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Pete Genther

Pete Genther

Sep 29, 2009

Pete Genther, 87 of Rexburg, died Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at his home in Burton. He was born December 15,1921 at Dodge, North Dakota to Peter Genther and Elsie Minnie Frieberg Miller. The family moved to Idaho when Pete was young. He attended schools in the Idaho Falls area. During World War II he served in the Navy on the...

Todd Rushton

Todd Rushton

Sep 28, 2009

St. Anthony - Jeffrey Todd Rushton, beloved son, brother, uncle, nephew and friend, died September 28, 2009 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born April 11, 1960 to Stephen Mayne and Joyce Peterson Rushton, in San Manuel, Arizona. He spent his childhood years in Austin, Nevada; Minden, Nevada; American Fork, Utah; Richfield, Utah and St. Anthony, Idaho. He graduated from...

W. Keith Walker

W. Keith Walker

Sep 28, 2009

W. Keith Walker Winslow Keith Walker, 76 of Rexburg, died Monday, September 28, 2009 at his home. He was born November 18,1932 at Rexburg to R. Willis Walker and Mabel Ovard Walker. He married Lorene H. Hirschi on September 25, 1953 in the Salt Lake LDS temple. She died in 1979. He married Charlotte Louise Gehmlich on August 8,1980 in...

Lenace A. Burnside

Lenace A. Burnside

Sep 25, 2009

Lenace Arven Burnside, 77 of Driggs, died Friday, September 25, 2009 at his home. He was born December 29,1931 at Driggs (Chapin), Idaho to Lawrence Burnside and Samantha Elizabeth Nickell Burnside. He was the eighth of eleven children and was preceded in death by his brothers: Lawrence Gail, Noel Alex, Vernile (Pug) Loyd, Royce Burnside, and sisters: Elda Bernice Hansen,...

Afton Furse Parkinson

Afton Furse Parkinson

Sep 21, 2009

Afton Irene Furse Parkinson passed from this mortal life after many years of suffering with dementia and various health problems on Monday, September 21, 2009, at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 89. Afton was born on May 22, 1920, in Garland, Utah, to Alfred Cecil and Clarissa Saunders Furse, the fifth of 12 children. A few months...

Elizabeth Joy Huskinson

Elizabeth Joy Huskinson

Sep 7, 2009

Joy Huskinson Elizabeth Joy Huskinson, 80 of Rexburg, died Monday, September 7,2009 at the Homestead Living Center in Rexburg. She was born January 7,1929 at Burns, Kansas, to Dannie E. Mundy and Lorretta Johnson Mundy. The family lived in Kansas, Worland, Wyoming, and Nyssa, Oregon where Joy graduated from high school. She worked as a librarian at the community library...

Belva Hill

Belva Hill

Sep 4, 2009

Belva McArthur Hill, 88 of St. Anthony, passed away on Friday, September 4, 2009 at Spring Creek Manor in St. Anthony. She was born May 14,1921 in Wilford, Idaho to George & Mary Elisabeth Birch McArthur. She was the ninth of ten children. Her father died when she was seven years old. Belva grew up in the Wilford area –...

Violet Pincock

Violet Pincock

Sep 2, 2009

Violet Hope Pincock, 80 of Monteview, died September 2, 2009 at home. She was born August 27, 1929 in Idaho Falls, ID to Isaac Dewey and Hatti Lucille Park Hope. She was raised in Salem and attended Sugar City grade school and also Sugar Salem High School. She married Vern Douglas Pincock on February 24, 1950 in the Idaho Falls...

Rick B Ward

Rick B Ward

Sep 1, 2009

Rick B Ward, 47 of Sugar City, died September 1, 2009 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born July 3, 1962 at Rexburg, Idaho, the son of Wayne S Ward and Sandra Lynn Borresen Ward. He attended school at Teton and graduated from South Fremont High School in St. Anthony. He was a lifetime farmer, at Teton, with...

Clara Jean Nelson Bills

Clara Jean Nelson Bills

Aug 27, 2009

Clara Jean Nelson Bills, 86, of Sugar City died August 27, 2009 at her home. She was born August 20, 1923 in Cedar City, Utah, to Roice Bengt and Emma Lambson Nelson. She graduated with an associate degree from Branch Agricultural College, in Cedar City, where she was Valedictorian. She earned her bachelor degree from Utah State University, in Logan,...

