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Layel Clark

Layel Clark

Dec 23, 2015

Heaven has received another angel. Layel Rickie Clark earned his wings December 23, 2015 with his parents by his side. What a happy reunion it must have been as he joined his brothers Chris and Ben and his sister Becky. Layel was born November 26, 1978 to Rick and Ruth Clark. He was the third of five children. He grew...

Margene Hirschi

Margene Hirschi

Dec 20, 2015

Margene Hirschi, 68, of St. Paul, Minnesota, died December 20, 2015, of natural causes. She was born May 7, 1947, in Rexburg the fourth child and third daughter of LaVell Jacob and Donna Guinette Feik Hirschi. She was raised and attended schools in Rexburg. She has lived in St. Paul, Minnesota for the past four and a half years. She,...

Bonnie Atkinson

Bonnie Atkinson

Dec 19, 2015

Bonnie Park Atkinson, age 90, died suddenly but peacefully December 19, 2015 at the Homestead Assisted Living Center in St. Anthony. She was born April 10, 1925, to George Leslie and Florence Luella Wilding Park in a small house on her grandfather's farm just north of the Teton River in Rexburg, the location of the current Wal-Mart. A short time...

Ted Mortensen

Ted Mortensen

Dec 19, 2015

Ted James Mortensen, 84, of Idaho Falls, died December 19, 2015, at his home of natural causes. He was born September 19, 1931 in Salem, Idaho, the son of Forland and Grace Mortensen. He was the much loved brother to Carma Ricks, Rosena Palmer, Ladene Hughes, Vera Mae Raybould, and Rella Brown. He attended school in a one room schoolhouse...

Tony Mathews

Tony Mathews

Dec 18, 2015

Tony Mathews, 44, of Rexburg, died December 18, of natural causes. He was born August 27, 1971 and was adopted by Henry and Phyllis Mathews when he was nine days old and living in Driggs, Idaho. Tony had a very bad problem with epilepsy through his childhood and up through high school. There were many tears and prayers to try...

Burton Phillips

Burton Phillips

Dec 16, 2015

Burton Kraft Phillips, 71, of St. George, Utah, and formerly of Tetonia, Idaho, passed away on December 16, 2015, in his home surrounded by family. Burton was born in Driggs, Idaho, to Edwin Max and Elizabeth Kraft Phillips. He received schooling in Rexburg, Idaho, where he first met Kathleen Bowen, who would become his wife. After graduating from Madison High...

Erna Whitaker

Erna Whitaker

Dec 16, 2015

Erna Siddoway Whitaker, 72, of Teton, passed away peacefully on December 16, 2015 . Erna was the fourth child of Ern and Geneva Siddoway being born in Teton City, Idaho on October 4th, 1943. She attended grade school in Teton and graduated from South Fremont High School. She also graduated from Links Business College. On June 14, 1963, Erna married...

Sylvia Miller

Sylvia Miller

Dec 14, 2015

Sylvia Lillian Schaat Miller, 91, of Parker, Idaho, died Monday, December 14, 2015 of natural causes. She was born April 6, 1924 to Peter and Mary Krug Schaat in St. Anthony Idaho. She was one of 13 children. She attended Parker elementary and graduated from South Fremont High School in 1942. She then attended Ricks college for one year. She...

Kurt Young

Kurt Young

Dec 14, 2015

Robert Kurt Young, beloved son, husband, father, grandfather, and friend passed away on December 14, 2015, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Kurt, 54, was born December 17, 1960, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, the youngest child and only son of Robert Lamar and Maxine Anderson Young. He was raised in Idaho Falls and Island Park, attending North Fremont High School. He later...

Rosalee Hopkin

Rosalee Hopkin

Dec 10, 2015

RosaLee Johnson Hopkin was born March 13 1931 in Ovid Idaho to Herman and Wanda Wood Johnson. She is the oldest of four children. Her brothers George Frederick (Janet) Johnson, Jay H. (Kathleen) Johnson and one sister Carol Rae (Gary) Wilson. After graduating from Fielding High School in Paris Idaho she attended Rick College in Rexburg Idaho where she met...

