Bernice Moon
Sep 30, 2011
Bernice Moon finished her canning her last box of pears on September 30, 2011. Bernice Louise O'Nele Moon was born December 1, 1916 in Grand Island, Nebraska a daughter of Walter E. and Anna Louise Whistler O'Nele. She grew up on a farm outside of Central City, Nebraska and attended school in the Lone Tree District 28 in Central City,...
David Lane Rasmussen
Sep 29, 2011
David Lane Rasmussen, 62, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away during the night Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, at his home from a brain aneurysm. David was born March 31, 1949, in Driggs, Idaho, to E. Hal and LeIsle Greene Rasmussen. David grew up the fifth oldest of 12 siblings born to Hal and LeIsle. From an early beginning, David learned the...
Gwendolyn Gannaway
Sep 25, 2011
Gwendolyn Phyllis Munroe Gannaway, 90, peacefully passed away Sunday, September 25, surrounded by her loving family. She was born April 23, 1921. Gwen joins her loving husband of 66 years, RLee Gannaway. Left to mourn their mother's passing are six children: Eilene Laymance of Kirkland, Washington; Kathryn Mahan (Glen) of Mt. Vernon, Washington; Beverly Douglas (Gary Struthers) of Oak Harbor,...
John Chee
Sep 25, 2011
John C. Chee, 72, formerly of St. Anthony, passed away Sunday, September 25, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona, peacefully in his sleep. John was born on October 30,1938 to Ethel Manygoats and Destheenie Chischilly in Chinle, Arizona. He was an only child. He moved to Idaho in his early years to attend schools and learned farming in eastern Idaho. He learned...
John Porter
Sep 23, 2011
John Child Porter of Rexburg, who served as mayor of Rexburg for 16 years and publisher of The Rexburg Standard Journal newspapers for more than 40 years, died Friday. He was 99 years old and suffered a heart attack at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. He was born May 28, 1912, in Rexburg, a son of Arthur Porter Jr. and...
Dorothy Hutson
Sep 20, 2011
On the peaceful afternoon of September 20, 2011, Dorothy May Hutson beloved wife, mother, and grandmother was reunited with her son, parents and brothers at the age of 74, due to diabetic complications. Dorothy was born in Bowmansville, Pennsylvania on October 30, 1936, to Elmer and Margie Bauman. During her childhood, Dorothy attended an Menonite school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As...
Raymond Hawkes
Sep 14, 2011
Our dear husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend, Raymond Higginbotham Hawkes, 95 of Sugar City, passed peacefully at his home Sept. 14, 2011 of natural causes. He was born Dec 15, 1915 in Farnum, Idaho to Acil Smart and Francis Marion Hawkes. He grew up on the family dry farm near Drummond, Idaho. He is the second of five children....
Jerry Arthur Dixon
Sep 10, 2011
Jerry Arthur Dixon, 75 of Rexburg, died Saturday, September 10, 2011. He was born January 6, 1936 at Sarilda, Idaho to Lester Ervin and Frances Drucillia Wright Dixon. He married Carolyn Kay Mayers on August 31,1963 in Rexburg, Idaho. Jerry attended school to the tenth grade in Fremont County. He lived in West Yellowstone, Montana and Terreton, Idaho then in...
Grant Neilson
Sep 7, 2011
Oscar Grant Neilson, 86 a long time resident of Archer and Rexburg, died Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg. He was born August 14, 1925 in Heman, ID to Carl Albert and Edna Mildred Farley Neilson. He was the fifth of eight children. At the age of four he sustained a serious head injury which affected...
Dennis Lee Tuckett
Sep 2, 2011
Dennis Lee Tuckett, 56, passed away September 2, 2011 at the Easter Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Dennis was born to Wallace Lee and Bernece Illa Ball Tuckett on November 20, 1954 in Rexburg, Idaho. Dennis grew up with three sisters, Judy, Patty and Vicky in the Rexburg area before moving to Monteview with his family. Dennis graduated...
