Obituaries

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Evelyn Williams

Evelyn Williams

Nov 9, 2008

Evelyn Williams, 87, of Chandler, Arizona, formerly of Idaho Falls, Idaho and Springville, Utah, passed away November 9, 2008, at the Morelos Care Home in Chandler, Arizona. She was born May 8, 1921, in Rigby, to Lorenzo William Walker and Stella Jenkins Walker. She was raised and attended school in Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. On December 19, 1943,...

C Brent Taylor

C Brent Taylor

Nov 9, 2008

C Brent Taylor, 65 of Rigby, died Sunday, November 9, 2008, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born February 26, 1943, in Los Angeles, California to Cleston Fritz Taylor and Marie Bradshaw Taylor. He was raised in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. He continued his education at The University of Connecticut where he received a Bachelors...

Richard Carl Swager Jr.

Richard Carl Swager Jr.

Nov 7, 2008

Richard (Dick) Carl Swager Jr. Richard (Dick) Carl Swager Jr., 65, of Boise, died Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 at a Boise hospital, of cancer. Dick was born in Amarillo, Texas on Oct. 25, 1943 to Richard Carl Swager Sr. and Kathlyn (Little) Swager. He attended ISU for one year, and then continued his education at Carroll College in Helena, Montana....

Ira Alvin Hardy

Ira Alvin Hardy

Nov 6, 2008

Ira Alvin Hardy, 86, of Menan, passed away Thursday, November 6, 2008 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born November 14, 1921, in Menan, to Charles Alvin Hardy and Florence Gray Hardy. He attended schools in Menan, graduating from Midway High School. He served in the Army Air Corps from December 27, 1941 – December 7, 1945, during...

Abigail Marie Thomson

Abigail Marie Thomson

Nov 2, 2008

Abigail Marie Thomson, 13, of Ucon, passed away Sunday, November 2, 2008 at her home. She was born May 16, 1995, in Idaho Falls, a daughter of Les Thomas Thomson and Sherri Jo Hix Thomson. She was raised and attended schools in Ucon and was currently in 7th grade at Rocky Mountain Middle School. Abi loved to go camping and...

Samuel Sommers Jr.

Samuel Sommers Jr.

Oct 28, 2008

Samuel Sommers Jr., 85, passed away on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at his home in Idaho Falls from Kidney Failure. Samuel was born in San Bernardino, California the eldest of seven children born to Samuel Sommers and Estella Grace Rock Sommers on September 26, 1923. At the age of seven he came to Idaho with his parents and three younger...

Elaine Louise Blaine

Elaine Louise Blaine

Oct 25, 2008

Elaine Louise (Ellis) Blaine, 65, of Mud Lake, passed away Saturday, October 25, 2008 at her home in the arms of her family. She was born June 21, 1943, in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Melvin Purser Ellis and Irene Davies Ellis. She attended public schools in Hamer and Terreton, where she developed a love for drama and music. She was...

Connie Mae Campbell

Connie Mae Campbell

Oct 24, 2008

Connie Mae Fowler Gohr Campbell 73 passed away October 24, 2008. While under the loving care of the staff at Mallory House. Connie Mae Fowler was born June 8, 1935 to John Leland Fowler and Zora Denning Fowler in Woodville, Idaho. She attended school in Shelley and Firth before her parents moved to Utah where her father found work on...

Marylou Bradshaw

Marylou Bradshaw

Oct 23, 2008

MaryLou Bradshaw, 70, of Rigby, passed away October 23, 2008, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born November 17, 1937, in Teton City, a daughter of Horton Row and Inez Smith Row. She graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 1956. On June 27, 1956, she married Carl Bradshaw, in the Idaho Falls, LDS Temple. Together, they lived...

Joan Bates Barnes

Joan Bates Barnes

Oct 21, 2008

Joan Bates Barnes, 76, of Rigby, passed away Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at her home. She was born May 16, 1932 in Rigby, Jefferson County Idaho, to Veral Veness Bates and Olive M. Godfrey Bates. She graduated from Idaho Falls High School and attended Utah State University in Logan, Utah. She married Marcus Walker Barnes of Hamer, Idaho on March...

