Obituaries

Orrin Craig Jensen
Jan 30, 2010
Orrin Craig Jensen, 27, of Rigby, died Saturday, January 30, 2010. He was born June 5, 1982, in Rexburg, Idaho, to Nels Craig Jensen and Lovina Ann Welker Jensen. He grew up and attended school in Sugar City, until the age of 16, when he moved to Idaho Falls, and finished his Jr. and Sr. Year, graduating from Skyline High...
Diana Lynn Waters
Jan 29, 2010
Diana Lynn Waters, 39, of Las Vegas, Nevada, formerly of Pocatello and Boise, died Friday, January 29, 2010, at St. Rose Dominion Hospital, in Nevada. She was born October 15, 1970, in Pocatello Idaho, to Gerald Arden Waters and Vickie Lynn Brunson. She attended schools in Pocatello, including Highland High School and graduated from Boise Beauty School. She married Shawn...
Ethel Loretta Coleman Coles
Jan 26, 2010
Ethel Loretta Coleman Coles, 92, of Rigby, died January 26, 2010, at her home. She was born August 29, 1917, in Rigby, to John Wesley Coleman and Olive Mary Leah Price. On April 30, 1938, she married Robert Kenneth Coles, in Rigby, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. She was raised and attended schools...
John "Jack" Louis Carlyle
Jan 23, 2010
John “Jack” Louis Carlyle, 75, of Rigby, died January 23, 2010, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born October 8, 1934, in Idaho Falls, to George Carlyle and Dorothy Summers Carlyle. He attended schools in Ririe, and continued his education at ISU. He served in the US Army from 1957 to 1959. He was a Ririe resident his entire...
Burl Cromwell
Jan 21, 2010
Burl Cromwell age 73, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, January 21, 2010, at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Burl was born November 17, 1936 in Idaho Falls, Idaho a son of George Albert Cromwell and Pearl Leorine Petersen Cromwell. He attended school in Irwin, Idaho, at OE Bell in Idaho Falls, and graduated from Ririe High School. Burl was...
Lowell H. Jensen
Jan 19, 2010
Lowell H. Jensen, 88, of Idaho Falls, died January 19, 2010, at his home. He was born October 3, 1921, in Independence, Idaho, to Niels Jensen and Hellene Rasmine Hansen Jensen. He was raised and attended schools in Independence, near Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School. He continued his education at Ricks College. On April 8, 1942, he married...
Zaya Lynn Barker
Jan 17, 2010
Zaya Lynn Barker, 7 month old infant, of Idaho Falls, died Sunday, January 17, 2010, at her home. She was born May 26, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah to Scott Andrew Barker and SaRena Jill Mobley Barker. She is survived by her parents, Scott and SaRena Barker, a sister; Zaydie Barker, of Idaho Falls, grandparents; Tom and Mary Barker,...
Jurney Lynn Chapman
Jan 15, 2010
Jurney Lynn Chapman, age 4, of Mesa, Arizona, died in Mesa, January 15, 2010. Jurney was born November 30, 2005 at Mesa, Arizona a daughter to David Roy Chapman Jr. and Verity Lynn Olsen. She enjoyed the love and attention of everyone around her, loved nursery rhymes, music, her Jesus Loves Me Bunny, having her hair combed and swimming in...
C. Duane Killian
Jan 14, 2010
Charley Duane Killian, 78, died Thursday, January 14, 2010, at Pine Brook Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was born September 5, 1931, at Sunnydale, Idaho to Charley LeRoy Killian and Zilpah Chleo Young. Having moved from Idaho to Utah when he was 5-years-old, Duane attended Stoker Elementary School in Bountiful and South Davis Jr. High School in...
Galen Mitchell
Jan 5, 2010
Richard “Galen” Mitchell, 79, of Rigby, died Tuesday, January 5, 2010, at his home, surrounded by family and friends. He was born May 2, 1930, in Annis, to Richard Arlington Mitchell and Afton Idele Merrill Mitchell. He attended and graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 1949. On December 17, 1949, he married Delpha Jeanett Heyrend in Idaho Falls. He...
