Obituaries

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Nancy Hammon Hamblin

Nancy Hammon Hamblin

Sep 3, 2010

Nancy Hammon Hamblin, age 46, of Saint George, Utah died in Saint George, Friday, September 3, 2010. Nancy was born June 16, 1964 at Rexburg, Idaho a daughter to Doyle DeVon Hammon and Rosena Mary Tracy Hammon. She attended schools in Salmon and Rigby graduating from Rigby High School in 1982. She then attended Vogue Beauty School in Idaho Falls,...

Shoji Nukaya

Shoji Nukaya

Sep 2, 2010

Shoji Nukaya, of Ammon, formerly of Roberts passed away peacefully at his home on September 2, 2010 at the age of 86. He was born on October 18, 1923 in Ucon, Idaho, the second child of Kukichi and Ine Kishiyama Nukaya. He was raised and attended schools in Ammon, graduating from Ammon High School in 1942. He served as a...

Maxcine Weekes

Maxcine Weekes

Sep 1, 2010

Ethel Maxcine Weekes, age 88, passed away peacefully in American Fork, Utah on Wed., Sept. 1st, 2010. She was born March 21, 1922 in Pocatello, Idaho, the youngest of four and only daughter of David and Leona Janson. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Melvin and Glen Mihlfeith and David Janson; her husband, Boyde and her son Todd....

Julie White

Julie White

Aug 31, 2010

Evelyn “Julie” Walters White, 38, of Menan, died Tuesday, August 31, 2010, at her home. She was born July 25, 1972, in Hollywood, Florida, to Miguel A. Castro and Pamela Sue Land Castro. She was raised and attended schools in Pocatello and Graduated from Idaho Falls, High School. She continued her education at Eastern Idaho Technical College, receiving her Associates...

Loren Page Johnson

Loren Page Johnson

Aug 29, 2010

Loren Page Johnson, 17, died Sunday, August 29, 2010, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was born March 13, 1993 in Rexburg, Idaho to Michael Leonard Johnson and Tracy McGarry Johnson. She was raised and attended schools in Hamer and was a senior at West Jefferson High School. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ...

Mabry Neville

Mabry Neville

Aug 29, 2010

Mabry Neville, 17, of Hamer, Idaho, died Sunday, August 29, 2010, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was born November 2, 1992, in Rexburg, Idaho to Jeremie Stan Neville and Misty McGarry Neville. She was raised and attended schools in Hamer and was a senior at West Jefferson High School in Terreton. She was a member of The...

Earl Bennett Peterson

Earl Bennett Peterson

Aug 29, 2010

Earl Bennett Peterson, 86, of Rigby, died Sunday, August 29, 2010 at his home. He was born April 7, 1924, in Waukegan, Illinois to Earl Cecil Peterson and Adel Bennett Peterson. He was raised and attended schools in New Lisbon, Wisconsin and graduated from New Lisbon High School. He enlisted in the US Navy and served in the Pacific Theatre...

Vern Lee Rolfe

Vern Lee Rolfe

Aug 26, 2010

Levern “Vern” Lee Rolfe, 24, of Rigby, died Thursday, August 26, 2010. He was born September 6, 1985, and is the son of Matt E. Rolfe and Marlene Marie Mijares Stucki Rolfe. He was raised and attended school in Rigby and received his G.E.D. in 2006. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Vern...

Boyd C. Barnes

Boyd C. Barnes

Aug 26, 2010

Boyd C Barnes, age 67, of Island Park, Idaho, died at his home Thursday, August 26, 2010. Boyd was born February 25, 1943 at Rexburg, Idaho a son to Ernest J Barnes and Ruth Fullmer Barnes. He attended Menan, Midway and Rigby High Schools. He served in the United States Army from 1961 until 1964 and then in the active...

Brooke Bateman

Brooke Bateman

Aug 24, 2010

Brooke Bateman, 24, of Grant, died Wednesday, August 25, 2010. She was born August 5, 1985, in Idaho Falls, to Evan Kenneth Bateman and Kristine Allan Bateman. She was raised and attended school in Rigby, graduating from Lincoln High School in Idaho Falls. She continued her education at ISU in Pocatello. Brooke is a member of The Church of Jesus...

