Obituaries

T. Blaine Cordon
Apr 4, 2013
Theodore Blaine Cordon, 72, of Rigby passed away Thursday, April 4, 2013 at Rexburg Care and Rehab Center. He was born August 4, 1940, in Rigby, Idaho to Leo LaVern Cordon and Lida Rae Durrant Cordon. He was raised and attended schools in Rigby. He served in the US Army and the National Guard. He married Elizabeth Lee, they later...
Jay Wendell Sparks Sr.
Apr 3, 2013
Jay Wendell Sparks Sr., 47, of Rigby, passed away at his home Wednesday, April 3, 2013. He was born June 26, 1965 in Tremonton, Utah to J. Wendell Sparks and Janeal Forsberg Sparks. He was raised and attended schools in Pocatello, graduating from Pocatello High School. He continued his education at ISU graduating from ISU School of Nursing as a...
Fern Griffin
Apr 3, 2013
Fern Housley Griffin, formerly from Rigby, ID passed away on April 3, 2013 at her son’s home in Castle Rock, Colorado at the age of 90. She was born on June 17, 1922 in Menan, Idaho. Her parents were Jesse and Leah Housley. She attended school in Rigby, Idaho. She was married December 18, 1940 to Kerney LeRoy Griffin in...
Dayna Mae Jacobs
Apr 1, 2013
Dayna Mae Jacobs, age 64, of Menan, passed away Monday, April 01, 2013, at The Gables of Ammon. Dayna was born June 25, 1948 at Rexburg, Idaho a daughter to Joseph Pershing and Lucile Schwendiman Jacobs. She was raised in Menan. She attended the Development workshop in Idaho Falls, Joshua D. Smith Foundation in Idaho Falls, St Leon Opportunity School...
Justin David Gohr
Mar 30, 2013
Justin David Gohr, 54 of Rigby, passed away Saturday, March 30, 2013. He was born November 19, 1958, in Butte, Montana to Leonard David Gohr and Helen Gertrude Henrie Gohr. He is survived by his sister, Pamela Joyce Nelson, of Grandbarry, Texas, brothers, Flint Kirk Gohr, of Idaho Falls, Terry Bruce Gohr, of Idaho Falls, Clay Ross Gohr, of Billings,...
Inez Youngstrom Preslar
Mar 30, 2013
Inez Deon Youngstrom Preslar, 98, of Menan, passed away Saturday, March 30, 2013 at The Gardens Assisted Living Center in Rigby. She was born March 23, 1915 in Nephi, Utah to Perry William Tolley and Ella Fowkes Tolley. She loved living in Nephi with her family and going to school. Later the family moved to Idaho where she met Joseph...
Lloyd Albert Chase
Mar 24, 2013
Lloyd Albert Chase, 73, of Rigby, passed away Sunday, March 24, 2013, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. He was born July 20, 1939 in Rigby to Von Albert Chase and Georgia Williams Chase. He was raised and attended schools in Swan Valley and Ririe. He served in the US Navy. On October 27, 2001, he married...
Karen Faye Gunderson
Mar 22, 2013
Karen Faye Gunderson, 71, of Rigby, died Friday, March 22, 2013, at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Karen was born July 14, 1941, in Dubois, Idaho a daughter of Orvil Boyd Williams and Millie Eldora Colson Williams. Karen spent most of her life in the Medicine Lodge area. She attended the Eddie Grade School in the Medicine Lodge Canyon...
David Wells Rosen
Mar 20, 2013
David Wells Rosen, 48 of North Pole, Alaska passed away March 20, 2013 at his home in North Pole. He was born October 15, 1964 in Seattle, Washington and was the second adopted son of Marion J. and Shirley Barney Rosen. David was raised in Idaho Falls, Idaho and attended Falls Valley Elementary and Bonneville High School. He attended the...
David Wells Rosen
Mar 20, 2013
David Wells Rosen, age 48, of North Pole, Alaska, died Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in North Pole, Alaska. Funeral Services will be held Friday April 5, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at the Kearney 3rd Ward LDS Chapel, 1860 East Kearney, Idaho Falls. The family will visit with friends on Friday at the church from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Interment will...
