Obituaries

Warren Neil Ackerman
Feb 26, 2008
Warren Neil Ackerman, age 61, a devoted husband, father & friend of Rigby, Idaho died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Warren Ackerman, son of Frank and Bea Ackerman, was born June 18, 1946 in Sacramento, CA. It was here that he grew up and attended school. He graduated from Carmichael High School and attended American...
Shona Lynn Chavez
Feb 24, 2008
Shona Lynn Chavez, age 46, of Idaho Falls, died at her home in Idaho Falls February 24, 2008 of natural causes. Shona was born June 20, 1961 at Rexburg, Idaho a daughter of Hermilo Emil Chavez and Harriet Martha Lee Chavez. She attended schools in Rigby and Eastern Idaho Vocational Technical College and earned and associates degree in Business Marketing....
Levern Scott
Feb 19, 2008
Levern Arthur Scott, age 81, of Annis, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Levern was born March 11, 1926 at Annis, a son of Arthur Edward Scott and Opal Young Scott. He attended schools in Annis and graduated from Midway High School. August 25, 1944 he joined the U.S. Army and served in the...
Thyrald Harris Finn
Feb 16, 2008
Thyrald Harris Finn, age 87, of Rigby, died at his home Saturday, February 16, 2008. Thyrald was born October 4, 1920 at Clark Ward, Idaho, a son of Wilford Harris and Sarah Jeffs Finn. He attended schools in Clark and Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. He then attended Ricks College. He married Elaine Rushton March 16, 1944 in the...
Calvin F. Reed
Feb 13, 2008
Clavin F. Reed, age 82, of Rigby, died at Madison Memorial Hospital Wednesday, February 13, 2008. Calvin was born July 10, 1925, in Ririe, Idaho a son of Freeman Reed and Lula Yearsley. He attended Lorenzo Elementary, Midway High School, Brigham Young University Provo, and Utah State University in Logan Utah. On October 1943 he began his service in the...
Margarete Maria Schuster
Feb 13, 2008
Margarete Maria Schuster, age 84, passed away Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at Idaho Falls Health and Rehab. She was born April 12, 1923 at Steinenbrucke, LindLar, Germany, a daughter of Franz Wilhelm Joseph Jahns and Agatha Braun Jahns. She was raised and attended schools in Germany. Margarete met Leo Heinrich Schuster while working as a conductress on the train system...
Clarence "Smitty" Smith
Feb 13, 2008
Clarence M. “Smitty” Smith, age 86, died at his home near Rigby, Wednesday February 13, 2008 due to incident of age. “Smitty” was born October 24, 1921 in Williston, North Dakota to Ernest and Carrie Kreiger Smith. The family came to Filer and then later Roberts. He attended school there. In his early teens the family moved to California. Clarence...
Dorothy Mitchell
Feb 10, 2008
Dorothy Mitchell, age 85, of Monteview died of cancer, at her home Sunday, February 10, 2008. She was born October 31, 1922 at Blackfoot, a daughter of Aaron Milton Thompson and Fern Rider Thompson. She was raised in Hamer and graduated from Hamer High School. July 1, 1940, she married Warren Thomas Mitchell in Pocatello. She worked as a secretary...
Donald C. Walker
Feb 8, 2008
Donald Carlos Walker, 76, our beloved husband, father, and grandfather passed away February 8, 2008 at his home in Lewisville. Donald was born February 21, 1931 in Lewisville, Idaho to William B. Walker and Evelyn Gerard Walker. He grew up in Lewisville where he attended grade school. He graduated from Midway High School in 1949 where he participated in football...
Tacy Edith Anthony
Feb 7, 2008
Tacy Edith Anthony, age 64, of Idaho Falls, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Thursday, February 7, 2008. She was born May 5, 1943, at Idaho Falls, a daughter of Robert Remior and Edith Harriet Hill Remior. She was raised by her Mother and Step Father Harvey Jenkins in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. April 15,...
Lorraine Pitman
Feb 5, 2008
Lorraine Pitman, age 82 of Idaho Falls, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Tuesday, February 5, 2008. She was born January 20, 1926 at Trail City, South Dakota, a daughter of Joseph Grenz and Justina Haas Grenz. She was raised and attended schools in Eureka, South Dakota. She married LeRoy Biederstedt, they were later divorced. She Married John...
Wayne Kay Bowden
Feb 5, 2008
Wayne K. Bowden, 85, of Milo, died Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center with his children by his side. He was born November 12, 1922 in Brigham City, Utah, the son of Alma Henry and Myrtle Danielson Bowden. He was the third of seven children growing up in Dayton, Idaho, and attending Weston High School. He...
Marcellene Ethel Wheeler
Feb 5, 2008
Marcellene Ethel Wheeler, age 103, of Ririe, died Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at her home in Ririe. She was born on November 17, 1904 to Nels Jenson and Margaret Ann Finn Jenson. She grew up in Shelton and attended Buck Grade School. She married Albert A. Wheeler June 20, 1923 in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple. She was an active...
Eva May Coleman
Jan 24, 2008
Eva May Coleman, age 93, of Terreton, died at the home of her daughter Thursday, January 24, 2008. She was born November 30, 1914, at Garfield, Idaho, a daughter of Stephen John Miller and Cora May Ellis Miller. She was raised and attended schools in Garfield. May 18, 1938, she married Waldo Everett Coleman in the Salt Lake City, L.D.S....
Phillip Edward Taylor
Jan 23, 2008
Phillip Edward Taylor, age 50, formerly of Rigby, passed away at his home, in Chandler, Arizona, Wednesday, January 23, 2008. He was born October 22, 1957 at Rigby, a son of Elbert Dale and Lila Cheney Taylor. He was raised in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. He continued his education at Ricks College. He served a mission to...
Wilma Jane Dumont
Jan 19, 2008
Wilma Jane Dumont, age 74, died January 19, 2008 at the Life Care Center in Boise, Idaho, from natural causes. Wilma was born on April 15, 1933 to William LeRoy and Jane Ann Staggie. Wilma was a member of the LDS Church and married Max J. Dumont on June 11, 1950. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls,...
John Ray Burnside
Jan 18, 2008
Ray Burnside, age 83, of Rigby, died Friday, January 18, 2008, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Ray was born January 13, 1925, at Driggs, Idaho a son of John and LeVon Knight Burnside. He attended Rexburg School and Madison High School. He married Donna Jean Brunson in Rexburg, December 27, 1943. Their marriage was later solemnized...
Nada Moore Hale
Jan 17, 2008
Nada Moore Hale age 93 of Rigby, Idaho passed away on January 17, 2008 of a massive stroke. She was born the 22 of September 1914 in Provo, Utah to James Eden Moore and Ethel Priscilla Hawkes. After the death of her mother during the influenza epidemic of 1919 she intermittently lived with her grandmother Hawkes and her father. When...
Irene Alice Rolfe
Jan 16, 2008
Saint George, Ut – Irene Alice Rolfe, 75, passed away Wednesday Jan 16. She was born 16 August 1932 in Vita, Manitoba, Canada to John Garrett Russell and Violet May Bryant. She married Dee Rolfe, 8 September 1951 in San Diego, California. Irene grew up in Ridgeville, Manitoba before she moved to live with her Grandmother Lynch in San Diego,...
Larry Lynn Messerli
Jan 16, 2008
Larry Lynn Messerli, age 61, of Idaho Falls, passed away at his home January 16, 2008. He was born June 29, 1946 in High River, Alberta, Canada to Henry and Alta Messerli. The Family moved to Idaho in 1952. In 1958 they moved to Terreton and he graduated from West Jefferson High School. In 1966 he started work for Petrolane...