Obituaries

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Laron K. Allred

Laron K. Allred

Jul 15, 2015

Laron K. Allred, 78 of Rigby, died Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Laron is survived by his wife, Buff Allred, of Rigby, Daughter Lona (Dennis) Haman, of Aberdeen, Laron Kirk Allred, of Redding, California, sister, Velma Wren, of Nampa, Ilene Allred, of Idaho Falls, 6 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. He was preceded...

Donald Kay Price

Donald Kay Price

Jul 15, 2015

Donald Kay Price, age 67, passed away Wednesday, July 15, 2015, at his home in Milo of cancer. He was born March 6, 1948, in Idaho Falls to Russell Roosevelt Price and Effie Lavern Brown Price. He was raised in Milo and attended schools in Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School. He continued his education at Ricks College in Rexburg...

David Harker Bell

David Harker Bell

Jul 14, 2015

David Harker Bell, 80, of Roberts, died Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at the Gable Assisted Living Center in Ammon. He was born November 9, 1934, in Idaho Falls, Idaho a son of Hyrum Victor Bell Sr. and Elizabeth Harker Bell. David was raised and attended school in Roberts graduating from Roberts High School. He continued his education at Ricks College...

Deanna Rae Wilde

Deanna Rae Wilde

Jul 13, 2015

Our loving mother, grandma, sister, and friend, Deanna Rae Hubbard Wilde, 78, passed away on Monday July 13, 2015 at her home in Roberts surrounded by her family. Deanna was a New Year’s baby, born on January 1, 1937, in Rigby, Idaho, to Lee and Lenore Hubbard. Her childhood years were in Rigby where she grew up with her 2...

Howard Murray Barnard

Howard Murray Barnard

Jul 12, 2015

Howard Murray Barnard, age 90, formerly of Rigby and Aberdeen, passed away Sunday July 12, 2015 at The Gables of Ammon. Howard was born October 22, 1924 in Beatrice, Nebraska to Murray Barnard and Mary Epp Barnard. He attended Rural Gage County Schools and Graduated from Beatrice High School. He married Elsie Marie Jantzen November 28, 1946 in Beatrice, Nebraska....

Rhonda Tess Rodriguez

Rhonda Tess Rodriguez

Jul 10, 2015

Rhonda “Tess” Cordon Rodriguez, 62, of Rigby, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Friday, July 10th, 2015. She was born January 13th 1953 at Rigby, Idaho, to Leo LaVern Cordon and Lida Rae Durrant Cordon. She was rasied and attended school in Rigby. She married Moises Rodriguez on January 10th 1975, and later gave birth...

Bonnie Luzon Blakely

Bonnie Luzon Blakely

Jul 9, 2015

Bonnie LuZon Blakely, 85 of Idaho Falls, formerly of Ririe, died Thursday, July 09, 2015. She was born July 8, 1930 in Rupert, Idaho to Joseph LeRoy Hardy and Vaudis LuZon Wodskow Hardy. She was raised and attended schools in Rupert, Buhl, Archer and Richfield, Idaho. She continued her education and graduating from Idaho Falls Business College. On June 16,...

Walter George Huntington

Walter George Huntington

Jul 9, 2015

Walter George Huntington, age 64, of Rigby, passed away Thursday, July 9th 2015. Walter was born December 8th 1950 in Whittier, California a son to Kenneth Felix Huntington and Ruth Rogene Kelly Huntington. Throughout his life he has worked as a Truck Driver in Potato Processing and lived with his Uncle Walter Kelly in Rigby. He is survived by a...

Gary Lamar Martinsen

Gary Lamar Martinsen

Jul 6, 2015

Gary LaMar Martinsen, 78 of Rexburg, died Monday, July 06, 2015 at his home. Gary was born February 10, 1937 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Frank Henry Maritnsen and Geneva Alverda Smith Martinsen. His mother passed away when he was 3 years old and his father remarried Viola Lewis Brooker. He was raised and attended schools in the Grant area...

Pennie Sue Parmer

Pennie Sue Parmer

Jul 5, 2015

Pennie Sue Parmer, 63 of Idaho Falls, passed away July 5, 2015, from complications of rheumatoid arthritis. Pennie was born March 26, 1952, the eleventh child of Ted and Helen Parmer. She, was raised in Menan, Idaho, attended schools in Menan and Rigby and then continued her education at Salt Lake Community College. She worked in Buttrey’s bakery in Idaho...

