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John Stevens

John Stevens

Nov 21, 2014

John Marvin Stevens, 79 of Ashton, died Friday November 21, 2014. He was born October 12, 1935 in Twin Falls, ID to John Stevens Jr. and Opal Erleen Croft. He graduated from Twin Fall High School and Idaho State University. He married Jacque Einfault in 1957 in Twin Falls, ID. They had four children and later divorced. In September of...

Thomas Raymond Purcell

Thomas Raymond Purcell

Nov 20, 2014

Thomas Raymond Purcell, 76, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, November 20, 2014 at his home after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born May 17, 1938 in Buellton, California to Jim and Leona Purcell. He attended Rigby High School where he loved to play football and graduated in 1957. He was member of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

Leeann Parish

Leeann Parish

Nov 17, 2014

LeeAnn Sharp Parish, 49, of Rexburg died at Madison Memorial Hospital on Monday, November 17, 2014. She was born on July 22, 1965 to Wayne and Glenda Sharp of Sugar City. LeeAnn was the oldest of three children. She graduated from Sugar-Salem High School in Sugar City, Idaho. LeeAnn also graduated from LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, Utah...

Shirley Mae Papworth

Shirley Mae Papworth

Nov 17, 2014

Shirley Mae (Ellis) Papworth, 83, died November 17, 2014, in Rexburg, Idaho. Shirley was born August 18, 1931, in Riverside, Idaho to Rowsel and Alice Ellis. She graduated from Mackay High School and three years later married her high school sweetheart and best friend, Lorin E. Papworth. What followed was 63 years of friendship, love, and joy at building a...

Diane Conrad

Diane Conrad

Nov 8, 2014

On November 8th, our beloved wife, mother, sister and friend, Diane (Morehead) Conrad passed away in her home after a 28-year battle with Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.). She was born in Logan, UT to William Howard and Elaine Morehead and grew up in Idaho Falls, ID where she attended Skyline High School, graduating in 1985. She attended Ricks College, and served...

Jack Reese

Jack Reese

Nov 5, 2014

Our loving husband and father, Jack Gordon Reese, passed away peacefully at his home in Archer on the morning of November 5, 2014. He was born February 21, 1946, in Rexburg, to Jack Howard and Berniece Salome Sommer Fikstad. After his parent's divorce and mother's subsequent marriage to William Oscar Reese, he changed his name to Reese out of respect...

Bob Carlton

Bob Carlton

Nov 3, 2014

Bob Carlton Robert Dewey Carlton, 82 of St. Anthony, Idaho, died Monday, November 3, 2014 at Madison Memorial Hospital of causes incident to age. He was born October 21, 1932 in St. Anthony, Idaho to Albert William and Dea Jensen Carlton. Bob was educated in Fremont and Madison counties and graduated from Sugar Salem High School. After graduating he went...

Del Flint

Del Flint

Nov 1, 2014

Adell J Flint, 77 of St. Anthony, died Saturday, November 1, 2014 at home from heart failure. Del was born on November 25, 1936 in St. Anthony, Idaho to Fredrick Adell and Leota Ellis Flint. He graduated from South Fremont High School where he was active in sports and attended Ricks College and Mountain State College in Billings Montana on...

Dot Underwood

Dot Underwood

Oct 30, 2014

Dot Underwood Dot Hinckley Underwood, 96, of Rexburg, died October 30, 2014, at her home of natural causes. She was born April 18, 1918, at Hibbard, Idaho to Ira Nathaniel and Emma Luella Keppner Hinckley, the 8th child and 3rd daughter in a family of 13. At that time they were living on a dry farm near Dubois. When two...

Adam Mitchell Junkert

Adam Mitchell Junkert

Oct 28, 2014

Adam Mitchell Junkert, 14, of Rexburg, died Tuesday, October 28, 2014. He was born December 20, 1999 in Rexburg, Idaho to Bryan Junkert and Cola Anderson. He attended Central High School and was in the 9th grade. He lived in Lyman and loved to play video and computer games. He enjoyed playing with his beautiful dog, Bella. He was a...

