J'Lean Jiles
Jan 9, 2017
Mary J'Lean Jiles, age 90, passed away on Monday, January 9, 2017, in Meridian, Idaho. J'Lean was born on May 5, 1926 in Rexburg, Idaho. She was the daughter of Warren Arthur Ricks and Gladys Jenette Huskinson Ricks. She grew up in Sugar City with her sister, Bertie Ricks Smith. She graduated from Sugar-Salem High School. She attended Ricks College...
Floyd Simper
Jan 9, 2017
Floyd Vaughn Simper, 68, of Newdale returned to live with his Heavenly Father January 9, 2017, due to injuries from a fall at his home. Floyd was born October 29, 1948 to H. Vaughn and Freda Morrill Simper. He was the third of 6 children. The family moved to Utah for a short time and then returned to Idaho. Eventually...
Quenton Bagley
Jan 8, 2017
Quenton Bagley, 82, of Salem, died from natural causes Sunday, January 8, 2017 surrounded by his family. He was born July 30, 1934 in Salem, Idaho, to Lorenzo and Ethel Bagley, the 9th of 11 children. He attended school in Sugar Salem and graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 1953. He was an active member of The Church of...
Tracy Rose
Jan 3, 2017
Tracy Joann Zufelt Rose, 31, of Rexburg, passed away Tuesday, January 3, 2017, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Tracy was born May 8, 1985, in Sandy, Utah to Lee and Connie Zufelt. Tracy spent most of her life in the Rexburg area. She attended school in Madison county and graduated from Madison High School in 2003. It was...
Milton Webster
Jan 3, 2017
Milton "Milt" Lee Webster, 66, of Rexburg died Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at his home from natural causes. He was born on August 26, 1950 in Rexburg, Idaho to Mark and Donna Wilding Webster. He graduated from Sugar Salem High School and went on to do schooling at Ricks College. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ...
Loree Briggs
Jan 2, 2017
Verda Loree Briggs, 76, returned home to her Heavenly Father on January 2, 2017 in Rexburg, ID to meet her dear husband Hal whom she greatly missed. Loree as she went by most of her life, was born December 8, 1940 to Homer and Julia Williamson in Filer, ID. The youngest of four children. Loree lead an extraordinary courageous life...
Max Voss
Dec 18, 2016
Max Melvin Voss, 47, of Teton died Sunday, December 18, 2016 at his home from health complications. He was born January 9, 1969 in Rexburg, Idaho to Linda and Ralph Voss. He grew up in the Teton area. He worked construction his whole life until his health prevented him from working. He is survived his children; Jorden, Weston and Cierra...
Chad Nanney
Dec 18, 2016
Chad Clifton Nanney, 52, of Sugar City, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2016 at his home from health complications. He was born January 29, 1964 in Saint Anthony, Idaho to Darrell Ray and Vendla Rae Cummings Nanney. He grew up in the Wilford area and graduated from South Fremont High School. He later graduated with a Bachelors Degree from BYUI....
Julie Glenn
Dec 18, 2016
Julie Rose Glenn, 72, of Rexburg, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2016. She was born on October 30, 1944 in Afton Wyoming, to Wilford Fluckiger and Cella Cook. She was one of sixteen children. She lived in Afton until her family moved to Salt Lake City where she graduated from Olympus High School. She attended Ricks College as an art...
Arile Ottesen
Dec 8, 2016
Sarah Arile Ottesen, 91, of Idaho Falls and formerly of Teton City, died December 8, at her daughter's home, surrounded by her family. She was born September 26, 1925, in Burton, Idaho to John Richards and Margaret Painter Hill Beardall. Arile met and dated Max Ottesen while they were attending high school. They were married on February 4, 1944, in...
Reed Ricks
Dec 6, 2016
Robert Reed Ricks was born February 28, 1939, in Hibbard, Idaho, to Robert Russell Ricks and Opal Huskinson. He passed away at Banner Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona on December 6, 2016 from complications of infectious pneumonia. Reed was the second of four children born to Bob & Opal Ricks. They were Marilyn, Reed, Bart, and Brent. Reed grew up...
Danial Howard
Dec 5, 2016
Danial Micheal Howard passed away unexpectedly December 5th 2016 in his home in Idaho Falls, Idaho at the age of 43. Danial was born August 10th 1973, in Rexburg Idaho, to Micheal and Kathy Howard. He grew up farming with his father in Newdale. He attended and graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 1991 and served an LDS mission...
Price Davenport
Dec 5, 2016
Price Elmo Davenport, 80, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away December 5, 2016, two weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. Price was born to Elmo Ira Davenport and Ivie Mae Price Davenport, on June 10th, 1936, in Sugar City, Idaho. As a young boy, Price lived in San Diego, California while his father worked in aircraft production at Consolidated Aircraft during...
Clyde "Boy" Ricks
Dec 5, 2016
Clyde "Boy" Lee Ricks returned to the loving arms of his mother and father on December 5, 2016. He was born April 3, 1959, in Rexburg Idaho, the 5th son of Milton J Ricks and LaReena Nelson Ricks. In Rexburg, he had a loving and lively childhood with 3 older brothers and 3 sisters to play with. Clyde loved celebrating...
Damian Jonathan Secol
Dec 2, 2016
Damian Jonathan Secol, 35, returned to his Heavenly Father on December 2, 2016 at his home in Hibbard following a courageous battle with lymphoma cancer. He was born the oldest of four children to Stephen Secol and Kathie McPherson in Westwood, California on October 21, 1981. He was homeschooled and received his GED in education. At the age of 21...
Christopher Murray
Dec 1, 2016
Christopher David Murray passed away unexpectedly on December 1, 2016, at Denton Regional Medical Center in Denton, TX, surrounded by fellow police officers and his family at the age of 31. Chris was born on March 4, 1985, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Dick and Jody Murray. He graduated from Murray High School in 2003 and went on to...
Jake Nilsson
Nov 28, 2016
Jake Keith Nilsson, 19, of Menan, died November 28, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born July 3, 1997, in Rexburg, Idaho to Derrick Andrew and Jaymie Lyn Bradley Nilsson. He attended school in Sugar City and graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 2016. Jake was the light of our lives from the moment he was...
Betty Hymas
Nov 27, 2016
Betty Hymas, 91, of Plano passed away on Nov. 27, 2016 surrounded by family while under the care of hospice and the Homestead staff. Betty was born May 22, 1925 in Stavely, Alberta, Canada to G. David Brown & Blanche Smith Brown. She, her 4 sisters and 1 brother grew up and spent their early childhood in Canada attending a...
Erma Dexter
Nov 22, 2016
Erma Gene Jenkins Dexter, 89, of Rexburg, passed away on November 22, 2016, in Idaho Falls. She was born August 16, 1927, at home in St. Anthony, Idaho to Gilbert and Ila Nyborg Jenkins. She was the middle child of five. She went to school in St. Anthony and attended one year at Ricks College. She married Garth Dexter on...
Denice Rammell
Nov 18, 2016
Carma Denice Kunz Rammell, 87, passed away peacefully at her home in Rexburg, Idaho on Friday, November 18, 2016. She was born February 23, 1929 in Cedron, Teton Valley, Idaho. She was the fifth of six children born to James Herbert Kunz and Arleigh Inez Drake Kunz. Denice is survived by her husband of 67 years, Max Hegsted Rammell, and...
