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Dean Walters Zollinger

Dean Walters Zollinger

Oct 20, 2011

Dean Walters Zollinger, 89 of Rexburg, died Thursday, October 20, 2011 at his home. He was born November 16,1921 at Rexburg to Charles Joseph Zollinger and Mable Stoddard Walters. He attended Adams and Washington grade schools, Madison High School and Ricks College. He married Glenna I Archibald on February 10, 1942. She died in 1996. He married Larena Palmer Brower...

Glenn Haws

Glenn Haws

Oct 17, 2011

Glenn Mervin Haws, 86 of St. Anthony, died Monday, October 17, 2011 of natural causes. He was born April 30, 1925 in Rexburg, Idaho, as son of Marion VerNon and Ehtel Spaulding Haws. He grew up in Twin Groves where he attended school through the 8th grade. He quit school to work on the family farm. He joined the Army...

Robert Scott Williams

Robert Scott Williams

Oct 17, 2011

Robert Scott Williams, 50 formerly of North Carolina, died October 17, 2011 in Rexburg, Idaho of a heart attack. He was born June 9,1961 in Montabeloo, California to William Scott Williams and Katherine Marie Nightingale. He attended Roanoke High School in North Carolina. He married Lynda Ann Williamson June 3, 1993. Robert was a carpenter in general construction. He enjoyed...

Coleman M Steel

Coleman M Steel

Oct 17, 2011

Coleman M. Steel, 72, of Burton passed away October 17, 2011, in Ashton surrounded by family. He was born July 13, 1939, in Plano, Idaho, to Moroni Job Steel and Beulah Ursula Coleman. He was third of five children. He attended school in the Sugar-Salem School District and Ricks College. He married Laretta Hansen in the Idaho Falls LDS temple...

Pauline Jardine

Pauline Jardine

Oct 16, 2011

Pauline Jardine has gone home. Her funeral will be Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in the Sixteenth Ward Chapel at 612 South Hidden Valley Road. She passed from this life October 16 surrounded by her loved ones. Now she is withy her dear husband Fred again. Pauline is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Sandee Harding

Sandee Harding

Oct 14, 2011

Sandee Harding Sandra Lynn Harding, 64 of St. Anthony passed away Friday, October 14, 2011 at home, unexpectedly but of natural causes. She was born May 14, 1947 in Rexburg, Idaho a daughter of Frank Ray and Ruby Barney Singleton. She was a very loving mother of her sons Destry and Kordell Wolbert and Cody and Travis Dittmer. She has...

Mary Lou Bell

Mary Lou Bell

Oct 14, 2011

Mary Lou Bell Mary Lou Bell, 75, passed away peacefully in the Rexburg Care and Rehabilitation Center with her husband at her side, on Friday, October 14, 2011. Mary Lou was born March 1, 1936 in Rexburg, Idaho to Wain and Bertie Garner Davis. She was the second of three children. They were a loving and happy LDS family. Mary...

Ronald Kinghorn

Ronald Kinghorn

Oct 13, 2011

Ronald J Kinghorn, 95, of Sugar City, passed away peacefully October 13, 2011, at Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg, from natural causes incident to age. Ron was born September 15, 1916, in Lewisville, Idaho to Ray and Myrtle Jensen Kinghorn. He grew up on a farm in Bybee and attended schools in Lewisville. His father was killed in an...

Tracy Blair Hall

Tracy Blair Hall

Oct 11, 2011

Tracy Blair Hall, 47 of Rexburg, died Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at Medicine Lodge, Idaho. He was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1963 in Rexburg, Idaho to Blaine and Sharon Daniel Hall. He attended Burton elementary school, Madison Jr. High and Madison High School and Eastern Idaho Technical College, earning a degree in diesel mechanics. Tracy farmed with his...

Irene Asenath Park

Irene Asenath Park

Oct 8, 2011

Irene Asenath Robertson Park was born October 16,1924, in Plano, Idaho to Orville Joseph and Sarah Hendricks Robertson. She passed away at her home on October 8,2011. She attended Edmunds Grade School and Edmunds High School. She married Wilbur Lewis Park on January 19, 1942 in Dillon, Montana. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple on...

Merlin Grant Liljenquist

Merlin Grant Liljenquist

Oct 6, 2011

Merlin Grant Liljenquist, 89, passed away peacefully on October 6, 2011. Merlin was born to George Edwin and Nellie Marguerite Johnson Liljenquist on December 23, 1921 in Rexburg. He attended local schools and enjoyed tending the family cows and exploring, hiking and fishing in his youth. He graduated from Madison High School and delivered telegrams for the Western Union telegraph...

Lyle Spencer Briggs

Lyle Spencer Briggs

Oct 4, 2011

Lyle Spencer Briggs was born in Archer, Idaho January 31,1936 to Leah Margaret Hansen and Raymond George Briggs. He passed away at EIRMC in Idaho Falls on Tuesday October 4, 2011. Lyle graduated from Madison High School in Rexburg and received his mechanical engineering degree Cal Poly-Pomona. Lyle was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and...

Donna Louise Mayes

Donna Louise Mayes

Sep 30, 2011

Donna Louise Mayes passed away peacefully at her home in Rexburg, Idaho on Friday, September 30, 2011. She was 86. "Donie" as her family called her was born in Waco, Texas on May 12, 1925 to Winfred Olive Horan and Emma Valentine Nichols, the first of seven children. Their home was a busy one and Donie had chores at an...

Bernice Moon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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