Ada Brown
Mar 19, 2013
Ada Anderson Brown, 98 of Clark, passed away Tuesday March 19, 2013 at Bonaventure Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls. She was born July 27, 1914 in Rigby to James Christian Anderson and Martha Maude Perry Anderson. She was raised and attended schools in Clark and Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School. On Jan 23, 1932 she married Lawrence William...
Guy Clancey Rinderknecht
Mar 17, 2013
Guy Clancey Rinderknecht, age 20, of Rigby, Idaho and Howell, Utah, died Sunday March 17, 2013 from injuries he received in an automobile accident. He was born February 8, 1993 at Rexburg, Idaho a son of Guy Odell and Jennifer Bennett Rinderknecht. He was raised in Payson, Utah attending kindergarten and grade school in Howell, Utah and Ririe. He graduated...
Thomas Roy Kellom
Mar 16, 2013
Thomas Roy Kellom, 65 of Dubois, passed away Saturday, March 16, 2013. He was born December 31, 1947, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin to Glenn Kellom and Carol Koch Kellom; he was their 1st and only boy. He was raised and attended schools in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, including the one-room Boomer School in his youth. He graduated from Beaver Dam High...
Betty Lou Walker
Mar 14, 2013
Betty Lou Walker, age 83, of Menan, died at The Gables in Idaho Falls, Thursday, March 14, 2013. Betty was born October 23, 1929 in Timber Creek, Nebraska a daughter to Walter and Ada Pearl Anderson Bennett. She attended schools in the Belgrade, Nebraska area until her family moved to Clark, Idaho where she attended Rigby schools graduating from Rigby...
Eloise Hayden
Mar 13, 2013
Eloise Peterson Hayden, our beautiful mother, sister to the “Fisher girls”, wife, and sweet friend of many, passed peacefully at the age of 92 on March 13, 2013. Aunt Weese was the essence of grace: always offering a cheerful bright smile, sunny disposition and humorous approach to life. God now certainly holds this beautiful woman tenderly in loving arms. Heartfelt...
Glenn Lake Spracher
Mar 5, 2013
Glenn Lake Spracher, 83 of Ammon, passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at his home. He was under the care of Access Hospice. He was born December 31, 1929, in Winnemucca, Nevada to Glenn Bilton Spracher, and Elsie Evelyn Lake Spracher. He was raised and attended schools in Rigby, graduating from Idaho Falls High School. On July 20, 1948 he...
Ross Marlow Moser
Mar 5, 2013
Ross Marlow Moser, 74, of Grant, Idaho, died March 5, 2013, at his home from cancer. He was born March 7, 1938 to Francis Lyman and Esther Miskin Moser. He graduated Rigby High school and Ricks College. He married Darlene Marie Briggs on April 18, 1958 in the Idaho Falls Temple. They raised 8 children. He was an active member...
Hannah Suzanne Boone
Mar 4, 2013
Hannah Suzanne Boone, infant daughter of LeGrand Rupp Boone and Theresa Lynette Robbins passed away shortly after her birth Monday, March 4, 2013 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She is survived by her parents, sisters, Madison and Elsie, brothers, Robby & Rett, all of Rigby, grandparents, Hyrum and Gayle Boone, of Ucon, Randy and Sally Robbins,...
Voris Marie Wheeler
Mar 3, 2013
Voris Marie Perry Wheeler, 90, of Ririe, passed away peacefully Sunday, March 3, 2013, at her home, surrounded by her family. Voris was born December 30, 1921, in Rigby, Idaho, to Elizabeth Park and Albert Zabina Perry. As a young girl she enjoyed reading, swimming, playing on the monkey bars her Dad built, climbing trees and going for walks. She...
Joyce Mildred Richins
Feb 28, 2013
On Thursday, February 28, 2013, our beautiful and loving Mother, Grandmother, and Great grandmother, Joyce Jensen Richins, age 78, returned to her Heavenly Father with her family at her side. Joyce was born December 9 1934, in Terreton, Idaho to Rosco Drowns and Elsa Rhar. She had two brothers, Jim and Harold and two sisters, Blanc and Elsie. Joyce grew...
