Obituaries

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Dennis Josiah Blackburn

Dennis Josiah Blackburn

Sep 4, 2007

Dennis Josiah Blackburn, age 65, of Menan died at his home Tuesday, September 04, 2007. He was born November 11, 1941, at Burley, Idaho, to Alfred Lamb Blackburn and Dolly Grace Anderson Blackburn. Dennis was raised and attended schools in the Rigby and Thornton areas. He continued his education at Vo-Tech to become a denturist. He served in the Army...

Linda Ann Barzee

Linda Ann Barzee

Aug 31, 2007

Linda Ann Barzee, age 60, of Roberts, died at her home Friday, August 31, 2007 following a short illness. She was born July 11, 1947 at Long Beach, California a daughter of William Sizemore and Annette Mars Sizemore. Linda was raised in the Long Beach and Bellflower, California areas. She attended schools in Bellfower, and graduated from high school there....

Dora Jean Erickson

Dora Jean Erickson

Aug 31, 2007

Dora Jean Armstrong Erickson, 79, passed away Friday, August 31, 2007 at the home of her daughter in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Jean was born during a blizzard on January 28, 1928, the second child and only daughter of William Leslie (Les) and Dora Harmon Armstrong. She was raised in the Rigby area active in softball and journalism (interests she maintained...

Beatrice Liljenquist Hall

Beatrice Liljenquist Hall

Aug 28, 2007

Beatrice Liljenquist Hall, age 97 of Rigby, died in her home Tuesday, August 28, 2007. Beatrice was born June 18, 1910, at Rexburg, a daughter of Otto Erastus Liljenquist and Ivy May Allen Liljenquist. Beatrice was raised in the Rexburg area; she attended Adams and Jefferson Elementary as well as well as Madison High School. October 12, 1931 she married...

Diane Elizabeth Hulse

Diane Elizabeth Hulse

Aug 28, 2007

Diane Elizabeth Hulse, age 77 of Ririe, died Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. Diane was born April 7, 1930 in Pasadena, California a daughter of Theodore Atherton Cass and Grace Elizabeth Benham Cass. Diane was raised and attended schools in the Pasadena & Redlands area. She continued her education at Pasadena City College. Later she...

Herbert Floyd Winger

Herbert Floyd Winger

Aug 27, 2007

Herbert “Herb” Floyd Winger, age 67, of Idaho Falls died Monday, August 27, 2007 at his home. Herb was born May 13, 1940 at Driggs Idaho, a son of Floyd Winger and Anna Laura Merch Winger. He was raised in the Driggs and Rigby areas and graduated from Rigby High School. July 9, 1965 he married Edna Gaye Lemmon, they...

Sharon Lavonne Snavely

Sharon Lavonne Snavely

Aug 26, 2007

SHARON LaVonne Snavely, age 67 of Rigby, died Sunday, August 26, 2007 in Rigby. Sharon was born May 13, 1940 in San Mateo, California, the daughter of William R. Lee and Helen E. Jacobsen Lee. Sharon grew up and attended schools in Redwood City, California, and attended High School in Arcata, California. She married Dean Snavely December 31, 1961 in...

Lowell C. Moore

Lowell C. Moore

Aug 21, 2007

Lowell C. Moore of Roberts passed away Tuesday evening August 21, 2007 at his home. Lowell was born in Idaho Falls April 8, 1918 to Ethel White Moore and B.J. (Joe) Moore. He grew up in Ririe, Menan and Idaho Falls. Lowell graduated from Idaho Falls High School and engaged in farming west of Roberts. He met and courted a...

Verla Wilding

Verla Wilding

Aug 18, 2007

Verla Wilding, 92, of Milo died Saturday, August 18, 2007 at her home in Milo. Verla was born October 4, 1914 in Rigby, Idaho a daughter of Samuel Clifford Bowles and Sarah Campbell Bowles. She was raised and attended school in Milo. She was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in the Primary, Young...

Helen Alene Dodge

Helen Alene Dodge

Aug 16, 2007

Helen Alene Dodge, 67, of Rancho Cordova, California died Thursday, August 16, 2007 at the U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. Helen was born March 3, 1940, in Rigby, Idaho a daughter of Carl Edward Dodge and Della Elvina Rohwer Dodge. She was raised and attended school in Menan and Rigby. She attended Steven’s Henegar Business College in her...

