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...
Del Var Petersen
Aug 19, 2011
Hyrum Del Var Petersen, 77, of Bryan, Texas passed peacefully away on Aug. 19, 2011, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was the third of four boys born to H. Lester and Mary LuSeba Petersen on July 25, 1934, in Idaho Falls. He grew up in Rexburg, where he worked on the family farm. He enjoyed participating...
Marilyn Lehmann
Aug 19, 2011
Marilyn Ruth Lehmann, 81 of St. Anthony, passed away Friday, August 19, 2011 in Idaho Falls. She was born December 17, 1929 in Los Angeles, California, a daughter of Carlton Anold and Estella Ruth Miller Miksch. She raised in California and it was in Glendale, California that she married Richard G. Lehmann III on October 27, 1957. Their marriage was...
Blaine R. Hall
Aug 10, 2011
Blaine R. Hall, 70, of Rexburg, passed away Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born May 3, 1941 to Lamont and Ruth Saurey Hall in Rexburg, Idaho. Growing up he attended Burton Elementary, Madison Jr. High, Madison High School and one semester at Ricks College. He married Sharon Daniel June 1, 1960 in Rexburg, Idaho. He...
Konie Pipes
Aug 8, 2011
Konie Pipes Our beloved daughter, sister, aunt, and friend, Konie Sue Gardner Pipes, passed away Monday, August 8, 2011 in Idaho Falls, ID. Konie was born to John Anthony Gardner and Crystal Dean Josephson Gardner, on October 15, 1955, in St. Anthony, ID. She attended local elementary schools and graduated from South Fremont High School in 1974. While in High...
Gary Royce Seamons
Aug 7, 2011
Gary Royce Seamons of Rexburg, Idaho passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, August 7, 2011. He was living in the Rexburg Care and Rehabilitation Center, where he had been leaving this life little by little, day by day, for the last seven years through his decline with Alzheimer's Disease. Born November 30, 1936 in Logan, Utah, Gary was the fourth...
Merle Cleon Parkinson
Aug 6, 2011
Merle Cleon Parkinson, 86, passed peacefully on August 6, 2011 in Rexburg at the Homestead Assisted Living Center surrounded by loved ones. He was born in Plano on February 21,1925 to Clarence Cleon Parkinson and Charlotte LaVera Weatherston. He graduated from Edmunds high School in 1943, playing on the basketball team all four years. He continued to enjoy sports all...
Byron Ward
Aug 6, 2011
Byron Charles Ward, 84 died Saturday, August 6, 2011 in Rexburg, Idaho. He was born October 22, 1926 to Charles Clements and Gertrude Stallings Ward. Siblings are: Lila (Joe) Covington; LuDene (Clyde) Lowdy; Glen Ward; Yvonne (Sylvan) Taggart; Wayne (Sandy) Ward; Veda (Bud) Leavitt; Beth Pocock (Wade) Shirley. He married Norma Siddoway on June 4, 1948; sealed in the Idaho...
John Freeman
Aug 3, 2011
John Henry Freeman, 93, of Rexburg, passed away peacefully on August 3, 2011, at his home surrounded by loved ones. He was born January 12, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois to Edward David and Nellie Mae Freeman. He graduated from York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois and attended two years of college. He was enlisted in the United States Army as...
Geneva Nell Sanders
Jul 31, 2011
Geneva Nell Brown Sanders, 93, of Rexburg, died Sunday, July 31, 2011, at her daughter's home of natural causes. She was born December 10, 1917 in Plano, Idaho to Sidney Earl and Rachel Rebecca Lucas Brown. She attended school in Camas and Hamer and graduated from Idaho Falls High School. She married David Ray Sanders on October 1, 1936, in...
Merlin J. Keele
Jul 29, 2011
Merlin J. Keele, 79, resident of St. George, Utah , formerly of Rexburg, Idaho died Friday, July 29, 2011, after a battle with cancer at his summer home in Palisades, Idaho. He was born August 30,1932, in Independence, Idaho, to Henry Jefferson Keele and Ida Margaret Hansen Keele. He was raised and attended school in Independence and Rexburg. He married...
Marie Siepert
Jul 26, 2011
Maida Marie Siepert, 83, of Rexburg, died Tuesday July 26, 2011 at home. She was born September 25, 1927 in Shelley, Idaho to Axel and Lena Anderson. She attended school in Roberts and one year in Idaho Falls. After high school she attended Ricks College. She married Terrell Siepert on May 16, 1948, they made their home in Rexburg. She...
Darrell Billy Ard
Jul 25, 2011
Darrell Billy Ard, 97, a long time resident of Teton and Madison Counties died Monday July 25, 2011. He was born October 11, 1913 in Elsmore Kansas to J.D. and Lily Ard. He moved to Idaho at the age of 4 and farmed in Clementsville for over 70 years. He married Olive Irene Umphrey in 1936 they had a son...
Bert Junior Adair
Jul 23, 2011
Bert Junior Adair, 85, beloved husband, father, son, brother and friend, slipped away from us peacefully early Saturday morning, July 23, 2011 while living in the Rexburg Care and Rehabilitation Center. Bert has been leaving us little by little, day by day for the last eight years through his decline with Alzheimers. Born July 31, 1925 in San Bernardino, California...
