Obituaries

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Grant "Jay" Roberts
Jun 8, 2015
Grant “Jay” Roberts, age 50, passed away Monday, June 8, 2015, peacefully in his sleep at his home in Menan. He was born January 26, 1965 to Grant Jensen Roberts and Shirley Winegar Roberts; he was the 3rd of 4 children and the oldest son. Jay married Joan McNee in 1984 and later divorced. This union gave Jay two wonderful...
Clyde William Poole
Jun 8, 2015
Clyde William Poole passed away at his home in Labelle, ID on June 8, 2015 surrounded by his wife and children. Clyde was born on April 11, 1933 in Menan, ID at home. He was the 5th out of 10 children born to Joseph and Inez Poole and according to his siblings was the most spoiled. He graduated from Rigby...
Helen Waddell
Jun 6, 2015
Helen Waddell, age 81 of Rigby, passed away at her home Saturday, June 6th 2015. Helen was born January 13, 1934, at Idaho Falls, Idaho a daughter to William Henry Waters and Hannah Elizabeth Nield Waters. She was raised in Milo and Ucon and attended Bonneville High School. She married Edlef Bruce Edlefsen, October 2, 1950 in Ucon, Idaho. On...
Kathryn Reese Dansie
Jun 6, 2015
Kathryn Reese Dansie, beloved wife, mother, sister and daughter, passed away on June 6, 2015 surrounded by her family. She had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's in 2010, but really struggled the last several months and slipped away peacefully to return to her Heavenly Father. In the summer of 1948, Ross Neal Reese and Beth Berger Reese welcomed their...
Shauna Lee Paul
Jun 5, 2015
Shauna Lee Paul, 59, of Rigby, passed away at the hospital in Idaho Falls, Friday, June 5, 2015. Shauna was born December 17, 1955, at Spanish Fork, Utah a daughter of Robert Southam and Betty Ann Schaefer Southam. She was raised in California, Utah, Alaska, and Idaho. Her family moved around following her father’s work on the railroad. She graduated...
Alice Joy Gallup
Jun 4, 2015
Alice Joy Walker Gallup, age 91, passed away June 4, 2015 from pancreatic cancer. She is with her beloved Irvin. Alice was born March 20, 1924 in Menan, Idaho as the third of ten children to John Lewis and Inez Louisa Walker. She is survived by her four children Douglas (Connie) Gallup, Robert (Wanda) Gallup, Susan (Douglas) Stoddard, and Mary...
Cameron Dean Ricks
Jun 3, 2015
Cameron Dean Ricks, age 53, of Rexburg, passed away at Idaho Falls Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Wednesday June 3rd, 2015 from complications of a stroke. Cameron was born July 24, 1961 in Idaho Falls a son to Vernon Dean Ricks and Phyllis Bernice Jensen Ricks. He attended schools in Ucon and graduated from Bonneville High School. He then attended...
Opal Roberta Walker
Jun 2, 2015
Opal Roberta Green Walker, 98, passed away peacefully on June 2, 2015, at The Gardens of Rigby. Opal's life began on January 8, 1917, in the cold morning hours at a farm house in Menan, Idaho. Her parents, William Lorenzo Green and Dora Amanda Taylor Green were thrilled to have a beautiful daughter. Opal was the first girl, after four...
Joyce Walker Marriott
Jun 2, 2015
Joyce Walker Marriott, passed away at her home in Rigby Tuesday June 2nd 2015 with her family present. Joyce was born in Grant, Idaho July 22, 1930 a daughter to Mayor “Mike” Walker and Maple Irene Rapp Walker. She attended Lewisville Grade School, Midway Junior High School and graduated from Roberts High School. She then attended Ricks College and finished...
Virginia Hazel Poulsen
May 30, 2015
Virginia Hazel Taylor Poulsen of Lewsiville, Idaho, beloved Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Friend died today May 30, 2015, at the age of 93, at her Daughter’s home in Rigby, due to complications of age. Virginia was born on March 11, 1922 in Ogden, Weber, Utah. She is a daughter of Hazel Randall Taylor and Wilford Joseph Taylor. She lived in...
Mitchel Leroy Evans
May 29, 2015
Mitchel LeRoy Evans, 43, of Idaho Falls passed away Friday, May 29, 2015 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls at 3:55 a.m. due to complications from pneumonia. Mitch was born at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg on February 12, 1972 to Larry S. Evans and Geraldine Fay Anderson Evans. Mitch was born nearly a month premature and...
