Obituaries

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Keneth Lee Brown

Keneth Lee Brown

Dec 30, 2014

Our loving husband, father, and grandfather, Keneth Lee Brown, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday morning, December 30, 2014, enveloped by the love of his family. Keneth was born November 3, 1938 to Wilbur Allen and Lucy Allred Brown in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He attended Rigby High School and especially enjoyed his math class. He spent much of...

Lawrence Raymond Hoopes

Lawrence Raymond Hoopes

Dec 28, 2014

Lawrence Raymond Hoopes, 86, died Sunday, December 28, 2014 at the Veterans Hospital in Boise, Idaho. Lawrence was born December 5, 1929 at Rupert, Idaho to Benjamin and Mary Fifield Hoopes. In 1935, the family moved to LaBelle, Idaho. He attended school in LaBelle and Rigby. Lawrence served in the US Marine Corps from 1946 to 1950. He then worked...

Barbara Robison Wilcox

Barbara Robison Wilcox

Dec 27, 2014

Barbara Robison Wilcox, age 73, passed away December 27, 2014 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Barbara was born February 11, 1941 at Rigby, Idaho, a daughter to Ivan “Tim” Ormond Robison and Loretta Ellen Larsen Robison. She was raised in Lyman and Rexburg areas, attended elementary school in Lyman and graduated from Madison High School. She...

Elaine Hoggan

Elaine Hoggan

Dec 26, 2014

Ivy Elaine Crystal Hoggan, 81 of Hamer, died Friday, December 26, 2014 at her home. She was born February 17, 1933 in Garfield, Idaho to David Raymond Crystal and Ivy Neilsena Jensen Crystal. She was raised in the Garfield area, attended Rigby schools and graduated from Rigby High School in 1951. Elaine continued her education at Ricks College and received...

John Craig Byington

John Craig Byington

Dec 25, 2014

John Craig Byington, age 62, of Ririe, died at his home Thursday, December 25, 2014. Craig was born February 17, 1952, in Idaho Falls, Idaho a son to Merrill Ray Byington and Bessie Theresa Hunsaker Byington. He attended schools in Ririe graduating from Ririe High School. Following high school he attended technical college and became an electrician. He worked for...

Jarvis John Johnson

Jarvis John Johnson

Dec 23, 2014

Jarvis John Johnson, 50 of Idaho Falls died Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. He was born November 22, 1964 in Rexburg, Idaho to Harold Glen Johnson and Carol Ida Scott Johnson. He was raised and attended schools in Rigby and graduated from Skyline High School in Idhao Falls. He served in the...

Thomas Keith Green

Thomas Keith Green

Dec 23, 2014

Thomas Keith "Tom" Green passed away in his sleep from a heart attack on December 23rd, 2014. Tom was born in Wrightstown, New Jersey, on November 29th, 1966. Tom's early years were spent traveling with his parents on military assignments throughout the world. When Tom was 11 years old, the family settled in Rexburg, Idaho where Tom grew up and...

Verla Toomer Clement

Verla Toomer Clement

Dec 20, 2014

Verla Toomer Clement, 96 of Last Chance, formerly of Rigby, died Saturday, December 20, 2014 in Moreno Valley, California. She was born March 12, 1918 in Montpelier, Idaho to William P. Toomer and Mabel Hymas Toomer. On November 15, 1949 she married Hollis D. Clement in Rigby, Idaho; they were blessed with 2 children, Cheryl Ann and Denis “Duff” Clement....

Stella Gay Walker Hancock

Stella Gay Walker Hancock

Dec 16, 2014

Early on the morning of Tuesday December 16th , 2014 our Heavenly Father welcomed home our wonderful mother and one of His choicest angels after a battle with an aggressive brain cancer. Stella Gaye Walker Hancock is now in the presence of our Lord and enjoying embraces from her loving parents and other loved ones who have gone before. Mom...

Joseph L. Warner

Joseph L. Warner

Dec 14, 2014

Major Joseph L. Warner passed away Sunday, December 14, 2014, after a brief illness. He was born August 7, 1975 to Richard and Joyce Warner. He was raised and attended schools in Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School in 1993. He then started his Army career by enlisting as an interrogator in Military Intelligence. During this time, he attended the...

