Merle Parker
Sep 20, 2014
Our loving and gracious mother, Merle Howell Parker, passed away peacefully on September 20, 2014, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born February 29, 1920, in Rexburg, Idaho, and lived most of her life in St. Anthony, Idaho, where she married Lionel Ray Parker. Together they raised three daughters and had many wonderful friends. They lived in Tempe, Arizona,...
Shelley Johnson
Sep 20, 2014
Shelley Jenkins Johnson, 64, of Rexburg, passed away September 20, 2014, surrounded by her loving husband and children at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born June 28, 1950 at the Mckee Maternity Home in Rigby, Idaho. She was the oldest of seven children born to Frank and LoRene (Ricks) Jenkins. She grew up in Rexburg, Idaho where...
Raita Karpa
Sep 20, 2014
Raita Kyllikki Karpa, passed away on Saturday, September 20, 2014 in Rexburg, Idaho. She was 81. She was born May 11, 1933 in Juuka, Finland. Raita immigrated to the United States of America when she was sixteen. She met and married Paul Karpa in New York City. They were later divorced. Two children were born of this union, her daughter,...
Ivan Abegglen
Sep 9, 2014
Ivan C. Abegglen, lifelong resident of Wilford and St. Anthony, passed away Tuesday, September 9, 2014, at Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg . He was born on October 28, 1921, in Wilford, Idaho, the first of three sons born to Laurence Edward and Mary Agnes (Hansen) Abegglen. He grew up in Wilford where he attended the Wilford School through...
Sheila Barney
Sep 8, 2014
Sheila Mae Erickson Barney, 79 of Rexburg, passed away September 8, 2014 on a beautiful Monday morning surrounded by her loving husband and all her children at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho. She was born December 21, 1934 at her parent's home in Archer, Idaho. She was the oldest of nine children born to Bernarr and Martha (Mattie) Erickson....
Jean Donahoo
Sep 7, 2014
Jean Donahoo, 89, of Rexburg, died Sunday, September 7, 2014 at the Carriage Cove Assisted Living in Rexburg. She was born October 30, 1924 in Tucson, Arizona to James Russell Thayer and Hazel Thayer. She graduated from Tuscon High School in 1942. She and her future husband, Don, met on a Greyhound bus traveling between Los Angeles and Tucson. After...
James "Jim" Wesley Dewey
Sep 6, 2014
James "Jim" Wesley Dewey, 86, passed away September 6th, 2014 at the Teton Peaks Assisted Living Center in Driggs, Idaho. Jim was born May 9th, 1928 in Victor (Chapin), Idaho to Joseph Wesley Dewey and Mabel Mae Hills Dewey. He grew up and lived in the Teton Valley area known as Chapin. Jim attended school through the 8th grade in...
Robert Newby Bell
Sep 1, 2014
Robert N. Bell, 88, of Rexburg, passed away Monday, September 1, 2014, in Rexburg of natural causes. He was born September 7, 1925, in Rexburg, to William V. and Isabelle Newby Bell. He attended schools in Rexburg, graduating from Madison High School in 1944. A week after graduation he began his service in the US Army during World War II,...
Jana Lee Poulsen
Sep 1, 2014
Jana Lee Orr Poulsen passed suddenly at her home, Monday morning, September 1, 2014. Jana was raised on the Egin Bench and loved this area and the family and friends that were all such a part of her life. In fact, other than the first four years of her married life, she has lived her entire life on the Egin...
Scott Hart
Aug 30, 2014
Beloved husband, son, brother, uncle and friend, Scott Matthew Hart passed away Saturday, August 30, 2014, in a tragic kayaking accident in Rexburg, Idaho. Scott was born to Richard Marshall Hart and Joyce Robertson Hart on June 11, 1988, in Phoenix, Arizona. Scott is the youngest of six children. Throughout his childhood, Scott always sought to make people laugh and...
