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Stephanie Wykle

Stephanie Wykle

Apr 14, 2018

Stephanie Jeanne Wykle, 57, returned to her heavenly father on April 14, 2018 at Utah State University Hospital after a long battle with cancer. Stephanie was born on May 23, 1960 in Chanute Kansas to Stephen Ray Card and Leah Rae Card. Soon after they moved to Ashton, Idaho where Stepanie would grow up. Growing up she always a friendly...

Emilia Hammond

Emilia Hammond

Apr 5, 2018

Emilia Benilde Aranda Hammond passed away on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at the age of 43. Emily was born in San Antonio Texas on May 13, 1975 to Maria Guadalupe Jensen and Ricardo Jaso Aranda. At the age of 15, she moved with her family to Caldwell, Idaho, and she later graduated from Caldwell High School. She attended Brigham Young...

Deloy Mckenna

Deloy Mckenna

Apr 5, 2018

DeLoy Vess McKenna born December 11, 1926 in Hibbard, Idaho. He passed away at the Homestead Care Center April 5, 2018. DeLoy was the youngest child of Josiah and Margaret McKenna. He grew up in Hibbard, Idaho and attended Madison High School as a star basketball player. He was drafted into the army out of high school and served his...

Don Rasmussen

Don Rasmussen

Apr 2, 2018

Alan Don Rasmussen, 77, passed away peacefully April 2, 2018 in Rexburg, Idaho. The youngest of 12 siblings, Don was born September 6, 1940 to Elvin Andrew and Anna LaPreal Rasmussen. Raised on a small farm in the Teton Valley, Don learned the lessons of hard work and the importance of family. At the age of 17, he joined the...

Cassie Jensen

Cassie Jensen

Mar 31, 2018

Cassie Lydia Holden Jensen, 76, of Rexburg passed away Saturday, March 31st, 2018, at Heritage Assisted Living surrounded by family. Cassie was born on October 27, 1941, in Driggs, Idaho, to Maurice Dean and Alice Holden. She was the second of four children. At the age of two months, Cassie and her family moved to Southern California, where they lived...

Emerson Webster

Emerson Webster

Mar 31, 2018

Emerson Brooke Webster, infant daughter of Brandon and Kaylin Webster of Rexburg, passed away March 31, 2018, of natural causes. She is the granddaughter of Shawn and Lisa Webster of Rexburg and Tony and Angela Haws of Idaho Falls. Private family services will be held on Saturday, April 7.

Larry Mckenna

Larry Mckenna

Mar 30, 2018

Larry McKenna, 77, of Rexburg Idaho died March 30, 2018 surrounded by his loved ones after a six year struggle with Alzheimers disease. He was born November 11, 1940 in Hibbard Idaho to Alonzo Graden McKenna and Ethel Norrine Cropus McKenna. He married Karen Janet Shirley. They had two daughters, Jodee Mackay (Wes) and Lynette McKenna. They later divorced. He...

Zell Grover Freeman

Zell Grover Freeman

Mar 25, 2018

Zell Stevenson Grover Freeman, 102, resident of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away on the 25th of March 2018 peacefully at her home surrounded by loved ones. She was born May 19th 1915 in Silverton, Texas to Robert and Minnie Stevenson. After graduating from business college, she worked for Mountain Bell Telephone company for a few years. Then in 1940 she moved...

Melvin Schwendiman

Melvin Schwendiman

Mar 24, 2018

Melvin Russell Schwendiman passed away on Saturday morning, March 24, 2018. He had been residing in the Homestead Assisted Living Residence for the last 2 years and is where he passed away of natural causes having lived a long and great life. Melvin was born on July 16, 1921 in Newdale Idaho to Rudolph Schwendiman and Clara Frances Hodgson and...

Lisa Wheatley

Lisa Wheatley

Mar 23, 2018

Lisa Azell Ochoa Wheatley, 31 of Rexburg, died March 23, 2018 in Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center from a lingering illness. She was born March 10, 1987 in Rexburg, Idaho to Joseph Mark Ochoa and Azell Dilmore Jacobson. Lisa attended Lincoln Elementary School, Madison Jr. High School, Madison High School, Central High School, and Career Beauty College where she earned...

