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Judy Ann Summers

Judy Ann Summers

Dec 1, 2010

Judy Ann Summers, 65, of Rexburg, died Wednesday, December 1, 2010 in Rexburg. She was born December 15, 1944 to Frank and Donna Summers. She lived in Rexburg and attended schools in Moody, Sugar City, Edmunds and Rexburg. She graduated from Madison High School in 1963, she also attended Ricks College. She was an active member of the Church of...

Doralee Anderson Thomason

Doralee Anderson Thomason

Nov 29, 2010

Doralee Anderson Thomason, 97, of Burton, died Monday, November 29, 2010 at her home surrounded by members of her loving family. She was born June 1, 1913, in Independence, Idaho to Wilford Christian and Mary Pearl Bowen Anderson. She attended school in Independence and graduated from Madison High School. She also attended Ricks College. She married Charles Thomason on November...

Lee Ward

Lee Ward

Nov 29, 2010

Lee J. Ward, 70, returned to his Heavenly Father early Monday morning, November 29, 2010, due to medical complications. He was born, August 19, 1940, in Rexburg, Idaho, son of Ezekiel and Rose Ward. He was a high school graduate of Madison High School. He served in the Army during the Vietnam War and took great pride in his service...

Alice Orme

Alice Orme

Nov 25, 2010

Alice May Cotterell Orme, age 83 of Rexburg, died Thursday, November 25, 2010 in Rexburg. She was born to Elliott and Mary Cotterell in Ora, Idaho on September 19, 1927. Alice lived and went to schools in Ashton and St. Anthony and graduated from Pocatello High School while living with her sister Lila. During her school years she worked in...

Florence Simmons

Florence Simmons

Nov 25, 2010

Florence Simmons, long time Lyman resident, passed away on Thursday, November 25, 2010 of natural causes. She was just six days short of her 90th birthday. She was the daughter of Elias and Mary Tyler Morris of Hibbard. Florence graduated from Madison High School. She married Alfred Simmons on December 1, 1939 and they moved to Lyman. Florence lived in...

Gerwin Potter Bowen

Gerwin Potter Bowen

Nov 18, 2010

As I sit at the keyboard typing out the obituary of my father Gerwin Potter Bowen, I feel humbled to sum up the amazing life of a truly extraordinary man who was beloved by all who met him. Dad had many roles in his life which he took very seriously. The first was husband to his wife Venese Clements Bowen,...

Jimmie Dee Mitchell

Jimmie Dee Mitchell

Nov 16, 2010

Jimmie Dee Mitchell, 68, of Rexburg passed away November 16, 2010 of natural causes. He was born November 9, 1942 in Nashville, TN to Lonnie Stevens Mitchell and Ora Irene Maynard Pritchard. His family moved to Rexburg when he was three years old. He attended Rexburg schools and graduated from Madison High School. He married his highschool sweetheart Sharan Brown...

Orland Robertson

Orland Robertson

Nov 10, 2010

Orland Robertson J Orland Robertson, 86, of St. Anthony, Idaho, formerly of Rexburg, Idaho and Jackson, Wyoming, died Wednesday, November 10, 2010 of natural causes. He was born June 23, 1924 in Jackson, Wyoming to James M and Tabitha "Beth" Ricks Robertson. He graduated from high school in Jackson and then attended Ricks College for a time. He served in...

Merrill R. Pincock

Merrill R. Pincock

Nov 5, 2010

Merrill R Pincock, 76, of Teton, passed away November 5, 2010, at Rexburg Care and Rehabilitation of congestive heart failure. Dad was born May 14, 1934, to William Albert and Ruby Rushforth Pincock. He was raised and attended school in Sugar City and graduated from Sugar-Salem High School. After graduation, he attended Ricks College. Dad served an LDS mission in...

Juliet Rose Lofgran

Juliet Rose Lofgran

Nov 5, 2010

Juliet Rose Lofgran, born January 7, 2008, the fifth of six children of Steven and Brandi Lofgran, returned to the arms of her Heavenly Father on November 5, 2010. She was immensely loved by her brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents, and other family members, and will always be a joy in their lives. Juliet was much loved and adored by...

