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Verl Lords

Verl Lords

Jan 15, 2018

Verl Jay Lords, Jr., age 69, passed away on January 15, 2018 at his home in Sugar City, Idaho, after finishing the farm chores, and feeding his animals that he loved so much. Verl was born in St. Anthony, ID to Mary Nelda Hendricks and Verl Jay Lords, Sr. on December 13, 1948. He graduated from North Fremont High School...

Jay Ricks

Jay Ricks

Jan 14, 2018

Jay Clyde Ricks, 91, of Rexburg, Idaho, died Sunday, January 14, 2018, in Rexburg. He was the son of Alfred Taylor Ricks and Ruth Smellie Ricks and was raised in Felt and Rexburg Idaho. He attended Madison High School where he met his sweetheart Beverly Walz. After graduating from Madison High School, he worked on his family's farm and served...

Ralph Wayne Thompson

Ralph Wayne Thompson

Jan 12, 2018

Ralph W. Thompson passed away peacefully in his sleep on January 12, 2018, at his home in Rexburg, Idaho at age 83 of causes incident to old age. Ralph was born Ralph Wendell Chipman on October 26, 1934, in Provo, Utah County, Utah, the first child of Wendell B Chipman and Rhae Gardner. When Ralph was seven years old, his...

Shirley Mae Henderson

Shirley Mae Henderson

Jan 1, 2018

Shirley Mae Jensen Henderson, 78, of Burton, died Monday, January 1, 2018 at Carriage Cove in Rexburg. She was born May 5, 1939 in Ogden, Utah, to Joseph and Jenny Hammer Jensen. Her family moved from Utah to Ashton and then to Rexburg where she graduated from Madison High School in 1958. She met Stuart Henderson on a blind date....

Elmo Cheney Davis

Elmo Cheney Davis

Dec 29, 2017

Elmo Cheney Davis, 94, died Friday December 29, 2017 at his home in Rigby. He was born December 19, 1923 in St. Anthony, Idaho to Martin David and Cora Cheney Davis. He attended schools in St. Anthony and graduated from South Fremont High School. After high school he was drafted into the Army and served in the European Campaign during...

Bradley Miyasaki

Bradley Miyasaki

Dec 23, 2017

Bradley Nobuo Miyasaki, 66, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away Saturday, Dec. 23, 2017 at the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City. He was being treated for acute myeloid leukemia. Brad was born April 17, 1951, to Lucile and Kiyoshi Miyasaki in Rexburg, Idaho. Brad graduated from Madison High School, Ricks College, and Brigham Young University. He was a member of...

Hans Jensen

Hans Jensen

Dec 20, 2017

Hans William Jensen, 80, of Salem, Idaho passed away December 20,2017, at Madison Memorial Hospital. Hans was born in Salem, Idaho on February 12, 1937. He was the son of William and Emma Jensen. He graduated from Sugar Salem High School. He married Wylene Brown May 29, 1969, in the Idaho Falls Temple. They had seven children. Family meant everything...

Mona Jensen

Mona Jensen

Dec 19, 2017

On December 19, 2017, Mona Marie Keppner Jensen, 99, left this life to join her eternal companion. Mona was born May 15, 1918, in Hibbard, Idaho to Lehi and Mary Ella Statham Keppner. She attended school in Hibbard and graduated from Madison High School. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a...

Lavoi Congdon

Lavoi Congdon

Dec 11, 2017

Percis LaVoi Burbank Congdon, 102, passed away peacefully on December 11, 2017 at Madison Carriage Cove in Rexburg, Idaho. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband Ken, her siblings, Cecil, Dan, Nona and Lillis, and by her sons Eddie and Reed. LaVoi is survived by her two daughters Jeanette Powell of Eagle, Idaho, DeAnne Congdon of Teton,...

Lois Warnberg

Lois Warnberg

Dec 10, 2017

Our beloved Mother earned her wings while cradled in the arms of our Father on December 10, 2017. Never could a more powerful love be found than that of Ray Gene Warnberg and Lois Voss Warnberg. Married on March 2, 1973 they spent 45 years united in a life long journey. Our Angel made her debut into this world on...

