Obituaries

Dick Durtschi
Jul 16, 2010
Richard “Dick” Arnold Durtschi, 61, of Victor, died Friday, July 16, 2010, at his sister’s home in Rigby. He was born August 26, 1948 in Driggs, Idaho to Arnold Alfred Durtschi and Marian Edna Heileson. He was raised in Alta, Wyoming, attended Teton High School, graduating in 1966. He enlisted in the US Army and served two tours of duty...
Theta Whittier
Jul 16, 2010
Theta Whittier, age 91, of May, Idaho, died Friday, July 16, 2010, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Theta was born February 21, 1919 at Peterson, Utah a daughter to John Silas and Nancy Elva Hulet. She attended schools in Morgan, Utah graduating from Morgan High School as valedictorian of her graduating class. She married James Chester...
Preslee Jo Sullenger
Jul 16, 2010
Preslee Jo Sullenger, passed away Friday July 16, 2010 at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born December 17, 2008 in Rexburg, to her parents Patrick and Ashley Siddoway Sullenger. We enjoyed her for a wonderful 18 months. She was a happy little girl who was always on the go. Preslee was a perfect baby and...
Lorette B. Hansen
Jul 16, 2010
Lorette B. Hansen of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away Friday, July 16, 2010, at the age of 93. Lorette was born March 10, 1917, on Butler’s Island in Rigby, Idaho. She was the third of seven children born to Lydia Jane Roundy and Wells Beck. She grew up in the Rigby area where she graduated from high school. As a...
Ab Drake
Jul 11, 2010
Lee Albert, “AB” Drake, 71, of Rigby, passed away Sunday, July 11, 2010, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. He was born December 2, 1938, in Lorenzo, Idaho, to Ira Albert Drake and Nettie Perry Drake. He attended Rigby Elementary School and Rigby Junior High. He enlisted in the Army National Guard in August, 1961. He was a...
Monty Wareham
Jul 10, 2010
Monty Lynn Wareham, 64, of Puyallup, formerly of Rigby, died July 10, 2010 at The Hospice House in Puyallup. He was born May 19, 1946, to Robert M. Wareham and Alice M. Winder Wareham. He was raised in Rigby and attended schools in the Rigby area. He married Janice Christensen in 1970. He served our country in the Army National...
David Lee Weiss
Jul 9, 2010
David Lee Weiss, beloved father, grandfather and friend has left us on July 9, 2010 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center after fighting a sudden illness. David was born January 18, 1933 to Alfred and Monetta (Bea) Weiss in Apache Oklahoma. At the young age of 12 he lost his father. His uncle Herman Weiss took him in and raised...
Linda Kaye Burt
Jul 8, 2010
Linda Kaye Niendorf Burt, 56 of Rigby, passed away Thursday, July 8, 2010, after losing her brief battle with cancer. She was born on November 14th, 1953 in Ashton, Idaho. Linda married Russell Alan Burt on May 29th, 1971 and they were sealed for time and all eternity in the Idaho Falls temple on November 16th, 1976. She was a...
George Milton Boutsis
Jul 7, 2010
George Milton Boutsis, our Dad, G-Man, Brother and Friend passed away peacefully on July 7, 2010, surrounded by loved ones, at the home of his daughter and son-in-law in Ririe, Idaho. He was 78. Dad was born on November 18, 1931 to Margaret Morse and Louie Boutsis in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was very close to his father who...
Brent Southam
Jun 30, 2010
Robert Brent “Tato” Southam, age 55, of Menan, died at his home Wednesday, June 30, 2010 of cancer. He was under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho. Brent was born October 19, 1954 at Spanish Fork, Utah a son of Robert DeRay Southam and Bettyann Schaefer Southam. He attended Rigby schools and graduated from high school in Utah. He...
