Thora French
Jun 20, 2008
Thora Hall Belnap French, 93, of Roberts, passed away Thursday, June 20, 2008 at Rexburg Nursing Home of causes incident to age. She was born March 12, 1915 in Hooper, Utah to George Ellis Belnap and Mabel Hall Belnap. She attended elementary school in Burton, ID. The family then moved to Rigby where she attended eight grade, they then moved...
Eva Frances Pickering
Jun 19, 2008
Eva Frances Pickering, age 88, of Plano, Iowa died June 19, 2008 at the Corydon, Iowa hospital. She was born October 25, 1919 in Nenzel, Nebraska to Mathias and Maria Rosa Nollette Boltz. She grew up and attended school in Nenzel, Nebraska. On May 10, 1939 she married John Malcolm Pickering and to this union were born 3 children. Frances...
Janice Ann Reneau
Jun 18, 2008
Janice Ann Reneau, 68 of Idaho Falls, passed away Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at her home. She was born January 18, 1940, in Ashton, Idaho, a daughter of Tom Reneau, and Elva Davis Reneau. She attended schools in Ashton and graduated from Ashton High School. On September 13, 1963 she married Larry Whitaker in Ashton. They were later divorced. After...
Rex G. Clark
Jun 12, 2008
Rex G Clark, age 68, of Annis, died at Idaho Falls Health and Rehab in Idaho Falls Thursday, June 12, 2008. Rex was born March 25, 1940 at Sugar City, Idaho a son to Glen and Elizabeth Saxton Clark. He attended Sugar City Schools, graduating from Sugar Salem High School in 1958. Following high school graduation he worked in potato...
Vera Welch
Jun 12, 2008
Vera Welch, age 84, of Rigby, died Thursday, June 12, 2008 at her home. She was born August 5, 1923, in Farmington, Utah, a daughter of Arnold Miller Steed and Hattie Hayes Steed. She attended schools in Farmington and graduated from Davis High School in Kaysville, Utah. On June 10, 1943, she married Claude Wilbur Welch in San Diego, California;...
Mae M. Freeman Larson
Jun 10, 2008
Mae M. Freeman Larson, 95, of Rexburg, died Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at Idaho Falls Health and Rehabilitation of incidence due to age and complications from an earlier hip fracture. She was born February 13, 1913, in Rigby, Idaho, to Jens Christian Gunderson and Karoline Louise Anderson Gunderson. She grew up in LaBelle, Idaho and attended grad school in the...
Mitchel Dean Ball
Jun 9, 2008
Mitchel Dean Ball, age 83 of Redding California, previously of Ucon passed away June 9, 2008. He was born March 25, 1925 in Ucon to Mitchel Ball and Lydia Wilkins Ball. He worked for the Railroad for many years and served in the US Navy for two years. After his marriage to Ann Hanni they moved to Dumuir California. She...
Garvin James Durrant
Jun 8, 2008
Garvin James Durrant, 81, of Rigby, died June 8, 2008, at his home after a battle with cancer. He was born February 13, 1927 in Ririe, Idaho to James Earl Durrant and Leah Agnes Park. He grew up in Ririe, where he married his high school sweetheart, PerLee Wheeler, in Ririe, Idaho on June 8, 1946. Their marriage was later...
John Pete Olsen
Jun 7, 2008
John Pete Olsen, 72 of Tetonia, Idaho died June 7th 2008 at his home. He was born October 30, 1935 in Ashton, Idaho to Julia Mellnee Bell and Leslie Rudolph Olsen. He grew up in Teton Valley. His life revolved around his family and his horses. In the past 72 years there hasn’t been a mountain or stream between Salmon...
Jill Marie Berg
Jun 5, 2008
Jill Marie Berg, 56, of Rigby, passed away June 5, 2008, at her home. She was born May 8, 1952, in Butte, Montana, a daughter of Robert Carter and Minnie Triniman Carter. On August 30, 1976 she married John Berg in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Jill taught school for thirty-two years, six years in Wisdom, Mont., and twenty-six years at Roberts...
