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Helen Miller
Dec 26, 2015
Helen Davenport Miller, 93, of Rexburg, passed away peacefully Saturday, December 26, at the home of her daughter of natural causes. Helen was born on May 4, 1922, in Parker, Idaho, to Charles Sperry Davenport and Flora Bell Barrett. She was the 4th of six children. Helen loved music and sang in a trio all through high school. She graduated...
Grant Klingler
Dec 26, 2015
Grant LeMoyne Klingler, our beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, passed away at the age of 90, on December 26, 2015, at his home. Grant was born March 7, 1925, at Leslie, Idaho, to Lue William Klingler and Emma Edenia Ward Klingler. He attended elementary school at Herbert on the Rexburg bench in a one room schoolhouse with seven...
Bonnie Price
Dec 24, 2015
Bonnie Aileen Packer Price was born on May 29, 1928, she was the 9th of ten children born to Elmer Sharp and Hannah Elizabeth Crofts Packer in Rigby, Idaho. She passed away on December 24, 2015 at The Homestead (Carriage Cove), Rexburg, Idaho, after a short illness. She grew up in Rigby where her father ran a service station, cream...
Layel Clark
Dec 23, 2015
Heaven has received another angel. Layel Rickie Clark earned his wings December 23, 2015 with his parents by his side. What a happy reunion it must have been as he joined his brothers Chris and Ben and his sister Becky. Layel was born November 26, 1978 to Rick and Ruth Clark. He was the third of five children. He grew...
Margene Hirschi
Dec 20, 2015
Margene Hirschi, 68, of St. Paul, Minnesota, died December 20, 2015, of natural causes. She was born May 7, 1947, in Rexburg the fourth child and third daughter of LaVell Jacob and Donna Guinette Feik Hirschi. She was raised and attended schools in Rexburg. She has lived in St. Paul, Minnesota for the past four and a half years. She,...
Ted Mortensen
Dec 19, 2015
Ted James Mortensen, 84, of Idaho Falls, died December 19, 2015, at his home of natural causes. He was born September 19, 1931 in Salem, Idaho, the son of Forland and Grace Mortensen. He was the much loved brother to Carma Ricks, Rosena Palmer, Ladene Hughes, Vera Mae Raybould, and Rella Brown. He attended school in a one room schoolhouse...
Tony Mathews
Dec 18, 2015
Tony Mathews, 44, of Rexburg, died December 18, of natural causes. He was born August 27, 1971 and was adopted by Henry and Phyllis Mathews when he was nine days old and living in Driggs, Idaho. Tony had a very bad problem with epilepsy through his childhood and up through high school. There were many tears and prayers to try...
Burton Phillips
Dec 16, 2015
Burton Kraft Phillips, 71, of St. George, Utah, and formerly of Tetonia, Idaho, passed away on December 16, 2015, in his home surrounded by family. Burton was born in Driggs, Idaho, to Edwin Max and Elizabeth Kraft Phillips. He received schooling in Rexburg, Idaho, where he first met Kathleen Bowen, who would become his wife. After graduating from Madison High...
Rosalee Hopkin
Dec 10, 2015
RosaLee Johnson Hopkin was born March 13 1931 in Ovid Idaho to Herman and Wanda Wood Johnson. She is the oldest of four children. Her brothers George Frederick (Janet) Johnson, Jay H. (Kathleen) Johnson and one sister Carol Rae (Gary) Wilson. After graduating from Fielding High School in Paris Idaho she attended Rick College in Rexburg Idaho where she met...
Maryann Parkinson
Dec 10, 2015
MaryAnn Parkinson, 58, died peacefully on Thursday, December 10, 2015 at her home in Rexburg surrounded by her family. She was born June 23,1957 in Rigby, Idaho to William Robert and Pearl Irene Bates. She graduated from Madison High School in 1976. She was married to Neil J. Rowe for twenty-five years and they raised two children together and then...
