Obituaries

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...
Colleen Huff Brown
Sep 18, 2010
Colleen Huff Brown, 84 of Idaho Falls, formerly of Pocatello, passed away Saturday, September 18, 2010, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She was born March 14, 1926, in Teton, Idaho, to Thomas Alberto Huff and Rosa Hester Tuck Huff. She attended elementary school in Driggs, and high school in Rexburg and Pocatello. On November 27, 1948,...
Lyle Dean Taylor
Sep 14, 2010
Lyle Dean Taylor 84, of Grant, Idaho passed away September 14, 2010 in Rigby, following a courageous battle of an infection. He was born August 10, 1926 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to LaVaughn Leo and Alice Severson Taylor where they resided in Grant. He attended school in Grant until the 8th grade and then graduated from Midway High School. In...
Cleone Terry
Sep 13, 2010
Cleone Eveleo Terry, 95, of Rigby, died September 13, 2010, at the Rexburg Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was born April 16th, 1915 in Rexburg, to Otto Ephraim Anderson and Sarah Loretta McCarthy Anderson. She was raised and attended schools in Lyman. She married Wilford A. Terry Sr. on July 19, 1936. She worked at Idaho Fresh Pak in Lewisville,...
Julia Ann Green
Sep 13, 2010
Julia Ann Rottweiler Green, age 66 of Idaho Falls, died Monday, September 13, 2010 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She was born July 4, 1944, in Rigby, Idaho, to Paul Lawrence Rottweiler and Edna May Cowell. She was raised and attended schools in Roberts, graduating from Roberts High School. On August 10, 1962, she married...
John Earl Cabral
Sep 12, 2010
John Earl Cabral, 82, of Island Park, Idaho, died Sunday, September 12, 2010, at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. He was born June 3, 1928, in Watsonville, California to John G. Cabral and Nora Stone Cabral. He was raised in Freedom, California. He joined the US Navy on May 23, 1946, and served as a cook until March 22, 1948...
Rocky G. Casper
Sep 11, 2010
Rocky G. Casper, 53, of Idaho Falls, died September 11, 2010 at his home. He was born June 18, 1957, in Rigby, to Floyd G. Casper and Barbara Irma Henri Casper. He was raised and attended schools in Idaho Falls, graduating from Skyline High School. He worked in security at INL for 25 years. He was a member of The...
Vona K. Shelton
Sep 9, 2010
Eckersell Memorial Chapel 101 West Main Street Rigby, Idaho 83442 745-6604 Vona K Allen Shelton, age 75, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, September 9, 2010 at Pine Brook Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls. Vona was born January 28, 1935 in Seattle, Washington. A daughter to Rollin Lyman Allen and Helen Miskin Allen. She attended schools in Tetonia and Idaho...
Rik Thomas
Sep 8, 2010
Richard Clay “Rik” Thomas, 81, of Rigby, passed away on Sept 8, 2010 at his home. He was born on May 16, 1929 in Tacoma, Washington, the only child of Bud Thomas and Maebelle Atherton Thomas. He joined the US Army in 1948, and served two years, then joined the Merchant Marines for a short time. He worked on survey...
Margene Sheppard
Sep 8, 2010
Margene Sheppard, 81, of Annis, died Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg. She was born February, 22, 1929, in Menan, Idaho, to Lawrence Leo Clark and Belva Delsie Miller Clark. She was raised and attended schools in Menan, graduating from Midway High School. On April 21, 1948, she married the love of her life, A....
