Obituaries

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June Bates Josephson

June Bates Josephson

Dec 5, 2008

June Bates Josephson, 90, of Chesterfield, died Friday, December 05, 2008, at her home. She was born August 8, 1918, in Chester, to Ernest George Bates and Mary Ellen Brown Bates. She graduated from Teton High School. On December 11, 1939 she married Morris Arnold Josephson in Rexburg, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple....

Eula Joann Welker

Eula Joann Welker

Dec 4, 2008

Eula Joann Welker, 73, of Rigby, died December 4, 2008, at her home. She was born March 15, 1935, in Fairview, Wyoming, to Ruel Kimball Jenkins and Lovina Harmon Jenkins. She was raised in Fairview, Afton and Bear Lake. She attended School in Bear Lake and Graduated from Star Valley High School. On June 10, 1953, she married Orrin Louis...

Gail Emfield

Gail Emfield

Dec 4, 2008

Gail Emfield, 58, of Inkom, died at her home Thursday, December 4, 2008, of thyroid cancer. She was born January 26, 1950, in Lehi, Utah, to Hyrum Dee Hansen and Mary Anne Butler Hansen. She was raised and attended schools in Castle Dale, Utah. She graduated from Snow College and from Utah State University with a degree in Elementary Education,...

Charlotte Sessions Bahr

Charlotte Sessions Bahr

Nov 29, 2008

Charlotte Sessions Bahr, 58, of Tetonia, Idaho, died November 29, 2008, in an automobile accident near Tetonia, Idaho. Charlotte was born April 15, 1950, in Idaho Falls, Idaho and was the 5th of 7 children born to Fay & Ruth Sessions. She graduated from Bonneville High School in 1968 and graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor’s of Education...

Garrick Fillmore

Garrick Fillmore

Nov 28, 2008

Garrick Fillmore, 104, of Rexburg, Idaho, passed away November 28, 2008 of natural causes. Garrick was born October 29, 1904 to Edgar Thomas Fillmore and Mable Garrick Fillmore. He entered this world on the family farm in Clark Ward, Rigby, Idaho as the second born of six children. Preceding him in death are his parents and his brothers: Glenn, Blaine,...

Matthew Peter Krivitza

Matthew Peter Krivitza

Nov 25, 2008

Matthew Peter Krivitza, 28 of Idaho Falls, died Tuesday, November 25, 2008. He was born November 10, 1980, in Groton Connecticut, to Alexander Joseph Krivitza and Cynthia Marie Barber Krivitza, at Groton New London Naval Base. He graduated from high school in Florida. In 2005 he moved to Idaho. He was engaged to be married to Nicole Jensen in December,...

Bonnie Jorgensen

Bonnie Jorgensen

Nov 18, 2008

Bonnie Jorgensen, 98, of Idaho Falls, died November 18, 2008, at her home. She was born April 27, 1910, in Salem, Idaho, to James Fredrick Shirley and Sarah Virgin Shirley. She attended schools in Sugar Salem and graduated from Sugar Salem High School. On November 20, 1936, she married Otto Lehi Jorgensen, in the Salt Lake City L.D.S. Temple. She...

Eudora M. Edwards

Eudora M. Edwards

Nov 18, 2008

Eudora M. Rasmussen Edwards passed away November 18, 2008 at the Good Samaritan in Idaho Falls. She was born to Joseph and Constance Jensen Smith on April 6, 1913 in Preston, Idaho. Her father died when she was 4 years old. The family moved to the Blackfoot area. At the age of 19 she went to work as a cook...

Darlene Margaret Edelmayer

Darlene Margaret Edelmayer

Nov 14, 2008

Darlene Margaret Edelmayer, 67, of Idaho Falls, passed away Friday, November 14, 2008, at her home. She was born December 9, 1940, in Roberts, the youngest of 13 children, to John Peter Edelmayer and Ora Mae Trembly Edelmayer. She was raised and attended schools in Roberts. She left home at an early age to start traveling the world. She visited...

Calvin Loy Moser

Calvin Loy Moser

Nov 12, 2008

Calvin Loy Moser (73) passed away Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at his home in Grant, Idaho surrounded by his loving wife and family after a valiant fight against leukemia. He was born July 28, 1935 to Francis Lyman Moser and Esther Miskin Moser in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He spent his early years in Coltman and then moved to Grant. He...

