Bill F. Murray
May 24, 2010
Bill Franklin Murray, 82 of Rexburg, died May 24, 2010 in Rexburg. He was born June 20, 1927 at Gibbon, Nebraska. He graduated from the Kearney Nebraska High School at age sixteen and immediately joined the Navy and saw active duty, in World Ward II, at age seventeen. He served on the USS Indiana battleship and he was a 2nd...
Bessie Thompson Sorensen
May 18, 2010
Bessie G. Thompson Sorensen, 93, died May 18, 2010 at the Homestead in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born April 4, 1917 to Godfrey Schwendiman and Medie Zeneta Hughes. Bessie was raised in Newdale. She married W. Irvin Thompson on November 3, 1933 they lived in Menan & Grant then moved to Thornton where they ran Thompsons Service & Oil Co....
Larry Drue Cooper
May 8, 2010
Larry Drue Cooper, 62, of Rexburg, died Saturday, May 8, 2010 at home from natural causes. He was the first child to Cleo R. and Charlene Fikstad Cooper in Rexburg, Idaho. Larry attended schools in Rexburg through 11th grade then completed high school in Las Vegas, Nevada. He married Paula Boyce in Rigby, Idaho. They moved to California where he...
Ashleigh Hodge
May 4, 2010
Ashleigh Nikkohl Hodge tragically left this world May 4, 2010. She is the daughter of Shayna and Calvin Hodge. She was born August 31, 1994 in Helena, Montana. Her family moved to Saint Anthony, Idaho when she was 2 years old and has lived most of her life in Saint Anthony. She attended schools in Saint Anthony and was a...
Reid Parkinson
May 2, 2010
Reid Raymond Parkinson , 87, of Rexburg passed away Sunday, May 2, 2010, at the Homestead Assisted Living Center of natural causes. He was born December 29, 1922 in Rexburg, Idaho the third child of Fred Doney and Yvette Raymond Parkinson. He grew up in the Rexburg area where he graduated from Madison High School. He attended machinist school at...
Barbara Olsen Orser
Apr 28, 2010
Barbara Brown Olsen Orser, 94, died April 28, 2010 at Rexburg, ID. She was born June 15, 1915 in Ogden, Utah, to Grant Canfield Brown and Pearl Cragun. She had one sister, Phyllis Brown Marriott. Her parents died two days apart in the 1919 flu pandemic. Barbara and Phyllis were raised by their grandmother and an aunt, Clara Brown. She...
Sid Sakota
Apr 26, 2010
Sidney J Sakota an amazing, Son, Husband, Father, Grandpa, Brother, Uncle, Cousin, andFriend, died April 26, 2010 at his home surrounded by his wife, family and friends after a valiant fight with cancer. He was under the care of Hospice, Dr. Dane Dickson and Dr. Martha Glen and Debbie Allen. Sid was born to John Shigezo Sakota and Mable Shizuka...
John Ted Garner
Apr 25, 2010
John Ted Garner passed peacefully from this life following complications from Parkinson's disease, having been surrounded with family who expressed their love and gratefulness to have been blessed with goodly parents, to be reunited with loved ones that have gone before. He was born on October 2, 1925 in Rexburg, Idaho to George Albert and Myrtle Simmons Garner, the 4th...
Eric Todd Weston
Apr 24, 2010
Eric Todd Weston, 35, of Rexburg, died Saturday, April 24, 2010 at his home of natural causes. He was born October 24, 1974 the eldest son of Marlin and Nancy Weston. He drew his family back into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after his arrival in their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado thirty-five years ago. He was...
David Janson
Apr 20, 2010
David Clarence Janson David Clarence Janson, 82, of Rexburg, died Tuesday April 20, 2010 at the Homstead Assisted Living Center. He was born April 11, 1928 in Burton, Idaho to David John and Leona Poulsen Janson. He attended school in the Madison School district. He graduated from Ricks College. He served in the United States Navy. He was an active...
