Obituaries

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Carl Dean Lydon

Carl Dean Lydon

Nov 19, 2009

Carl Dean Lydon, 66, of Rexburg, died Thursday, November 19, 2009, at his home in Rexburg. Carl was born January 27, 1943, in Elkhart, Indiana a son of Martin Patrick Lydon and Vera Marie Black. He attended school in Hawthorne, California and St. Joseph’s Catholic School until the eighth grade. He graduated from Lennox High School. He was a member...

Una Rae Horton

Una Rae Horton

Nov 18, 2009

Una Rae Simpson, Horton, 62, of Rigby, passed away, Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at her home. She was born February 18, 1947, in Afton, Wyoming, to Jess Simpson and Ivy Hunsaker Simpson. She graduated from Star Valley High School in 1965, shortly after she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. She married her best friend and soul mate, Frank Horton,...

Dirk Victor Lee

Dirk Victor Lee

Nov 18, 2009

Dirk Victor Lee, age 50, of Rigby, died at his home from heart failure November 18, 2009. Dirk was born February 11, 1959 at Idaho Falls to Victor Lee and Martha Lou Grover Lee. He grew up in Milo graduating from Bonneville High School. He then attended Idaho Vocational Technical College in Idaho Falls to become a Auto Mechanic. He...

Brent Thomas Owen

Brent Thomas Owen

Nov 17, 2009

Eckersell Memorial Chapel 101 West Main Street Rigby, ID 83442 208-745-6604 Brent Thomas Owen, 44, of Fort Worth, Texas, formerly of Aberdeen, died November 17, 2009. He was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming on July 15, 1965, and spent his childhood years growing up in Aberdeen, Idaho. He is the son of John Thomas Owen of Malad, Idaho and Gayle...

Arvilla Mae Montgomery

Arvilla Mae Montgomery

Nov 9, 2009

Arvilla Mae Montgomery, 88, of Rigby, formerly of Fresno, California, Died Monday, November 9, 2009, at her home. She was born May 1, 1921, in Groton, South Dakota, to Bernhard F. Breitkreutz, and Cecelia Graff Breitkreutz. She was raised and attended schools in Groton, South Dakota. She worked in a dress shop in Fresno, at Woolworths and during WWII; she...

Devron James Mitchell

Devron James Mitchell

Nov 4, 2009

Devron James Mitchell, 46, of Idaho Falls, died November 4, 2009 at his home, of congestive heart failure. He was born December 27, 1962, in Boise, to James Mitchell, and Valerie Hill Mitchell. He attended schools in Rigby, and graduated from Skyline High School, in Idaho Falls. On August 1, 2000, he married Holly Morgan, in Rigby, Idaho. Devron and...

Fern Zweifel

Fern Zweifel

Oct 29, 2009

Fern Zweifel, age 93, formerly of Ririe, passed away with her daughter, Leone, by her side on October 29, 2009, at an adult family home in Bellevue, Washington. Fern was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 15, 1916 to George and Freda Oberg Gordon. She graduated from high school in the Salt Lake City area. Fern married William...

Larine Boyle Todd

Larine Boyle Todd

Oct 27, 2009

Larine Boyle Todd, 75, of Rigby, died Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at her home. She was born October 24, 1934, in Plano, Idaho, to Joseph Harry Rawson, and Pauline Alberta Mayne Rawson. She was raised and attended schools in St. Anthony and Ashton. She married William Samuel Morrow, they later divorced. Later she married Lorenz Wilhelm Schaefer, they later divorced....

Deborah Noma Sadovich

Deborah Noma Sadovich

Oct 26, 2009

Deborah Noma Gifford Sadovich, 43, of Rigby died Monday, October 26, 2009. She was born on March 28, 1966 in St. George, Utah, to Marlin Gifford and Dixie Flanigan Gifford. She attended Hurricane High School, and later received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University-Idaho. On October 26, 1986, Deborah married Jason M. Sadovich in St. George Utah....

Carl Johnson

Carl Johnson

Oct 23, 2009

Carl Johnson, 62 of Rigby, died Friday, October 23, 2009, at his home. He was born March 25, 1947, in Driggs, Idaho, to Kenneth LaVell Johnson, and Marie Margret Hansen Johnson. He was raised and attended schools in Driggs and graduated from Driggs High School, following high school, he attended chef school at Idaho State University. On August 11, 1977,...