Donna Ruth Archibald

Donna Ruth Archibald

Aug 23, 2010

Donna Ruth Johnson Archibald, 90, of Idaho Falls, died Monday, August 23, 2010, at the Fairwinds Sand Creek Retirement Home. She was born October 28, 1919, in Wilford, Idaho, to Raymond Kenneth Johnson and Wealthy Jane Pincock. She was raised and attended schools in Wilford Idaho, graduating from Sugar Salem High School. On June 28, 1940, she married David Merlin...

Ben Clark

Ben Clark

Aug 23, 2010

William Ben Clark, 86, of Rexburg, died Monday, August 23, 2010 at his home. He was born March 5, 1924, in Ririe, Idaho to William Barber Clark and Zina Opal Summers Clark. He was raised in Burton and Independence and graduated from Madison High School. He served in the US Army from January 1944 to April 1946, during WWII and...

Lyle Wren Scott

Lyle Wren Scott

Aug 22, 2010

Lyle Wren Scott, 96, of Ammon formerly of Annis, died Sunday, August 22, 2010, at Mt. Vernon Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls. He was born May 15, 1914, in Annis, Idaho, to John Robert Scott and LuElla Campbell Scott. He was raised and attended school in Annis and Rigby, and graduated from Midway High School. On May 26, 1936,...

Gordon Lee Miller

Gordon Lee Miller

Aug 21, 2010

Gordon Lee Miller, 99, of Preston, Idaho, formerly of Shelley and Ririe, Idaho, passed away peacefully early Saturday morning, August 21, 2010 at the Franklin County Transitional Center, a day after his 99th birthday. He was born August 20, 1911, in Fayette, Howard, Missouri to John Franklin Miller and Minnie Lee Shipley Miller. He married Zelpha Esther Scott on 22...

Michael Dean Summers

Michael Dean Summers

Aug 14, 2010

Michael Dean Summers, age 59, of Rigby, died Saturday, August 14, 2010, at E.I.R.M.C. Michael was born June 2, 1951 in Idaho Falls, Idaho a son to Dean Lamar and Beth Irene Swensen Summers. He attended schools in Ririe graduating from Ririe High School. After High School he attended Ricks College and Eastern Idaho Vocational Technical School in Idaho Falls....

Brandi Marie Jennings

Brandi Marie Jennings

Aug 13, 2010

BRANDI MARIE JENNINGS, age 20 of Rigby died Friday August 13, 2010 in Rigby, Idaho. Brandi was born February 25, 1990, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; the daughter of Randall Kirk Jennings and Bonny Marie Spencer Jennings. Brandi grew up and attended Rigby Schools, graduating from Rigby High School. She was a Certified Nurse Assistant at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center,...

Varrell Kay Lyman Sr.

Varrell Kay Lyman Sr.

Aug 10, 2010

Varrell Kay Lyman Sr. age 78, of Thornton, passed away from natural causes Tuesday, August 10, 2010, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was born in Burton, Idaho on February 20, 1932 to Eric Ambrose Lyman and Margaret McCulloch Lyman. He was the youngest of six siblings; two brothers, Leorn and Gary Dean Lyman and...

Joseph Everett Snyder

Joseph Everett Snyder

Aug 9, 2010

Joseph Everett Snyder, 78, of Pocatello, died Monday, August 9, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born February 15, 1932, in Georgetown, Idaho to Naomi Martha Larsen Snyder and Robert Clarence Snyder. During his youth, he grew up in Georgetown, Pocatello and Rockford, and graduated from Snake River High School. He then served in the US Air Force as...

Richard Wren Ellis

Richard Wren Ellis

Aug 9, 2010

Richard Wren Ellis, 60, of Rigby, died Monday, August 9, 2010, at his home, from complications due to a brain tumor. He was born June 29, 1950, in Rigby to Thomas Wren Ellis and Gladys Cordon Ellis. His early boyhood years were spent living in Annis. His family later bought a ranch in Driggs, Idaho, where he graduated from Teton...

Wanda Moss Mortimer

Wanda Moss Mortimer

Aug 6, 2010

Clara Wanda Moss Mortimer, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, passed away peacefully on August 6, 2010, at the age of 95 years. Wanda, as she was known throughout her life was born on April 17, 1915 to Joseph Crich and Clara L. Horman Moss in Iona, Idaho. She graduated from Iona High School and Ricks College with a Teaching...