Wayne Freeman
Jun 2, 2008
Wayne Freeman, 89, of Rigby passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Monday, June 2, 2008. He was born November 1, 1918 in Brigham City, Utah, a son of Harry Freeman and Effie May Tingey Freeman. He attended schools in Brigham City. After graduating from high school he joined the US Army and served in the Infantry during WWII....
Lyle Anglesey
Jun 1, 2008
Richard Lyle Anglesey, age 80, of Rigby, died Sunday, June 1, 2008 at his home, he was under the care of Idaho Home Health and Hospice. Lyle was born November 13, 1927 in LaBelle, Idaho a son to Rulon Lavern Anglesey and Mary Ellen Barnes Anglesey. He attended school in LaBelle and Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. He married...
Alan Haws
Jun 1, 2008
Alan Haws, 78 of Idaho Falls, died at his home, Sunday, June 1, 2008. He was born June 6, 1929, at Newdale, a son of Rayman Haws and Mary Olive Dodson Haws. He was raised in Newdale and attended schools in Sugar City. He continued his education at Ricks College. He enlisted in the US Army February 27, 1951, and...
Dorothy Mae Downs
Jun 1, 2008
Dorothy Mae Downs, age 76, of Shelley, died at her home Sunday, June 1, 2008. She was born March 1, 1932, at Salt Lake City, Utah, a daughter to Norman Fryer and Flora Duncan Fryer. She attended schools in Hamer, Idaho. She married Jesse Gale Downs April 13, 1949 at Roberts, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho...
Iris B. Weekes
May 24, 2008
Iris B. Weekes, age 72, of Rigby, died at Rexburg Nursing and Rehab, Saturday, May 24, 2008. Iris was born April 20, 1936 at Pingree, Idaho a daughter to Harold Pea and Thelma Walters Pea. She was raised by her step Father Henry Floyd Andrus of Garfield, Idaho. She attended several schools in the Rigby area. She received her L.P.N....
Arta Nielson
May 24, 2008
Arta Nielson, age 91, of Rigby, died Saturday, May 24, 2008, at Homestead assisted Living of Rigby. Arta was born October 6, 1916 at Oxford, Idaho a daughter to Amos Howell Lewis and Ruth Porritt Lewis. Arta grew up in Oxford Idaho one of nine children. She attended school there and was very close to her five sisters and three...
Beverly Jean Kirkpatrick
May 24, 2008
Beverly Jean Kirkpatrick, age76, of Rigby, died at her home Saturday, May 24, 2008. Beverly was born December 2, 1931 at Sentinel Butte, North Dakota a daughter to Earl Benton Bird and Norma Lebo Bird. She graduated from Medora DeMores High School in 1949. She married Ted LeRoy Kirkpatrick September 2, 1954 in Medora, North Dakota. She worked on the...
Robert Wesley Eames
May 23, 2008
Robert W. Eames, age 79, of Menan, died Friday, May 23, 2008 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls . He was born March 26, 1929 at the family home in Menan, a son of John Wesley Eames and Leota Luella Konkel Eames. He attended Menan grade school and graduated from Midway High School where he was student...
Ramon Garr Widdison
May 19, 2008
RaMon Garr Widdison, 72, of Rigby, passed away Monday, May 19, 2008, in Idaho Falls of heart failure. He was born January 8, 1936, in Plano, Idaho, the son of Garr and Dareta Brown Hemsley Widdison. He was the oldest of five children. He graduated from Madison High School, Ricks College and earned his B.S. from Brigham Young University. RaMon...
Brinda Crystal
May 18, 2008
Brinda Crystal, 86, of Rigby, passed away May 18, 2008, at East Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born December 6, 1921, in Rigby, a daughter of Eldon Elias Merrill and Nancy Dinsdale Merrill. She attended schools in Annis and graduated from Midway High School. November 23, 1942, she married Vearl C. Crystal in Rigby, and was later solemnized in...