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Rulon Blaine Niederer
Feb 24, 2011
Rulon Blaine Niederer 1929-2011. Rulon, 81 of Rexburg, Idaho peacefully passed away February 24, 2011 at home surrounded by loved ones. Rulon was born in Rexburg, ID on October 7, 1929 to parents Rulon Sheppard and Vada Rowena Nielsen Niederer. He attended grade schools in Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School. He served in the Idaho National Guard for...
Robert Orme
Feb 22, 2011
Robert Dean (Bob) Orme, 84, lifetime resident of the St. Anthony, Idaho area, peacefully passed away at home Tuesday morning, February 22, 2011. Bob had been experiencing the effects of advanced age for some time. Bob was born at home on April 28, 1926 in St. Anthony, Idaho. He was the first of three sons born to Edwin Dean and...
Margaret Stanford
Feb 21, 2011
Margaret Cordingley Stanford, 91, died February 21, 2011 at the Ashton Living Center, surrounded by her family. She was the oldest child of George Huggins Cordingley and Arminta Egbert Cordingley, and was born September 11, 1919 in Ora, Idaho. Margaret grew up in Marysville surrounded by a wonderful community of family and friends. She worked for a number of dude...
Leroy Hanson
Feb 19, 2011
LeRoy Hanson, Born in Driggs, Idaho on May 12, 1924, the youngest of Alma and Maries eight children. Raised in the Teton Valley he helped on the family farm, and excelled in music. He was the lead trumpet player in the band and orchestra. Out of high school he began working for the Union Pacific Railroad , where he met...
Millie Arnold
Feb 17, 2011
Mildred (Millie) Violet Chandler Arnold, 87 of Sugar City, died February 17, 2011. Millie was born on August 18, 1923, in Wadena, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was the fifth child of Stephen and Blanche Chandler. She lived in Canada where her father worked on road building crews. When she was twelve the family moved to Plano. Millie married Keith James Arnold...
Candelario Garica, Jr.
Feb 15, 2011
Candelario "Condo" Garcia Jr., 57, of Rexburg, died Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at his home. He was born August 24, 1954 in Pharr, Texas to Juanita Cervantez and Candelario DeLeon Garcia. He worked in the fields with his family throughout the South. They moved to Idaho. He graduated from South Fremont High School. He loved playing football, wrestling, track and...
Deanne Barkdull
Feb 15, 2011
Deanne Barkdull Deanne Graham Barkdull, 61, of Sugar City, died February 15, 2011 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center from acute leukemia. She was born April 5, 1949 at the old Harlo Rigby Hospital. She was the first child born to Dean and Colleen Graham of Moody. The family later moved to Tendoy, Idaho near Salmon. She attended the Tendoy...
Ryan Hill
Feb 12, 2011
Rick Ryan Hill, 35, died February 12, 2011, as a result of an automobile accident near Park City, Utah. Ryan is the oldest son of Rick and Julianne Hill, born June 25, 1975 in St. Anthony, Idaho. Ryan attended South Fremont High School in St. Anthony, Idaho where he participated in sports, excelling at football and baseball. He married his...
Johnathan Hansen
Feb 11, 2011
Johnathan Hansen Johnathan Douglas Hansen, infant son of Kristi and Douglas Hansen of Idaho Falls, died February 11, 2001 shortly after birth at Madison Memorial Hospital. Graveside services will be held at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, February 15, at the Wilford Cemetery under the direction of Flamm Funeral Home.
Ferris Harry Robison
Feb 8, 2011
Ferris Harry Robison, 85, of Hibbard, died February 8, 2011 at his home of natural causes. He was born August 23, 1925 in Rexburg to Charles Brigham and Geneal Alida Rock Robison. Ferris attended Hibbard Elementary and Madison High School. At the age of 17, he joined the US Navy and trained at Farragut Naval Academy during World War II....
