Clair J. Koplin
Oct 21, 2010
Clair J. Koplin, 74, of Rigby, Idaho, husband, brother, father, grandfather, friend, mentor and especially hero left this earth peacefully on October 21, 2010 after a long, valiant battle with kidney disease. Clair was born February 21, 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Edward and Lucille Koplin. His early years taught him to love and appreciate family above all...
Maurine Engberson
Oct 19, 2010
Maurine Engberson, 93, of Idaho Falls, died Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at her home. She was born January 17, 1917, in Rexburg, to Alma Edward Beck and Mary Tressa McNeil Beck. She was raised and attended schools in Rexburg, graduating from Madison High School. As a youth she spent enjoyable summers on the dryfarm at Green Canyon. She continued her...
Patricia Yates Smith
Oct 19, 2010
Patricia Yates Smith, of Ucon, Idaho, our beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away peacefully, October 19, 2010 at home surrounded by her family. Pat was born November 13, 1941 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Thomas Harper Yates and Muriel Morris Yates. She attended grade school and High School at Rigby. She received an LDS Seminary Scholarship to Ricks College,...
Emma Purser
Oct 19, 2010
Emma Balls Purser passed away peacefully Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 in Rigby, Idaho at the age of 94. She was born on March 2, 1916 in Hyde Park, Utah to Charles Heber and Myrtle Vera Seamons Balls. She attended school in Hyde Park and then at North Cache High School in Richmond, Utah. Emma married Bartley Ray Purser on March...
Kenneth Henry Davis
Oct 15, 2010
Kenneth “KEN” Henry Davis, age 91, died at his home in Ucon, Friday, October 15, 2010. Ken was born November 7, 1919 in Archer, Idaho a son of Delbert Henry Davis and Lenora Jakeman Davis. He attended Madison County schools graduating from Madison High School where he loved playing football. In 1942 he married Vauna B Bailey in Tacoma Washington....
Gail Walker
Oct 15, 2010
Gail Walker, 85, of Ammon, ID formerly of Rigby, passed away Friday, October 15, 2010. Gail was born December 21, 1924, the eldest son of Mike (Mayor) and Maple Walker. He was raised and attended schools in Lewisville, graduating from Midway High in 1943. Upon graduation he enlisted in the US Navy and served in the Pacific Fleet during WWII....
Dorothy Doak
Oct 11, 2010
Dorothy Greenwood Watson Doak, 90, of Rigby, died Monday, October 11, 2010 at the home of her granddaughter in Rigby. She was born August 27, 1920, in Rigby, one of 10 children to Oroson Greenwood and Lydia Ellsworth Greenwood. She was raised and attended schools in Jefferson County, graduating from Ririe High School. She met and married Alfred Watson, they...
Gary Keith Christensen
Oct 8, 2010
Gary Keith Christensen, 72 of Terreton died Friday, October 08, 2010 at his home. He was born August 5, 1938 in Idaho Falls, the third child of Keith Christensen and Blanche Hyatt Christensen. He was raised and attended schools in Goshen and Shelley, as a youth he enjoyed riding his horse to the foothills and playing along the way. He...
Reneé Pocock Graham
Oct 2, 2010
Reneé Pocock Graham, 79, of Rigby, passed away Saturday, October 2, 2010 in Idaho Falls. Reneé was born Aug. 27, 1931, in Rexburg, Idaho, to Ray Luke Pocock and Maurine Richmond Pocock. She was the first of 8 children. She was raised in Moody, Idaho. She attended Moody Elementary School, Sugar City High School, Ricks College and Idaho State University....
Mark Sheldon Mcconnell
Oct 1, 2010
Mark Sheldon McConnell, 42, of Rigby, died Friday, October 1, 2010. He was born June 8, 1968, in Wurzburg, Germany to Sheldon Loren McConnell and DaLee Andersen McConnell. He was raised and attended schools in Idaho Falls, and graduated from high school in Elko, Nevada. On November 7, 1998, he married Jamie Sue Osborne, they later divorced. He worked as...
