Obituaries

Ted C. Furniss
Mar 6, 2014
Ted C. Furniss, 86 of Grant, died Thursday, March 6, 2014 at his home. He was born June 12, 1927 in Bates, Idaho to George C. Furniss and Sarah Ann Nelson. He was raised and attended schools in the Teton Basin and attended Teton High School. He served in the US Navy during WWII in the South Pacific. He married...
Reece G. Stacey
Mar 4, 2014
Reece G. Stacey, age 66 of Lorenzo, passed away at his home, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. At his request there will be no services. Condolences may be sent to his family in care of Eckersell Memorial Chapel, 101 West Main Street, Rigby 83442.
Helen Mabel Browning
Feb 22, 2014
Helen Mabel Browning, 93 of Rigby, died Saturday, February 22, 2014 at her home. She was born July 27, 1920 in Shelley, Idaho to William Wesley Mitchell and Olive Myrtle Betty Mitchell. She was raised and attended schools in Shelley, graduating from Shelley High School in 1938. On January 26, 1941 she married Charles A. Tracy in Shelley, Idaho. He...
Golden Virgil Peterson
Feb 15, 2014
Golden Virgil Peterson, age 89 of Rigby, passed away Saturday morning, February 15, 2014 in his home. He was born April 19, 1924 in Garfield, Idaho to John Henry Peterson and Florence Mary Peterson. He attended school in Mudlake and Roberts. He graduated from Ricks College and got his Masters Degree from Arizona State. Golden served a full time LDS...
Sarah Marie Kellom
Feb 13, 2014
Sarah Marie Kellom, 30, of Dubois, died Thursday February 13, 2014 at her home. She was born June 22, 1983 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Thomas R. Kellom and Millie Marie Hartwell Kellom. She was raised and attended schools in Dubois, graduating from Clark County High School. She Played volleyball, basketball and was a cheerleader in Jr. High; she was...
Anita D. Peterson
Feb 13, 2014
Anita D. Peterson, age 89 of Rexburg, passed away Thursday, February 13, 2014 at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. She was born May 5, 1924 at Archer, Idaho to Lelen Weekes and Martha Galbraith Weekes. She attended Archer Elementary, freshman and sophomore years at Archer High School and junior and senior years at Madison High School in Rexburg, graduating from...
Artell Samuel Mugleston
Feb 10, 2014
Artell Samuel Mugleston, 84, of Rigby passed away peacefully February 10, 2014 in the comfort of his home surrounded by his loved ones following a courageous battle with cancer. Artell was born April 22, 1929 in Garfield, Idaho to Arthur and Clara Urech Mugleston. He was raised in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. On February 21, 1952, he...
Corene Sarah Taylor
Feb 7, 2014
Corene Sarah Johnson Taylor, 87 of Rigby, passed away peacefully at home the evening of February 7, 2014. She was born on October 7, 1926 to William and Verna Walker Johnson in Grant, Jefferson County, Idaho. She and her sister, Nadine, and her three brothers, Cliff, Ross, and Bill, grew up on the family farm in Grant. Her father died...
Mardean Brown Gonnelly
Feb 6, 2014
Mardean Brown Gonnelly, passed away February 6, 2014 in Gulf Breeze Florida. She was a former resident of Rigby. She was born July 14, 1931 in Rigby a daughter to Joseph (Joe) Brown and Elizabeth (Libby) Maughn Brown. Her brothers were LeRoy, Glen, Vernon and Lynn and a sister Elizabeth who died shortly after birth. She graduated from Rigby High...
Marvin Vance Douglass
Feb 6, 2014
Marvin Vance Douglass, 60 of Menan, died Thursday, February 6, 2014 at his home. He was born February 1, 1954, in Rigby to Fred Allen Douglass and Dorla Elizabeth Burnside Douglass. He was raised and attended schools in Annis, Menan, Midway, and Roberts, graduating from Rigby High School. On August 12, 1977, he married Colleen Olsen in Menan. They later...
