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Roger Thompson
Aug 31, 2017
Roger Thompson, age 69, of St.Anthony, Idaho, passed away at his home August 31st, 2017. He was born November 28, 1947, in St. Anthony, Idaho. His parents were Clem Levi Thompson and Jeneal Luella Josephson. Roger was the youngest of their five children. He served in the Idaho National Guard from 1967 to 1969 and was in Vietnam with the...
Veletta Linville
Aug 31, 2017
Veletta Mae Hemmingson Linville, 87, of Rexburg, died August 31, 2017 of natural causes. She was born December 14, 1929, in Red Wing, Minnesota, to William and Mabel Hemmingson. She has a sister, Vivian Koplin. Growing up together they loved playing on Barn Bluff and created many favorite memories there. Vel excelled in school and loved to read and was...
Rial Palmer
Aug 22, 2017
Rial Leon Palmer, of St. Anthony, passed away on August 22 at Ashton Living Center. He was born in Heman, Idaho on June 24, 1933, to Robert and Nana Palmer. He was the fourth of nine children. He grew up in the Egin Bench area. He attended school at the old Heman Elementary School through 8th grade and then worked...
Jack Robert Wright
Aug 17, 2017
Jack "Mad Jack" Robert Wright passed quietly from this world on Thursday, August 17, 2017. He died peacefully in his sleep at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg with his family at his side. He was born in Rexburg, Idaho on September 25, 1934 to Leo and Grace Wright. He and his family moved to Toppenish, Washington after the death of...
Kent Saurey
Aug 11, 2017
Kent Saurey, 64, of Rexburg passed away peacefully Friday, August 11, 2017 at Rexburg Nursing Center. He was born in Rexburg on August 25, 1952 to Seth and Barbara Saurey. He attended schools in Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School. He married Marcy Mead, they later divorced. He was also married to Mattie Saurey and they later divorced. During...
Jean Skinner
Aug 10, 2017
Evelyn Jean Thirkill Skinner, our loved wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away peacefully at her home in Fremont County, Idaho, with family members by her side, on August 10, 2017, due to complications from colon cancer. Jean was born on her father's ranch at Eight Mile, Idaho, on July 27, 1932. She was the daughter of Howard E. Thirkill and...
Lewis M. Mulkay
Aug 5, 2017
Lewis Marcellus Mulkay died peacefully in the Homestead assisted living center, Rexburg Idaho on Saturday August 5, 2017 at the age of 85. Lewis was born the youngest of 10 children on December 29, 1931 in Pacific Grove California, to Leslie and Annie (Jones) Mulkay. He grew up and graduated from both high school and Jr College in Pacific Grove....
Clinton O. Kingsford
Aug 1, 2017
Clinton O. Kingsford, 77, died August 1, 2017 surrounded with his family from Natural Pressure Hydrocephalus. His body is now free of the many limitations of NPH over the past 18 months. Clint was born February 1, 1940 in Lewiston, Utah to Alton and June Kingsford. Clint was the 1st child of 7 children, (Clint, Karen, Cheryl, Lynette, Lanis, Doug...
Richard Harvey
Jul 30, 2017
On Sunday July 30th, Richard Earl Harvey passed away due to complications from pneumonia. He was 85 years old. Richard was born in Lewiston, Utah on May 28, 1932. He was the fourth of eight children and always remained close friends with his siblings. Richard learned to work hard at a very young age; he was only 5 years old...
Olivia Tavares
Jul 28, 2017
Our beautiful daughter Olivia Marrie Tavares passed away Friday, July 28, 2017, in a car accident. She was traveling home with her Grandma and cousins, when the car rolled. Olivia, along with her Grandma (Cindy Boone) and cousin (Lexi Minish) all passed away together. Olivia's two other younger cousins, who were in the car, survived and are recovering from their...