George L. Lovell
Sep 30, 2010
George Lloyd Lovell, 91, of Ririe died at his home Thursday, September 30, 2010. Born August 16, 1919, the second child of George Hyrum and Harriett Borrowman Lovell, he was raised on a farm in Ririe where duties began at an early age. By age 8 he had mastered harnessing the horse team for digging potatoes using a block and...
Fern Gallup
Sep 28, 2010
Wanda “Fern” Morgan Gallup, 92, of Rigby, died September 28, 2010, at The Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rigby. She was born November 11, 1917, in Lorenzo, Idaho, to Delbert Morgan and Jessie Virginia Bush Morgan. She was raised and attended schools in Ririe. On April 15, 1935, she married Edward “Ted” Gallup in Ririe, Idaho; their marriage was solemnized...
Charlene Leree Munns
Sep 28, 2010
Charlene LeRee Munns passed away Sept. 28, 2010 at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah due to complications incident to open heart surgery. She was born May 30, 1954 in Rigby, Idaho to Howard Alvin and Verda LeRee Ellis Munns. She attended Schools in Menan, Midway, and Rigby. She graduated from Rigby High School and attended Ricks College....
Tammy Lynn White
Sep 23, 2010
Tammy Lynn White, age 46, of Dubois, died Thursday, September 23, 2010 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Tammy was born October 1, 1963 at Moses Lake, Washington a daughter of Thomas Arnold Hanson Sr. and Elwanda June Campbell Hanson. She attended schools at Springfield, Oregon and Eugene Oregon graduating from Thurston High School in 1983. She...
Bonnie Lou Briggs
Sep 22, 2010
Bonnie Lou Briggs, age 82, of Ririe, died Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at Good Samaritan Center in Idaho Falls. Bonnie was born February 10, 1928 at Rigby, Idaho a daughter to Les Johnson and Mary Elenore Jones Johnson. She attended Rigby Schools graduating from Rigby High School. She worked at the INL as a telephone operator, at Sutton Potato in...
Dennis Ruel Brown
Sep 22, 2010
Dennis Ruel Brown finished his work on earth Wednesday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m. He died as he lived – working hard in the service of others. Dennis suffered a heart attack while helping one of his sons re-plumb his house in Tonica, Illinois. Dennis was born on February 15, 1944 in Malad, Idaho to Leo and Leora Brown. He...
Ronald Ackerman
Sep 21, 2010
Ronald Ackerman 74, of Menan, Idaho, died September 21, 2010, at the Idaho Falls Care Center. He was born August 30, 1936, in Salt Lake City, Utah to Jack Ackerman and Mary Oreno Ackerman. He attended schools in Idaho Falls, graduating from Idaho Falls High School. On August 7, 1958, he married Norma H. Taylor in Menan; their marriage was...
Tony Scott
Sep 20, 2010
We are grateful for the life of Tony Keith Scott who returned home to his maker September 20, 2010. And though his life was short it was both meaningful and happy. Tony, the youngest of five children, was born to Keith and Marjorie Winchester Scott on August 14, 1962 in Rigby, Idaho. Tony grew from boy to man in Rigby...
David Ray Vineyard
Sep 19, 2010
David Ray Vineyard, 58, of Mesquite, Nevada, passed away September 19, 2010 at Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George, Utah, due to complications from a stroke he suffered on July 1, 2010. He was born September 23, 1951 in Shelley, Idaho to Kit Carson and Emma Williams Vineyard. David was the ninth of ten children raised in the Rigby,...
Wes Hill
Sep 19, 2010
Wesley Alan Hill was born in Salina, Kansas on Sept 25th 1938 to Charles Francis Hill and Martha Catherine Hadley. He passed away surrounded by loved ones on Sunday, Sept 19th 2010. Beloved husband of Diane Irene Hill and loving father of Jon Pierre Francia, Matthew Alan Maynard Hill, Adam Wesley Hill, Beth Hill, Charles F. Hill, Deanna Edwards, and...