibbard following a courageous battle with lymphoma cancer. He was born the oldest of four children to Stephen Secol and Kathie McPherson in Westwood, California on October 21, 1981. He was homeschooled and received his GED in education. At the age of 21...
Christopher Murray
Dec 1, 2016
Christopher David Murray passed away unexpectedly on December 1, 2016, at Denton Regional Medical Center in Denton, TX, surrounded by fellow police officers and his family at the age of 31. Chris was born on March 4, 1985, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Dick and Jody Murray. He graduated from Murray High School in 2003 and went on to...
Jake Nilsson
Nov 28, 2016
Jake Keith Nilsson, 19, of Menan, died November 28, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born July 3, 1997, in Rexburg, Idaho to Derrick Andrew and Jaymie Lyn Bradley Nilsson. He attended school in Sugar City and graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 2016. Jake was the light of our lives from the moment he was...
Betty Hymas
Nov 27, 2016
Betty Hymas, 91, of Plano passed away on Nov. 27, 2016 surrounded by family while under the care of hospice and the Homestead staff. Betty was born May 22, 1925 in Stavely, Alberta, Canada to G. David Brown & Blanche Smith Brown. She, her 4 sisters and 1 brother grew up and spent their early childhood in Canada attending a...
Erma Dexter
Nov 22, 2016
Erma Gene Jenkins Dexter, 89, of Rexburg, passed away on November 22, 2016, in Idaho Falls. She was born August 16, 1927, at home in St. Anthony, Idaho to Gilbert and Ila Nyborg Jenkins. She was the middle child of five. She went to school in St. Anthony and attended one year at Ricks College. She married Garth Dexter on...
Denice Rammell
Nov 18, 2016
Carma Denice Kunz Rammell, 87, passed away peacefully at her home in Rexburg, Idaho on Friday, November 18, 2016. She was born February 23, 1929 in Cedron, Teton Valley, Idaho. She was the fifth of six children born to James Herbert Kunz and Arleigh Inez Drake Kunz. Denice is survived by her husband of 67 years, Max Hegsted Rammell, and...
Edward Reichenbach
Nov 17, 2016
Edward Millis Reichenbach II, 76, formerly of Rexburg (Archer), passed away Wednesday, November 17, 2016, in Farmington, New Mexico. Ed was born on June 7, 1940 in the city of Orange, Orange County, California to Edward M Reichenbach and Dolly J Alvord. He attended Los Angeles High School in Los Angeles, California. Ed joined the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Cody Howard
Nov 17, 2016
Cody Kip Howard 59, of Rexburg, Idaho died peacefully at home on November 17th from a short battle with colon cancer. Cody was born September 1, 1957 in Rexburg, Idaho, the third child of Bud and LaRee (George) Howard. Cody grew up in Rexburg and attended Madison High school. He had many friends who were a positive influence on him...
Ray Price
Nov 17, 2016
Ellis Ray Price, 90 years old, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away on November 17, 2016, at the Homestead in Rexburg, Idaho, natural causes. Ray was born in Sugar City on May 7, 1926, to Wilford James and Ivy Josephine Judy Price. He was the 8th of 10 children. He attended school in Sugar City, Idaho. Shortly after entering High School,...
Carole Flamm West
Nov 16, 2016
Carole Sue Flamm West was born on December 22, 1938 in Rexburg, Idaho to Edwin Clifford and Jessie Maurine Smith Flamm. She was the oldest of seven children. She was raised in Rexburg, Idaho, graduating from Madison High in 1955. She also went to Ricks College and Brigham Young University, where she met her sweetheart, Lowell S. West. They were...
Lionel Jensen
Nov 13, 2016
Lionel James Jensen, 75, of Rexburg, passed away Sunday, November 13, 2016 at his home surrounded by family. Lionel was born on May 28, 1941 in Rexburg to Leland and Melba Jensen, the first of six children. He was followed by his siblings, Karen, Garth, Sheila, Sonja and Douglas. He was raised on the family farm in Burton and attended...
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