Obituaries

Charles Walter Furrows
Jun 27, 2013
Charles Walter Furrows, 84, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, June 27, 2013 at his home. He was under the care of Teton Home Health and Hospice. He was born May 25, 1929 in Westfield, Massachusetts to Albert Walter Furrows and Louisa Mildaise Potter Furrows. He was raised and attended schools in Feeding Hills and Agawam, Massachusetts. He served in the...
A. Milton (Tommy) Thompson Jr.
Jun 27, 2013
A. Milton (Tommy) Thompson, Jr. was born on June 22, 1927 at Roberts, Idaho to Fern Rider and Aaron Milton Thompson, Sr., and passed away June 27, 2013, after a brief illness. He was surrounded by family and friends at his home near Hamer. Milt grew up on farms in the Mud Lake and Hamer area with his siblings Jake,...
Steven Douglas Balster
Jun 26, 2013
Steven Douglas Balster, 54, of Roberts, Idaho, passed on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, at his home surrounded by family and friends. He was born December 17, 1958, in Slayton, Minnesota to Franklin Milton Balster and Darlene Margaret Wagner Balster. He was raised and attended OLOGC Catholic School in Wilmot, Minnesota and graduated from high school in Worthington Minnesota. He continued...
Norma Lee Briggs
Jun 23, 2013
Norma Lee Briggs, 69, of Rexburg, passed away Sunday, June 23, 2013, at the Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. She was born March 21, 1944, in Putney, West Virginia to George Everett Snodgrass and Cordelia Louise Campbell Snodgrass. She was raised and attended schools in the Boise Area. On September 8, 1964, she married Lynn Elmer Briggs in Boise; their...
Irma Graciala Cutts
Jun 23, 2013
Irma Graciala Cutts 1932 – 2013 Our Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother and friend died on June 23, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. She was born on November 2, 1932 in Los Angeles, California to Nellie and Paul Pedrin, hard-working Mexican immigrants who dearly loved their only child. She married Donald Cutts on April 7, 1956. Irma is a member of The...
Marcheta Pearl Hodges
Jun 23, 2013
Marcheta Casper Hodges Marcheta Pearl Hodges, 87, formerly of Idaho Falls, passed away peacefully Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Moscow, Idaho. She was born June 7, 1926, in Rigby, Idaho to Grant and Pearl (Andrus) Casper, the oldest of 3 brothers and 3 sisters. She was raised in Grant and attended school in Coltman. On October 8, 1940, she married...
Jeune Exolena Ellsworth -Thomas
Jun 23, 2013
Jeune Exolena Keck Ellsworth Thomas, 97 of Sun City, Arizona, formerly of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the widow of Dr. P. Blair Ellsworth and Jack Thomas, both of Idaho Falls, died Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Litchfield Park, Arizona. She was the eldest of 5 girls born in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 8 January 1916 to H. Mehrl and Jessie Francis...
Eudora Carter Shuldberg
Jun 22, 2013
Eudora Carter Shuldberg, 91 of Terreton, passed away Saturday, June 22, 2013 at Ashton Living Center. She was born July 18, 1921 in Preston, Idaho to Ernest W. Carter and Anna Peterson Carter. She was raised and attended schools in Preston, graduating from Preston High School. On July 3, 1940, she married Karl H. Shuldberg in the Logan LDS Temple;...
Donovan Lynn Bramwell
Jun 22, 2013
Donovan Lynn Bramwell, 59, of Lewisville, died Saturday, June 22, 2013, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. He was born July 15, 1953 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Keith B. Bramwell and Marie C. Watts Bramwell. He was raised and attended schools in Lewisville and Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School. He continued his education at Ricks...
Darline Newman
Jun 20, 2013
Darline Newman, 78, of Idaho Falls, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Thursday June 20, 2013, at her home. She was born May 5, 1935, in Rigby, to Earl Henry Killian and Sarah Jane Coles, the youngest of four brothers and one sister. She was raised in Poplar on the dry farms and attended elementary school there. She later...