Peggy Lee Austin

Peggy Lee Austin

Oct 12, 2008

Peggy Lee Austin, 56, of Rexburg, passed away October 12, 2008, at her home. She was born, August 28, 1952, in Afton Wyoming, to Griffith VanNoy Roberts and ElDora Joyce Lee Roberts. She was raised in Menan, attended school there, and then graduated from Rigby High School. On May 21, 1971, she married Jesse LeRoy Austin, in Twin Falls, Idaho....

Clifford E. Brosie

Clifford E. Brosie

Oct 6, 2008

Clifford Eugene Brosie, 75 of Lewisville, passed away October 6, 2008 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born June 1, 1933, in Beaver Falls, PA, to Paul W. Brosie and Loretta L. Waxler Brosie. He attended schools in Cosochton, OH and graduated from High School there. He played high school football and basketball. On May 6, 1955,...

Ada Aften Christensen

Ada Aften Christensen

Oct 4, 2008

Ada Aften Christensen, age 73, of Idaho Falls, died Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Ada was born on March 21, 1935 a daughter of Alvin Edwin Nebeker and Rebecca Bee Bee Rosezelle Runolfson Nebeker. She attended school in Rigby and also attended nursing school. Ada married Barttlet Cordon Whitaker in Idaho Falls. He preceded...

Irene E. Johnson

Irene E. Johnson

Oct 1, 2008

Irene E. Johnson, mother of Bert (AliceMarie) Johnson of Ririe, Idaho, passed from this life on October 1, 2008 at Idaho Falls, Idaho. Irene was born at Mandan, North Dakota on April 20, 1917 to Christian Lars Larsen and Hilda Christine (Lahren) Larsen. She married Einar Johnson, 1938 at Spanaway, Washington. They lived most of their lives in the Tacoma,...

Edna M. Schneiter

Edna M. Schneiter

Sep 28, 2008

Edna M. Schneiter, 80, of Idaho Falls, died September 28, 2008 at Idaho Falls Health and Rehab. She was born June 8, 1928, in LaBelle to Ivan Shurtliff Morgan and Jennie Fifield Morgan. She was raised in LaBelle and graduated from Rigby High School in 1946. On October 10, 1950, she married Harvey Dale Schnieter in the Idaho Falls LDS...

Lorin Gold

Lorin Gold

Sep 28, 2008

Lorin Moyer Gold, 82 of Rexburg, died September 29, 2008, at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born May 29, 1926, in Burton, Idaho to Louis and Bertha H. Gold. He joined the Navy in 1944 after graduation from Rexburg High School. He married Katheleen Pedersen on March 6, 1947 at Lorin’s parent’s home in Burton. He farmed...

Adam Eric Mugleston

Adam Eric Mugleston

Sep 27, 2008

Adam Eric Mugleston, 21 of Rigby died Saturday, September 27, 2008 near Jackson Hole, Wyoming of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Adam was born June 1, 1987 in Rexburg, Idaho a son of Eric Wade Mugleston and Martha Jill Radford Mugleston. He was raised and attended school in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. He was on the...

George R. Ellsworth

George R. Ellsworth

Sep 24, 2008

George Ronald Ellsworth, 89 of Lewisville died September 24, 2008 at The Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born January 3, 1919 in Lewisville, to Preston Blair Ellsworth, and Edna Boyes Walker. He attended schools in Lewisville, and graduated from Midway High School. He continued his education at Utah State University where he was on the wrestling team. On...

Kenneth A. Mackenzie

Kenneth A. Mackenzie

Sep 22, 2008

Kenneth Allen MacKenzie, age 92, of Roberts, died at home in Roberts, Monday, September 22, 2008. He was born February 5, 1916 at Grassrange, Montana to A.R. MacKenzie and Ebba Stevenson MacKenzie. Ken spent most of his growing up years in Montana. He moved to Arco where he worked in a mine. He worked at Craters of the Moon until...

Frances Moreland

Frances Moreland

Sep 22, 2008

Frances Guinevere “Guin” Moreland, 78, of Rigby, passed away September 22, 2008 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born August 26, 1930, in Eager, Arizona to Malon Bruce Layton and Delma Hamblin Layton. She attended school in The Blue one room school house in Arizona and Portland, Oregon. “Guin” loved to play board games, paint, and make...