Joseph Edwin Strobel

Joseph Edwin Strobel

Nov 4, 2010

Ed Strobel Joseph Edwin Strobel, 84 of Rexburg, passed away Thursday, November 4, 2010 of natural causes. Ed Strobel was born March 30,1926 on 83rd Street in New York City just a block away from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in a Czech neighborhood. His father was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia and his mother from the Netherlands. Ed went...

Gordon Peterson

Gordon Peterson

Oct 26, 2010

Gordon Boyce Peterson, 69 of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away October 26, 2010 at Madison Memorial Hospital from a heart attack. He was born January 23,1941 in Logan, Cache Valley, Utah to Woodrow and Dorothy Gordon Peterson. He grew up and attended school in Logan, including Utah state University. He played football and was active in the ROTC program during his...

Miriam Ricks

Miriam Ricks

Oct 24, 2010

Miriam Scholes Ricks, 100, died on October 24, 2010 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born on April 14, 1910 in Rudy, Idaho, the eighth of nine children of Walter and Phoebe Laurancy Adams Scholes. She received her early schooling in Clark, Idaho. After graduating from high school she attended the LDS Nursing School in Idaho Falls...

Dagny Jonson

Dagny Jonson

Oct 21, 2010

Dagny Dorotea Persson Jonson died October 21, 2010 in Rexburg, Idaho of causes incident to age. Mom was born June 10,1925 in Landon, Sweden, to Per Botolf Andersson and Edith Naima Kristina Norberg. Mom attended school and grew up in Sweden, where she met her sweetheart Gosta Verner Jonson in the fifth grade. Mom and Dad were married and had...

Beth Porter

Beth Porter

Oct 20, 2010

Beth Sargent Porter, 92 of Rexburg, died October 20, 2010. She was born on January 13, 1918, in Grace, Idaho, where her father was the county agricultural agent. The family later moved to a farm outside Cedar City, Utah. When Beth was growing up her father had a ranch, and raised goats, sheep, horses, and cows at the family farm....

Richard Sharp

Richard Sharp

Oct 19, 2010

Richard Martell Sharp was born April 27, 1950 in Rexburg, Idaho to William Martell and Lois Annie Taylor Sharp. He graduated from Madison High School in 1968. He earned a degree from Ricks College in architectural drafting. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Alaska - British Columbia mission. When he returned home,...

Norma Pryor Limb

Norma Pryor Limb

Oct 14, 2010

Norma Pryor Limb Norma Pryor Limb, 88, of Rexburg, died Thursday, October 14, 2010 at the Rexburg Care Center. She was born October 30, 1921, in Minersville, Utah to Franklin Irving Pryor and Ima Myers. She was the oldest of six children. Norma was reared in Minersville. It was while she was attending high school in Beaver, Utah, that she...

Carolyn Thompson

Carolyn Thompson

Oct 14, 2010

Carolyn Snapp Thompson, age 68, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, in Rexburg, ID. She was a patient at The Homestead Assisted Living center; she died of natural causes after suffering throughout her life from bipolar disorder, osteoarthritis, and finally--Alzheimer's disease. Carolyn was born on Oct. 10, 1942 in Washington D.C. to Nathan Judd Snapp and Edith Doutré Snapp....

Catherine Killmeyer

Catherine Killmeyer

Oct 9, 2010

Catherine Louise Killmeyer, 47, of Rexburg died Saturday, October 9, 2010 at her home. She was born to LeRoy Wagner and Doris Nash on November 8, 1962 in Towson, Maryland. She was raised in Towson and graduated from Towson High School in 1981. After high school she served in the US Air Force until settling down to start a family....

Max Gordon Parkinson

Max Gordon Parkinson

Oct 7, 2010

Max Gordon Parkinson, 76, of Plano, Idaho died at his home Thursday October 7, 2010. He was born April 12, 1934 to James Ezra and Elizabeth Arvilla Orr Parkinson at their home in Plano. He attended Edmunds School thru the 8th grade then graduated from Sugar Salem High School. He attended one year at Ricks College. He was a member...

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