Blair Hilton

Blair Hilton

Dec 8, 2017

Blair Glen Hilton, 80, of Rexburg, died December 8, 2017, at his home surrounded by loved ones. He was born December 27, 1936, in Salem, Idaho, to Glen Hugh and Belva Hunziker Hilton. Blair served in the US Army from 1955 to 1957. He married LaDean Thorpe on October 25, 1958, in Osgood, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in...

Phillip Parkinson

Phillip Parkinson

Nov 23, 2017

Phillip B. Parkinson, 62, passed away on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2017 in the early morning hours. Phillip was born November 14, 1955 in Rexburg, Idaho. Phillip was a much anticipated and wanted child, born to Preston H. and Norma A. Beesley Parkinson. Phillip grew up in Rexburg where he had many boyhood adventures with his sisters, older brother and...

Myrna Klingler

Myrna Klingler

Nov 13, 2017

Myrna Loreen Tronier Klingler, 80, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away peacefully Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Myrna was born on March 18, 1937, in Salt Lake City, UT, to Gerhard and Rigmor Tronier. She grew up in Salt Lake City, UT and has lived in Rexburg for more than 50 years. While living in Utah, she met and married the love...

Barbara Quirl

Barbara Quirl

Nov 10, 2017

Barbara Quirl passed away on November 10, 2017 at Homestead in Rexburg. She was born on May 8, 1931 in Teton City to Ern and May Quirl. She graduated from South Fremont High School and then attended the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in Idaho Falls where she became a registered nurse. She went on to get a B.S. in...

Delma Westover

Delma Westover

Nov 9, 2017

Delma Westover, 93, of Rexburg, died November 9, 2017, at Carriage Cove of natural causes. She was born July 30, 1924, in Cleveland, Idaho to Frank and Ethel Burton Kropf. The family moved often between Utah and Idaho. She graduated from Preston, Idaho high school. While growing up, she helped her Dad around the farm and with milk deliveries. The...

Lucile Miyasaki

Lucile Miyasaki

Nov 8, 2017

Lucile Ayako Yamagata Miyasaki, 98, of Rexburg, Idaho passed away on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at her daughter's, Sandra Miyasaki, home. She was under care of Rexburg Home Health and Hospice. Lucile was born on September 19, 1919 to Sannosuke and Chiyo Yamagata in Rexburg, Idaho. She was the third of eight children. A family of six brothers and a...

Roland Blaser

Roland Blaser

Nov 6, 2017

Roland Paul Blaser, 87, of Plano, died November 6, 2017, at his home of natural causes. He was born August 19, 1930 to Ernest and Margaret Grosnick Blaser. A lifelong resident of Plano, Roland attended school in Plano, graduating in 1948 as the last senior class from Edmunds High School. He served a 36-month LDS mission to Switzerland and...

Darin Leroy Hammond

Darin Leroy Hammond

Nov 1, 2017

Darin LeRoy Hammond, age 46, of Rexburg, Idaho died Wednesday, November 1, 2017 in Rexburg, Idaho. He was born August 6, 1971 in Blackfoot, Idaho to Milton LeRoy Hammond and Karen Jo Holladay. He graduated from Middleton High School. He also attended the University of Idaho, Ricks College, and BYU. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Idaho State University with...

Aaron Abbey

Aaron Abbey

Oct 29, 2017

Aaron Mccue Abbey, 36 of Rexburg, passed away on Sunday, 29 October 2017. Among the peaceful surroundings of trees, moving water and clear blue skies. He was and is dearly loved by family and most of all his wife , Kimberly and his 2 young daughters, Audrey, and Olivia, of Rexburg, Idaho. He was born in Frankfurt am mine, Germany,...

Randall Miller

Randall Miller

Oct 23, 2017

Randall Dean Miller, 75, of Sugar City died Monday, October 23, 2017. The fifth of six children born to Carroll Hiram and Elizabeth Gittins Miller, Randall was born February 8, 1942, in Logan, Utah. He was raised in Hyrum, Utah and attended Lincoln Elementary and South Cache High School. Randall attended Utah State University before serving a two and a...

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