Wilford Edward Hokanson

Wilford Edward Hokanson

Aug 16, 2007

Wilford Edward Hokanson, died August 16, 2007 at the age of 98 in Ridgefield, WA. He was born June 14, 1909 in Grover, WY as son of Olof Julyous Hokanson and Emma Joanna Welchman Hokanson. June 14, 1932 he married Afton Lucille Barzee in the Salt Lake LDS temple. He lived in Ammon and Pingree, Idaho where he farmed, then...

Harold E. Peterson

Harold E. Peterson

Aug 12, 2007

Our beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Harold Eugene Peterson, 89, of Rigby, passed away peacefully on August 12, 2007, surrounded by his family. Harold was born February 7, 1918, in Rose, Idaho to Soren Frederik and Marilla Tracy Pedersen. He lived in several locations throughout Southeastern Idaho while young and graduated from Thomas High School as Student Body President. On...

Carey "Pete" Barber

Carey "Pete" Barber

Aug 8, 2007

Carey Peter Barber age 91, of Rigby, died at his home Wednesday, August 8, 2007. Pete was born August 22, 1915, at Sunbeam, Colorado a son of Clarence O. Barber and Catherine Elizabeth Farrel Barber. He was raised and attended schools in the Colorado area. January 26, 1951 he married Mary Arlene Lundquist in Idaho Falls. Their marriage was solemnized...

Alona Kaye Dabell

Alona Kaye Dabell

Aug 5, 2007

Alona Kaye DaBell, Age 58, of Idaho Falls, died at Beacon Hospital and Rehabilitation in Pocatello, Sunday, August 5, 2007. Alona was born August 21, 1948 at Rigby, Idaho the youngest daughter of Emmett W. DaBell and Elma Rounds DaBell. She was raised in Lewisville and lived in Nampa, Idaho Falls and Pocatello. She enjoyed her experience at the Grant...

Belle Meldrum Fasbender

Belle Meldrum Fasbender

Aug 1, 2007

Belle Meldrum Fasbender, age 81, of Ammon, died at her home August 1, 2007. Belle was born September 17, 1925 at Orem, Utah, a daughter of Calvin Ray Meldrum and Mildred Patten Meldrum. Belle was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was raised in the Vale Oregon area and graduated from Vale Union High...

Ralph Myron Archibald

Ralph Myron Archibald

Jul 26, 2007

Ralph Myron Archibald, age 80, a resident of Idaho Falls, Idaho, died July 26, 2007, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born December 5, 1926, on the family farm just north of Rexburg, Idaho, in Salem. He was the eighth child of David Watson Archibald and Lillie Isabel Stallings. After surviving the depression on an 80 acre farm,...

Lola Scott Butler

Lola Scott Butler

Jul 25, 2007

Lola Scott Butler, 93, of Lyman, died at the Ashton Living Center Wednesday, July 25, 2007. Lola was born September 1, 1913, at Annis, Idaho a daughter to Ephriam Moroni Scott and Hannah Sophia Orstrom Scott. She married Harold Samuel Butler December 12, 1934 in the Logan LDS Temple. She worked as a secretary at the Site and then at...

Saundra "Marie" Watson

Saundra "Marie" Watson

Jul 25, 2007

Saundra “Marie” Watson, age 45, of Menan died Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at her home. Marie was born December 21, 1961 at Idaho Falls, a daughter of Richard Lynn Morgan and Saundra Camphouse Morgan. She grew up and attended schools in the Iona area, and was a graduate of Bonneville High School. She continued her education at Vo-tech in Idaho...

Billy Orville Vanzant

Billy Orville Vanzant

Jul 24, 2007

Billy O Van Zant, age 83, of Magalia, California died July 24, 2007. Billy was born May 20, 1924, at Topeka, Kansas, a son of Jack Van Zant and Bessie Young Van Zant. The family moved to Denver Colorado and he attended school in both Fort Collins and Denver. At the age of 15, he started work at Western Union...

Kay L. Clark

Kay L. Clark

Jul 24, 2007

Kay L. Clark of Menan passed away peacefully at his home July 24, 2007. He was born September 8, 1920 in Menan to Joseph Howard Clark and Alice Irene Lawson Clark. He attended Menan Elementary school and Midway High School. He was the quarter back of the Midway High School state championship football team and was recognized as an all-star...