Obituaries

James Keith Garrett
Sep 8, 2013
James Keith Garrett, 84, of Rigby, died Sunday, September 8, 2013, at his home. He was born in Poplar, Idaho, in September of 1929 to James Hyrum Garrett and Stella Killian Garrett. He was raised and attended schools in Lewisville, graduating from Midway High School in 1947. He attended a trade school in Denver Colorado and worked there until joining...
Linda Clegg
Sep 5, 2013
Linda Clegg, 61 of Ammon, formerly of Rigby, died Thursday, September 5, 2013; she was in the care of DeeOn Waters, the staff and all of her sisters at New Beginnings in Ammon. She was also under the care of Hearts For Hospice. She was born October 17, 1951 in Rigby to William Everett Clegg and Gail Southwick Clegg. She...
Araceli "Sally" Ellsworth
Sep 4, 2013
Araceli (Sally) Martinez Ellsworth, 65, of Lewisville passed away peacefully with her family by her side Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah. She fought a courageous eight year battle, without complaint, before succumbing to the ravages of cancer. She was born January 20, 1948 to Magdalena Martinez and Guillermo Trejo in Mateguala,...
Robert "Bob" Lee Dodge
Sep 2, 2013
Robert “Bob” Lee Dodge, age 77 of Ririe, died at Rexburg Care and Rehab in Rexburg, Monday September 2, 2013. Bob was born August 24, 1936 at Deer Lodge, Montana a son to Everett Earl and Thelma Augusta Crook Dodge. He attended schools in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He married Mildred “LaRue” Moore October 24, 1980 in Ririe. Their marriage was...
Marie Christina Bramwell
Aug 31, 2013
Marie Christina Bramwell, age 91, of Lewisville, died Saturday August 31, 2013. Marie was born September 16, 1921 in Roberts, Idaho a daughter to Thomas Elmer and Johanna Marie Larson Watts. She attended Roberts schools graduating from Roberts High School. She then attended Idaho State University in Pocatello. She married Keith Brown Bramwell, June 18, 1948 in Idaho Falls. Their...
Alfred Kenneth Knutson
Aug 31, 2013
Alfred (Al) Kenneth Knutson, age 95 of Grant, passed away at his home, Saturday, 31 August 2013. He was born 26 October 1917, to Albert O. and Karen Rein Knutson in Ellingson, South Dakota. He received his education in Swanson country school near Ellingson and graduated from High School in Bucyrus, North Dakota. After graduation he came west because of...
Reed Arlo Grover
Aug 30, 2013
Reed Arlo Grover born January 27, 1960 at the Rigby Maternity home to Arlo LeRoy and Karen Beth Lovell Grover died at his home Friday, August 30, 2013 He attended Ririe schools, graduating from Ririe High School. He played football and wrestled. Reed learned welding as a trade at EITC, but was very accomplished in the carpentry industry. He worked...
Donna Marie Niederer
Aug 27, 2013
Donna Marie Niederer, 96, of Sunnydell, passed away peacefully on August 27, 2013. She was born February 27, 1917, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a daughter of Mahlon Joseph and Olive Thomas Sherd. She married Gordon Niederer of Sunnydell, on September 18, 1943, in the Sherd family home in Michigan. Following Gordon’s discharge from the military, they settled in Sunnydell, Idaho...
Robert Lee Stringham
Aug 27, 2013
Robert Lee Stringham, 82 of Idaho Falls, died Tuesday, August 27, 2013, at his home. He was born November 9, 1930, in Rupert, Idaho to Thomas LaVon Stringham and Molly Marie Ludwig Stringham. He graduated from Ucon High School in 1947 and enlisted in the US Air Force the same year; he served during the Korean War and was honorably...
Eddy Ray Cook
Aug 25, 2013
Eddy Ray Cook, 76, of Ucon, died Sunday, August 25, 2013 at Good Samaritan Center in Idaho Falls. He was born August 14, 1937, in Idaho Falls, to George Cook and Mildred Dorothy Adamson Cook in Idaho Falls. He was raised in Mud Lake and Shelly. On December 22, 1960, he married Beverly Lou Glen in Blackfoot, Idaho. In 1974...
