Obituaries

Frank D. Poulsen
Feb 28, 2010
Frank D. Poulsen, 90, of Lewisville, died Sunday, February, 28, 2010, at his home. He was born February 24, 1920, in Plain City, Utah to Peter C. Poulsen and Emily Jane Newey Poulsen. He was raised and attended schools in Plain City, graduating from Weber High School. He served in the US Army during WWII. He married Virginia Taylor February...
Joseph W. Shoquist
Feb 27, 2010
Joseph W. Shoquist believed that good ethics made for good journalism. To that end, Shoquist, then managing editor of The Milwaukee Journal, wrote the ethics code for the editorial staff in 1973. Later, as chairman of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association's professional standards committee, he wrote its code of ethics. Patterned after The Journal's, it was widely adopted at...
Trilba Coles
Feb 26, 2010
Trilba Coles, 81, of Fort Shaw, Montana, died Friday February 26, 2010, at her home from natural causes. Trilba was born August 1, 1928 to Amelia and Henry Coles at the family farm in Rigby, Idaho. She lived on the farm most of her life. After her Mother passed away, she moved to the Fairfield Bench in Montana where she...
Betty Mae Christiansen
Feb 24, 2010
Betty Mae Hansen Christiansen passed away February 24, 2010. She was born May 6, 1926, in Salem, Idaho to Chancy Hans and Edith Viola Forsgren Hansen. She was the oldest of five children. Raised in Lewisville, she learned the value of hard work and often talked of the teachings of her father as they labored in the fields. She valued...
Helen L. Diamond
Feb 24, 2010
HELEN L. SMALL DIAMOND, 85, passed away on February 24, 2010 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Helen was born August 5th, 1925 in Small, Idaho to Hugh and Lela Small. She married Myrle A. Diamond in 1943; they lived in Roberts, Idaho for 42 years and raised 3 sons, Jim (Sandi) Diamond of Salt Lake City, Utah, Rob (Michele) Diamond of...
Fred J Standifird
Feb 21, 2010
Fred J Standifird, age 79, of Menan, died at Lily and Syringa in Idaho Falls, Sunday February 21, 2010. He was under the care of Creekside Hospice. Fred was born March 6, 1930 at Idaho Falls, Idaho a son of William Earl Standifird and Sarah Lenore Molen Standifird. He attended Menan schools graduating from Midway High School. He was active...
Gladys Maude Miller
Feb 14, 2010
Gladys Maude Miller, age 96, died Sunday, February 14, 2010 at Fairwinds in Idaho Falls. Gladys was born December 22, 1913, at Shelton, Idaho a daughter to Albert William Brown and Olive Maude Page Brown. She attended Shelton and Idaho Falls Schools. She married William A. Miller November 30, 1932 in Idaho Falls. Their marriage was later solemnized in the...
Glen Leroy Morgan
Feb 6, 2010
Glen LeRoy Morgan, 81, of Rigby, died Saturday, February 6, 2010, at his home. He was born February 9, 1928, in Annis, to Emeral LeRoy Morgan and Janet Ellen Bruce Morgan. He was raised and attended schools in Lorenzo and Annis. On March 2, 1950, he married Betty Matilda Glenn in Garfield. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls...
Joyce Monson Ball
Feb 5, 2010
Joyce Monson Ball, 77, of Ucon, died Friday, February 05, 2010, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, in Idaho Falls. She was born August 11, 1932, in Idaho Falls, to Eugene Hayes Monson and Myrtle Josephine Manning Monson. She attended schools in Hyrum Utah, and Idaho Falls, graduating from Idaho Falls High School. On March 20, 1953, she married Arland...
Gary Marc Farwell
Feb 3, 2010
Gary Marc Farwell, a decorated combat veteran and Chief Warrant Officer Four in the United States Army, died in a routine training accident on Wednesday, Feb 3. He was 39 years old. He will be laid to rest in Ririe. CW4 Gary Farwell, whose parents and grandparents are all from Burley, Idaho, was flying in southwestern Germany with two other...