Beth Ann Lewis
Jun 20, 2013
Beth Ann Lewis, 73, of Idaho Falls, passed away Thursday, June 20, 2013, at her home. She was born January 25, 1940, in Idaho Falls to George Langsing Blakely and Inis Groom Blakely. She was raised and attended schools in Idaho Falls. On January 4, 1957, she married Gary Raymond Lewis in Elko, Nevada; they were blessed with 3 daughters...
James Chapin Downey
Jun 20, 2013
James Chapin Downey passed away Thursday, June 20, 2013. He was born in Riverton, Fremont, Wyoming, December 4, 1930, to William Kenneth Downey and Marguerite Harriet Chapin, the oldest of four children. He attended schools in Riverton and Lander, Wyoming, and in Roosevelt, Utah. He graduated from the Riverton, Wyoming, high school in 1949. He married his childhood sweetheart, Carolyn...
Rose Campbell Henry
Jun 18, 2013
Rose Campbell Henry, 91, of Rigby, died Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at her home. She was under the care of Hands of Hope Hospice. She was born May 14, 1922 in Rigby to Hyrum Lemuel Campbell and Charlotte Rachel Davis Campbell. She was raised and attended schools in Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School. She continued her education at Ricks...
Darwin Bitton
Jun 17, 2013
Darwin Bitton, 81, passed away on June 17, 2013 in Sun City West Arizona with his loving wife, Lonnie at his side. Darwin was born November 3, 1931 in Menan, Idaho to Gertrude Harmon Bitton and Don Carlos Bitton. He graduated from Idaho Falls High School. Darwin served honorably in the United States Army for two years during the Korean...
Gordon Leroy Gibbs
Jun 17, 2013
Gordon LeRoy Gibbs, 80 of Rexburg, Idaho passed away Monday, June 17, 2013 at his home, after a courageous battle with cancer. Gordon was born on May 18th 1933 in Ogden, Utah, the oldest of seven children to Elvoid Leroy Gibbs and Lucille Elizabeth Anderson Gibbs. He was raised in Portage, Utah until the age of 14 when the family...
Geraldine Pond Smith
Jun 14, 2013
Geraldine “Gerry” Smith, 81 of Rigby, died Friday, June 14, 2013 at her home. Gerry was born August 27, 1931 to Newell McCann Pond and Florence Erma Lemmon, at Island Park, Idaho. She had three older brothers, the oldest being 2 ½ years older than her. They were raised at Island Park in a cabin without indoor plumbing. Gerry attended...
Virginia Louisa Dalley
Jun 14, 2013
Virginia Louisa Poulsen Linsenmann Dalley, age 92, died at Good Samaritan Center in Idaho Falls, Friday, June 14, 2013. She was born July 18, 1920 in Clawson, Idaho a daughter to Frank Ricks and Vivian L. Peacock Ricks. Her father died when she was three and she was raised by her mother and step father Irving W. Poulsen. She attended...
Kathryn Hannah Ivie
Jun 13, 2013
Kathryn Hannah Ivie, 90, of Terreton, died Thursday, June 13, 2013 at her home. She was born August 30, 1922, in Spanish Fork, Utah to Boas “Bruce” Anderson and Catherine Christiansen Anderson. She was raised and attended schools in Spanish Fork, graduating from Spanish Fork High School. She then attended Business School in Utah. She served in the US Navy...
Clysta M. Vadnais
Jun 9, 2013
Clysta M. Young Vadnais, age 71, of Hamer, passed away at the Life Care Center in Idaho Falls the morning of June 9th 2013. She was born to Lawrence and Velva Young at Spencer, Idaho, October 10, 1941. Clysta was raised and attended schools in Spencer and Hamer, graduating from Clark County High School. She married Ted Vadnais November 21,...
Donna Louise Bailey
Jun 6, 2013
Donna Louise Tipton Bailey, 81, of West Jordan, Utah formerly of Rexburg and Rigby, died Thursday, June, 6, 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Care Source Hospice Center surrounded by family and friends. Donna was born December 31, 1931, in Boise, Idaho a daughter of William Earl Tipton and Vera Evelyn Harris Tipton. She grew up in Lyman,...