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Moana Korth Boyle

Moana Korth Boyle

Jul 28, 2022

Moana Korth Boyle, 85, passed away July 28, 2022, in Twin Falls, Idaho due to complications from cancer. Moana was born April 19, 1937, in Brigham City, Utah to Elvan George Korth and Elva Lucille Baird as the first of four children. Moana lived most of her adult life in Rexburg, Idaho, having graduated from Bear River High School...

Kairat 'Kai' Tishpayev Anderson

Kairat 'Kai' Tishpayev Anderson

Jul 27, 2022

Kairat "Kai" Tishpayev Anderson was born 28 November 1995 in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Little is known about his life until age 7 when he and his brother Kirill, living in the Kachiry orphanage, were adopted by Mala and Kevin Anderson. He spent the rest of his childhood growing up in Rexburg Idaho, attending Madison schools and graduating from Madison High...

Elaine Pratt

Elaine Pratt

Jul 26, 2022

Elaine Pratt, 79, of St. Anthony, died July 26, 2022, at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg from natural causes.

She was born April 17, 1943, in Los Angeles, California to Robert Irving White and Velma Corinne Boulton. Elaine spent her growing up years in California.

She married David Parkes on December 3, 1993, in Moccasin,...

Nancy Warne

Nancy Warne

Jul 26, 2022

Nancy Elizabeth Warne, 88, of Rexburg, Idaho, formerly of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, died peacefully Tuesday afternoon, July 26, 2022, at Homestead of Rexburg, with loved ones nearby.

She was born in Harrisburg on April 4, 1934, a daughter of the late John Patrick Duggan and Mary Ruth Duggan.

Nancy Warne was a devoted...

Leman Dale Veile

Leman Dale Veile

Jul 24, 2022

Our father, Leman Dale Veile, (Dale) was born November 25, 1936, in Idaho Falls, Idaho and passed on July 24, 2022, at his home in Rexburg, Idaho but his life certainly encompassed more than the 30 miles between to 2 destinations. He spent little time in Idaho before moving to McGill, Nevada with his parents Leman C and Afton...

Gene Worrell Palmer

Gene Worrell Palmer

Jul 24, 2022

There may or may not be a stairway to heaven, but there may well be a chairlift to heaven, that Gene Worrell Palmer boarded peacefully on Sunday, July 24, 2022.

Gene was born to Dell and Jerry Palmer in Rexburg, Idaho 26 April 1930. His only sibling, his beloved sister Marcile (Blunck) some ten years later. He...

Todd Hamblin

Todd Hamblin

Jul 21, 2022

Todd Alec Hamblin, 57, currently of Rexburg, died Thursday, July 21, 2022, at the Homestead Assisted Living, due to complications from a brain tumor. He was born in Provo, Utah to Lawana Mackley Hamblin and Theo DeWayne Hamblin, on April 22, 1965. Todd was the eldest of 7 children and was a caring older brother.

He married...

Kara Kennedy Williams

Kara Kennedy Williams

Jul 18, 2022

Kara Kennedy Williams, age 52, passed away 18 July 2022 due to complications associated with neuroendocrine cancer.

Kara was born to Paul K. and Sylvia (Hiatt) Kennedy in Whittier, California. She was the second oldest of 7 children. She and her family settled in Orem, Utah when Kara was 6 years old. She graduated in 1988 from...

Frank Evans Bell

Frank Evans Bell

Jul 18, 2022

Frank Evans Bell, 83 passed away, Monday July 18, 2022, in Rexburg Idaho.

Frank was born on February 18, 1939. The 3rd son and 4th child of Alfred Bell and Myrtle Evans. He was born in the same house as his dad, a house built in Rexburg by his grandfather.

He had a happy childhood...

Marillyn King Christensen

Marillyn King Christensen

Jul 17, 2022

Marillyn Peirce King Christensen, 90, passed away peacefully Sunday, July 17, 2022, at the Homestead assisted-living center in Rexburg, Idaho, from natural causes.

Marillyn was born November 5, 1931, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Earle Wagner Peirce and Lydia Stevens. She was the oldest of four children, and attended grade school, junior high school, high school,...