Herbert Royce Craghead

Herbert Royce Craghead

Nov 10, 2008

Herbert “Herb”Royce Craghead, 66, of Rigby, passed away Monday, November 10, 2008 at his home from complications of an illness. Herb was born July 9, 1942 in Checotan, Oklahoma. He is the third of eight children born to Allen Benjamin Craghead and Vera Mae White Craghead. The family moved to California where Herb was raised and attended schools. He graduated...

Evelyn Williams

Evelyn Williams

Nov 9, 2008

Evelyn Williams, 87, of Chandler, Arizona, formerly of Idaho Falls, Idaho and Springville, Utah, passed away November 9, 2008, at the Morelos Care Home in Chandler, Arizona. She was born May 8, 1921, in Rigby, to Lorenzo William Walker and Stella Jenkins Walker. She was raised and attended school in Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. On December 19, 1943,...

C Brent Taylor

C Brent Taylor

Nov 9, 2008

C Brent Taylor, 65 of Rigby, died Sunday, November 9, 2008, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born February 26, 1943, in Los Angeles, California to Cleston Fritz Taylor and Marie Bradshaw Taylor. He was raised in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. He continued his education at The University of Connecticut where he received a Bachelors...

Richard Carl Swager Jr.

Richard Carl Swager Jr.

Nov 7, 2008

Richard (Dick) Carl Swager Jr. Richard (Dick) Carl Swager Jr., 65, of Boise, died Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 at a Boise hospital, of cancer. Dick was born in Amarillo, Texas on Oct. 25, 1943 to Richard Carl Swager Sr. and Kathlyn (Little) Swager. He attended ISU for one year, and then continued his education at Carroll College in Helena, Montana....

Ira Alvin Hardy

Ira Alvin Hardy

Nov 6, 2008

Ira Alvin Hardy, 86, of Menan, passed away Thursday, November 6, 2008 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born November 14, 1921, in Menan, to Charles Alvin Hardy and Florence Gray Hardy. He attended schools in Menan, graduating from Midway High School. He served in the Army Air Corps from December 27, 1941 – December 7, 1945, during...

Abigail Marie Thomson

Abigail Marie Thomson

Nov 2, 2008

Abigail Marie Thomson, 13, of Ucon, passed away Sunday, November 2, 2008 at her home. She was born May 16, 1995, in Idaho Falls, a daughter of Les Thomas Thomson and Sherri Jo Hix Thomson. She was raised and attended schools in Ucon and was currently in 7th grade at Rocky Mountain Middle School. Abi loved to go camping and...

Samuel Sommers Jr.

Samuel Sommers Jr.

Oct 28, 2008

Samuel Sommers Jr., 85, passed away on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at his home in Idaho Falls from Kidney Failure. Samuel was born in San Bernardino, California the eldest of seven children born to Samuel Sommers and Estella Grace Rock Sommers on September 26, 1923. At the age of seven he came to Idaho with his parents and three younger...

Elaine Louise Blaine

Elaine Louise Blaine

Oct 25, 2008

Elaine Louise (Ellis) Blaine, 65, of Mud Lake, passed away Saturday, October 25, 2008 at her home in the arms of her family. She was born June 21, 1943, in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Melvin Purser Ellis and Irene Davies Ellis. She attended public schools in Hamer and Terreton, where she developed a love for drama and music. She was...

Connie Mae Campbell

Connie Mae Campbell

Oct 24, 2008

Connie Mae Fowler Gohr Campbell 73 passed away October 24, 2008. While under the loving care of the staff at Mallory House. Connie Mae Fowler was born June 8, 1935 to John Leland Fowler and Zora Denning Fowler in Woodville, Idaho. She attended school in Shelley and Firth before her parents moved to Utah where her father found work on...

Marylou Bradshaw

Marylou Bradshaw

Oct 23, 2008

MaryLou Bradshaw, 70, of Rigby, passed away October 23, 2008, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born November 17, 1937, in Teton City, a daughter of Horton Row and Inez Smith Row. She graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 1956. On June 27, 1956, she married Carl Bradshaw, in the Idaho Falls, LDS Temple. Together, they lived...