Obituaries

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Robert "Bob" Louis Olsen

Robert "Bob" Louis Olsen

Apr 3, 2015

Robert “Bob” Louis Olsen, age 60, of Menan, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls Friday, April 3rd 2015. Bob was born April 7th 1954 in Idaho Falls to Louis Wayne and Mildred Alta Bowen Olsen. He attended special needs school in Grant, Roberts and Rigby. He was involved with Developmental Workshop for over 42 years;...

Ervin Earl Rohwer

Ervin Earl Rohwer

Mar 28, 2015

Ervin Earl Rohwer, 83, of Rigby, died at Life Care Center of Idaho Falls, Saturday March 28, 2015. Ervin was born April 18, 1931, in Parker, Idaho a son of Irl Adolph Rohwer and Eudora Pearce Rohwer. He attended Rigby High School and Weber State University. On June 1, 1956, he married Venice Baugh In Wellsville, Utah. Their marriage was...

Ronald James Ball

Ronald James Ball

Mar 26, 2015

Ronald James Ball, Jr. died Thursday, March 26, 2015 doing what he loved best, working on his farm. R.J. was born in Idaho Falls to Ronald and Emily Ball on June 10, 1943. He attended school at Lewisville Elementary, and Midway Jr. High. He then attended Rigby High school where he wrestled and was active in the FFA. He spent...

Carma Ririe Fillmore

Carma Ririe Fillmore

Mar 22, 2015

Carma Ririe Fillmore died peacefully in Idaho Falls Teton Post Acute Care & Rehab Center on Sunday, March 22nd, 2015, aged 83. Carma was born on May 22, 1931 in Ririe, Idaho to James E. and Verna Perry Ririe. She attended Ririe Elementary and Ririe High School and completed her Teaching Degree at Ricks College before teaching school in Shelley,...

Dianna Jean Ball

Dianna Jean Ball

Mar 22, 2015

Dianna Jean Powell Ball, 69, of Monteview, Idaho, passed away at home surrounded by family Sunday March, 22, 2015 after a hard-fought battle with metastatic breast cancer. Dianna was born in Roosevelt, Utah July 20, 1945 to Wayne and Ruby Powell. She grew up in Lehi, UT with sisters Bonnie Goodfellow (Don), Patricia, Shauna Wadley (Kent), and brother Duane (Dianne)....

Nedine Stowell

Nedine Stowell

Mar 21, 2015

Nedine Maurer Stowell, 85, of Rigby, passed away at home March 21, 2015 surrounded by her family. She was born in Gibson, ID April 17, 1929 to Daniel Fredrick and Sarah Elizabeth Maurer. At age 5 her family moved to Gardner, MT where her father worked for the National Park Service in Yellowstone Park. With the outbreak of WWII, her...

John Rial Ball

John Rial Ball

Mar 18, 2015

John Rial Ball, 73, of Lewisville, passed away at his home Wednesday March 18, 2015. John was born August 7, 1941 in Rigby Idaho, a son to Alfred Vernon Ball Sr. and Ruey Allen Ball. John farmed and ranched in the Lewisville/Monteview area for many years. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in...

Leah Elnora Radford Blosch Hurley

Leah Elnora Radford Blosch Hurley

Mar 17, 2015

Leah Elnora Radford Blosch Hurley, 91, of Rigby, passed away at The Gardens of Rigby, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Leah was the fourth of ten children born to Wesley W. Russell and Sylvia E. Peterson Russell. Her childhood was filled with adventure on the farm. The children loved to sing and their mother taught them to do so in harmony....

Demont "Ike" Crystal

Demont "Ike" Crystal

Mar 13, 2015

Demont J “Ike” Crystal, age 88, of Grant, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Friday March 13, 2015. He was born May 3, 1926 at Garfield, Idaho a son to Andrew Vern Crystal and Bessie Venetta Randall Crystal. He was raised and attended schools in Garfield and Ucon. He married Glenna May Johnson March 26,...

Doris Lorraine Womack

Doris Lorraine Womack

Mar 11, 2015

Doris Lorraine Womack, 89, of Blackfoot, died March 11, 2015 at the Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg. Doris was born May 8, 1925 in Groveland, Idaho the daughter of Malvern Leroy Wallace and Mary Maude Walker Wallace. Doris was raised on her family’s homestead ranch on Graves Creek 25 miles east of Blackfoot near the Blackfoot River. She married Almo...

