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Paul Carver

Paul Carver

Apr 15, 2016

Paul Stallings Carver, 86, passed away on Friday, April 15, 2016 of natural causes after a short illness. He was born on September 14, 1929 in Ogden, Utah to James Henry (Harry) and Mamie Carver. Paul's family lived in Ogden until he was six years old. His father worked for J.C. Penney and was transferred to Alamosa, Colorado where they...

Wilhelm Kolditz

Wilhelm Kolditz

Apr 15, 2016

Wilhelm Carl Kolditz, 95 of Rexburg, passed away Friday April 15, 2016 under the loving care of the Homestead Assisted Living. He was born on April 4, 1921 on a tiny Island called Billiton, in the Dutch East Indies-now known as Indonesia, to William Carl Kolditz and Marianne Djedir Wirjodrona. He grew up outside the big cities in areas where...

Evan Meyers

Evan Meyers

Apr 11, 2016

Evan LaVern Meyers passed away on April 11, 2016. He was born on March 7, 1945 in Rexburg Idaho to Wayne Hamilton and Anna Martin Meyers. He was adored by his parents and had an idyllic childhood growing up in Sugar City surrounded by great friends and cousins. He graduated from Sugar-Salem High School #GODIGGERS in 1963 and then served...

Jolene Adair

Jolene Adair

Apr 11, 2016

Jolene Adair passed away on Monday, April 11, 2016, at her home in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She was surrounded by her children and her grandchildren and the precious hospice nurses who have been caring for her during her valiant battle with cancer. Jolene was born December 12, 1935, at St. Mary's Hospital in Enid, Oklahoma. She was the second child...

John Alfred Hillman

John Alfred Hillman

Apr 10, 2016

John Alfred Hillman, 84, passed away, Sunday, April 10, 2016 in Sugar City, Idaho. He was born to Gheen and Eva Buxton Hillman in Driggs, Idaho on February 27, 1932. John grew up on the family farm, attended school in Driggs, graduating from Teton High School. He attended the University of Idaho for three years before serving in the Army....

Byron Jensen

Byron Jensen

Apr 10, 2016

Our beloved husband and wonderful father, Byron Grant Jensen, age 67, of Rexburg, passed away at Madison Memorial Hospital of a sudden heart attack on Sunday, April 10, 2016 with his family by his side. Byron was born July 03, 1948 to Grant Lamar and Loretta Burns Jensen. He was the first son born after three girls: Lynda, Deanna, and...

Fay Haroldsen

Fay Haroldsen

Apr 3, 2016

Fay Haroldsen, 84, of Rexburg, passed away of natural causes April 3, 2016, at her daughter's home. She was born in Cardston Alberta but was raised in Vancouver B.C. Canada. Her parents Ernest Dietrich and Gladys Mary Tillack raised her, her sister Winone and brother Keith in a loving home. She loved to swim in the ocean and eventually worked...

Galen Barney

Galen Barney

Apr 3, 2016

Randall Galen Barney, 64, of Monteview, passed away Sunday, April 3, 2016 surrounded by his loving family at home. He was born March 10, 1952 in Rexburg, Idaho to Randall Barney and Dawnella Weber Barney. He was raised in Mud Lake and attended schools at West Jefferson. He took much pride in his work; farming, trucking, excavation and construction businesses....

Evva Nebel

Evva Nebel

Mar 23, 2016

Evva Norton Nebel, 92, of Burton, died at her home Wednesday, March 23, of natural causes. She was born November 3, 1923, in Zurich Montana born to Henry Lorenzo Norton and Lavinia Hurst Norton. She was the third of eight children. In 1935 the family moved to Declo, Idaho where she continued her schooling and later graduated. Evva met her...

Sylverus Hope

Sylverus Hope

Mar 21, 2016

Sylverus K. Hope, 76, of Rexburg, died March 21, 2016, at his home after a year long battle with cancer. He was born November 13, 1939, to Clarence Dewey Hope and Zella Keppner Hope. The first twelve years of his life were spent on his family's farm in Burton, west of Rexburg. He fondly remembered riding horses and playing with...