Nyman Dale Johnson

Nyman Dale Johnson

Dec 12, 2014

Nyman Dale Johnson, 75, of Rigby, died Friday, December 12, 2014 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Nyman was born January 15, 1939 in Logan, Utah a son to Dale Pulsipher Johnson and MarDean Nyman Johnson. He was raised in Logan until the age of 16 and they moved to Idaho Falls. He graduated from Idaho Falls...

Sarah Dixon

Sarah Dixon

Dec 12, 2014

Sarah Dixon, 18 of Ririe, passed away Friday, December 12, 2014 at her home. Sarah was born July 8, 1996 in Rexburg, Idaho to Chad Ken Dixon and Rebecca Ann Zappitello Dixon. She was raised and attended schools in Ririe, and was a 2014 graduate of Ririe High School. During high school Sarah participated in many extracurricular activities; she played...

Roy Fife

Roy Fife

Dec 9, 2014

LeRoy “Roy” Garth Fife, 78, of Idaho Falls, died Tuesday, December 9, 2014, at his home of arterial pulmonary fibrosis. He was born November 24, 1936, in Lewisville, Idaho, to Aaron Clauvasa Fife and Jessie Juanita Miller Fife. He was raised and attended schools in Menan and Rigby, Idaho. On August 29, 1958, he married Helen Marie Jones in the...

Hippie Chesak

Hippie Chesak

Dec 5, 2014

James Allen Chesak aka “Hippie”, 62 of Rigby, died Friday, December 05, 2014 at his home. He was born May 24, 1952 in Florence, Arizona to James “Jim” W. Chesak and Gladys May Snider Chesak. He was raised by the one he loved as mom; Beula Chesak and his dad Jim. He attended schools in Star Valley, Wyoming and Idaho...

Marjorie Palmer Brady

Marjorie Palmer Brady

Dec 5, 2014

Marjorie Palmer Brady, age 90, died at the Gables of Ammon Friday, December 5, 2014. She was born August 14, 1924, in Iona, Idaho to Don Treasure and Hazel Magleby Treasure. She was raised in the Garfield area attending Rigby schools and graduated from Rigby High School. On September 2, 1947 she married Drue E. Palmer in the Idaho Falls...

Elaine Ball Archibald

Elaine Ball Archibald

Dec 5, 2014

Elaine Ball Archibald, 67, passed away Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Rexburg, after a nearly four-year battle with brain cancer (glioblastoma). Elaine was born in Idaho Falls on July 2, 1947, to Ronald James and Emily Madsen Ball. She had a happy childhood in Lewisville, riding horses and swimming in canals. Being from a farm family she also weeded beets,...

Susan Rebecca Green

Susan Rebecca Green

Dec 4, 2014

Susan Rebecca Green, 54, of Idaho Falls, Idaho died Thursday, December 4, 2014, at the home of her son in Idaho Falls. Susan was born August 25, 1960, in Idaho Falls, a daughter of Franklin Delano Evans and Shirley Ann Shipley Evans. Susan was raised and attended schools in Fernley, Nevada. She married Barry Taylor on February 2, 1979 at...

Maralyn Hill Lovell

Maralyn Hill Lovell

Dec 2, 2014

Maralyn Hill Lovell, 88, of Ririe passed away Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at The Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born July 31, 1926 at the family home in Ucon, Idaho, to Robert E. Hill and Fanny Marguerite Monsen Hill. After graduating from Ucon High School, she attended Ricks College where she received a teaching certificate. Teaching first...

Mary N. Grover

Mary N. Grover

Nov 30, 2014

Mary N. Grover, 69, our beloved daughter, mother, wife, sister, grandmother and friend passed from this life and entered into eternity on November 30, 2014 after a valiant battle with breast cancer. She was born on November 16, 1945, the second child of P.C. and Edith Bowen, Jr. She was raised in Ashton and Spencer and attended Clark County schools,...

Joie Elaine Hilton

Joie Elaine Hilton

Nov 26, 2014

Joie Elaine McKean Hilton, age 94, died Wednesday, November 26, 2014 in Rigby, Idaho. Joie was born March 14, 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah, a daughter to Joseph Emery McKean and Ruth Elizabeth Larsen McKean. She attended schools in Dividend, Goshen and Payson, Utah. She attended the UofU then Nurses Training at LDS Hospital School of Nursing in Salt...