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Russel Robert Beebe
Jun 28, 2011
Bob Beebe Russel Robert Beebe, 83 of Rexburg, died Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at his home of natural causes. He was born November 27, 1927 in Blackfoot, Idaho to Harry Phillip and Hazel Melissa Bronson Beebe. He spent his earliest years in Sterling Idaho, ridding horses on his grandfather's ranch. When he was eight the family moved to Swan Valley...
Wilbert Rogers Atwood
Jun 27, 2011
Wilbert Rogers Atwood, 95, of Sugar City, died Monday, June 27, 2011 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg, of causes incident to age. He was born November 19, 1915, in Spanish fork, UT, to Wilbert Atwood and Blanche Agnes Rogers. He attended schools in Pingree and Thomas. However, the depression caused the Thomas School District to shut down for financial...
Grant X. Moedl
Jun 26, 2011
Grant Moedl found June 26,2011: Grant was a gentle, kind, understated man with a great love of family, friends and the outdoors. Grant was an accomplished climber and skilled outdoorsman. He possessed a passionate love for the mountains of Idaho, especially the Teton Range. He climbed the Grand Teton 38 times during his lifetime, plus one near-fatal ascent on a...
Aldean Smith
Jun 18, 2011
Aldean Smith, 85, of Rexburg, died Saturday, June 18, 2011 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg of natural causes. She was born March 10, 1926 in Lyman, Idaho to Isaac Earl and Emma Arnold Smith. She was the seventh of seven children. She attended Cedar Point Grade School in Lyman and graduated from Madison High School. She attended business college...
Bessy Bartholomew. Howard
Jun 10, 2011
Bessy Bartholomew Howard, 84 of Rexburg, passed away peacefully June 10, 2011 surrounded by her loving family. She was born June 6, 1927, with her twin sister and best friend, Betty, in Fayette, Sanpete County, Utah, to Ray C. Bartholomew and Martha L. Wintsch Bartholomew. She graduated from Gunnison High School and earned her Education Degree at Brigham Young University....
Theda Neville
Jun 6, 2011
Theda Fern Neville Theda Fern Neville, 86, of Rexburg died Monday, June 6, 2011 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg. She was born January 18, 1925 in Rexburg to Charles and Fern Spaulding Cook. She was raised and attended school in Rexburg. She graduated from Madison High School in 1943. She married Darrell Neville on June 2, 1943 in the...
Lyle Jones
Jun 6, 2011
Sidney Lyle Jones, 77, died Monday, June 6, 2011 at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born April 12, 1934 to Ben and Fern McCord Jones in Shelby, MT. When Lyle was three, his father passed away and the family moved to Nebraska and later to Ashton, Idaho. When he was 17 his Mother married Emerson Hill Wilcox....
Patricia Sorenson
Jun 4, 2011
Patricia Lou Bagley Sorenson , 69, of St. Anthony, Idaho passed away in her home on June 4, 2011 following a long and courageous battle with Parkinson's Disease. Patricia was born October 31, 1941 in Montpelier Idaho to Cleone and Lewis Ward Bagley. She graduated from Montpelier High School as Valedictorian and Graduated from Utah State University with High Honors...
John A. Butts
Jun 3, 2011
John A. Butts, 67, of St. Anthony, died June 3, 2011 at Madison Memorial Hospital from congestive heart failure. Johnny was born May 20, 1944 in Rexburg to Alma "Tink" Butts and Valeria Harries Butts. He grew up in Teton and graduated from South Fremont High School where he was an avid football player. He joined the Air Force in...
Dale Rice Kunz
Jun 2, 2011
Dale Rice Kunz, 87, of Rexburg, died peacefully at his home on June 2, 2011. He was born Jun 9,1923 in Bates, Idaho to James H. and Arleigh Drake Kunz. He was raised in Victor, Idaho. Dale married Betty Cooper on September 3,1944 in Benton, Arkansas. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple in 1955. They lived in...
