Grace Agnes Wood
May 3, 2011
Grace Agnes Sorensen Wood, 91, of Salem, died Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at home. She was born January 11, 1920 in Sugar City, Idaho to Verna Mae and Edward Sorensen. She attended Teton Elementary and graduated from a private school in Pocatello. During her life she lived in Teton, Rexburg, Idaho Falls, Alpine Wyoming and would spend the winters in...
Ross Beck Hinckley
May 2, 2011
Ross Beck Hinckley, 76, of Burton, passed away May 2, 2011, at his home of natural causes. He was born July 24, 1934, in Rexburg, the son of Carl Alonzo and Minnie Beck Hinckley. He was the third child and first son. He lived in the Rexburg and Burton areas all of his life. He attended Washington and Burton elementary...
Joel Mortensen
May 2, 2011
James Joel Mortensen, 74 of Rexburg, died May 2, 2011 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born March 26, 1937 at Lyman, Idaho, to James Max Mortensen and Zelda Viola Robison Mortensen. He attended North Salem School and graduated from Sugar-Salem High School. He went on to attend Ricks College on a two year football scholarship. He married Nancy Gee...
Ned Smith Brown
Apr 29, 2011
Ned Smith Brown, 88, of Plano, died Friday, April 29, 2011 at Homestead Assisted Living of natural causes. He was born July 27, 1922 in Hamer, Idaho to LeRoy Patton and Hazel Eugene Smith Brown. He attended school in Plano and graduated from Edmunds High School. While in high school he participated in boxing, basketball and baseball. He served in...
Beulah Phillips
Apr 27, 2011
Beulah Marie Kirkendall Phillips , 81, of Rexburg, died Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center of natural causes. She was born on April 2, 1930 to Elmer and Iva Kirkendall in the small town of Ruleton, Kansas. She was married for 61 years to Richard Phillips of Rexburg Idaho. She was an active member of the...
Sharon Rowberry
Apr 27, 2011
Sharon Hilton Garner Rowberry, 76, of Rexburg, passed away Wednesday April 27, 2011, at The Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg, Idaho of causes incident to age and a previous stroke. Sharon was born December 26, 1934 in Salem, Idaho, to Glen Hugh Hilton and Belva Hunziker Hilton. As a child, she attended grade schools in many places as her...
Ruby Lorraine Young
Apr 25, 2011
Ruby Young Ruby Lorraine White Young, 83, of Plano, died Monday, April 25, 2011 at her home. She was born August 10, 1927 in Plano, Idaho, to John Thomas and Rada Hunter White. She attended school in Plano and graduated from Edmunds High School. She has lived in Plano her whole life. She was a wonderful homemaker and mother. She...
Cody Simmons
Apr 19, 2011
Cody J. Simmons Cody Jaques Simmons, 17, of Rexburg, died Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Cody was born July 1, 1993, in Rexburg, a son of Lyle M. and Diane G. Bean Simmons. Cody was currently in his Senior year at Madison High School, was in the Honor Society with a 3.88 GPA, and participated in Seminary activities. He was recently...
Lenore Passey
Apr 14, 2011
Marie Lenore Craven Passey Marie Lenore Craven Passey, 92, of Rexburg, died Thursday, April 14, 2011 at the Homestead in Rexburg. She was born January 28, 1919 in Eureka, Utah, to Percy and Anna Marie Craven. After high school she graduated from Ricks College and Brigham Young University. Following college she worked for Bennett Glass Co. in Salt Lake City....
Verla Freeman
Apr 14, 2011
Verla Benson Freeman, 86, of Rexburg, died Thursday, April 14, 2011in Rexburg. She was born April 30, 1924 in Farnum, Idaho, to Harry and Anna Benson. She attended Farnum Elementary and graduated from Madison High School. She lived in Washington and California during World War II years and worked as a "Rosie the Riveter" while exchanging letters with her future...
Earl Klingler
Apr 13, 2011
Lee Earl Klingler, 87, of Sugar City, passed away April 13, 2011 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg. He was born May 16, 1923 in Rigby, Idaho to Godfrey and Mable Lee Klingler. He attended grade school in Plano and high school at Edmunds High School. He entered the US Army on November 9, 1943 at Fort Douglas, Utah. He...
Merrell Watts
Apr 12, 2011
Merrell Watts died on April 12 at the age of 77 after a long battle with cancer. Merrell was born on December 6, 1933 in Rexburg, Idaho, to Leo Watts and Florence Stoddard. After graduating from Madison High School with honors, Merrell served in the U.S. Army. He had a top secret clearance and served a tour of duty in...
Fawn Willmore
Apr 12, 2011
Fawn H. Willmore,94, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, formerly of Rexburg, died April12, 2011 at her daughter's home in Highland, Utah. She was born September 5, 1916 in Hibbard, Idaho to Josiah Hendricks and Mary Ann Felt Hendricks. She was the youngest of 12 children. She spent her life in Hibbard before marriage. She met James Leslie Willmore at church and...
Thomas Kershaw
Apr 8, 2011
Thomas Davis Kershaw, 83 of Sugar City, died Friday, April 8, 2011 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born November 14,1927 in Preston, Idaho to Samuel Arthur Kershaw and Grace Luverne Beckstead Kershaw. He married Julia Eileen Squires on August 11, 1948 in the Idaho Falls LDS temple. He attended school in Preston, graduated from Preston High School and served...
Valayne Weeks
Apr 5, 2011
VaLayne Weeks, 57, of Rexburg, passed into our Father's loving arms on April 5th, 2011 at Madison Memorial Hospital. She was born June 2, 1953 in Pocatello, Idaho, to Don and Elaine Mangum. A beloved wife, mother of 11, grammie of 23, sister, daughter and friend. She was a "groupie" and loved spending time with everyone in her large family!...
Loren Bingham
Apr 3, 2011
Loren Bingham, 58, of Rexburg, died Sunday, April 3, 2011 at his home from natural causes. Loren was born May 29, 1952 to Donald and Almina Bingham in the Seattle, Washington area where he was raised. At the age of 18, he joined the Navy and served in the Vietnam War. Shortly after his time in the military he moved...
Grover Dale Duffin
Apr 2, 2011
Grover Dale Duffin, 78, of Rexburg, returned to his Heavenly Father on Saturday, April 2, 2011 from natural conditions. He was born in Charlo, Montana on November 21, 1932, the seventh of nine children, to Ervan L. And Ireta B. Duffin. Dale served in the Korean Conflict with the US Army and spent twenty more years in the reserve forces,...
Keith W. Tucker
Mar 29, 2011
Keith W. Tucker, 86, a lifelong resident of Teton passed away Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at Rexburg, Idaho. He was born Dec. 9, 1924, the 3rd of 9 children born to Henry R. Tucker and Ruth Siddoway Tucker. Keith attended grade school at Teton and graduated from Madison High School. He attended University of Idaho before being drafted into the...
John Raybould
Mar 28, 2011
John Edward Raybould passed away Monday, March 28, 2011, following a brief illness, in Rexburg, Idaho. Born on July 5, 1941, to Leland E. Raybould and Mary Hunt Raybould in Rexburg, Idaho, John's birth made him the youngest member of the Raybould family. During high school and college, John followed family tradition by working on the family farm. Starting a...
Orrin Bates
Mar 25, 2011
Orrin Raymon Bates of Rexburg, Idaho, age 91, passed away of natural causes in Idaho Falls, Idaho on March 25, 2011, surrounded by his loving family. Orrin was born February 27, 1920 in Chester, Idaho to Ernest George Bates and Mary Ellen Brown. He was the fifth child in a family of 17 children and grew up in Bates, Idaho....