Doris Bernice Parkinson
Dec 10, 2015
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend Doris Bernice Parkinson, 82, passed away peacefully in Rexburg, Idaho surrounded by her family on Thursday, December 10, 2015 at the Rexburg Homestead Assisted Living Center. Bernice was born July 10, 1933 in St. Anthony, Idaho to LeRoy Jones and Dora Allgood Jones, followed by a brother Merrill and a sister Janice....
Percia Green Baker
Dec 7, 2015
Percia Green Baker, 80, of Teton City (Moody) Idaho, returned home to her Heavenly Father following complications of a stroke on December 7, 2015 in the comfort of her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born October 14, 1935 to LeRoy and Percia Bunnell Green. She was the fifth of six children, their second daughter. She grew up...
Alta Stewart
Dec 7, 2015
Alta Elizabeth Stewart, 76, of Rexburg, died Monday, December 2, 2015 at Teton Post Acute Care and Rehabilitation in Idaho Falls. She was born October 27, 1939 in St. Anthony, Idaho to Andrew Emanuel Stewart and Alta Fern Romell Stewart. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a mission to the Northern...
Dell Barney
Nov 29, 2015
Moses Dell Barney 83, of Rexburg, passed away Nov. 29, 2015 on a beautiful Sunday morning with a colorful rainbow that seemed to arch perfectly over the family farm. He passed away peacefully surrounded by his family as sacred prelude music seeped through his doorway as church services began. The voices from his new found friends as they sang the...
Marjorie Goodliffe
Nov 28, 2015
Marjorie Opal Jeppson Goodliffe, 89, of Rexburg, died on Nov. 28, 2015, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls of congestive heart failure. She was born Nov. 2, 1926, in Archer, to Olin Henry Jeppson and Bertha Rebecca Weekes Jeppson. She was the second child and oldest daughter of the family. She grew up, with one brother and...
Yvonne Kinghorn
Nov 28, 2015
Yvonne Renae Edwards Kinghorn, 50, of Rexburg, Idaho, died November 28, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Utah from complications of cancer. She was born October 5, 1965, in Missoula, Montana to Denny and Shari Edwards. She was raised and attended school in Florence, Montana. She attended and received an associates degree from Ricks College. Yvonne married Kent Leroy Kinghorn on...
Irma Anderson
Nov 13, 2015
Irma Anderson, 78, of Rexburg Idaho, passed away Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, at Madison Memorial Hospital surrounded by family. Irma was born May 23, 1937, in Riverside Idaho, to Carl Albert "Hoot" Anderson and Leona Bitton Anderson. She loved her growing up years on the family farm in Mackay, and then lived the majority of her life in Rexburg, Idaho....
Lee Boyle
Nov 11, 2015
Our dear husband, father, grandfather, and brother, Lee Blaine Boyle of Rexburg, passed away on November 11, 2015 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born November 13, 1929, to Blaine and Pearl (Drake) Boyle. Lee was born at home in Victor, Idaho. He grew up herding sheep and helping his father run the cheese factory. After graduating from Teton High...
Daniel Kolibas
Nov 8, 2015
Daniel Frank Kolibas, 72, of Thornton, died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015 at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho. Surviving Dan are 6 children, Kolby Kolibas of Gilbert, Arizona, Kimball Kolibas of Salt Lake City, Justin Lee Lewis (step-son), Bonnie Kathleen Kolibas, Amanda Faye Kolibas, and Dakota Cole Kolibas all of Mesa, Arizona, 6 grandchildren, his father, Walter Kolibas of West...
Nina Schick
Nov 7, 2015
Nina Leigh Lindsey tragically left this earth on Saturday Nov. 7, 2015. Nina was born on May 4, 1966. The second child of Sherid L. and Linda Harvey Lindsey Nina grew up in Idaho Falls and Iona. She attended Bonneville High School., Boise State University, and Oregon State University. As a 1st grader at A.H. Bush elementary she would frequently...
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