Jacqueline N Boyce

Jacqueline N Boyce

Mar 11, 2015

Jacqueline N. Boyce, 84, of Rigby died Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at the Life Care Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls. Jacqueline was born January 13, 1931, in Moore, Idaho a daughter of James Alexander Noble and Alice LaVerda Reynolds Noble. She was raised and attended school in Moore and Arco and graduated from High school in Arco. She continued...

Lionel Vance Koon

Lionel Vance Koon

Mar 11, 2015

On March 11, 2015 the world lost an amazing man. Lionel Vance Koon transitioned from this world after a valiant effort to survive esophageal cancer. Lionel was born May 31, 1942 in Lynwood, California while his parents, Robert and Robinette were stationed there at the end of WWII. The Koon’s soon moved back to Idaho where they raised Lionel and...

Clea Tolley Mattson Moss

Clea Tolley Mattson Moss

Mar 11, 2015

Clea Tolley Moss, age 93, of Payson, Utah, passed away in Payson, Utah, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Clea was born January 11, 1922, in Rigby, Idaho a daughter to Ernest Theodore Tolley and Vera June Chandler Tolley. She married Mark Leroy Mattson, June 20, 1945 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Clea worked hard all her life. She loved gardening....

Lynn Packer Thomson

Lynn Packer Thomson

Mar 10, 2015

Lynn Packer Thomson, devoted husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on March 10, 2015 after 76 years of joyous living. Lynn was born in Rexburg, Idaho on October 20, 1938 to Lester Swainston and Lera Packer Thomson. He was raised on the family farm in Rexburg, Idaho and married his childhood sweetheart, Mary Lou Hoopes, on June 18, 1958 in...

Robert Cole Millet

Robert Cole Millet

Mar 8, 2015

Robert Cole Millet, 71 of Rigby, Idaho died Sunday, March 8, 2015, at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Robert was born May 16, 1943, in Provo, Utah a son of Lorin Elmer Millet and Ruth Maria Henry Millet. He was raised and attended school in Orem, Utah and Rigby, Idaho, graduating from Rigby High School. He continued his education...

Robert Boyd Robertson

Robert Boyd Robertson

Mar 6, 2015

Robert Boyd Robertson, age 83, of Rigby, died March 6, 2015, at his home in Rigby. Boyd was born December 15, 1931, in Plano, Idaho a son of Robert Clifford Robertson and Geneva Palmer Robertson. Boyd was raised and attended school in Plano and graduated from Sugar Salem High School. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ...

Della Margaret Merrill

Della Margaret Merrill

Mar 1, 2015

Della Margaret Galbraith Merrill, age 94, of Menan, Idaho, passed away peacefully Sunday March 1, 2015 surrounded by her loving family at the Rexburg Care and Rehabilitation Center in Rexburg, Idaho. She and her husband were long time residents of Annis, Idaho and had just recently moved to Menan, Idaho. Della was born December 12, 1920 at Lyman, Idaho a...

Elmer George Wilde

Elmer George Wilde

Mar 1, 2015

Elmer George Wilde, 85 died of natural causes on Sunday, March 1, 2015 at his home in Roberts surrounded by his family. Elmer was born June 21, 1929 in Arco, Idaho to Andrew George Wilde and Alice Rae Burton Wilde. He attended elementary school in Shelley. His father, Andrew, was killed in a car accident when Elmer was 12 years...

Joan Frances Hamilton

Joan Frances Hamilton

Feb 27, 2015

Joan Francis Hamilton, age 72, of Rigby, passed away at The Gardens in Rigby, Friday, February 27, 2015 after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. Joan was born August 20, 1942 in Blackfoot, Idaho, to Clarence and Esther Annen. She grew up in Pingree, Springfield and Aberdeen and then graduated from Aberdeen High School. She married Ed Fehringer in 1960...

Lamont Ray Thorngren

Lamont Ray Thorngren

Feb 24, 2015

LaMont Ray Thorngren, age 76, of Rigby, passed away at his home, Tuesday February 24, 2015. LaMont was born October 31, 1938 in Rigby, Idaho a son of Glen and Elna Larsen Thonrgren. He grew up in Idaho Falls and attended Idaho Falls High School. He married Verna Mae Humpherys June 6, 1958 in Idaho Falls. Their marriage was later...