Zane Leroy Eddins

Zane Leroy Eddins

Oct 20, 2009

Zane Leroy Eddins, 83, of Monteview, passed away Tuesday, October 20, 2009, at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born December 10, 1925, in LaBelle, Idaho, to George William Eddins and Sarah Meiklejohn Eddins. He attended schools in LaBelle, and Rigby. He served in the US Navy during WWII. On July 31, 1948, he married Patricia Reed in Caldwell, Idaho; their...

Gwen Ellsworth

Gwen Ellsworth

Oct 19, 2009

Gwen Goody Ellsworth, 74, of Lewisville, Idaho, passed away on Monday, October 19, 2009 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born October 27, 1934 in Rigby, Idaho to Frank Fisher Goody and Rhoda Jane Ellis Goody. She was raised in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. On March 16, 1955 she married Oscar Ellsworth in the Idaho...

Ramona Jane Clark

Ramona Jane Clark

Oct 17, 2009

Ramona Jane Clark, age 79, died Saturday October 17, 2009 at Pinebrook Care Center in Rigby. She was born September 8, 1930 at Antelope, Idaho a daughter to Horace Robert McMurtrey and Cora Minilla Fox. She attended Clark Elementary and graduated from Rigby High School. She married Charles Jesse Clark April 29, 1950 at Ririe, Idaho. She was a member...

Eva Hady Hill

Eva Hady Hill

Oct 16, 2009

Eva Hady Hill, 93, of Rigby, died Friday, October 16, 2009, at the Good Samaritan Society in Idaho Falls. A graveside service will be held at 1:30 p.m., on Friday, October 23, 2009, at the Rigby Pioneer Cemetery, under the care of Eckersell Memorial Chapel in Rigby.

Barbara Ann Roundy

Barbara Ann Roundy

Oct 16, 2009

Barbara Ann Kamlah Roundy, 79, of Monteview, died October 16, 2009, at her home, of natural causes. She was born October 13, 1930, in Atlanta, Georgia to Albert Friedrich Kamlah and Violet Louise Cope Kamlah. After high school, she attended BYU. On July 7, 1951, she married Heber Roundy, in the St. George LDS Temple. She was a homemaker, and...

Donetta May Housley

Donetta May Housley

Oct 16, 2009

DonEtta May Housley, 85 of Ririe, died Friday, October 16, 2009, at Idaho Falls Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was born September 1, 1924, in Rigby, to Donald Owen Garton and Emily Jane Cordon Garton. On October 21, 1944, she married LaWyane H. Housley, in Rigby; their marriage was solemnized March 25, 1965, in the Idaho Falls, LDS Temple. She...

Jacqueline Gayle Shattuck

Jacqueline Gayle Shattuck

Oct 14, 2009

Jacqueline Gayle Shattuck, 70, of Rexburg, died October 14, 2009, at the home of her daughter in Sugar City. She died after a 17 year battle with cancer and received excellent care from Eastern Idaho Hospice in her last days. She was born June 3, 1939, in Akron, Ohio, to James G. Anderson and Noreen Mae Roberts Anderson. She was...

Ray Alma Walker

Ray Alma Walker

Oct 10, 2009

Ray A. Walker, 87 of Rexburg passed away Saturday, October 10, 2009, at the Madison Memorial Hospital. Ray was born November 15, 1921 in St. Anthony, Idaho a son of George Alma Walker and Hazel Jane McCumber Walker. Ray was raised in St. Anthony and attended school in St. Anthony, Midway, and graduated from South Fremont High School. He served...

Barbara Lyman Foreman

Barbara Lyman Foreman

Oct 8, 2009

Barbara Lyman Foreman, 72 of Reno, Nevada, formerly of Thornton, died October 8, 2009 in Reno, Nevada. Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, October 17, 2009, at Eckersell Memorial Chapel, 101 West Main Street, Rigby. The family will receive friends from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. prior to services at the funeral home.

Joyce E. Scott

Joyce E. Scott

Oct 7, 2009

Joyce Ernestine Brandjord Scott, 77, of Ririe, died Wednesday, October 7, 2009, at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. She was born January 8, 1932, in Lignite, North Dakota, to John Iver Brandjord and Marie Nelson Brandjord. She was raised and attended schools in North Dakota and Great Falls, Montana, she also lived in Oregon and Idaho. During 1955, she married...