Obituaries

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Roberta Klepich

Roberta Klepich

Apr 15, 2010

Roberta Klepich, 66, of Parker, formerly of Rigby, died April 15, 2010, in Rexburg. She was born November 8, 1943, in Logan, Utah, to Orson Francis Hutchinson and Chloe Agnes Pease Hutchinson. She was raised and attended schools in Rockland, Salmon, and Blackfoot, graduating from Blackfoot High School. She received training as a L.P.N. at Bannock Memorial Hospital in Pocatello...

John Marcel Rigoulot Jr.

John Marcel Rigoulot Jr.

Apr 11, 2010

John “Nick” Marcel Rigoulot Jr., 61, of Rigby, died Sunday, April 11, 2010 at Kelley Canyon. Nick was born February 15, 1949, in Idaho Falls to John Marcel Rigoulot and Vivian Labrum Rigoulot. He was raised in Idaho Falls and attended O.E. Bell Elementary, and Clair E. Gale Jr. High. His family then moved to Rigby where he graduated from...

Ila Fisher

Ila Fisher

Apr 11, 2010

Ila Barbara Anderson Fisher, 85, of Rigby Idaho, died April 11, 2010 at her home from a stroke. Ila was born October 30, 1924 in Clark, Idaho, the daughter of James C. Anderson and Martha Perry Anderson. She graduated from Rigby High School and, in 1942, she married the love of her life, Kenneth J Fisher. They were married for...

Robert Tolman Rainey

Robert Tolman Rainey

Apr 10, 2010

Robert Tolman Rainey, 67, loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed his final test in mortality and was called home April 10, 2010. Helen Tolman and William Webster Rainey welcomed Bob into their family July 29, 1942, at Monterey Park, California. The family later moved to Yucaipa, where Bob helped with the family chicken farm. He attended Yucaipa Junior High, but...

Vergie Louise David

Vergie Louise David

Apr 8, 2010

Vergie Louise David, 82 of Elko, NV, formerly of Roberts and Idaho Falls, died Friday, April 9, 2010 in Elko, NV. She was born December 4, 1927, in Monteview, to Thomas Winder and Dorubary Wilson Winder. She was raised and attended schools in the Menan area. On June 14, 1946, she married Harold Roland David in Menan, Idaho. She was...

John Harvey Groth Jr.

John Harvey Groth Jr.

Apr 5, 2010

John Harvey Groth Jr. Was born Oct 11, 1959 in Rigby, Idaho to John Harvey and Mary Lou Hunter Groth, He left this world on April 5, 2010 in Cheyenne Wyoming. John spent his childhood and early adult life in Ririe Idaho, where he was his Dad's little shadow. He learned everything about farming and fixing things from an early...

Enrique Galvan Garnica

Enrique Galvan Garnica

Apr 5, 2010

Enrique Galvan Garnica, 56, of Menan, died April 5, 2010, at his daughter’s home in Idaho Falls. He was born January 18, 1954, in Aratzipu GTO, Mexico, to Rafael Galvan Solorio and Josefina Galvan Garnica. He was raised in Aratzipu Guanajuato Mexico, and at Age 5 he moved to Mexico City, Mexico. On September 19, 1970 he married Maria Trinidad...

Roydean Clair Carter

Roydean Clair Carter

Apr 4, 2010

For those of us who knew and loved him, On April 4, 2010, the heart of our melody left and joined the heavenly orchestra. The 8th of nine children, Roydean Clair Carter was born on February 15, 1950 in Palmer Nebraska, to Dorothy and Fred Carter. As a young boy, he was small in stature but big in heart. Whether...

Bart Weekes

Bart Weekes

Apr 2, 2010

Thell Bart Weekes, age 39 of Ririe, was caught in a avalanche near Indian Creek Friday April 2, 2010. Bart was born October 27, 1970 at Rexburg, Idaho a son of Thell and Bea Jo Grover Weekes. He graduated from Madison High School. He married Danielle Moore on February 29, 1992 at Archer, Idaho and they had two children, Jesse...

Garry L. Lerwill

Garry L. Lerwill

Mar 31, 2010

Garry Lynn Lerwill, 66, of Tetonia, died Wednesday, March 31, 2010, in Rexburg, Idaho. He was born September 22, 1943, in Ashton, Idaho, to Harold James Lerwill and Alta Ruth Martindale Lerwill. He attended Teton County Schools, graduating from Teton High School. He continued his education at Ricks College and attended welding school. On June 22, 1962, he married his...