Velma Stacey
Feb 4, 2014
Velma James Stacey, 89, of Rigby, died Tuesday, February 04, 2014 at her home. She was born January 17, 1925 in Ogden, Utah to William Henry James and Lydia Brown Foster James. She was raised in Ogden and graduated from Ogden High School. On July 25, 1942, she married Eldon Richard Stacey in Malad Idaho; their marriage was later solemnized...
Nila Mae Briggs
Feb 4, 2014
Nila Mae Briggs, of Idaho Falls, Idaho and Gilbert, Arizona, passed away peacefully Tuesday, February 5th, 2014 in Gilbert, Arizona. She was born in Burton, Idaho on January 23, 1935 to Elizabeth Christensen Cherry and Leo J. Cherry. She graduated from Rigby High School at the age of 16 and accepted a job with the State of Idaho in Montpelier....
Chad William Pearson
Feb 1, 2014
Chad William Pearson, 51 of Poulsbo, Washington, formerly of Lyman and Rexburg, Idaho passed away Saturday, February 1, 2014. He was born November 23, 1962 in Rexburg, Idaho to William “Bill” Alfred Pearson and Beverly Hall Pearson. When Chad was 10 years old, his father passed away from serious illness. Chad spent a lot of time with grandparents Gerald and...
A. Reese Chambers
Jan 31, 2014
Beloved husband, father and grandfather, Andrew Reese Chambers passed away at Teton Valley Hospital in Driggs, Idaho on Friday, January 31, 2014. Reese was born in Jackson, Wyoming on January 28, 1922 to Andy and Ida Chambers, the 2nd oldest of 7 children. His family homesteaded on Mormon Row, in the Antelope Flats area and up the Gros Ventre River...
T. Joel Cook
Jan 29, 2014
Thomas “Joel” Cook, 84, of Rigby, passed away peacefully Wednesday, January 29, 2014, at Parkwood Meadows Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Joel was born February 4, 1929, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Delbert Jay Cook and Fannie Parrish Cook. He was raised and attended schools in Centerville, Utah, graduating from Davis County High School. He served in...
Martel Lavaughn Taylor
Jan 29, 2014
Martel LaVaughn Taylor, 85, of Rigby died Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at Pinebrook Assisted Living Center in Rigby. Martel was born February 26, 1928, in Idaho Falls to LaVaughn Leo Taylor and Alice Severson Taylor. He was raised and attended schools in the Grant area, graduating from Midway High School. On March 26, 1950 he married Claris Kinghorn in Rigby;...
Faye Young Chiles
Jan 28, 2014
Faye Young Chiles, 83 of Rigby, passed away peacefully at her daughter’s home on January 28, 2014. She was born May 12, 1930 to Angus and Ester Elizabeth Dutton Young. She was the 10th of 12 children and the last surviving sibling. Faye attended schools in Idaho Falls, graduating from Idaho Falls High School; this is where she met her...
Maria Consolacion Lazalde
Jan 27, 2014
Maria Consolacion Lazalde, 84 of Idaho Falls, died Monday, January 27, 2014 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She was born June 2, 1929, in Santa Rosa, Zacatecas, Mexico to Francisco Miranda and Luz Flores Miranda. She was raised and attended schools in Santa Rosa, Mexico. On February 1, 1947, she married Francisco Lazalde in Santa Rosa,...
Laura Jean Cramer
Jan 18, 2014
Laura Jean Marriott Cramer, 77, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, at Life Care Center in Idaho Falls. Laura was born June 27, 1936, in Roberts, Idaho, to Lynn Fay and Ruth Kinghorn Marriott. She attended schools in Roberts and graduated from Roberts High School. She married Harold “Hal” Eldon Cramer Oct. 27, 1954, in...
Betty Jean Treasure Coley
Jan 18, 2014
Betty Jean Browning Treasure Coley passed away peacefully Saturday morning, January 18, 2014 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, of cause’s incident to age. Betty was born November 3, 1925, in Rexburg, Idaho, the daughter of Edmond Browning and Jeannette Corey Browning. She had four sisters and three brothers. Soon after she graduated from Rigby High School, she married Bill Treasure. They...