Wanda Ricks Kerr

Wanda Ricks Kerr

Aug 18, 2009

Wanda Ricks Kerr was born October 15, 1916 in Rexburg, Idaho to Daniel and Sarah Elizabeth Jones Ricks. She was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She graduated from Madison High School in Rexburg, attended Ricks College, and graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in business and home economics. She was...

Helen Amelia Petty Glenn

Helen Amelia Petty Glenn

Aug 17, 2009

Helen Amelia Petty Glenn, age 90, died 17, August 2009, at her daughter's home in Rexburg, Idaho. Helen was born November 8, 1918, in Emery, Utah, the seventh child of William Arthur and Ada Amelia Williams Petty. Helen married Harold "J" Glenn of September 27, 1939, in the Salt Lake Temple. They resided in Ogden, Utah; then Phoenix, Arizona; San...

Jared Garner

Jared Garner

Aug 14, 2009

Jared Helaman Garner, son of Michael and Jean Ann Glaze Garner, of Rexburg, Idaho, returned home peacefully to his Heavenly Father on the morning of August 14, 2009. Jared was born on November 17, 1979 in Rexburg. He was 29. Jared attended school in the Madison School District. He graduated from Willard High School in Willard, Missouri. He was a...

Kaye Hymas

Kaye Hymas

Aug 8, 2009

Kaye Hymas Early Saturday morning, August 8, 2009, our beloved Mother and Grandmother Kaye Pieper Hymas passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Kaye was born November 23,1944, in Rexburg, Idaho, the third of four daughters of Albert and Metta Pickett Pieper. She attended schools in Rexburg, graduating from Madison High and Ricks College. Kaye married Mickey B Hymas...

James Brennen

James Brennen

Aug 7, 2009

James A. Brennen, 76, of Island Park, died Friday, August 7, 2009 at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg of natural causes. He was born January 5, 1933 in Twin Falls, Idaho to Edward and Edna Roth Brennen. He married Rosalee Updike on November 28, 1952 in Twin Falls. Two sons, Brad and Kent were born to this marriage. He is...

Sherry Pearson

Sherry Pearson

Aug 6, 2009

Sherry Pearson Rexburg - Sherry Ann Gardner Pearson, 53 of Rexburg, passed away Thursday, August 6, 2009 at Madison Memorial Hospital. She was born March 19, 1956, in Rexburg, Idaho to Arlan James Gardner and Joanne Henderson Gardner. She is the second of eight children. Sherry received her early education at Teton Elementary and graduated from South Fremont High School...

Anita J.. Williams

Anita J.. Williams

Aug 3, 2009

Anita Joyce Williams passed away peacefully on the morning of August 3, 2009. She was raised in Hibbard and was a resident of Rexburg, Idaho. Anita was born on November 19, 1942 in Rexburg Idaho to Emma Ricks and Cassadore Williams. She attended school at Hibbard Elementary and graduated from Madison High School in Rexburg and cosmetology school in Idaho...

Bessie S. Erickson

Bessie S. Erickson

Aug 2, 2009

Bessie Amelia Small Erickson was born 10 August 1916 in East Bucksport, Hancock, Maine. She passed away at her home in Archer Idaho on Sunday 2 August 2009. She was 92years 11months and 22days old. Her siblings, and one grandson preceded her in death. Her parents Howard Edwin Small and Janet Beatrice Giberson died in the 1918 flu epidemic and...

Ray Gallup

Ray Gallup

Jul 31, 2009

Norman "Ray" Gallup, 77 of Rexburg, died Friday, July 31, 2009 at his home surrounded by family. He was born December 9, 1931 in Venice, California, to James Leo and Lavon Bischoff Gallup. He was the second of three sons and is preceded in death by his parents and brothers. He married the true love of his life, Nola Jean...

Lois Evans

Lois Evans

Jul 28, 2009

Lois Marilyn Camp Evans, 65 of Hamer, died July 28, 2009 at her home. She was born September 3,1943 at Malad, Idaho to Wendell Draper Camp and Chloe Blanche Benson Camp. She was raised at Malad and attended schools there until the family moved to Sugar City in 1955. She graduated from Sugar-Salem High School in 1961 as class salutatorian....

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