Dallas K. Price
Jun 28, 2010
Dallas K. Price, 54, of Milo, died June 28, 2010, at his home. He was born December 31, 1955, in Rigby, the tenth child of Mark McKinley Price and Verna Mae Clegg Price. He attended schools in Rigby, and lived in Milo throughout his life. In 1973, He married Gina Donell Reed, They had 1 daughter, Kerry Linn, and they...
Jack Ker Jr.
Jun 28, 2010
John “Jack” Irwin Ker Jr., 90, of Idaho Falls, died June 28, 2010, at his home. He was born June 12, 1920, in Ririe, Idaho, to John Irwin Ker, and Eunice Jane Perry Ker. He was raised with his best friend; his brother, Richard “Dick” W. Ker on the family farm on Birch Creed Road, west of Ririe. He attended...
Jim Wilson
Jun 26, 2010
James Edward Wilson, age 77, died Saturday June 26, 2010 at his home in Spencer. James was born January 17, 1933 at Dubois, Idaho a son of Edward James and Junda Pollock Wilson. He attended schools in Dubois graduating from Dubois High School. He also attended ITEC in Idaho Falls. He served in the United States Army in Korea. He...
Laura Sherburne Marler
Jun 25, 2010
Laura Sherburne Marler, 97, of Rexburg, Idaho, died Friday June, 25, 2010, at her home. She was born August 17, 1912, in Maynard, Massachusetts the second daughter of Leander Crosby Sherburne and Dorothy Alden Clark Sherburne. She was raised and attended school in New England. On April 21, 1946 she married George Dewey Marler in Denver, Colorado. Their marriage was...
Edna Hardy
Jun 24, 2010
Edna Eunice Hardy, 94, of Ririe, died June 24, 2010 at the Good Samaritan Center in Idaho Falls. She was born April 20, 1916, in Indian Valley, Idaho to William Samuel Colton and Esther Muriel Andrew Colton. She was raised and attended school in Indian Valley, Idaho. On September 27, 1948, she married Joseph LeRoy Hardy in Carson City, Nevada....
Iris Viola Colton
Jun 24, 2010
Iris Viola Wellard James Colton, 92, of Rexburg, died Thursday, June 24, 2010, at The Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg. She was born June 15, 1918, in Dubois, Idaho to John William Wellard and Gertrude Isabelle Andrews Wellard. Iris’s most vivid memories were living with her brothers and sisters in Little Lost River. She attended Salt Lake Beauty School...
Enid Jensen
Jun 19, 2010
Enid Jensen, 80, of Rigby, on a beautiful sunny day, Saturday, June 19, 2010, was picked up by her angel and went to heaven. She was a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend and buddy to all she came in contact with, she did not know a stranger. She was born January 11, 1930, in Rigby, to Henry Cartwirght McCullough and Edna...
Richard Walter Green
Jun 18, 2010
Richard Walter Green, 84, of Idaho Falls, died Friday, June 18, 2010, at The Life Care Center of Idaho Falls. He was born November 1, 1925, in Menan, to Robert Walter Green and Afton Ellsworth Poole Green. He graduated from Idaho Falls High School and then served with the US Navy in the Pacific Theater as a Radar Operator during...
Keith W. Hadley
Jun 18, 2010
Keith W. Hadley, 85, of Ammon, died Friday, June 18, 2010, at the Life Care Center of Idaho Falls. He was born May 20, 1925, in Rigby, to George W. Hadley, and Grace May Bush Hadley. He was raised and attended schools in Rigby. On November 13, 1943, he married Marcene Gneiting in Rigby. He enlisted in the US Navy...
Lucile Edlefsen
Jun 11, 2010
Lena Lucile Durtschi Edlefsen age 86 of Rigby, died Friday, June 11, 2010 at her home in Rigby. Lucile was born February 13, 1924 at Driggs, Idaho a daughter to Alfred Durtschi and Ida Aeschbacher Durtschi. She married Jesse Rowley Edlefsen May 19, 1948 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. She was an active member of the LDS Church and...