Obituaries

Georgia Chase
May 16, 2010
Georgia Chase, 87, of Rexburg, formerly of Ririe, died Sunday, May 16, 2010, at her home in Rexburg. She was born August 29, 1922 in Lorenzo, to Lavern Williams and Elvina Carpenter Williams. She was raised and attended schools in Rigby. On April 29, 1938, she married Von Albert Chase. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS...
Levi Tyrell Maughn
May 12, 2010
Levi Tyrell Maughan, 3 month old infant, died Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born February 6, 2010, in Rexburg to Tyrell Orlo Maughan and Rose Anne Christian Bjornvick Maughan. He is survived by his parents, Tyrell and Rose Maughan sisters, Emma Maughan and Lauren Maughan, brothers, Noah Tyrell Maughan...
Ray Bradshaw
May 10, 2010
George Ray Bradshaw, 76, of Annis, passed away at his home May 10, 2010 after a courageous battle with Emphysema. He was born 28 June 1933 in Egin, Fremont, Idaho, the sixth of seven children born to George and Jennie Bradshaw. He attended Egin Elementary school and St. Anthony High School. On Dec. 17, 1953 he married Phyllis Stoddard in...
Neal Erickson
May 8, 2010
J. Neal Erickson, 86, of Lewisville, died Saturday, May 8, 2010 in Idaho Falls. He was born May 10, 1923, in Lewisville, to Joseph Enoch Erickson and Dora May Goody Erickson. He attended schools in Lewisville and graduated from Midway High School. On September 7, 1940, he married Veda M. Green in Butte, Montana; their marriage was solemnized in the...
Horace Edmund Hill
May 6, 2010
Horace Edmund Hill, 84, of Rexburg, died Thursday, May 6, 2010, in Rexburg. He was born January 3, 1926, in Rexburg to Edmund Hill and Mary Ann Bates Hill, he was raised in Rexburg and attended schools in Rigby. He Joined the US Navy on March 14, 1944 and was stationed in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor, and sang in the...
Cloe Ann Beebe
May 6, 2010
Cloe Ann Beebe, 71, of Rigby, died Thursday, May 6, 2010, at her home. She was born January 13, 1939, in Rigby, to Leo Lavern “Vern” Cordon and Lida Rae Durrant Cordon. She attended schools in Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School. She continued her education at Ricks College, and received her Associates Degree. She worked as a secretary at...
Rod Craig Duke
May 3, 2010
Rod Craig Duke, 53, of Roberts died Monday, May 3, 2010, at his home. He was born September 2, 1956, in Idaho Falls, to Wayne Meredith Duke and June Watts Duke. He grew up and attended schools in Roberts and Rigby. On March 4, 1977, he married Lana Jean Tanner, in Idaho Falls. They live in Roberts. Rod owned and...
Gaylen Ray Andersen
Apr 28, 2010
Gaylen Ray Andersen, 56, of Rigby, died Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at the Gardens of Rigby. He was born April 24, 1954, in Rigby to Milton Waters Andersen and Mary Ardell Hunsaker. He was raised in Clark and attended schools in Rigby. He worked as pool plasterer in Idaho Falls, Rexburg, Jackson, Wyoming, New Jersey, Montana and throughout the United...
Gayle Jean Lee
Apr 22, 2010
Gayle Jean Young Lee, 59, of Rigby, died April 22, 2010, in Tongatapu, Tonga. She was born March 28, 1951, in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, to Harden Douglas Young and Hannah Jean Thatcher Young. She was raised and attended schools in Coeur D’ Alene, graduating from Coeur D’ Alene High School. She continued her education at North Idaho College, Gonzaga University,...
Phil A. Mueller
Apr 21, 2010
Phil A. Mueller, 81, of Rigby, Idaho, died April 21, 2010, at his home. He was born December 24, 1928, in Pocatello, Idaho to Albert and Coletta Muller. He moved to Rigby with his family as a small boy. During high school he excelled in sports as quarterback for the undefeated football team and guard on the basketball team. Phil...
Glen Higley
Apr 16, 2010
Glen Higley, 61, of Rexburg, died April 16, 2010, at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. He was born March 26, 1949, in Rigby to Harold Higley and Mary Alice Roth Higley. He graduated from Rigby High School, and then continued his education at Ricks College in Rexburg. He was a self taught carpenter and builder and built and remodeled many...
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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...