Jean Tighe
Apr 15, 2010
Jean Tighe Blanche Jean Tighe, 86 of Ashton, died Thursday, April 15, 2010 at the Ashton Living Center of natural causes. She was born October 26, 1923 in Farnum, Idaho to Joseph Theodore and Blanche Murdoch Reiman. She grew up and lived in the Ashton area most of her life. She graduated in 1942 from Ashton High School. She married...
L. Dale Steiner
Apr 15, 2010
Leland Dale Steiner, 81, of Rexburg passed away at The Homestead Assisted Living Center, only a few blocks from his birthplace, April 15, 2010 after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. Dale was born in Rexburg on July 20, 1928 to John Leland Steiner and Zina LaVern Wynn, who both preceded him in death. He attended Rexburg schools, including Ricks...
Betty Hodgen
Apr 14, 2010
Betty Jane Hodgen, 93 of Rexburg, died April 14, 2010 at her home. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, April 16, 2010 with the family meeting friends at 9:00 a.m. at the Rexburg LDS North Stake Center (314 East 2nd North). Interment will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17th at the Evergreen Memorial Park in...
Leo Smith
Apr 11, 2010
Leo M Smith, 89, of Rexburg died Sunday, April 11, 2010, at Homestead Assisted Living of natural causes. He was born March 27, 1921 in Rexburg, Idaho to Isaac Earl and Emma Arnold Smith. He attended Cedar Point grade school and graduated from Madison High School. He lived in the Lyman area all of his life. He served in the...
Laretta Steel
Apr 3, 2010
Laretta Steel, 69 of Burton, passed away April 3, 2010 in Boise surrounded by family. She was born Feb. 8, 1941 in Rexburg to Wayne William Hansen and Nola Dean Haws of Newdale. She was fourth of six children. She attended school in the Sugar-Salem School District and Ricks College. She married Coleman M Steel in the Idaho Falls LDS...
Dale Shepherd
Apr 2, 2010
Ivan Dale Shepherd, 79 of St. Anthony, died April 2, 2010 in St. Anthony. He was born March 28,1931 at Benjamin, Utah to John Ivan Shaepherd and Aileen Stark Shepherd. They lived at Benjamin and later moved to Payson, Utah. Where he grew up.He attended grande shcool in Paysona nd graduated from Payson High School. He attended Snow College and...
Julia Widdison
Apr 1, 2010
Julia Faye Anderson Widdison Julia Faye Anderson Widdison, 86, of Rexburg, died Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Rigby, Idaho. She was born to Emery Milton Anderson and Julia Jane Wilcox on September 15, 1923 in Rexburg, Idaho. She attended schools in the Rexburg area. She married Lorin F. Widdison on June 25, 1946 in the Idaho Falls LDS temple. She...
Ryan Parker
Mar 30, 2010
Ryan Elliot Parker, age 35, of Monteview, ID, passed away Tuesday, March 30, 2010. He was born in Rexburg to Don and Pat Parker on September 24, 1974. His family lived in Longmont and Grand Junction, CO, before returning to Rexburg. He graduated from Madison High School. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
Joyce Simmons
Mar 23, 2010
Joyce Siddoway Simmons, 79 of Teton, ID died peacefully at her home, Tuesday, March 23, 2010. She was born September 24, 1930 in Teton City, ID to Francis Robert and Ada Belle Walker Siddoway. She attended schools in Teton and St. Anthony where she graduated from High School. She also attended Utah State University in Logan, UT and graduated as...
Florence Forbush
Mar 21, 2010
Florence Nightingale Kirby Forbush passed away peacefully at the age of 90 on March 21, 2010 in Rexburg, Idaho. She was surrounded by her family. Florence was the ninth and last child born to John Henderson Kirby and Agnes Johnston in Blackfoot on Oct. 20, 1919. Florence's father passed away 5 weeks prior to her birth. She was a devoted...
