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Reid Parkinson
May 2, 2010
Reid Raymond Parkinson , 87, of Rexburg passed away Sunday, May 2, 2010, at the Homestead Assisted Living Center of natural causes. He was born December 29, 1922 in Rexburg, Idaho the third child of Fred Doney and Yvette Raymond Parkinson. He grew up in the Rexburg area where he graduated from Madison High School. He attended machinist school at...
Barbara Olsen Orser
Apr 28, 2010
Barbara Brown Olsen Orser, 94, died April 28, 2010 at Rexburg, ID. She was born June 15, 1915 in Ogden, Utah, to Grant Canfield Brown and Pearl Cragun. She had one sister, Phyllis Brown Marriott. Her parents died two days apart in the 1919 flu pandemic. Barbara and Phyllis were raised by their grandmother and an aunt, Clara Brown. She...
Sid Sakota
Apr 26, 2010
Sidney J Sakota an amazing, Son, Husband, Father, Grandpa, Brother, Uncle, Cousin, andFriend, died April 26, 2010 at his home surrounded by his wife, family and friends after a valiant fight with cancer. He was under the care of Hospice, Dr. Dane Dickson and Dr. Martha Glen and Debbie Allen. Sid was born to John Shigezo Sakota and Mable Shizuka...
John Ted Garner
Apr 25, 2010
John Ted Garner passed peacefully from this life following complications from Parkinson's disease, having been surrounded with family who expressed their love and gratefulness to have been blessed with goodly parents, to be reunited with loved ones that have gone before. He was born on October 2, 1925 in Rexburg, Idaho to George Albert and Myrtle Simmons Garner, the 4th...
Eric Todd Weston
Apr 24, 2010
Eric Todd Weston, 35, of Rexburg, died Saturday, April 24, 2010 at his home of natural causes. He was born October 24, 1974 the eldest son of Marlin and Nancy Weston. He drew his family back into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after his arrival in their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado thirty-five years ago. He was...
David Janson
Apr 20, 2010
David Clarence Janson David Clarence Janson, 82, of Rexburg, died Tuesday April 20, 2010 at the Homstead Assisted Living Center. He was born April 11, 1928 in Burton, Idaho to David John and Leona Poulsen Janson. He attended school in the Madison School district. He graduated from Ricks College. He served in the United States Navy. He was an active...
L. Dale Steiner
Apr 15, 2010
Leland Dale Steiner, 81, of Rexburg passed away at The Homestead Assisted Living Center, only a few blocks from his birthplace, April 15, 2010 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. Dale was born in Rexburg on July 20, 1928 to John Leland Steiner and Zina LaVern Wynn, who both preceded him in death. He attended Rexburg schools, including Ricks...
Betty Hodgen
Apr 14, 2010
Betty Jane Hodgen, 93 of Rexburg, died April 14, 2010 at her home. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, April 16, 2010 with the family meeting friends at 9:00 a.m. at the Rexburg LDS North Stake Center (314 East 2nd North). Interment will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17th at the Evergreen Memorial Park in...
Leo Smith
Apr 11, 2010
Leo M Smith, 89, of Rexburg died Sunday, April 11, 2010, at Homestead Assisted Living of natural causes. He was born March 27, 1921 in Rexburg, Idaho to Isaac Earl and Emma Arnold Smith. He attended Cedar Point grade school and graduated from Madison High School. He lived in the Lyman area all of his life. He served in the...
Laretta Steel
Apr 3, 2010
Laretta Steel, 69 of Burton, passed away April 3, 2010 in Boise surrounded by family. She was born Feb. 8, 1941 in Rexburg to Wayne William Hansen and Nola Dean Haws of Newdale. She was fourth of six children. She attended school in the Sugar-Salem School District and Ricks College. She married Coleman M Steel in the Idaho Falls LDS...
Julia Widdison
Apr 1, 2010
Julia Faye Anderson Widdison Julia Faye Anderson Widdison, 86, of Rexburg, died Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Rigby, Idaho. She was born to Emery Milton Anderson and Julia Jane Wilcox on September 15, 1923 in Rexburg, Idaho. She attended schools in the Rexburg area. She married Lorin F. Widdison on June 25, 1946 in the Idaho Falls LDS temple. She...
Ryan Parker
Mar 30, 2010
Ryan Elliot Parker, age 35, of Monteview, ID, passed away Tuesday, March 30, 2010. He was born in Rexburg to Don and Pat Parker on September 24, 1974. His family lived in Longmont and Grand Junction, CO, before returning to Rexburg. He graduated from Madison High School. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
Florence Forbush
Mar 21, 2010
Florence Nightingale Kirby Forbush passed away peacefully at the age of 90 on March 21, 2010 in Rexburg, Idaho. She was surrounded by her family. Florence was the ninth and last child born to John Henderson Kirby and Agnes Johnston in Blackfoot on Oct. 20, 1919. Florence's father passed away 5 weeks prior to her birth. She was a devoted...
June Bartholet
Mar 21, 2010
June Bartholet Josie June Bartholet, 81, of Sugar City, died Sunday, March 21, 2010 at her home of natural causes. She was born May 9, 1928 in Las Vegas, Nevada to Joseph and Fern Carrell Axelson. She married James Howard Bartholet on December 21, 1946 in Hollywood, California. He passed away on February 10, 1997. She is survived by her...
Stephanie Perrenoud
Mar 20, 2010
Stephanie L. Anderson Perrenoud Stephanie L. Anderson Perrenoud, 29, of Rexburg, died Saturday March 20, 2010 as a result of a car accident. She was born December 13, 1980 to Kevin Leary Anderson and Anna Lee Briggs. She grew up in West Jordan, Utah. She graduated from Copperhills High School in 1999. She moved to Ucon, Idaho in 2002 where...
Cara Singleton
Mar 19, 2010
Cara K. Singleton, 91, passed away March 19, 2010, in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born March 14, 1919, in St. Anthony to Karl and Genevieve Cardon Klingler. Cara was the second child in a family of two sisters and four brothers. She spent her childhood in St. Anthony swimming in the river, reading books and enjoying life. After her graduation...
Carmen Nielson Jensen
Mar 4, 2010
Carmen Brown Nielson Jensen, 78, of Rexburg, passed away March 4, 2010, of natural causes at the Homestead Assisted Living. She was born August 29, 1931, in Rexburg, Idaho, to James Earl Brown and Constance Ricks Brown. She grew up in Rexburg, graduated from Madison High School, and attended Ricks College. She married Stanley E. Nielson October 27, 1950, in...
James Howard Murdoch
Mar 3, 2010
James Howard Murdoch age 88 of Rexburg died at his home on March 3, 2010. He was born to Brigham and Luanne Hammon Murdoch March 8, 1922 in Farnum Idaho. He grew up in the Ashton area, graduating from North Fremont High School in 1941. He enlisted in the Air Force and served in World War II returning in January...
Leona May Flamm
Feb 26, 2010
Leona May Moon Flamm died at age 88 on February 26, 2010. She was born March 6, 1921 in Fairfield, Camas County, Idaho, to Reuben Ezra Moon and Emma Lueisa Howells Moon, the next to the last of eleven children, seven of whom survived. She grew up in Fairfield, Egin, St. Anthony, and Rexburg. During the Depression she developed a...
Rose Ward
Feb 22, 2010
Rose Dredge Ward passed away at the age of 92 on Monday, February 22, 2010 at the home of her grandchildren, Bryan and Jodi Bartschi in Wilford, ID where they tenderly cared for her for the past five months. She was born September 11, 1917 to Jessie H. Dredge and Nellie Martha Kunz in Malad, ID. She was the tenth...
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