Obituaries

Vearl Lavar Hansen
Jan 26, 2015
Vearl LaVar Hansen, 79 of Burton passed away Monday, January 26, 2015 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born March 26, 1935 in Independence, Idaho to Nels Christain Hansen and Molly Bischoff Hansen. He was raised and attended schools in Rexburg, graduating from Madison High School. While in high school, he was the President of the FFA. On September 16,...
Donna Lucille Hill
Jan 22, 2015
Donna Lucille Gneiting Hill, 92, peacefully passed away on January 22nd, 2015 at Pine Brook Assisted Living Center. Born in Garfield, Idaho, she was the daughter on William and Mabel Gneiting. She attended and graduated from Garfield school. She was a member of the Armed Forces and was honorably discharged from the Women's Army Corps. In life she enjoyed traveling,...
Ashlee Grace Andrews
Jan 22, 2015
Ashlee Grace Andrews came into this world early at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center on October 14, 1994. On January 22, 2015, she left this world too early at the same hospital. She was twenty years old. Ashlee attended elementary and junior high in Boise, Idaho. At age fifteen, she moved to Oregon, graduating from Cascade High School in Aumsville....
Dean Bernell Allgood
Jan 21, 2015
Dean Bernell Allgood 94 of Rigby, passed away Jan 21st, 2015 at The Gables in Ammon surrounded by his family. Dad was born October 10, 1920 in Hibbard, Idaho, to Arthur and Geneva Jensen Allgood. He was the oldest child followed by three sisters, Bernice, Phyllis and Marjorie. When Dad was 8 years old his parents divorced and his Grandma...
Blaine Grover
Jan 21, 2015
Blaine Grover, 90 of Dubois died Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born November 29, 1924 in Rigby, Idaho to Ursel Leroy Grover and Alice Hutchens Grover. He was raised and attended schools in Rigby and Ririe and graduated from Ririe High School. He married Dorothy Rose Weeks, they later divorced. He then married Dona Hadley,...
Ona Thompson
Jan 20, 2015
Ona LuDean Thompson, age 82, of Rigby, passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2015, at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho. Ona was born March 28, 1932, in Madison County, Idaho, a daughter to Raymond Grover and Katie Browning Grover. She attended schools in Archer and Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School. She married James Howard Thompson in Idaho Falls,...
Tyson Craig Hart
Jan 20, 2015
Tyson Craig Hart, 26, of Boise, Idaho, died in his home on Tuesday, January 20, 2015. He was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on May 14, 1988, to Craig Hart and Julie Turnbull Packer. He attended school in Rigby and Ririe, Idaho, and also in California and Washington. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Idaho Falls. He was currently...
Larue Williams Phillips Pack
Jan 19, 2015
LaRue Williams Phillips Pack, 86 of Idaho Falls, died Monday, January 19, 2015, at her home. LaRue was born August 17, 1928 in Idaho Falls, Idaho a daughter of Charles and Vonda Amelia Wood Williams. She graduated from Idaho Falls High School and continued her education at Ricks College. LaRue was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of...
Fred Jay Lords
Jan 18, 2015
Fred Jay Lords, 56 of Roberts, Idaho passed away Sunday, January 18, 2015. He was born November 15, 1958 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Kenneth I. Lords and Lois M. Gardner Lords. Fred attended elementary and junior high school in Roberts and attended West Jefferson High School in Terreton, Idaho. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for 22...
William Dennis Harris
Jan 17, 2015
William Dennis Harris, age 75, of Ucon, passed away in The Gardens of Rigby, Saturday, January 17, 2015. He died peacefully in his sleep after suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Dennis was born March 18, 1939 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to William M. and Juliana Petersen Harris. He graduated from Rigby High School and then served a mission for the LDS...
Betty Lucille Morris
Jan 15, 2015
Betty Lucille Morris, age 91, passed away Thursday, January 15, 2015 at Parkwood Assisted Living in Idaho Falls. Betty was born June 23, 1923 at Boise, Idaho a daughter to Charles Allen Peebles and Laura Ethel Engelke Peebles. She was raised and attended schools in Boise. When she was 14 years old she taught dance classes in Boise. On August...
Geraldine "Gerry" J. Bottcher
Jan 14, 2015
Geraldine “Gerry” J. Bottcher, 79, lifetime resident of Twin Falls, died January 14, 2015, at Life Care Center of Idaho Falls in Ammon. Services will be Wednesday, January 21, 2015, at 3:00 p.m. at Life Care Center in Idaho Falls, (2527 E. 17th). Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery in Twin Falls, Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 1:00...
Rita Elizabeth Barnes
Jan 13, 2015
Rita Elizabeth Barnes, age 89, died at her home in Ririe, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 . Rita was born March 28, 1925 at the family home near Rigby a daughter to J. B. Summers and Nettie L. Harris Summers. She attended Clark Schools near Rigby. She married Albert C. Barnes November 12, 1942 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She Worked for...
Connie Kay Schlueter Nelson
Jan 11, 2015
On Sunday, January 11 our loving mother, Connie Kay Schlueter Nelson, began a season of slumber. She left this life peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, until the sunrise of God's great promise. Born in St. Louis Missouri April 2, 1949 to Gordon Carl Schlueter and Alma Ethel Inman. She was raised in Sacramento California, attended Bella Vista High School,...
Mary Lou Thomson
Jan 10, 2015
Mary Lou Thomson, devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, peacefully passed away in her home in Rexburg, Idaho, on January 10, 2015. She was born in Rexburg, Idaho on December 30, 1939 to Horace Wylie and Mae Della Hoopes. She enjoyed a lively childhood with winters spent in Rexburg and summers on the family dry farm in the Teton Basin. She...
Mary Beth Green
Jan 10, 2015
Mary Beth Green died Saturday, January 10, 2015 at The Gardens Assisted Living Center in Rigby. Mary was born September 8, 1926 to Ivan and Josephine Carpenter Lawson. She attended Menan elementary and graduated from Midway High School. On October 1, 1947 she married Dale V. Green in Idaho Falls. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls L.D.S....
Beverly Jean Johnson
Jan 3, 2015
Beverly Jean Johnson passed away at the Great Oaks Assisted Living Center in Rigby, Idaho on January 3, 2015 only two short months after losing the love of her life, Robert “Bob” Johnson. Beverly Jean Nielsen was born March 2, 1935 to Mel and Rachel Nielsen of Hamer, Idaho. She was the oldest of four children: Margaret Wood, Blackfoot, Karl...
Jay Marchant
Jan 2, 2015
Ira “Jay” Marchant, 85, passed away on January 2, 2015, at Teton Post Acute Care in Idaho Falls. Jay was born on September 30, 1929, in Grant, Idaho. He was the oldest child of Vernal and Severn Eda Hix Marchant. He attended schools in Grant and Midway graduating from Midway High School in 1947. While in high school, he was...
Delila Reed
Dec 31, 2014
Delila Stitt Reed, 89, of Ririe passed away peacefully on December 31, 2014 at her home. She was the fourth daughter of Ben and Eva Stitt. She graduated from Ririe High School and attended Ricks College. She married Gale A. Reed in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple on February 23, 1945. Gale and Delila made their home in Ririe,...
Ann Strupp
Dec 31, 2014
Norma Ann Chivers Strupp, age 74 of Rigby passed away Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She was born March 13, 1940 in Rigby, Idaho, a daughter to H. Wayne Chivers and Norma Mary Bates Chivers. She was raised in the Rigby and Ririe areas, attended Rigby schools, and graduated from Rigby High...