Clyde Gillespie
Aug 22, 2013
Clyde R. Gillespie, 77 of Rigby, passed away Thursday, August 22, 2013, after a two year battle with cancer. Clyde was born on March 18, 1936 in Farragut, Iowa to Clyde and Vera Maxine Gillespie. Clyde was raised in Tetonia, ID and graduated from Driggs High School. He spent six years in the military and attended Idaho State University and...
Steven George Golder
Aug 22, 2013
Steven George Golder, age 71, of Menan, passed away, at his home, Saturday, August 22, 2015. Steven was born December 20, 1943 in Rexburg, Idaho a son to Ralph Hill Golder and Elizabeth Gray Golder. Steven was raised in Menan. He graduated from Rigby High School and attended Ricks College and Utah State University. On October 1, 1966, he married...
Jasen D Jorgensen
Aug 15, 2013
Jasen D Jorgensen, 37, of Frenchtown, Montana, died from complications of pancreatitis, Thursday, August 15, 2013 at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah surrounded by his loving family. He was born September 4, 1975 in Rexburg, Idaho to James D Jorgensen and Linda Goody Jorgensen and was raised in Ririe, Idaho. Jasen graduated from Ririe High...
Clara "Coke" Winscot
Aug 13, 2013
Clara “Coke” Skerjanc Winscot, 74, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away on Tuesday, August 13, 2013, at her home in Rigby, Idaho surrounded by her family. She was born to William and Lenna Skerjanc January 12, 1939. She attended and graduated from Butte High School. She married her high school sweetheart Charley Sherman Winscot Jr. on January 27,...
Lola Belle Hansen
Aug 12, 2013
Lola Belle Hansen, 86, of Rigby, died Monday, August 12, 2013 at her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born May 27, 1927, in Driggs, Idaho to Evan Burbank Floyd and Norma Grover Floyd. She was raised and attended schools in Driggs, graduating from Teton High School. On June 18, 1947, she married DeWayne L. “Dutch” Hansen in...
Bradley Eugene Zundel
Aug 7, 2013
Bradley Eugene Zundel, age 61, of Rigby, died Wednesday August 7, 2013, at St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Brad was born September 22, 1951 in Rigby a son to Jack Garth Zundel and Chloe Winger Zundel. He attended schools in Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. He married Teresa Rodney and they later divorced. He then married...
Beth J. Gould
Aug 5, 2013
Beth J. Gould, age 62 of Menan died Monday, August 05, 2013. She was born August 17, 1950, in Rigby, Idaho to Jesse Youngstrom and Ina Beth Bates Youngstrom. She attended Ricks College for 1 ½ years. She attended and graduated from beauty school in Rexburg, then worked at Connie Beauty Salon in Rigby. She also worked at the Rigby...
James Clare Reed
Aug 3, 2013
James Clare Reed, 94, of Ririe, passed away August 3, 2013, at his home. He was born August 23, 1918 on Butler Island near Ririe, Idaho to James Henry Reed and Maude Armstrong Reed, and spent his childhood assisting on the family farms near Ririe and Birch Creek. He attended school in Ririe Idaho and was in the first freshman...
Robert Wayne Barney
Aug 2, 2013
Robert Wayne Barney, 63, of Rigby, Idaho passed away Friday, August 2, 2013 at his home after a 4 year courageous battle with prostate cancer. Rob was born November 4, 1949 in Rigby to Blain C. and Donna Anderson Barney. He grew up in Grant and Menan and attended Rigby High School. In 1967 he married Vicky Hansen and had...
Tisha Lynn Carter
Jul 30, 2013
Tisha Lynn Carter, 44, of Rigby, died Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at the Rigby County Living Center; she was under the care of Teton Home Health and Hospice. She was born October 29, 1968, in Pocatello to Delbert G. Carter and Marilyn Walker Carter. She was raised and attended schools in Pocatello and was an honorary graduate of Highland High...
