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Leroy Wilcox

Leroy Wilcox

Mar 8, 2014

Clarence LeRoy Wilcox, 89, passed away on March 8th, 2014 in Rexburg, of natural causes. He was born September 29, 1924 in Sunnydell, Idaho to David Floyd and Annie Grizelda Heileson Wilcox. He attended school at Sunnydell, Archer, Madison High, LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, and Ricks College. He was drafted into the army in World War II...

Richard Eugene Pingry, Jr.

Richard Eugene Pingry, Jr.

Mar 6, 2014

Richard E. Pingry, Jr. 43, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, March 6th, 2014. He was born September 16th, 1970 in Jacksonville, Florida to Richard E. Pingry, Sr. and Juanita Irene Pingry. He moved many times while growing up and graduated from North Side High School in Roanoke, Virginia. He attended college at BYU in Provo and Roanoke College and graduated with...

Kay Freeman Mehner

Kay Freeman Mehner

Feb 27, 2014

Kay Bernice Freeman Mehner, 65 of Suffolk, Virginia, passed away, after a short courageous battle with cancer, on Thursday, February 27, 2014 in Suffolk. She was born November 12, 1948 in Rigby, Idaho to Don and Lois Freeman of Rexburg, Idaho. She was the third of five children. She attended schools in Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School in...

Lorin Clement Young

Lorin Clement Young

Feb 24, 2014

Lorin Clement Young, 86 of Plano, passed away peacefully in Idaho Falls, surrounded by his family, on Monday February 24, 2014. He was born August 2,1927 at Burton to Clement Archer Young and Isabelle McCulloch Young. Lorin attended school in Archer and Edmunds where he graduated. It was in the in the fourth grade at Edmunds where he met his...

Nell Haynes Zollinger

Nell Haynes Zollinger

Feb 18, 2014

Nell Haynes Zollinger, 84 of Rexburg, died Tuesday, February 18, 2014 in Rexburg. She was born October 14,1929 at Sugar City, Idaho to Isiac Newton Hayes and Agnes Marie Sauer Hayes. She had three sisters; Juanita, Grace and Ruth and a brother; Joe. She married Bert Stoddard and they had three children and later divorced. She married Charles W. Zollinger...

Carolyn Kay Dixon

Carolyn Kay Dixon

Feb 17, 2014

Carolyn Kay Dixon, age 70, died February 17, 2014 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born July 3,1943 in Rexburg, Idaho to Lila Mayers and Leslie Mayers. She loved the outdoors, she would go camping and loved to fish. After high school she met her future husband, Jerry Dixon. The fell in love and got married on...

Donald Dean Staker

Donald Dean Staker

Feb 16, 2014

Donald Dean Staker, 89 of Newdale, passed away peacefully on Sunday February 16, 2014 in Rexburg, Idaho, due to causes incident to age. He was born September 4,1924 at Newdale, Idaho, the first child of Vearl Clifford Staker and Rebecca Lyle Maupin Staker. Donald attended the Newdale school, graduating in 1940. He loved playing basketball on the Newdale team with...

Betty Kunz

Betty Kunz

Feb 15, 2014

Betty Lou Cooper Kunz, 89, of Rexburg, died peacefully at her home on February 15, 2014 surrounded by her family. She was born December 23, 1924 in Provo, Utah, to Charles Drue and Vera Calanthe Smith Cooper. She lived in Rexburg during her early years, where her dad taught school. During the summers, they camped in a tent in Teton...

Bernice Clifford Kauer

Bernice Clifford Kauer

Feb 14, 2014

Bernice C. Kauer Bernice Hazel Clifford Kauer, 90, passed away February 14, 2014, at the home of her daughter in Rigby. She was born April 12,1923 at Ririe, the third daughter and youngest child of Elmer Emmett and Essie Eliza Summers Clifford. When a few months old the family moved to Portland, Oregon. In 1937 they moved to Rexburg. She...

Margie Shirley

Margie Shirley

Feb 9, 2014

Margie Ward Shirley passed away at the age of 92 on Sunday, February 9, 2014 of causes incident age. She was born on September 14, 1921, in Riverside, UT to Eberhardt and Wilhemina Smith Ward. She was a happy child with hobbies that included music and laughing with friends. She married Ross Shirley of Salem, Idaho, in 1947, following his...