Kathleen "Kathy" Bernice Striffler

Kathleen "Kathy" Bernice Striffler

Mar 21, 2016

Kathleen "Kathy" Bernice Striffler was born into a Navy family, in Newport, Rhode Island on April 20, 1962. Her parents were John Patrick and Doris Ann Shelley FitzSimon. She grew up in many places but spent most of her childhood in Bishop, Texas. She went through the Bishop school system and graduated in 1981. Kathy was always active in all...

Linda Russell

Linda Russell

Mar 13, 2016

Linda Lee Russell, 56, passed away peacefully in her home March 2016. Linda was born February 3, 1960 in Denver, Colorado the daughter of Arnold Harvey Dillon and Ethel Marie (Davey) Dillon. Linda grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she attended school and pursued her life passion when she graduated from Bel-Rea Veterinary School in Colorado, as a Veterinary Technician....

Phyllis Banta

Phyllis Banta

Mar 13, 2016

Phyllis May Banta, 92, of Salem, died Sunday, March 13, of natural causes. She was born May 5, 1923, in Lost River, Idaho, to John "Jack" and Gertrude Wellard. She was born in the middle of twelve children. While she was young, her family moved to the Hibbard area where they made their home. Phyllis attended school through the 8th...

Lois Winter

Lois Winter

Mar 7, 2016

Lois Withers Winter passed away March 7, 2016 at Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg Idaho at the age of 90. She was born on November 11, 1925, the first child of Vernon Clark Withers and Margaret Agnes Ricks. She came into the world at the home of her maternal grandparents at Hibbard, Idaho. She attended Madison High School in...

Gene Statham

Gene Statham

Mar 6, 2016

Elden Gene Statham, 64, of Rexburg, died Sunday, March 6, at his home of natural causes. He was born December 8, 1951, in Rexburg to Gale Elden and Lucille Stocks Statham. He was welcomed home by his older brothers, Max and Kay. Two more brothers joined the family after Gene, Terry and Boyd. He attended Adams Elementary, Madison Jr. High...

Briauna Bergeson

Briauna Bergeson

Mar 1, 2016

Briauna J Bergeson, 10, of Salem, died Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born August 22, 2005, to Kurt and Jesi Bergeson at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. The first 3 months of her life were perfect and worry free. Even though she was the tiniest little thing they had ever seen she...

Sadie Ard

Sadie Ard

Feb 29, 2016

Sadie Hollist Ard, 85, passed on to eternity Monday, February 29, 2016, in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born August 18, 1930 in Wilford, Idaho, and raised by her loving parents, William D Hollist and Sarah Cross Orme in Wilford and then Teton, Idaho. She was the seventh of ten children. Sadie graduated from Saint Anthony High School, and then shortly...

Lamar Wilcox

Lamar Wilcox

Feb 28, 2016

After a living a remarkable life filled with love and service to his family, fellow men and Savior, Ellis LaMar Wilcox completed his earthly mission and peacefully returned to his Heavenly Father on February 28, 2016. His life began on November 15, 1943, arriving as the only son amidst four sisters born to Ellis and Elsie Grover Wilcox. A farmer...

Wynn Anderson

Wynn Anderson

Feb 27, 2016

J. Wynn Anderson, 58, passed away February 27, 2016. He was born August 6, 1957, was raised in Thornton and attended local schools. He graduated from Utah State University with a master's degree in agronomy. He worked for many years in crop insurance as a field supervisor and adjuster. He enjoyed working with friends in the industry and working with...

Glenda Mayne

Glenda Mayne

Feb 21, 2016

Glenda Parker Mayne died on Sunday, February 21, 2016 at her son's home in Brigham City, Utah. Glenda was born in Parker, Idaho and attended school there through the 8th grade. She graduated from South Fremont High School in St. Anthony, Idaho. She had many life long friendships from her school years. Glenda married the love of her life, Milo...

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