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Col. Byron Meader
Oct 12, 2015
Col. Byron Herbert Meader Jr., 96, of Rexburg, passed away Monday, October 12, 2015 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born in Ellsworth, Maine on Monday, May 19, 1919 to Byron Herbert Meader Sr. and the former Margaret Elizabeth Lunney. He started his golf career in 1929, at the age of ten years, caddying in Northeast Harbor, Maine. He made...
Marion Harding
Oct 11, 2015
Marion Dalley Harding, 95 of St. Anthony, died Sunday, October 11, 2015 peacefully at his home. He was born August 17, 1920 at Mud Lake, Idaho to Leonard Marion and Emma Mabel Dalley Harding. He received his schooling in Montana and Idaho Falls and graduated from the eighth grade. He enlisted in the Army in 1938 and then after Pearl...
Mckenzie "Ken" Graham Mackay
Oct 11, 2015
Ken Mackay passed away on October 11, 2015, from complications related to a stroke. He spent the month since his stroke surrounded by family and friends. Ken was born in Sugar City, Idaho, on August 9, 1929, to Alfred and Helen Mackay. He had an older sister, Cathryn who was called Kay, a younger sister, Rosalie, and an older half...
Richard Phillips
Oct 9, 2015
Richard Edgar Phillips, 87, of Rexburg, passed away peacefully Friday, October 9, in Kaysville, Utah. He was born October 11, 1927, in Weed, California to Thomas and Agness Phillips. Dick was the youngest of six children. He joined the Navy on October 10, 1945. Dick served on the USS Rogers as an electronics technician second class. During leave of Christmas...
Dorma Nelson
Oct 8, 2015
Dorma Nelson, 91, of Teton, passed away Thursday October 8, 2015 at the Homestead Assisted Living Center in St. Anthony Idaho. She was born April 18, 1924 to Norval G. Schwendiman and Emily Artella Ward in Newdale, Idaho. She was the oldest of six. She grew up with her siblings working on the family farm near Newdale. She married Max...
Virginia Price
Oct 5, 2015
Virginia Phillips Price, 90, of Rexburg, Idaho, died October 5, 2015, at the Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg of natural causes. She was born June 15, 1925, in Kaysville, Utah, to Douglas Blood Phillips and Chrystal Anne Jensen. She graduated from Teton High School and received a scholarship to BYU in Provo. She also attended Utah State University before...
Diana Colledge
Oct 2, 2015
Diana Jean McDaniel Colledge lost the battle she had waged with her health on October 2, 2015 of natural causes. She was 69 years old. She was born October 31, 1945 in California to Nellie and James McDaniel. She graduated from Dugway High School and attended a business college. She married ElRoy Colledge January 12, 1967. They later divorced. She...
Edna Jensen
Sep 28, 2015
Edna R. Jensen, 93, of Rexburg, passed away Monday, September 28, 2015, at her home of natural causes. She was born February 9, 1922, in Hyrum, Utah, to Joseph and Theresa Reynolds. She enjoyed her youth in Wellsville, Utah with her four brothers and six sisters. While serving in the WAC's during World War II, she met and married Heber...
Maxine Saurey
Sep 20, 2015
Mary Maxine Saurey, 97, of Chester, Idaho and Island Park, Idaho passed away Sunday, September 20, 2015, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Maxine was the youngest of nine children born on November 14, 1917, in Bayard, Nebraska, to James Asa Cadwell and Lulu Parks Cadwell. Maxine was just 6 weeks old when her father was killed and her mother was left...
Stella Hardy
Sep 19, 2015
Stella Hardy, 95, of Rexburg, died Saturday, September 19, 2015 Graveside services will be held 1:00 p.m. Saturday, September 26th at the Sugar City Cemetery.
Norma Perrenoud
Sep 16, 2015
Norma Muir Harrison Perrenoud of Rexburg, Idaho passed away peacefully on September 16, 2015 at the age of 78. Norma was born on June 22, 1937 in Salem, Idaho to Melvin Bassett Muir and Mabel Annetta Ricks. She grew up with her seven siblings in Rexburg and had many wonderful, fond experiences with her family and friends. Her family also...
Gene Rigby
Sep 13, 2015
Rulon Eugene "Gene" Rigby was called home Sunday morning September 13, 2015. His wife of 67 years and his little watch dog Baxter were at his side. He was born November 7, 1926 in Felt, Idaho to Rulon Remington Rigby and Virginia Wayment Rigby. He was the oldest child in a family of five children. He grew up in Parker,...
Luann Webster
Sep 12, 2015
LuAnn Dewey Webster, age 61, a loving wife, mom, sister, friend, aunt, cousin, left this world peacefully to return back to our Father in Heaven on Saturday, September 12, 2015. She had a fast battle with squamous cancer. She was surrounded by her family at their home in Rexburg, Idaho. LuAnn was born on September 30, 1953 in Chapin, Idaho...
Shirlene Tuckett
Sep 10, 2015
Shirlene Tuckett, 87, of Rexburg, passed on from this earthly life September 10, 2015 in the quiet of her home with her sweetheart by her side. She was born February 22, 1928 to Thomas Lyle and Viola Ricks Beech in Wilford, Idaho where she, along with her two sisters and brother learned good work ethics which she acquired working on...
Patricia Smith
Sep 10, 2015
On Thursday, September 10, 2015, heaven welcomed another angel. Patricia Smith, 78, of Rexburg, passed away peacefully in her sleep. She was born December 26, 1936, in Colfax, California. A daddy's girl from the beginning, she enjoyed hunting and fishing with her father. She grew up in Elk Mountain, Wyoming where she graduated from high school in a class of...
Michael A. Murphy
Sep 8, 2015
. Michael Arthur Murphy, 64 of Rexburg died Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born in Eugene Oregon to Arthur and Virgina Murphy on April 4, 1951. He had one older sister, Patty and four younger brothers, Dan, Tom, David and Frank. He enjoyed fishing, swimming and wondering in the woods. There was never a day...
Stacy Lynn Hansen
Sep 7, 2015
Stacy, Our dear son. You have gone before us into the arms of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We believe your reunion in heaven was great with the loved ones that have gone before you and not too much time will pass and we will see you and love on you again. Love Margaret and Dal, Mother and Dad...
Leonard Browning
Aug 31, 2015
Leonard L. Browning, 94, devoted husband, father and grandfather, of Sugar City, Idaho passed away August 31, 2015 at his home of natural causes. He was born June 20, 1921 in St. Anthony, Idaho to George and Phoebe Watts Browning. He grew up at Canyon Creek on the family farm. He attended school in Newdale and Canyon Creek and attended...
Bert Withers
Aug 31, 2015
Bert F. Withers, 83, of Rexburg passed away Monday, August 31, 2015 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born August 25, 1932, to Frederick Richard and Lucy Lee Withers in Hibbard, Idaho. He was raised in the Hibbard Salem area and lived for a short time in Garland, Utah when he was a boy. He graduated from Sugar Salem High...
Doris Groot
Aug 13, 2015
Doris Hibbert Groot passed away August 13th, just a month shy of her 93rd birthday. Born on September 14, 1922 in Parker, Idaho, a daughter of Thomas Neild and Leolin Faye Johnson Hibbert. Doris grew up in Parker and St. Anthony and graduated from High School and Ricks Collage. She married Eugene Groot on September 20, 1943 in Pocatello. After...
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