Vera Moyes Lloyd
Dec 28, 2009
Vera Moyes Lloyd, 94, of Rexburg, died Monday, December 28, 2009, at Rexburg Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was born in Plain City, Utah to George Daniel and Amanda Christine Olsen Moyes, on July 14, 1915, and lived in Ogden, Plain City, and Brigham City, Utah. She was the middle child and only daughter in a family of six boys;...
Florence Agnes Gilchrist
Dec 27, 2009
Florence Agnes Gilchrist, 92, of Roberts, died December 27, 2009. She was born September 22, 1917, in Roberts, Idaho, to Otis Leroy Hand and Clara Harris Hand. She graduated from Roberts High School as well as Henager Business College in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the first Jefferson County woman to enlist in the Armed Forces (Woman’s Army Corp)....
Jean Scott
Dec 26, 2009
Karen Jean Scott, 69, of Monteview, died Saturday, December 26, 2009, at EIRMC. She was born January 14, 1940, in Brigham City, Utah to William Mirle Hawkes, and Pauline Hansen Hawkes. She spent her early years in Garden Valley, and while in the 5th grade her family moved to New Sweden. She attended O.E. Bell Jr. High and Idaho Falls...
Wayne Meredith Duke
Dec 25, 2009
Wayne Meredith Duke, 81, of Roberts, died Friday, December 25, 2009, in Idaho Falls. Wayne was born in Mt. Vernon, Lawrence County, Missouri on October 7, 1928, son of William Monroe Duke and Ethel Clarice Pennington Duke. He lived in Missouri until he moved to Sheridan, Wyoming to work on a ranch. He joined the Navy in March of 1946....
Lula Lucy Hansen
Dec 25, 2009
Lula Lucy Harris Hansen passed away December 25, 2009 at the University of Utah Medical Center due to complications from a fall in her home in Hamer. She was born July 31st, 1929 in Salem, Idaho. She was the 9th child in a family of 11 children. She graduated from Sugar Salem High School and later attended Ricks College where...
Danna Lynnette Tannler
Dec 24, 2009
Danna Lynnette Tannler, 57, passed away Christmas Eve, December 24, 2009, peacefully in her home in Boise, Idaho after a courageous fight against cancer. Danna was born March 5, 1952 in Oak Harbor, Washington to Harry and Beverly Wade. She spent most of her childhood in Ashton, Idaho as an outdoor Idaho girl with lots of animals around her. She...
Victor G. Hill
Dec 19, 2009
Victor G. Hill, 61, of Rexburg, died December 19, 2009. He was born July 22, 1948, in Rigby, the son of George W. Hill, and Elsie Marie Galbraith Hill. He attended grade school in Archer and Lyman and graduated from Madison High School. He served in the US Army during the Vietnam Era. On August 14, 1976, he married Maryann...
Luella Ricks
Dec 18, 2009
Luella Bird Ricks, 80, of Milo, died Friday, December 18, 2009, at Parkwood Meadows Assisted Living, in Idaho Falls. She was born April 22, 1929, at her Grandparent’s home in Garfield, Idaho, to Warren Bird and Rozella Cook Bird. She attended Milo Grade School and Rigby High School. She worked hard, living on a farm and being the 2nd child...
L. Udell Ames
Dec 17, 2009
Leroy Udell Ames, 73, of Ucon, died Thursday, December 17, 2009, at his home. He was born January 18, 1936, in Pocatello, to Leroy Ames and Ethel Effie Orner Ames. He was raised and attended schools in Idaho Falls, and graduated from Idaho Falls High School. He served in the Army National Guard. On December 1, 1953, he married JoAnne...
Geraldine Pabst Morgan
Dec 14, 2009
Geraldine Pabst Morgan, 80, passed away Monday, December 14, 2009. Geraldine was born January 27, 1929, in Lorenzo, Idaho to Clarence and Wilda Pabst. She lived many years in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Glasgow, Montana, and Tetonia, Idaho, before returning to the Lorenzo area. For the past 25 years, Jack and Gerry also made Quartzsite, Arizona, their winter home among many...