Kathleen Messerli

Kathleen Messerli

Jul 4, 2015

Kathleen Messerli, 65, of Terreton, passed away at her home, Saturday July 4th, 2015. Kathleen was born July 17th 1949 at Pocatello, Idaho a daughter to Reece A. Marshall and Grace Hanes Marshall. She attended Pocatello and Milford, Utah schools graduating from Milford High School. She married David Charles Messerli, February 17, 2001 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. She...

Alice Ricks

Alice Ricks

Jun 28, 2015

Alice Scott Ricks, 94 of Ririe, passed away Sunday, June 28, 2015 at her home. Alice was born to Samuel Rudger Scott and Esther Denning Scott in Ririe, April 3, 1921 in Ririe. She was raised and attended schools in Ririe, graduating from Ririe High School. On August 6, 1938, she married Bennie Charles Ricks in LaBelle; their marriage was...

Betty Anthony

Betty Anthony

Jun 24, 2015

Betty Rowan Anthony passed away peacefully at the home of her daughter Barbara (Harry) Groom on June 24, 2015 at the age of 94. She was born on March 2, 1921, in Murray, Utah to Milo LeGrand Rowan and Anna Ardella Jansson Rowan. Betty was part of an early pioneer family who settled Ririe, Idaho. She married her high school...

Louis Gale Browning

Louis Gale Browning

Jun 21, 2015

Louis Gale Browning age 76 passed away from a heart attack on June 21st, 2015, at his home in Green Valley, Arizona. Gale was born, May 11, 1939, to Louis and Clara Browning in Lorenzo, Idaho. Gale grew up on a farm and helped his father farm and raise cattle. His mother passed away when Gale was only 11 years...

Dorothy Ann Rudolph

Dorothy Ann Rudolph

Jun 20, 2015

Dorothy Ann Whitten Rudolph age 92, passed away on Saturday, June 20, 2015 at the Gardens Assisted Living Center in Rigby, Idaho. Dorothy was born September 25, 1922 at Portland, Oregon to Evelyn Ann Van der Ven Preston and Jerome Preston. Dorothy married her high school sweetheart Lowell “Bud” Whitten February 1942. Bud was serving in the Army at Ft....

Lamar B Ellis

Lamar B Ellis

Jun 18, 2015

LaMar B. Ellis, was born January 1, 1935 in Blackfoot, Idaho. LaMar was raised in Mackay, Idaho. His parents were Alice and Rowsel Ellis both deceased. He had three sisters Shirley Papworth (Loren) both deceased , Deanna Jardine (Marvin) of Arco Idaho and Wilma Kuhn (David) residing in Carlsbad, California. He had one brother that he was very proud of...

Francella Lee Tanner

Francella Lee Tanner

Jun 12, 2015

Francella Lee Tanner, (Francie) age 92 of Idaho Falls passed away June 12, 2015, at The Gables of Shelley Assisted Living Center. Francie was born in Rigby, Idaho on March 13, 1923 to Raymond C Peterson and Mary Ellen Cleverly Peterson. She married Ted Lee in 1943. They enjoyed hunting and fishing together before Ted passed way on June 25,...

Dana Jensen

Dana Jensen

Jun 12, 2015

Dana Michael Jensen, 44, of Bismarck, ND, formerly of Rigby, ID, died June 12, 2015, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Dana was born June 7, 1971, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Nels Craig Jensen and Jean Ellen Durie Jensen (Zimmerman). He grew up primarily in Rigby, ID, although he lived one year in Sugar City, ID, and attended...

Verna Jean Groth

Verna Jean Groth

Jun 9, 2015

Verna Jean Tyler Groth, 75 of Rigby, left us in the twinkling of an eye, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Verna was born August 8, 1939 in Ucon, Idaho to Joseph LeMond Tyler and LuVenda Harriet Barker Tyler. She was raised and attended schools in Ririe. On November 15, 1955 she married...

Elbert Dale Taylor

Elbert Dale Taylor

Jun 9, 2015

Elbert Dale Taylor; age 94, passed away peacefully Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at the Sage Grove assisted living center in Rigby. Idaho. Elbert was born April 26, 1921 in Las Flores, California, the Son of Curtis Wilmer and Annie Sophie Taylor. He grew up and attended schools in Rigby and Ririe, Idaho. He graduated from Rigby High School. He married...