Sylvia Pearson Carter
May 26, 2011
Sylvia Pearson Carter, 99, passed away May 26, 2011 at the Fair Winds Retirement Center in Idaho Falls from natural causes. Sylvia was born April 27,1912 at Burton, Idaho to Annie McCulloch and Otto Pearson, she being the fourth of six children. Sylvia spent her childhood living in Rexburg, where she attended grade school and Madison High school. In the...
Mark Olson Gehmlich
May 24, 2011
Mark Olson Gehmlich, 70, of Rexburg, died peacefully Tuesday, May 24, after a battle with cancer, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born May 2, 1941, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada to Fritz Rudolph and Edna Olson Gehmlich. He was raised and attended school in Picture Butte, Canada. He attended Ricks College, University of Utah, Brigham Young University, and...
Earl Lee Beck
May 22, 2011
Earl Lee Beck, 83, of Sunnydell, died May 22, 2011 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center of kidney failure. Earl was born November 25,1927 in Labelle, Idaho to Clarence Lee Beck and Elsie Pauline Miller. When Earl was three years old, his family moved to the Archer-Sunnydell area where he lived, farmed, raised his family and retired. Earl served in...
John Alan Henderson
May 21, 2011
John Alan "Taz" Henderson, 62 of Rexburg, passed away peacefully Saturday, May 21, 2011 at his home surrounded by his family. John was born November 19, 1948 in Rexburg, Idaho to Noal "Red" and Verna Smith Henderson. He grew up in Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School in 1967. He served in the US Navy (Seabees Construction Division) for...
Nona Orgill Stoddard
May 21, 2011
Nona Orgill Stoddard, 83 of Egin Bench, Idaho passed away May 21, 2011 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center of heart failure. She was born August 14, 1927 in Deweyville, Utah to Lester and Percis Tippits Burbank. In 1931 the family moved to Wilford, Idaho where Nona attended school from 1st through 8th grade. She then attended school at Sugar...
Reva Barnhill
May 17, 2011
Reva Fern Barnhill, 99, of Sugar City, died May 17, 2011 at Madison Memorial Hospital of natural causes. She was born February 18, 1912, in Sharon, Wisconsin the first of five children born to Elmer and Mary Ripley Groskinsky. She graduated from Chanute High School in Kansas as valedictorian and later moved to Chicago and attended Northwestern Business College. She...
Carolyn Roberts
May 12, 2011
Carolyn Roberts Carolyn Roberts, 69, of Rexburg died Thursday, May 12, 2011 at her home. She was born March 26, 1942 in San Francisco, California to Therma and John Roberts. She grew up in San Francisco California and then worked and lived in Rexburg, Idaho. After high school she attended Brigham Young University where she graduated Cum Laude with a...
Forest Adair Cullum
May 11, 2011
Forest "Bud" Adair Cullum, 83, of Rexburg, died Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at his home of natural causes. He was born May 28, 1927 in Luray, Kansas to Roy and Elizabeth Edna Whiteman Cullum. He attended school in Kansas and California, and graduated Torrance High School. He attended San Diego Jr.College sponsored by Convair. He served in the US Navy...
Zulema Robles
May 4, 2011
At the age of 77, on the beautiful morning of May 4, 2011, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, Zulema Andaverde Robles, passed away in her home surrounded by her loving husband and family. She was born on December 2, 1933 at San Benito, Texas to Andres and Maria Andaverde, the oldest of ten children. At the tender age of 16...
Ruth Alice Hinckley
May 4, 2011
Ruth Alice Chambers Hinckley, 77, of Rexburg, passed away May 4, 2011 of natural causes. She was born January 17, 1934 in Independence, Idaho to Joseph Thurman Chambers and Rose Flamm. She attended elementary school in Independence, Idaho and she attended junior high, high school and Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. She married Ted K. Hinckley in the Idaho Falls...
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