Janis Draper Clark
Jul 21, 2017
Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and sister, Janis Ann Strange Draper Clark, 72, of Rexburg, died July 21, 2017, in a traffic accident. Janis was born February 3, 1945, in St. Anthony, the third of four children of Edwin Green and Emaline Louise Atchley Strange. She attended elementary schools in St. Anthony, graduating from South Fremont High School in 1963. Janis...
Dick Jackson
Jul 20, 2017
Dick Lowrey Jackson passed away on July 20, 2017 at the Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg, Idaho. Dick was born on the family ranch in Randolph, Utah on May 13, 1918, the middle of three children born to Frank Jackson and Pearl Lowrey. Dick learned to work hard on the ranch and developed a sense of self confidence that...
Marilyn Ingram Stoker
Jul 18, 2017
Marilyn Ingram Stoker, 84, of St. Anthony, passed away Tuesday, July 18, 2017, at her home from causes incident to age. She was born July 24, 1932, in Levan, Utah to LeRoy and Mini Thompson Jackman, the youngest of eight children. She lived in Levan until she married her high school sweetheart, Clyde Ingram. They moved to California to start...
Dwayne "Johnie" Luthy
Jul 17, 2017
In the area that he loved the most, the dry farms above the Rexburg Bench (near Rock Spring in Madison County), our husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend, Dwayne "Johnie" Lewis Luthy passed away on July 17, 2017. Born August 25, 1935 to Henry "Hank" Lewis Luthy and Helen Mary Wilcox Luthy, in Archer, Idaho, he was the third...
Reed Schwendiman
Jul 16, 2017
Reed Allen Schwendiman died Sunday, July 16, 2017 in Silverdale, Washington at the age of 102. Reed was born March 14, 1915 in Teton, Idaho to Rudolph and Clara Frances (Hodgson) Schwendiman. His family moved to Newdale, Idaho and he graduated from Sugar-Salem High School. After high school Reed attended Ricks College in Rexburg and eventually earned a Bachelors Degree...
Betty Bell
Jul 15, 2017
Betty L. Stephens Bell, 80 of Teton, died at home on Saturday, July 15, 2017. She was born on March 15, 1937 in Barnesville, Belmont, Ohio, the fifth child of James Francis and Lucy Leora Carpenter Stephens. Betty attended schools in Cambridge and Barnesville, Ohio and graduated from Barnesville Hing in 1955. She had some college courses along the way...
Zella Fullmer
Jul 15, 2017
Zella Fay Polson Fullmer, 88, of Driggs, passed away Saturday, July 15, 2017, at her home, surrounded by family. She was born November 5, 1928, in Roberts, Idaho, the eldest child of William Leonard Polson and Elsie Levada Yorty Polson. She graduated from Idaho Falls High School. She married Theral Gene Fullmer on June 16, 1947. He preceded her in...
Lois Miller
Jul 15, 2017
Lois June Mickelsen Miller, 84 of Egin, died July 15, 2017 at her home. She was born June 5th, 1933 in Richvale Idaho in Teton County. Her parents were Mary and Chris Mickelsen. Lois is the youngest child out of 11 children and her siblings, Ivy, Martin, Madge, Morris, Lola, Chris, Willis, Ireta, and Dean all preceded her in death....
Ruth Ann Boden
Jul 13, 2017
Ruth Ann Boden was born on June 22, 1944 to Ira and Mary Baggesgard in Watertown, South Dakota. Most of her youth was spent on the farm working and playing alongside her only brother Charles, spending days sitting under an old willow tree or spraying milk to begging cats, while she milked the cows. As a teen, she moved with...
Dawn Virgin
Jul 7, 2017
Dawn Arlene Thomas Virgin passed away peacefully at home on July 7, 2017, at the age of 86. Dawn was born July 13, 1930 to John Alexander Thomas and Marvella Annie Harris Thomas in Rigby, Idaho. Soon after, the family moved to Sugar City to run the family farm. Dawn was the oldest of four children and worked hard on...
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