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Kenneth Papenfuss
Jul 16, 2010
Kenneth Max Papenfuss, 77 of Newdale, died Friday, July 16, 2010 at his home of natural causes. Kenneth was born July 21, 1932, in Brigham City, Utah to Curt and Laverne Papenfuss. He moved with his family to St. Ignatius, Montana in 1934 where he attended local schools. He started college at Montana State University in Missoula until he was...
T. Blair Calaway
Jul 15, 2010
Blair Calaway, 79, area farmer/cattle rancher, passed away peacefully, July 15, 2010 at home surrounded by his loving family. He was born February 27, 1931 in Salem, Idaho to Clyde and Vera Roylance Calaway. Blair attended North Salem Elementary and graduated from Sugar-Salem High School. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He married...
Mathew Andrew Yatsak
Jul 15, 2010
Mathew Andrew Yatsak Mathew Andrew Yatsak, 92, passed away July 15, 2010 at Madison Memorial Hospital, in Rexburg. He was born June 21, 1918 in a small village named Specialville, Illinois which is now known as Dixmoor Illinois. He was the fifth of eleven children born to Mathew S. And Victoria Theresa Yatsak who came to the United States from...
Colleen Denton
Jul 9, 2010
Colleen Parkinson Denton, 64, of Boise, formerly of Rexburg, passed away from this life on Friday, July 9. She was born December 25, 1945 in Rexburg, Idaho to Edward H. and Grace Lavina Larsen Parkinson. She was raised in Rexburg and attended Madison High School. She married James Robert Denton on July 26, 1962 and they had three children. She...
Lloyd "Lucky" Thomas
Jul 8, 2010
Graveside services will be held Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. in the Sugar City Cemetery with military rites by the Madison County veterans team.
Isaiah Quinlan
Jul 5, 2010
Isaiah Wilford Quinlan, 26, currently of Rexburg, died Monday, July 5th at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born March 21, 1984, in Orem Utah to Grant Wade Quinlan and Julie Ann Baker. Upon his father's graduation, the family moved to Silicon Valley. He attended Millikin and Noddin Elementary Dartmouth Jr. High and Leigh High School in Santa Clara...
Hazel Willmore
Jul 3, 2010
Hazel Sommer Willmore, age 92, formerly of Rexburg, Idaho, passed peacefully from this life on Saturday evening, July 3, 2010 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Hazel was born on December 17th, 1917, to Edward and Alice Hendricks Sommer at their home in Hibbard, Idaho, near Rexburg, Idaho. She was the fourth of eight children born...
Keith "Kim" Saurey
Jul 1, 2010
Keith "Kim" Saurey Keith T. "Kim" Saurey, 54, of Chester, died Friday, July 2, 2010, at his home of natural causes. He was born May 12, 1956 in Rexburg, Idaho to Keith Charles and Margaret Treva Machen Saurey. He attended South Fremont High School. He married Tauna Wilding on August 16, 1974, in Teton, Idaho. He was a member of...
Viola Erickson
Jul 1, 2010
Ester Viola Rawls Erickson, 94, of Archer, died July 1, 2010 at Homestead Assisted Living in St. Anthony. She was born in Temple, Texas on Sept. 28, 1915 to Dencie Bennett Rawls and Alice Winnifred Rawls. The second of eight children, she spent most of her childhood in east Texas and west Louisiana picking cotton in the fields. The hard...
Beverly Maxwell Luke
Jun 29, 2010
Beverly Maxwell Luke, 82, of Rexburg, passed away June 29, 2010 at EIRMC from a stroke. Beverly was born September 22, 1927 to Bill and Winnie Maxwell in Rexburg, Idaho, the second of three girls. She grew up in El Paso, Texas, Tucson and Prescott, Arizona, attending schools there. In high school she was an avid tennis player. Her dad...
Reba Bauer
Jun 28, 2010
Reba Farrimond Bauer, 81 of Wilford, died Monday, June 28, 2010 at her home. She was born January 5, 1929 in Twin Groves, Idaho the 7th child of John William and Millie Baker Farrimond, in a family of 8 children. She graduated from St. Anthony High School in May of 1947. In 1984 she attended one semester at Ricks College,...
Gordon Lyle Shirley
Jun 26, 2010
Gordon Lyle Shirley, age 90, died Saturday, June 26, 2010, at his home in Rexburg after a brief struggle with cancer. He was born September 29, 1919,in Salem, Idaho to Frederick Amos and Clara Worlton Shirley. He married Verna Browning, on September 18, 1942, in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. Gordon graduated from Sugar-Salem High School where he was...
Brent J. Moss
Jun 24, 2010
Services for Judge Moss will be at the LDS East Stake Center at 387 South 4th East in Rexburg. Brent John Moss, 65 of Rexburg, died Thursday, June 24, 2010 at his home following an extended illness. He was born August 23, 1944 at Ogden, Utah to John Calvin Moss and Jessie Ruth Bingham Moss. He married LaRae Johnson on...
Austin James Price
Jun 19, 2010
Austin James Price, 94, of Salem, died Saturday, June 19, 2010 at the Rexburg Nursing Home. He was born August 16, 1915 at Salem, Idaho to Wilford James and Ivie Josephine Judy Price. Austin married Rula Murri on April 7, 1938 in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Esther Nelson
Jun 19, 2010
Esther Brown Nelson, 97 of St. Anthony, died Saturday, June 19, 2010 at Homestead Assisted Living Center in St. Anthony. She was born March 27, 1913 at Plano, Idaho, the daughter of Henry Alonzo Brown and Lola Smith Brown. She graduated from high school in 1931, the last year Ricks College offered a high school diploma. She then earned a...
Gail Bowman
Jun 18, 2010
Gail Kent Bowman, 82 of Chester, died Friday. June 18, 2010 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Gail was Born March 13, 1928 in Ora, Idaho to William Earl and Zina Campbell Bowman. He attended schools in Ora, St. Anthony, Pocatello, Rigby and Sugar City. In his youth he worked for area farmers. He was drafted into the Army in...
L. Floyd Smith
Jun 15, 2010
L. Floyd Smith Lewis Floyd Smith, 88 of Sugar City, died Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at the Ashton Living Center of natural causes. He was born December 4, 1921 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Lewis Frederick Smith and Mable Natter Smith. He was a veteran of World War II serving in the Navy from 1942 until 1945. He married...
Grayce Lynn Caillier
Jun 14, 2010
Grayce Lynn Caillier, was stillborn June 14, 2010 at the Mountain View Hospital in Idaho Falls. Parents are Joshua David Caillier and Mistie Lynn Greer Caillier of Idaho Falls. Siblings are Keilei D. Greer, Keisha D. Greer, Karley D. Greer and Brodie M. Caillier. Grandparents are David L. Greer of Rexburg, Tamra Kaye Hanks of Hinckley, Ut., Michael R. Duncan...
Grace Ann Powell
Jun 11, 2010
Grace Ann Powell, 86, of Newdale, died Friday, June 11, 2010 at her home of natural causes. She was born December 23, 1923 in Albany, California to Michelangelo Logoteta and Maria Vincenza Sofia. She attended schools in Daly City and Albany, California. She married Francis J. Powell on August 8, 1947. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake...
David Hannah
Jun 9, 2010
David Cooke Hannah, 64, of Rexburg, passed away peacefully in his home on June 9, 2010 from natural causes. He was born April 15, 1946, in Champagne, Illinois to Harold W. and Lillian Cooke Hannah. He loved photography, guns and fireworks. He made fireworks and put on shows for both the community of Rexburg and the Ricks College football games....
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