Darwin Gene Walker
Jan 31, 2010
Darwin Gene Walker, age 63, of Rigby, died at his home, Sunday, January 31, 2010 from complications of Diabetes. Darwin was born May 25, 1946, at Newark, New Jersey, a son of Zamire Walker and Annie Delila Robbins Walker. He attended schools in Iona and graduated from Bonneville High School. He married Betty Gail Clegg, August 2, 1974 in Rigby....
Orrin Craig Jensen
Jan 30, 2010
Orrin Craig Jensen, 27, of Rigby, died Saturday, January 30, 2010. He was born June 5, 1982, in Rexburg, Idaho, to Nels Craig Jensen and Lovina Ann Welker Jensen. He grew up and attended school in Sugar City, until the age of 16, when he moved to Idaho Falls, and finished his Jr. and Sr. Year, graduating from Skyline High...
Diana Lynn Waters
Jan 29, 2010
Diana Lynn Waters, 39, of Las Vegas, Nevada, formerly of Pocatello and Boise, died Friday, January 29, 2010, at St. Rose Dominion Hospital, in Nevada. She was born October 15, 1970, in Pocatello Idaho, to Gerald Arden Waters and Vickie Lynn Brunson. She attended schools in Pocatello, including Highland High School and graduated from Boise Beauty School. She married Shawn...
Ethel Loretta Coleman Coles
Jan 26, 2010
Ethel Loretta Coleman Coles, 92, of Rigby, died January 26, 2010, at her home. She was born August 29, 1917, in Rigby, to John Wesley Coleman and Olive Mary Leah Price. On April 30, 1938, she married Robert Kenneth Coles, in Rigby, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. She was raised and attended schools...
John "Jack" Louis Carlyle
Jan 23, 2010
John “Jack” Louis Carlyle, 75, of Rigby, died January 23, 2010, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born October 8, 1934, in Idaho Falls, to George Carlyle and Dorothy Summers Carlyle. He attended schools in Ririe, and continued his education at ISU. He served in the US Army from 1957 to 1959. He was a Ririe resident his entire...
Burl Cromwell
Jan 21, 2010
Burl Cromwell age 73, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, January 21, 2010, at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Burl was born November 17, 1936 in Idaho Falls, Idaho a son of George Albert Cromwell and Pearl Leorine Petersen Cromwell. He attended school in Irwin, Idaho, at OE Bell in Idaho Falls, and graduated from Ririe High School. Burl was...
Lowell H. Jensen
Jan 19, 2010
Lowell H. Jensen, 88, of Idaho Falls, died January 19, 2010, at his home. He was born October 3, 1921, in Independence, Idaho, to Niels Jensen and Hellene Rasmine Hansen Jensen. He was raised and attended schools in Independence, near Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School. He continued his education at Ricks College. On April 8, 1942, he married...
Zaya Lynn Barker
Jan 17, 2010
Zaya Lynn Barker, 7 month old infant, of Idaho Falls, died Sunday, January 17, 2010, at her home. She was born May 26, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah to Scott Andrew Barker and SaRena Jill Mobley Barker. She is survived by her parents, Scott and SaRena Barker, a sister; Zaydie Barker, of Idaho Falls, grandparents; Tom and Mary Barker,...
Jurney Lynn Chapman
Jan 15, 2010
Jurney Lynn Chapman, age 4, of Mesa, Arizona, died in Mesa, January 15, 2010. Jurney was born November 30, 2005 at Mesa, Arizona a daughter to David Roy Chapman Jr. and Verity Lynn Olsen. She enjoyed the love and attention of everyone around her, loved nursery rhymes, music, her Jesus Loves Me Bunny, having her hair combed and swimming in...
C. Duane Killian
Jan 14, 2010
Charley Duane Killian, 78, died Thursday, January 14, 2010, at Pine Brook Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was born September 5, 1931, at Sunnydale, Idaho to Charley LeRoy Killian and Zilpah Chleo Young. Having moved from Idaho to Utah when he was 5-years-old, Duane attended Stoker Elementary School in Bountiful and South Davis Jr. High School in...