Melba Parkinson
Aug 26, 2014
Melba Furniss Parkinson, 75, of Rexburg, died Aug. 26, 2014, at her home near Sugar City. She was born May 27, 1939, in Teton, Idaho, to Lewis and Joy Furniss. Melba attended Teton Elementary and South Fremont High School. On April 5, 1961, she married Don T. Parkinson. In their early years of marriage, they lived on the family farm...
Donald Ingram Glider
Aug 22, 2014
Donald Ingram Glider, Beloved Father, Grandfather, Brother, Uncle and Friend passed away on August 22, 2014 in Rexburg, Idaho. He was born April 27, 1938 in Des Moines, IA, the son of Jack Morgan and Inga CeCelia Glider. Jack was the son of Harry Alfred and Lora Morgan Glider. Inga was the daughter of Ole Herbert and Johanna Serina Egenes...
Evelyn Ricks
Aug 19, 2014
Evelyn Tonks Ricks, 90, beloved companion, devoted mother, sister and friend, passed away Tuesday, August 19, 2014, in Rexburg, Idaho of causes incident to age. She was born May 12, 1924, beneath the Teton mountains on a small farm in Victor, Idaho, the second of five children of Howard and Firl E. Bagley Tonks. She grew up in a family...
Elaine Saurey
Aug 19, 2014
Elaine Lottie Robertson Miller Saurey, 79, of Hibbard died Tuesday, August 19 at EIRMC of natural causes surrounded by her family. She was born March 12, 1935 in Plano, ID to Charles Ernest Robertson and Margaret McCulloch Robertson. She attended schools in Edmunds and Sugar City. She married Gerald D. Miller on October 25, 1952. They had 2 children, Jerry...
Christopher Thomas Wood
Aug 13, 2014
Christopher Thomas Wood, 25, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, died August 13, 2014. He was born in Rexburg, Idaho and moved to Goodman, MO at the age of 16. At the age of 19, Chris moved to Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada where he lived with his dad and started working in the oilfield as a scaffolder. He attended Rexburg schools and...
Carol Workman
Aug 11, 2014
Carol Holyoak Workman, 69, of Rexburg, died Monday, August 11, 2014 at her home from cancer. She was born December 10, 1944 in Burley, Idaho to Albert and Laurece Holyoak and was raised on a farm. After attending Ricks College and Brigham Young University, receiving her teaching degree, she taught in elementary schools in Rexburg and Burley, Idaho and Blanding,...
Robert Howell
Aug 10, 2014
Robert Eugene Howell, 76, passed away on Sunday August 10,2014 at his home in Archer following a long battle with cancer. Robert was born August 1, 1938 in Powell, Wyoming to Rodney Bert Howell and Eva Benson Howell. When he was 7 years old his family moved to Archer where he attended Archer Elementary and graduated from Madison High School...
Maurine L. Perkins
Aug 6, 2014
Julia Maurine Lewis Perkins passed away at Ashton Living Center on Wednesday, August 6, 2014, from causes related to age. Maurine was a loving mother and grandmother and will be missed deeply by her family. Maurine was born in Dingle, Idaho, on June 14, 1928, the youngest child of Thomas G. and Calla Booth Lewis. She had two sisters and...
Laura "Cathy" Pearson
Aug 5, 2014
Laura Catherine "Cathy" Pearson, 70, of Rexburg, died Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at her home after fighting cancer. She was born October 12, 1943 in Washington County, Indiana to Hugh and Marguerete Thompkins. She is survived by her children, Tammy Pyne of Logan, Utah, Lori Lambright of Rigby, Idaho, Erick Pearson of Sun Valley, Idaho, Ian Pearson of Pendleton, Kentucky,...
Spencer Berger
Aug 3, 2014
Spencer Bryan Berger was born in Payson, Utah and moved to Rexburg with his family when he was one month old. He attended Rexburg schools and graduated from Madison High School in 2003 after which he attended BYU-Idaho. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and honorably served a mission to Johannesburg, South...