Darius Ezra Grayson

Darius Ezra Grayson

Mar 29, 2010

Darius Ezra Grayson, infant son of Mollie Elizabeth Zielke Grayson and Michael William Grayson, died Monday, March 29, 2010, at Madison Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his parents and a brother, John "Eric" Farrow II. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, April 2, 2010, at Eckersell Memorial Chapel 101 West Main Street, Rigby, with Bishop Scott...

April Shinkle

April Shinkle

Mar 27, 2010

April Lyn Shinkle, 53, of Jackson, Wyoming, died March 27, 2010, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She was born October 13, 1956 to Leslie B. Shinkle, and Sandra E. Harris Shinkle in Jackson Wyoming at the old St. Johns Hospital. She was raised in Jackson Valley on a ranch until the family moved to Laramie, Wyoming...

Steven W. Smart

Steven W. Smart

Mar 25, 2010

Steven Wayne Smart, 60, of Driggs, Idaho, passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by his family March 25, 2010. He was born Nov. 28, 1949, in Hayward, Calif., to J.D. Smart and Connie Smart. He was raised and attended schools in Hayward until 1968 when he entered the U.S. Army. He served in the military from 1968 to 1970...

Lola Hunter Reed

Lola Hunter Reed

Mar 21, 2010

Lola Hunter Reed, 87, of LaBelle, died March 21, 2010, at her daughter’s home in LaBelle. She was born May 26, 1922, in Lewisville, to Edward Laurence Hunter and Verla Stowell Hunter. She attended schools in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School as the salutatorian. While attending Rigby High School she served four years on the student council and...

Nadeen Smith

Nadeen Smith

Mar 21, 2010

Elsie Nadeen Allen Smith, 80, of Rigby, Passed away Sunday the 21st of March 2010, at her home surrounded by family. Nadeen was born the 12th of July 1929 in Rigby, Idaho to Charles Everett Allen and Susie Pearl Cuthbert Allen. She grew up in Rigby, Idaho, and attended school there, graduating from Rigby High School in 1947. On the...

Bob Bensen

Bob Bensen

Mar 20, 2010

Robert John Bensen, 75, of Menan, died Saturday, March 20, 2010, at his home. He was born March 14, 1935, in Arlington Nebraska, to Albert Bensen and LaNetta Gnuse Bensen. He was raised and attended schools in Arlington. On February 6, 1982, he married Norma Jessie Schermerhorn in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was a truck driver for 48 years. And...

Lee Oliver Robinson

Lee Oliver Robinson

Mar 20, 2010

Lee Oliver Robinson, 87, of Ucon/ Milo area, died March 20, 2010 at his son’s home in Idaho Falls. He was born March 18, 1923, in Ucon, to Oliver Leroy Robinson and Julia Lott Robinson. He graduated from Ucon High School then continued his education at Ricks College. He was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of...

Dick Furrows

Dick Furrows

Mar 17, 2010

Albert “Dick” Richard Furrows, 79 of Roberts, died Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at his home, of cancer of the lymph nodes and congestive heart failure. He was born June 12, 1930, in Westfield, Massachusetts, to Albert Walter Furrows and Louisa Eva Mildaise Potter. He attended schools in Feeding Hills and Agawam Massachusetts, as well as Ramsey New Jersey. He then...

Winnie Harris

Winnie Harris

Mar 15, 2010

Mary Winifred "Winnie" Harris of American Canyon, CA, passed away March 15, 2010, at her daughter's home in Idaho after a long illness. She was born to Ellis and Lottie Starling on January 22, 1929 near Jacksonville, FL. She met and married Leonard Harris, when he was enlisted in the Navy in Jacksonville FL. They were married for 47 years....

Sharon Crystal Martinsen

Sharon Crystal Martinsen

Mar 13, 2010

Sharon Crystal Martinsen, 70, of Rigby, died March 13, 2010 Quartzsite, Arizona. She was born June 9, 1939, in Idaho Falls, to David Floyd Crystal and Harriet Eunice Johnson. She was raised and attended schools in Garfield and Rigby. On February 3, 1954, she married Gary L. Martinsen in Idaho Falls; their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS...