Michael David Powell
Apr 28, 2017
Michael David Powell, 33, of Newdale, Idaho, was called home to our Heavenly Father at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, surrounded by his family, on April 28th, 2017. He was lovingly known to everyone as Mikie. Mikie was born on June 12th, 1983 at Madison Memorial Hospital to Michael and Cindy Smith Powell, of Newdale. He was born with Down...
Ralph Sewell
Apr 25, 2017
Ralph Kay Sewell, 72, of Driggs, Idaho passed away April 25, 2017 at Teton Valley Hospital. He was born on May 29, 1944 in Driggs, Idaho. He was the youngest child of seven children born to Perry Arthur and Merle Josephine Sewell. His father and uncle owned a car dealership in Driggs and at an early age he would go...
Kade Higley
Apr 23, 2017
Justin Kade Higley, 33, died April 23,2017 at his home in Salt Lake City. He was born May 30,1983 in Rexburg Idaho. He is the son of Donetta Steiner. Kade was raised in Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School in 2001. He also attended Boise State University. He then moved to Ashton and was employed at Dave's Jubilee and...
Marla Ricks
Apr 23, 2017
Marla Ann Holyoak Ricks, 65, of Rexburg passed away peacefully in her sleep on April 23, 2017. She fought a valiant battle with Multiple Sclerosis which was diagnosed in 1968. She overcame many odds, living with this disease for nearly fifty years. She will be remembered for her happy, positive disposition; her smile, her love of life, and her love...
Garth Miller
Apr 23, 2017
Steve Garth Miller, 56, of Idaho Falls, died Sunday, April 23, 2017 at Intermountain Health Center in Utah. He was born February 23, 1961 in St. Anthony, Idaho to Lawrence Wallace and Ruth Rudd Miller. He attended schools in St. Anthony graduating from South Fremont High School. After high school he went on to Easter Idaho Vocation College and earning...
Don Carlos Smith
Apr 22, 2017
Carlos Smith Don Carlos Smith, 67 of Idaho Falls, died on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at home surrounded by family. He was born on August 4, 1949 in Rexburg, Idaho to Howard Henry and LuDene Ward Smith. He was raised in St. Anthony where he received his education. After graduating from South Fremont High School in 1967, he joined the...
Iris Birch
Apr 21, 2017
We as a family have nothing but good memories of our dearest "MOM", friend, servant, and kind person. Iris Birch was born on September 25, 1924 to Ira and Delilah Beck. Her early years were spent in the family home in Parker Idaho. She was always surrounded by brothers and sisters and instantly became a mom to them. She was...
Joe Costa
Apr 19, 2017
Joseph Robert Costa died in his daughter-in-law's arms on Wednesday, April 19. Joe suffered from heart-related issues for the past several years, and succumbed to a heart attack Wednesday morning. Joe was born in California to Carmilla (Millie) DeNardo on May 30, 1937. Joe was an only child, but was surrounded by a large extended family. His marriage to Brenda...
Norma Stucki
Apr 16, 2017
Norma Jeannette Stucki, 84, of Rexburg, passed away peacefully on April 16, 2017, Easter Sunday, surrounded by her loving family. Norma was born October 17, 1932, to Alfred and Jean Rayment, at the Royal Alex Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The family moved to Hylo, Alberta where she grew up. She moved back to Edmonton in her late teens and...
Krayton Michaelson
Apr 16, 2017
Krayton Whyte Michaelson was born on July 5, 2012 in Pocatello, Idaho to Travis and MiKelle Michaelson. He lived in Pocatello for the first two years of his life. On June 19, 2014, Krayton was blessed with another father, Robert Doyle Barney. At this time in his life, he moved with his mother to Rexburg, Idaho where he lived the...
Kim Jacobs
Apr 16, 2017
Kim Weeks Jacobs, 59, of Rexburg, died April 16, of natural causes. She was born February 11, 1958, to Belva Ilene Smith Weeks and Loyz Blanchard Weeks. She was the sixth of eleven children, and was raised in Southern California. She loved the ocean, listening to the waves, and watching the sunset. She was married to Marcello Quillin Jacobs, in...
Jerald Johnson
Apr 15, 2017
Jerald Dean Johnson, 53 of Rexburg, died Saturday, April 15, 2017 at his home. He was born August 20, 1963 in Vernal Utah to Don and Betty Johnson. After high school he met and married Kathy Mae Nelson in Utah. They raised five children together. He would go on to work in the oil fields. He was an avid angler,...
Janet Barrus
Apr 12, 2017
Janet Bitter Barrus, beloved mother and grandmother, age 91 of Sugar City, Idaho died Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at Homestead Assisted Living Center, in Rexburg, of natural causes. She was born on November 13, 1925 at the family home in Twin Falls, Idaho to William Ericksen Bitter and Myrtle Irene West. She attended elementary school in Twin Falls until the...
Leeroy Tanner
Apr 12, 2017
LeeRoy John Tanner, 55 of St. Anthony died Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at his home under the care of his sister and Rexburg Home Health and Hospice. He was born on April 28, 1961 in St. Anthony to John Clark and Bernice Effie Jones Tanner. LeRoy was raised in Marysville and attended special education in St. Anthony where he received...
Vern Little
Apr 11, 2017
David Vern Little, 81, formerly of Driggs, died April 11, 2017 at home in Salem surrounded by his family. He was born April 2, 1936, one of eleven children, to Elmer and Harriett Little in Driggs, Idaho. He attended schools in Teton County, graduating from Teton High School. While in school he enjoyed shop and ag. classes as well as...
Harold Forbush
Apr 10, 2017
Our father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother and friend, passed away peacefully at the Homestead in Rexburg where he had been living for the past several years surrounded by his family. Harold was born December 2, 1921 in Driggs, Idaho to Elmer and Blanche Mackley Forbush, the oldest son of eleven children. The family homesteaded in the Bates area in the Big...
Norma Mestad
Apr 10, 2017
Norma Dene Mestad was born in Glenns Ferry, Idaho in 1927 to Alma and Clara Fikstad Smith. She accompanied her family to Mesa, Arizona as a child. Following her graduation from Mesa High in 1945, she began her career at Western Union and Bell Telephone, and eventually moved to California. A lifelong LDS member, she also traveled and enjoyed sightseeing....
Ricky Robison
Apr 6, 2017
Ricky F. Robison, age 70 of Rexburg, died Thursday, April 6, 2017 in Idaho Falls. He was born July 5,1946 in Rexburg, Idaho. He was the son of Ferris and Arva Jones Robison. He attended school in Rexburg and Ricks College. He married Nancy Robison and later divorced. They had three children. On September 14,1990 Rick married Pauline Herndon in...
Megan Jorgensen
Apr 4, 2017
Megan Marie Jorgensen,40, left this life on April 4, 2017 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She was born December 9, 1976 in Ely, Nevada to Russell and Sue Fay. She attended schools in Ely, graduating from White Pine High School in 1995. She will be remembered for her laughter, her smile and the ability to love without condition. Megan had a...
Florence Manwaring
Apr 3, 2017
Early in the morning of April 3rd, our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and dearest friend, Florence W. Manwaring, peacefully passed away at the Homestead, after a long and valiant battle with Alzheimer's disease. Florence was born June 27, 1935 in Bancroft, Idaho to Francis and Wanda Whitworth. She was the fifth of seven children. She grew up on the...
