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Les Andrus
Oct 10, 2014
Leslee Allen Andrus, 65, of Rexburg, died Friday, Oct. 10,2014. He was born September 16, 1949 in Rexburg, Idaho to Merrill Allen Andrus and Harriet Pauline Jones Andrus. He graduated from Shelley High school and attended two years at Idaho State University in auto body repair. In the Fall of 1978 he met Cindy Farnsworth and they were married August...
Darrell Dalley
Oct 5, 2014
Darrell Charles Dalley, 84, died Sunday, October 5, 2014 at the Rexburg Care Center. He was born December 8, 1929 in Driggs, Idaho the third child of Charles Claudius Dalley and Elen Martha Wallace Dalley. He grew up with two older brothers, three younger brothers and one younger sister. Darrell attended school in Driggs, and graduated from Teton High School....
Lyle Coey Wadsworth
Oct 5, 2014
Lyle Coey Wadsworth, 83, of Rexburg, passed away Sunday, October 5, 2014 at Eastern Idaho Medical Center leaving a legacy of being hard-working and diligent as a man of integrity with unconditional love for his family. Lyle was born in Ucon, Idaho as the seventh of eight children on January 19, 1931 to Joseph McCloy and Edna Stoddard Wadsworth. He...
Gordon Thatcher
Oct 1, 2014
On October 1, 2014, Gordon Siddoway Thatcher left this life to serve a new calling. He lived an extraordinary life and his family honors him. He was born of pioneer stock to Alice Siddoway and John Kenneth Thatcher on Nov. 15, 1931. He was raised in the shadow of the Tetons in Sugar City, Idaho and attended school there. He...
Margaret Millward
Sep 30, 2014
Margaret Sadorus Millward, 98 of St. Anthony, died Tuesday, September 30, 2014. She was born February 2, 1916 to Fanny Rachel Mason and Jessie Ray Sadorus at her grandmother Mason's home in Egin. Margaret had one older sister Lillian and two younger sisters, Elda and Verla and a brother Estle. She attended a three room school in Heman where she...
James Richard "J.R." Smith
Sep 25, 2014
James Richard "J.R." Smith, 35, of Rexburg, died September 25, 2014 in Plano, Idaho. He was born in Rexburg on September 1, 1979 to Kent and RaNae Smith. He had 4 siblings, Todd Pettingill, Monte (Barbara) Pettingill, Shelli (Rial) Palmer, and Kelli Smith. J.R. had two children, Shai Cloe Smith and River James Smith. He loved camping, fishing, hunting and...
Meredith Watson
Sep 25, 2014
Meredith Ann Watson, 75 of St. Anthony, died Thursday, September 25, 2014. She was born on August 26, 1939 in Sacramento, California to Harmon MacKinley Henderson and Faye Marie Miller Henderson. She lived and received her education in Madera, California. Meredith married William Ralph Watson on January 19, 1954 in Fortuna, California. They had 4 children while in California and...
Julia Price Cemer
Sep 23, 2014
Julia Louise Price Cemer, passed away September 23, 2014 at her home in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born November 28, 1978 in Springfield, Oregon. She is the beautiful, talented oldest daughter of Earl J Price and Kathleen B. Houtchens Price. Her passing was unexpected and heartbreaking to all who knew and loved her. Julia grew up in Rexburg attending Burton...
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...
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