Mary Pierson

Mary Pierson

Jul 16, 2022

Mary Elizabeth Postma Pierson, 84, passed away in Idaho Falls, Idaho from a chronic illness.

Mary Elizabeth Postma was born January,20th1938 in Montgomery, Alabama, to Raliegh Theodore Postma and Rosie Lorene Chase. She was the 4th child, born into a family of 4 boys and 4 girls. Mary had a great personality and loved everyone. She loved...

Margaret Porter Arnold

Margaret Porter Arnold

Jul 15, 2022

Margaret Porter Arnold was born June 30,1929, in Rexburg, Idaho, to Arthur Porter Jr. and Nelle Child Porter. She passed away at home as she desired July 15, 2022.

Margaret was the youngest of 11 children. Her father was the publisher of the local newspaper, the Rexburg Journal, and also owned Porter's Book Store, which then sold...

Alden Robertson Partridge

Alden Robertson Partridge

Jul 13, 2022

Alden Robertson Partridge, age 86, passed away peacefully at the Homestead surrounded by family on Wednesday, July 13, 2022.

Alden was born March 27, 1936, in Lovell Wyoming and raised on a small farm in Cowley, Wyoming. Alden was the youngest of five brothers and two sisters. He loved growing up on the farm where he learned...

Lorraine Bowman

Lorraine Bowman

Jul 12, 2022

Lorraine Joy Bowman passed away July 12, 2022.

She was born July 5, 1958 in Henderson, Nevada to John and Phyllis Bowman. She graduated from Basic High School in Henderson in 1976. She loved America and was thrilled to almost have been born on the Fourth of July and to have graduated in our country's bicentennial year....

Thelma 'Loui' Johnson

Thelma 'Loui' Johnson

Jul 11, 2022

Thelma Luella "Loui" Johnson, 78, of Rexburg, Idaho, departed this earth on Monday, July 11, 2022. Loui was born at home in Ketchum, Idaho to John Willard Scarborough and Thelma Luella (Koehling) Scarborough on February 5, 1944. She married her college sweetheart, Stephen Morgan Johnson on January 23, 1965, in Caldwell, Idaho. Loui and Steve had four children and...

Beverley Wininger

Beverley Wininger

Jul 9, 2022

Beverley Fe Wininger age 66, of Salem Idaho passed away from complications of a stroke in her home July 9, 2022.

Beverley was born May 1, 1956, in San Diego, California to Donald and Gloria Martin. She grew up and raised a family in San Diego until 2020 when she and her husband retired and moved to...

Leland Mace

Leland Mace

Jul 7, 2022

Leland Kay Mace passed away on July 7, 2022 in Rexburg, Idaho after battling with complications associated with diabetes.

He was born May 23, 1949, in St. Anthony, Idaho to Don E Mace and Norma Branson Mace. His older sister Terri met him with great delight. He was followed with 4 more brothers, Gene, Buck, Scott, and...

Boyd Cardon

Boyd Cardon

Jul 5, 2022

Boyd Louis Cardon, age 80, returned to his Heavenly Home July 5, 2022.

Boyd was born March 28,1942 in Rural San Juan County, New Mexico to Joseph Phillip Cardon and Anna Marie Rothlisberger, the fifth of eight children. He grew up in Durango, Colorado and graduated from Durango High. He served a mission in the Uruguay-Paraguay, Argentina...

Wilson Brown

Wilson Brown

Jun 30, 2022

Wilson Brown, 87, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away June 30, 2022.

Wilson Carl Brown was born March 1, 1935, in Bloomfield, Iowa, the second of three sons born to Lee Charles Brown and LuRee M. Bateman.

The family moved to Salt Lake City in 1941, and settled in Holladay, where Wilson attended Holladay Elementary, Olympus...

Walter Snook

Walter Snook

Jun 29, 2022

Walter Allen Snook passed away June 29, 2022, in Idaho Falls.

He was born October 12, 1940, in Pawhuska, OK to Walter Forest Snook and Beulah May Dobbs. He was the only boy with three sisters. He grew up living in Oklahoma, racing fast cars in California, and trekking about the gold mines in Nevada. Walter came...

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