Norma Jean Lyon

Norma Jean Lyon

Feb 5, 2014

Norma Jean Lyon, 79 of Leadore, died Wednesday, February 5, 2014 in Rexburg. She was born May 27,1934 in Julesburg, Colorado to George and Hattie Eschliman. She was the last of eight children, all of them delivered by their father. She attended first grade at a country school house. They got there either by horse back or with a horse...

Cora Jean Squires

Cora Jean Squires

Feb 4, 2014

Cora Jean Hamilton Squires, age 86, of Rexburg, Idaho, died Tuesday, February 4, 2014 from natural causes. She was born on February 8, 1927, to Milton Hamilton and Cora Bates Hamilton in Rexburg and was the older of two children. She attended Madison schools, was a cheerleader and parade majorette and later graduated from Ricks College with an associate degree....

Ann Zollinger

Ann Zollinger

Feb 3, 2014

Ann Broy Porter Zollinger, 87, died peacefully at her home on Monday, February 3, 2014, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. She was born October 14, 1926, in Rexburg, Idaho to Arthur Porter, Jr. and Nelle Child Porter. She attended Madison High School and Ricks College as well as receiving specialized training at the McCune School of Music in Salt...

Steve Hawkes

Steve Hawkes

Feb 2, 2014

Steve Hawkes Steven Hawkes of Sugar City passed away at the University of Utah Hospital on Sunday, February 2, 2014 from complications of pneumonia. He was born February 14, 1952 in Ashton, Idaho to Percy Blaine Hawkes and Bonnie Marie Clark. He was raised in Farnum, Idaho, then at the age of 8 the family moved to Providence, Utah to...

Joyce Davies

Joyce Davies

Jan 24, 2014

Joyce Bernice Atwood Davies, 70, of Plano, died January 24, 2014, at her home of natural causes. She was born February 22, 1943, to Nephi Lindsay Atwood and Jessie S. Atwood of Cranbrook, Canada. She grew up in Cranbrook and came to live with her sister, Georgia Briggs in Rexburg, Idaho, where she attended high school at Madison High. She...

Francis James Powell

Francis James Powell

Jan 19, 2014

Francis "Fritz" James Powell, 90, of Newdale, died peacefully of natural causes Sunday, January 19, 2014 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg. Francis was born January 11, 1924 in Victor, Idaho to James Everett Powell and Susannah Frances Kearsley Powell. He moved to Salem, Idaho at the age of five and attended Sugar City and Rexburg schools. He served in...

Maxine Wilding

Maxine Wilding

Jan 17, 2014

In Loving Memory of Maxine Rooke Wilding whom passed away Friday January 17, 2014 at the age of 79 of natural causes at her residence in Sugar City. She was born April 14, 1934 to Merrill and Elda Clayburn. She loved being out in nature camping, fishing, and spending quality time with her family. She also enjoyed serving in the...

Latrese Grover

Latrese Grover

Jan 14, 2014

LaTrese Crowell Grover, 89, of Sunnydell, Idaho, died peacefully in her sleep at her home on January 14, 2014. She was born November 5, 1924, in Chesterfield, Idaho, to Harrison Crowell and Veda Mae Johnson Crowell. She was the second of four children. LaTrese grew up in the Chresterfield, Bancroft area with beloved family and friends. After graduating from North...

Helen Marie Cureton

Helen Marie Cureton

Jan 11, 2014

Helen Marie Cureton, 84, of Rexburg, passed away of natural causes on, Saturday, January 11, 2014 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg. She was born in Climax Springs Missouri on November 14, 1929 to Marion Francis Thomas and Grace Mae Thomas. On July 29, 1960 she married Robert Cureton. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

James Stephen Skelton

James Stephen Skelton

Jan 9, 2014

James Stephen Skelton, Jr., 91 of Rexburg, died Thursday, January 9, 2014 at his home of causes incident to age. He was born March 8, 1922 in Rexburg, Idaho to James Steven Skelton, Sr. And Eleanor "Ella" Jacobs Skelton. In his youth, he developed a great love of music that began when he took lessons from his mother. This developed...

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