Maryann Parkinson

Maryann Parkinson

Dec 10, 2015

MaryAnn Parkinson, 58, died peacefully on Thursday, December 10, 2015 at her home in Rexburg surrounded by her family. She was born June 23,1957 in Rigby, Idaho to William Robert and Pearl Irene Bates. She graduated from Madison High School in 1976. She was married to Neil J. Rowe for twenty-five years and they raised two children together and then...

Doris Bernice Parkinson

Doris Bernice Parkinson

Dec 10, 2015

Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend Doris Bernice Parkinson, 82, passed away peacefully in Rexburg, Idaho surrounded by her family on Thursday, December 10, 2015 at the Rexburg Homestead Assisted Living Center. Bernice was born July 10, 1933 in St. Anthony, Idaho to LeRoy Jones and Dora Allgood Jones, followed by a brother Merrill and a sister Janice....

Percia Green Baker

Percia Green Baker

Dec 7, 2015

Percia Green Baker, 80, of Teton City (Moody) Idaho, returned home to her Heavenly Father following complications of a stroke on December 7, 2015 in the comfort of her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born October 14, 1935 to LeRoy and Percia Bunnell Green. She was the fifth of six children, their second daughter. She grew up...

Alta Stewart

Alta Stewart

Dec 7, 2015

Alta Elizabeth Stewart, 76, of Rexburg, died Monday, December 2, 2015 at Teton Post Acute Care and Rehabilitation in Idaho Falls. She was born October 27, 1939 in St. Anthony, Idaho to Andrew Emanuel Stewart and Alta Fern Romell Stewart. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a mission to the Northern...

Shirley Mcintier

Shirley Mcintier

Dec 5, 2015

Shirley Lorrain McIntier, 73 of Ashton, formerly of St. Anthony, died Saturday at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center of natural causes. She was born on April 23, 1942 in Rigby, Idaho to Lowell Almon and Amy McCracken McIntier. Shirley grew up in Lewisville, the oldest of four children. She lived in Lewisville with her family until her father passed away...

Dell Barney

Dell Barney

Nov 29, 2015

Moses Dell Barney 83, of Rexburg, passed away Nov. 29, 2015 on a beautiful Sunday morning with a colorful rainbow that seemed to arch perfectly over the family farm. He passed away peacefully surrounded by his family as sacred prelude music seeped through his doorway as church services began. The voices from his new found friends as they sang the...

Marjorie Goodliffe

Marjorie Goodliffe

Nov 28, 2015

Marjorie Opal Jeppson Goodliffe, 89, of Rexburg, died on Nov. 28, 2015, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls of congestive heart failure. She was born Nov. 2, 1926, in Archer, to Olin Henry Jeppson and Bertha Rebecca Weekes Jeppson. She was the second child and oldest daughter of the family. She grew up, with one brother and...

Yvonne Kinghorn

Yvonne Kinghorn

Nov 28, 2015

Yvonne Renae Edwards Kinghorn, 50, of Rexburg, Idaho, died November 28, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Utah from complications of cancer. She was born October 5, 1965, in Missoula, Montana to Denny and Shari Edwards. She was raised and attended school in Florence, Montana. She attended and received an associates degree from Ricks College. Yvonne married Kent Leroy Kinghorn on...

Janice Enno

Janice Enno

Nov 26, 2015

Margery Janice Edwards Enno, 78, of Saint Anthony, Idaho, died Thursday, November 26, 2015, in Rexburg, Idaho, with her family by her side. She passed away from a lingering illness. She was born August 27, 1937, is Saint Anthony, Idaho, to Lee Emanuel Edwards and Rose Amadell Franks. She was raised in Saint Anthony and graduated from South Fremont High...

Gary Furniss

Gary Furniss

Nov 23, 2015

Gary L. Furniss, 78 of Teton, died Monday, November 23, 2015 of causes incident to age. He was born on October 31, 1937 in Teton, Idaho to Lewis W. And Ivy Parker Furniss. He was raised in Teton and attended school there as well as St. Anthony where he graduated form South Fremont High School. He also attended Ricks College....

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