Joyce Mackay
Feb 8, 2011
On February 8, 2011, our beautiful, beloved wife and mother, Joyce Parker MacKay, returned to her heavenly home after battling complications caused by leukemia. Joyce was born on October 24, 1932, to H. Raymond and Florence Murdock Parker. She grew up in Parker, Idaho, where she was a delight to her father, a trusted helper to her mother, and a...
Harlo Bert Willmore
Feb 7, 2011
Harlo Bert Willmore, 80, of Idaho Falls, died February 7, 2011, of natural causes at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born August 5, 1930 in Rexburg, Idaho to Ephraim and Viola Rigby Willmore, at a little farming community called Hibbard, located five miles from the present town of Rexburg. He was the second boy and the sixth child...
Jack Wayne Rowe
Feb 4, 2011
Jack Wayne Rowe, 70, of Rexburg, died Friday, February 4, 2011 in Idaho Falls. He was born July 18, 1940 to Mary Eline Anson and Kenneth Rowe in Detroit, Michigan. His family moved to Oregon when he was young, where he attended schools in the Coos Bay area. He married and had two children and later divorced. He served in...
Alain Laurent Budge
Feb 4, 2011
Alain Laurent Budge, 50 of Rexburg, Idaho, died Friday, February 4, 2011 in Nevada from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was born December 9, 1960 in Provo, Utah to Gisele Maryse Julienne Clapier and Rayo Beck Budge. Alain spent most of his life in Southern California until retiring from the LA County Sheriff's Department and moving to Rexburg...
James Richard Bell
Feb 4, 2011
James Richard Bell, 72, of Rexburg died Friday, February 4, 2011 at his home from natural causes. He was born November 5, 1938 in Kalispell, Montana to Dorothy Heck and Harvey Bell. He grew up in Kalispell Montana. He lived in Kalispell, Whitefish and Libby Montana, Lacey and Olympia, Washington, as well as Sugar City, Salem and Rexburg, Idaho. He...
Vawna Kay West
Jan 31, 2011
Beloved Grandma Vawna Kay West, of Rexburg passed away Jan. 31, 2011 peacefully in her home at the age of 67 (though she never claimed a day past 29). She was born April 28, 1943 the daughter of Roy and Verl Hardwick. Vawna was the third child of five children. Vawna loved her childhood in Escalante and Midvale, Utah. She...
Ross Kunz
Jan 22, 2011
Wayne Ross Kunz, 79, passed away Saturday, January 22, 2011. Ross, as he was known by family and friends, was born on December 19, 1931 to Alma Kunz and Mary Grover Kunz in Victor, Idaho. Ross grew up at the famous Alma's Lodge on the Teton River. He became a fishing guide on the river at a young age. He...
Lillian Caroline Robertson
Jan 22, 2011
Lillian Caroline Roos Robertson, age 89 of Rexburg, Idaho, died Saturday, January 22, 2011 in Rexburg. She was born July 4,1921 in Rexburg to John Joseph and Caroline Klingler Roos. She was raised in Rexburg and graduated from the 8th grade. During World War II she worked in the seed houses. She worked at the Rexall Drugstore and at Evans...
Carrie Cottrell Wilkinson
Jan 22, 2011
Carrie Lee Cottrell Wilkinson, 87, died Saturday, January 22, 2011 in Rexburg, ID. She was born September 16, 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri to Charles and Bertha Mentor Harger. She grew up in the Kansas City area and attended Kansas City Community College. She taught business classes at Longview Community College. She married William H. Cottrell, together they raised five...
David James Wood
Jan 20, 2011
David James Wood, 59, died Thursday, January 20, 2011 at his home in Rigby. He was born January 27, 1951 at Pocatello, Idaho to Ferrin James and Laverna Young Wood. At age six, the family moved to Rexburg where David attended local schools and graduated from Madison High School in 1969. He married Kendra Barrand on December 27,1974 in Reno,...
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