Obituaries

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...

Jul 18, 2022

Kyler Travis Sharp, 27, passed away on Monday, July 18, 2022, at his home in Rexburg, Idaho.

Kyler was born on August 30, 1994, in Rexburg, Idaho, to Travis and Alaina Sharp.

He was the third child and grew up in Sugar City, Idaho where he attended school and graduated from Sugar Salem High School...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Jul 15, 2022

On December 4 1940 William "Bill" Vaughn Park was born to James Merl Park and Geneva Sessions, in the LDS hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Bill grew up in a happy home with his 2 brothers and 2 sisters, Raymond (Ray), Midge, James (Jim), and Ann. Bill lived a ranch lifestyle, in his free time he would work on the...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jun 28, 2022

Luella Smith Jeppson (85) returned to her heavenly home and family amidst a beautiful sunset with the birds singing outside her window; her sister and best friend, Vonda, by her side and surrounded by family. Luella was born at the family home in Lyman Idaho, on October 3rd, 1936, to James Ivan Smith and Sara Elizabeth Branson she joined...

Jun 27, 2022

Mary Lou Tanner Rinehart, 62 of St. Anthony passed away, after a long illness, Monday, June 27, 2022 at home with her husband by her side.

Mary was born August 5, 1959 in Rexburg, Idaho to John and Bernice Jones Tanner. Her family lived in Rexburg, Fort Lewis, Washington and Marysville, ID. She attended school in Ashton...

Jun 25, 2022

Sharee Danell Peebles, 35, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away June 25th, 2022. She was a beloved fiancé, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, and mother. Sharee Peebles was born in Rexburg, Idaho, July 3rd, 1986, to Pam and Wayne Peebles.

She went to the Sugar - Salem schools and graduated from Madison High School in 2004. After high school,...

Jun 24, 2022

Claude Tuckett, 97, passed away on Friday, June 24, 2022, in his home at Prestige Senior Living, Nampa, Idaho with his son at his side. Claude was born on May 4, 1925, in St. Anthony to Lorenzo Frisby and Erma Garn Tuckett. He was the 8th of 10 children.

Claude grew up and attended school in St....

Jun 24, 2022

George Carl Winkler was born January 26, 1939, in Rochester New York to George Francis and Ruth Mary Winkler, he passed away on June 24, 2022 in Rexburg Idaho. He was an avid outdoorsman where he enjoyed hunting and fishing with Pheasant hunting being his passion. He loved being in the fields with his dogs where he loved to...