Merlin Wallace Bird
Sep 6, 2013
Merlin Wallace Bird, 83, of Rexburg died Friday, September 6, 2013 at his home from nature causes. He was born September 15, 1929 in Teton City, Idaho to Hilda Emily Peterson and Wallace Bird. He grew up in Teton. The first school Merlin went to was the old Teton Rock School. School was held in the old seed house too....
Renee Katherine Wood
Aug 27, 2013
Renee Katherine Huether Wood, 40, of Newdale passed away Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at her home. Her passing was sudden and unexpected. She was born June 3, 1973 to Ewald and Rox Anna Huether in Phillip, South Dakota. She attended schools in Douglas, Wyoming. She attended the University of Wyoming, while there she met Heath Wood. They were married on...
Alan Blair Withers
Aug 27, 2013
Alan Blair Withers of Mud Lake, Idaho passed away Tuesday, August 27th at the age of 57 from complications due to cancer. He was born July 3, 1956 in Rexburg, Idaho to Blair and Vesta Withers. Alan grew up in Rexburg on his family's dairy farm, which he fully took over after his father retired. He attended grade school in...
Mary Gayl Cox
Aug 21, 2013
Mary Gayl Cox, 50, of Rexburg, died Tuesday, August 20, 2013 at Madison Memorial Hospital. She was born December 19, 1962 to Larry and Phylis Talley of Mexico, Missouri. She was raised in Rush Hill Missouri and graduated form Mexico High School in 1979. Her son Tye was born in 1987 in Missouri. She married Mark Cox and moved to...
Devin Singleton
Aug 19, 2013
Devin Eric Singleton died Aug 19, 2013 in a one vehicle accident near Dubois, Idaho. He was born July 24, 1984 to V. Britt Singleton and J. Laree Singleton, of Salem, in Rexburg. He grew up living in Salem and attending schools at Sugar-Salem graduating in 2002. After graduation he worked at Ray's Car Wash earning money to serve a...
Gene Kennedy
Aug 15, 2013
Gene Allen Kennedy, 64 of St. Anthony, died Thursday, August 15, 2013 at his home. He was born January 12, 1949 in Boise, ID to Francis Harry and Edith Byars Kennedy. He was raised in Island Park and wilford. He attended school in Fremont county and graduated from South Fremont High School in 1967. He served his country in the...
Diane Wolfe
Aug 7, 2013
Elizabeth Diane Wolfe of Rexburg, Idaho, suddenly, yet peacefully passed from this life in her home Wednesday afternoon August 7, 2013. Diane was born in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 1954. She spent a few early years in New Orleans while her father completed his internship as a physician and then onto Sherman Oaks California and later Paradise, California where...
Joyce Furness Luke
Jul 23, 2013
Joyce Furness Luke, 91, passed away on July 23, 2013 at her home in Sugar City, Idaho. Joyce was born in Sugar City on April 9, 1922 to Tobias Furness and Lucy Ricks Furness. She attended school in Sugar City and graduated from Sugar-Salem High School, where she participated in orchestra, choir, pep band and pep club. Joyce attended Ricks...
Donna Camphouse
Jul 20, 2013
On Saturday, July 20, 2013 Donna Dee Camphouse of Rexburg passed from this life. She escaped the shell that had held her prisoner for so long. Donna received excellent care from Solace-Hospice and the Gardens of Rigby Assisted-Living. Donna was born at Teton, ID, the oldest child of Harold Monroe Fritch and Mattie Rae Clark. In her early life her...
Irja Maj-Lis Ogata
Jul 18, 2013
Our beloved wife, mother and grandmother, Irja Maj-Lis Malila Ogata, 79, passed away peacefully at The Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg on July 18, 2013. She was born June 17, 1934, in Helsinki, Finland, to Ragnar Wilhelm and Lempi Sanelma Simon-Aho Malila. Irja's early life was shaped by the Second World War in Helsinki, running to bomb shelters and missing...
Trent L. Thompson
Jul 11, 2013
Trent L. Thompson, age 44, of Rexburg, died July 11, 2013 at home following a brief illness of esophageal cancer. He submitted to his challenge like an obedient child and fought like a brave and valiant warrior. He is now running like the wind and not looking back. Trent was born Dec. 22, 1968 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to R....
Nancy Lee Jones
Jul 11, 2013
Nancy Lee Jones, 66, of Hibbard, passed away July 10, 2013. She was born January 30, 1947, in Rexburg, to Miles Robert and Helen Marie Christopherson Jones. She attended school in Madison County and graduated from Madison High School. She also attended an airline stewardess school in Florida and Henniger's Business College in Ogden. Her employment included working at a...
Donna Abegglen
Jul 9, 2013
Donna Willyne Abegglen, 82 of Wilford, died Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born April 26, 1931 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Francis R and Venla Cooper Wright. She attended school in Madison County and graduated from Madison High School. She met and married Gene Abegglen and raised 8 wonderful children. She was a...
Katherine Bell Duffin
Jun 26, 2013
Katherine Bell Duffin passed away June 26, 2013 at her daughter's home in Rexburg from renal failure. She was born November 21, 1942 the third child to Lewis Glen Kington and Myrtle Mae Gravely in Dillon Montana. She attended schools in Dillon, Helena, graduated high school from Glendive, a year at BYU-Hawaii and in 1975 received her teaching degree from...
Maxine White
Jun 26, 2013
Maxine Liebert White, 87 of Egin, died Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at Madison Memorial Hospital of causes' incident to age. She was born July 23, 1925 in Egin, Idaho to William Edward and Clara Rhodehouse Liebert. Later she was joined by two brothers, Ralph and Henry. Maxine spent her childhood on the family farm, attending schools in Egin, Sugar City...
Bobby Mcrae
Jun 18, 2013
Glen Robert "Bobby" McRae, Jr., 23, of Rexburg, died Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in Salmon, Idaho from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born March 2, 1990, in Rexburg, Idaho to Glen Robert and LaNita Peterson McRae. He attended elementary school in Burton and graduated from Madison High School in 2008. He was engaged to Michelle Versluys and...
Zoe Austin
Jun 18, 2013
Zoe Ladean Shuey Austin, 86, of Idaho Falls, died June 18, 2013 while residing at the Monticello Assisted Living Center. She was born February 24, 1927, in Gresham, Oregon to Bert Roy and Lila Diona Shuey, and was greeted by an older brother and sister. During her youth her family moved several times and finally settled in Flathead Lake, Montana...
Lois Grover
Jun 18, 2013
Lois Grover, 86, devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in Gresham, Oregon from natural causes. She had been visiting her daughter, Beverly. Lois Mabel Walker was born on 9 May 1927, the first child born to Ray Willis Walker and Mabel Ovard Walker. Lois grew up helping her father on the farm and had a...
Dean Richard Sorensen
Jun 16, 2013
Dean Richard Sorensen, devoted husband, father and grandfather, passed away at home on June 16, 2013. He fought cancer with courage, dignity and his trademark sense of humor. Dean was born on May 24, 1938 in Malad, Idaho, the fourth of six children born to Joseph Elver Sorensen and LeeEtta Jean Dustin. He graduated from Pocatello High School, served in...
Blanche Kirkham
Jun 11, 2013
Blanche Marie Grover Kirkham, 88, of Sunnydale passed away peacefully at her daughter's home in Rexburg, Idaho, on June 11, 2013. She was born on March 5, 1925 and was the fourth child of John Orr Grover and Elnorah Ann Homer of Archer. She attended school in Archer and graduated from Madison High School. She married Cleo (Chip) Kirkham on...