Janice Allgood

Janice Allgood

Oct 25, 2014

Janice Ethel May Allgood died at the hospital in Idaho Falls, ID on October 25, 2014 due to complications of poor health in recent years. She was 75 years old. Janice was born April 12, 1939 in St. Anthony, ID to her parents, Murlan Theodore May and Elda Lillian Hobbs. In 1960 she married Harris E. Allgood. They moved to...

Nicholas Sommer

Nicholas Sommer

Oct 22, 2014

Nicholas Josiah Sommer, 101, beloved husband, father and grandfather, died of causes incident to age on Oct. 22, 2014 at his home in Ramona, California. He was born Jul 13, 1913 at Hibbard, Idaho to Edward Sommer and Alice Ethel (Hendricks) Sommer. He was welcomed by an older sister, Erma Mary, and joined by two sisters; Harriet Ellen and Hazel;...

Joyce Berry

Joyce Berry

Oct 21, 2014

Joyce H. Berry, 89, of Rexburg, died Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at her home, under the care of Encompass Hospice, surrounded by her family. Joyce was born June 5,1925, in Rexburg to Charles T. Hilton and Ester Jensen. She was raised in the Sugar-Salem area . She worked at the Romance Theater and First Security Bank. After World War II...

Jason Dean Keller

Jason Dean Keller

Oct 21, 2014

Jason Dean Keller, 35, of Rigby, Idaho, passed away Tuesday, October 21, 2014, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was born on October 8, 1979, in Brigham City, Utah. Jason was the first-born child of Dean "B" Keller and Debra Thompson Keller. He grew up and attended schools in Rexburg, Idaho, graduating from Madison High...

Carol Ruth Barrus

Carol Ruth Barrus

Oct 17, 2014

Carol Ruth Walters Barrus passed peacefully into the celestial realms of her Heavenly Father at Madison Memorial Hospital on October 17, 2014, where she was surrounded by members of her family whom she loved with all her heart and to whom her life was devoted. Carol was destined to live her 77 years of life having to overcome severe physical...

Zella Hansen

Zella Hansen

Oct 17, 2014

Zella Evalyn Gardner Hansen, 97, passed away Friday October 17, 2014 at the home of her granddaughter RaeLyn and husband Rdale Price in Pocatello, Idaho. She was born November 1, 1916 to William Edward and Nancy Evaline Stone Gardner in Rose, Idaho. She married her sweetheart, Arvel Vern Hansen, on June 7, 1934. Their marriage was later solemnized in the...

Lucille Searle

Lucille Searle

Oct 15, 2014

Lucille Brower Searle, 90 of Ammon, died on October 15 in Idaho Falls. She was born on April 5, 1924 in St. Anthony to Joseph Ariah Brower and Hazel Barnes. She was raised in St. Anthony and attended schools there. She was part of a family band for many years. They played for dances in Rexburg and throughout the area....

Donald Trupp

Donald Trupp

Oct 14, 2014

On October 14, 2014 Donald Dean Trupp joined his Heavenly family. Donald was born on January 30, 1930 in Wilford Idaho. He was the tenth of eleven children of Anna and Henry Trupp Sr., first generation Americans. Donald graduated from St Anthony High school in 1948. It was in high school that he met the one true love of his...

Gordon "Tic" Larry Tychsen

Gordon "Tic" Larry Tychsen

Oct 14, 2014

Our fun loving, light hearted, Husband, Dad, Brother, Grandpa, Uncle and friend, passed away October 14, 2014 at Madison Memorial Hospital after a valiant and courageous battle with Alpha 1 and COPD. He was born April 8, 1937 to Richard and Gertrud Tychsen in Milkriver, Alberta, Canada. Growing up in Raymond, Alberta, he loved to ice skate, learned how to...

Norlene Reichenbach

Norlene Reichenbach

Oct 10, 2014

Norlene Anderson Reichenbach, 74, of Rexburg Idaho, passed away Friday October 10, 2014 in Meridan Idaho. She was born December 17, 1939 in Los Angeles, California to James Darrell Anderson and Lila Gardner Anderson. She graduated from Mark Keppell High School in Montery Park, California, she then graduated from BYU Provo in Elementary Education. During a visit home, Norlene met...

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