Brent Parkinson Ballif

Brent Parkinson Ballif

Mar 22, 2018

Brent Parkinson Ballif, 86, 2503 S. 1400 W., Rexburg, ID, died March 22, 2018, of an apparent heart attack in his home. He was born February 5, 1932 at Whitney, Idaho to Leslie Hughes Ballif and Ella Parkinson Ballif during the height of the depression. The family moved to Pocatello in 1938 when his father, a graduate civil engineer, was...

Harold Dewane Hill

Harold Dewane Hill

Mar 21, 2018

Harold D. Hill, 93 of Rexburg, died Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg, causes incident to age. He was born December 2, 1924 in Ucon, Idaho, the first of six children born to B. James "Jim" Hill and Amelia "Millie" Miskin Hill. He was raised in Ucon and attended grade school there. He graduated from Ucon...

Rosemary Blaser

Rosemary Blaser

Mar 20, 2018

Rosemary Polson Blaser, 92 of Rexburg, died on March 20, 2018. She was born on May 6, 1925 in Lewisville, Idaho to Ernest and Montie Lee Polson. She was the eldest daughter of 5 children, (3 girls and 2 boys). Growing up in Shelley, she attended area schools, graduating as Salutatorian from Shelley High School at age 16. She then...

Bryson Snarr

Bryson Snarr

Mar 16, 2018

Bryson Quinn Snarr of Rexburg Idaho passed away March 16, 2018, he was 15 years old. Bryson was born on August 18, 2002 to Thomas Dean and Lisa Ann Snarr of Rexburg, Idaho. Bryson was a very thoughtful, fun-loving and joyful young man. He deeply loved his family. His parents, grandparents, sister, brothers, nephew, nieces and extended family. He had...

Robert Powell

Robert Powell

Mar 13, 2018

Robert Thomas Powell passed away on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 from causes incident to age. He was born on February 14, 1931 to Edward Lewis "Rosie" and Thelma Mae Arnold Powell at Anaconda, Montana. Following a premature birth and life-threatening complications, his life was miraculously spared through faith and priesthood blessings. At the age of one he moved to Rexburg...

Verna Parker

Verna Parker

Mar 13, 2018

Verna Marie Parker, 68, of Rexburg, passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2018. She was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Verna was born August 18, 1949 in Price Utah and raised in Wendover Utah. She was the second born of seven children to Doug and Emily Tucker. Her surviving siblings are Earl, Michael, Vicki,...

Vance Hendricks

Vance Hendricks

Mar 12, 2018

James Vance Hendricks, age 81, passed away in his home March 12, 2018. Vance, and his twin sister Veryl, were born in Cove, Utah, on May 1, 1936, to Lorin and Annie Hendricks. They were the youngest of seven children. Working with his family on their dairy farm taught Vance how to work, a trait and value that he passed...

John Paul Smith

John Paul Smith

Mar 11, 2018

John Paul Smith, 91, long-time resident of Rexburg, Idaho, passed peacefully from this world to the next in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 11, 2018, surrounded and uplifted by the love of his family many of whom were with him. John was born to John Wheten and Thelma Ann (Stewart) Smith on August 17, 1926, in Moreland, Idaho....

Bob Huskinson

Bob Huskinson

Mar 10, 2018

Robert "Bob" Huskinson, age 85, passed away on March 10, 2018, in Rexburg, of causes incidental to age. Bob was born November 19, 1932, in Rexburg, to Ken and May Huskinson. Bob attended Madison County schools and ISU in Pocatello, where he met his first wife, Dorothy Grigora, with whom he had two children. Bob's father was among the early...

Maxine Adair

Maxine Adair

Mar 10, 2018

Maxine Adair, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away peacefully at The Homestead Assisted Living Center with family at her side, of causes incident to age. Maxine Strong Adair was born 91 years ago in her family home on Main St. in Alpine, UT to Raymond Frank Strong and Josephine Merrill Strong. Her father passed away when she was six years old,...

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