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Jerry Arthur Dixon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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