Fredie K. Beard
Sep 2, 2011
Fredrick "Fredie" Kenneth Beard, 83 of Rexburg, died Friday, September 2, 2011 at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rexburg. He was born December 12, 1928 at Sharpsburg, Ohio to Sarah Eppine Hogue and James Vernon Beard. He had seven brothers and four sisters. He married Catherine Nelson October 5, 1989 in Rexburg. Fredie came to Rexburg in 1961...
Roger Allen
Aug 31, 2011
Roger D. Allen, 80, of Monteview, died Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at his home. He was born March 3, 1931 in Le Grand, IA to Lester Eugene and Anna Marion Allen. He attended grade school in Le Grand and graduated from high school in Marshalltown, IA. He served 20 years in the U.S. Navy. During his Naval service he spent...
Rachel Young Wilding
Aug 31, 2011
Rachel Young Wilding, 52, of Lacey, Washington, formerly of Rexburg, died Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, September 6 in Lacey. Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 8, at the Rexburg Cemetery under the direction of Flamm Funeral Home.
Ardell Smellie
Aug 31, 2011
Venna Ardell Campbell Smellie, 88, a lifetime resident of Tetonia, Idaho, died of natural causes Wednesday, August 31, in Idaho Falls at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Jerelyn and Fred Roth. Ardell was born January 1, 1923, in Tetonia, Idaho, to Bryant Campbell and Almedia Fullmer Campbell. She married Robert Kirkham Smellie on May 29, 1941, in Idaho...
Preston Dell Shirley
Aug 30, 2011
Preston Dell Shirley, 76, died of a lingering illness at his Las Vegas home on August 30, 2011. He was the third child of Leslie and Ethllynn Withers Shirley, born May 6, 1935 at their home in Salem, Idaho. He grew up in the Salem area and attended the Sugar Salem schools. He was a member of the Church of...
Lil Parkinson
Aug 24, 2011
Lillian Laurel Isgreen Parkinson, 86, of Logan, Utah died Wednesday, August 24, 2011 of natural causes. She was born June 22, 1925 in Tooele, Utah to John E. and Laurel Lillian Bush Isgreen. She was raised there and graduated from Tooele High School. She married Seth Maughan Parkinson on July 10, 1943 in Tooele. Seth was a coach and so...
Garland S. Zollinger
Aug 24, 2011
Garland S Zollinger, 62, of Burton, Idaho passed away August 24, 2011, at his home from cancer. He was born in Rexburg to Darwin C. Zollinger and Blanche Siepert Zollinger, Oct. 24, 1948. He was one of eight children. Garland was raised in Burton and spent his childhood enjoying the country life. He never got far from home, living and...
Reid Wilding
Aug 23, 2011
Walter Reid Wilding, life time resident of Sugar City, graduated from this mortal life on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at his home. He began this journey on January 13, 1928, in a log house in Moody, Idaho as the 6th of 11 children to Earl and Mahalia Wilding. He attended school at Sugar-Salem. After high school, he served a mission...
Ramona Schwarze
Aug 23, 2011
Saint Anthony native Ramona Hathaway Schwarze, 91, died, Tuesday August 23, 2011, in her home in Eagle, Idaho. Ramona was born on November 19, 1919 in Chester, Idaho to Robert Henry Hathaway and Johannah Fredricka Johnson and was the eleventh of thirteen children. She had a nurturing spirit and spent most of her life helping others while serving as a...
Billings Witbeck
Aug 20, 2011
Billings Witbeck, devoted, brother, husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather died August 20, 2011 at his home outside of Rexburg, ID. Born June 23, 1929 in Roosevelt, Utah to Dee and Margaret Billings Witbeck, Billings was the eighth of eleven children. He grew up in Roosevelt, and at the age of 12 his father died. Billings graduated from high school...
