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Laretta Steel

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

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

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

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

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

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...

June Bartholet

June Bartholet

Mar 21, 2010

June Bartholet Josie June Bartholet, 81, of Sugar City, died Sunday, March 21, 2010 at her home of natural causes. She was born May 9, 1928 in Las Vegas, Nevada to Joseph and Fern Carrell Axelson. She married James Howard Bartholet on December 21, 1946 in Hollywood, California. He passed away on February 10, 1997. She is survived by her...

Stephanie Perrenoud

Stephanie Perrenoud

Mar 20, 2010

Stephanie L. Anderson Perrenoud Stephanie L. Anderson Perrenoud, 29, of Rexburg, died Saturday March 20, 2010 as a result of a car accident. She was born December 13, 1980 to Kevin Leary Anderson and Anna Lee Briggs. She grew up in West Jordan, Utah. She graduated from Copperhills High School in 1999. She moved to Ucon, Idaho in 2002 where...

Cara Singleton

Cara Singleton

Mar 19, 2010

Cara K. Singleton, 91, passed away March 19, 2010, in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born March 14, 1919, in St. Anthony to Karl and Genevieve Cardon Klingler. Cara was the second child in a family of two sisters and four brothers. She spent her childhood in St. Anthony swimming in the river, reading books and enjoying life. After her graduation...

Beatrice Stone

Beatrice Stone

Mar 14, 2010

Beatrice Stoddard Stone passed away quietly March 14, 2010 at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho. She was blessed to live a full and active life of 89 years. Mom was born November 12, 1920 in Parker, Idaho to Leslie Marion and Olive Luciel Ingram Stoddard. She was the fourth of ten children. Mom and her siblings remained close throughout...

Carmen Nielson Jensen

Carmen Nielson Jensen

Mar 4, 2010

Carmen Brown Nielson Jensen, 78, of Rexburg, passed away March 4, 2010, of natural causes at the Homestead Assisted Living. She was born August 29, 1931, in Rexburg, Idaho, to James Earl Brown and Constance Ricks Brown. She grew up in Rexburg, graduated from Madison High School, and attended Ricks College. She married Stanley E. Nielson October 27, 1950, in...

James Howard Murdoch

James Howard Murdoch

Mar 3, 2010

James Howard Murdoch age 88 of Rexburg died at his home on March 3, 2010. He was born to Brigham and Luanne Hammon Murdoch March 8, 1922 in Farnum Idaho. He grew up in the Ashton area, graduating from North Fremont High School in 1941. He enlisted in the Air Force and served in World War II returning in January...

Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker

Mar 3, 2010

Margaret Rogers Walker, 72 of St. Anthony, died Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at the home of her daughter in Idaho Falls, ID. She was born in Browning, Montana on October 16, 1937 to Russel S. and Lilly M. Therriault Rogers and was raised in Virginia City, Montana by her Mother and Step-Father, Lilly M. and Harry Wilcox. She attended schools...

Leona May Flamm

Leona May Flamm

Feb 26, 2010

Leona May Moon Flamm died at age 88 on February 26, 2010. She was born March 6, 1921 in Fairfield, Camas County, Idaho, to Reuben Ezra Moon and Emma Lueisa Howells Moon, the next to the last of eleven children, seven of whom survived. She grew up in Fairfield, Egin, St. Anthony, and Rexburg. During the Depression she developed a...

Rose Ward

Rose Ward

Feb 22, 2010

Rose Dredge Ward passed away at the age of 92 on Monday, February 22, 2010 at the home of her grandchildren, Bryan and Jodi Bartschi in Wilford, ID where they tenderly cared for her for the past five months. She was born September 11, 1917 to Jessie H. Dredge and Nellie Martha Kunz in Malad, ID. She was the tenth...

Dennis W. Nelson

Dennis W. Nelson

Feb 20, 2010

Dennis W. Nelson, 80, of Archer, passed away February 20th, 2010 at home of causes incident to age, surrounded by his loving family. He was born January 19, 1930 in Archer, Idaho to George F. And Isabel Weekes Nelson. He graduated from Madison High School. Dennis married his high school sweetheart, Rita Johnson in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple on...

Maxine Briggs

Maxine Briggs

Feb 18, 2010

Maxine Boase Briggs of Zephyr, Texas passed away on Thursday February 18, 2010 in Brownwood, Texas at the young age of 94 years. She was born February 25, 1915 in Lyons, Texas the daughter of C.R. (Charles Rass) & Montez Boase. She married James Blackford Briggs on February 14, 1941. He preceded her in death on August 12, 1969. Maxine...

Maurine Griffeth Steiner

Maurine Griffeth Steiner

Feb 13, 2010

Maurine Griffeth Steiner, 93, passed away, Saturday, February 13, 2010 at Madison Memorial Hospital. Maurine was born February 10, 1917 to Anciel Fernando Griffeth and Luella Christen Anderson in Grover, Wyoming. She lived in Grover until she moved to Rexburg to attend and graduate from Ricks College. It was in Rexburg where she met her future husband, Weldon George Steiner....

Dean Warren Blake

Dean Warren Blake

Feb 11, 2010

Dean Warren Blake died near his birthplace in Rexburg, Idaho Thursday, February 11, 2010. He was born May 31, 1915 in Sugar City, Idaho, the second of three children of Annie Pearl Adams Blake and Warren William Blake. As a small child he knew the loss of a parent when his father died of influenza when Dean was only three,...

Wanda Muir Perrenoud

Wanda Muir Perrenoud

Feb 10, 2010

Wanda Muir Perrenoud died Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at her home in Hibbard, Idaho. Wanda was born April 28, 1935 to Melvin Bassett Muir and Mabel Ricks Muir in Salem, Idaho and she lived all her life in the Rexburg area, graduating from Madison High School in 1954. She married Gale H. Perrenoud on June 28, 1958 at her parents...

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