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Loree Briggs

Loree Briggs

Jan 2, 2017

Verda Loree Briggs, 76, returned home to her Heavenly Father on January 2, 2017 in Rexburg, ID to meet her dear husband Hal whom she greatly missed. Loree as she went by most of her life, was born December 8, 1940 to Homer and Julia Williamson in Filer, ID. The youngest of four children. Loree lead an extraordinary courageous life...

Dana Inns

Dana Inns

Dec 31, 2016

Dana Joseph Inns, 58 of St. Anthony, died Saturday December 31, 2016 at Carriage Cove in Rexburg. Dana was born on July 28, 1958 in Pasadena, Texas to Clarence William and Nancy Ann Fletcher Inns. He was raised in San Diego, California where he attended school. He moved to St. Anthony, Idaho with his family in 1975. He loved to...

Joyce Jackson

Joyce Jackson

Dec 30, 2016

Joyce Terry Jackson, our beloved mother, grandmother, sister, and friend passed away unexpectedly on Friday, Dec 30, 2016 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born Jan 9, 1935 in Egin, Idaho the second of five children to George Frances and Irene Grover Terry. She graduated from Sugar-Salem High School. On October 23,1953 Joyce married Fred C Jackson...

Max Voss

Max Voss

Dec 18, 2016

Max Melvin Voss, 47, of Teton died Sunday, December 18, 2016 at his home from health complications. He was born January 9, 1969 in Rexburg, Idaho to Linda and Ralph Voss. He grew up in the Teton area. He worked construction his whole life until his health prevented him from working. He is survived his children; Jorden, Weston and Cierra...

Chad Nanney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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