Obituaries

Guy Edwin Miskin
Mar 2, 2007
Guy Edwin Miskin, 91, of Terreton, Idaho, died at his home March 2, 2007. He was born August 23, 1915 to Edwin and Mildred Dodge Miskin in Ucon, Idaho. He attended Fairview elementary, and graduated from Ucon High School. On September 11, 1935, he married Afton Leone Gneiting in the Logan, LDS Temple. They made their home in Garfield, Tetonia...
Floyd "Kay" Passey
Feb 28, 2007
Floyd “Kay” Passey, age 81, of Rigby died in his home Wednesday, February 28, 2007. He was born March 27, 1925 at Magrath, Alberta, Canada to Charles Ace Passey and Elva Colman Passey. He attended schools in Magrath where he farmed with his family. After moving to Rigby he worked as a painter, owning Kay Passey & Sons Custom Painting...
Emily Margaret Young
Feb 28, 2007
Emily Nelson Lyman Young, age 90, of Rigby died at her son’s home in Rexburg, Wednesday, February 28, 2007. She was born November 28, 1916 at Archer, Idaho to Isaac Nelson and Iva Lenroot Nelson. She attended school at Lyman, Archer and Madison High School. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Emily married...
Leona Bertha Mcmurtrey
Feb 26, 2007
Leona Bertha McMurtrey, age, 79 of Chester, died at her home Monday, February 26, 2007. Leona was born January 27, 1928 in Milo, Idaho the daughter of Charles Harrison Allen and Bertha Marie Lewis Allen. Leona grew up and attended schools at Clark, Idaho and attended Rigby High School. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Robert Bennington Shippen
Feb 24, 2007
Robert Bennington “Bob” Shippen, age 93, of Idaho Falls died February 24, 2007 at Mt. Vernon Assisted Living in Idaho Falls. He was under the care of Aspen Home Health and Hospice. He was born September 2, 1913, at Menan, Idaho the son of Bennington “Ben” and Annie Olaveson Shippen. He graduated from Midway High School and attended Ricks College....
Christopher Jason Moss
Feb 19, 2007
Christopher Jason Moss, age 26, of Rigby, Idaho died in an industrial accident on an oil rig, near Pinedale, Wyoming, Monday, February 19, 2007. He was born November 26, 1980 in Bountiful, Utah to Chris Nolan Moss and Susan Gayle Bradford Moss. Chris attended West High School in Salt Lake City, Utah then later gradated from Bonneville High School in...
Lynn Fred Browning
Feb 17, 2007
Lynn Fred Browning, 78, of Lake Placid, Florida died Saturday, February 17, 2007, at his home. He was born in Rigby, Idaho to parents Chester and Lovera Kinghorn Browning on October 7, 1928. He served his country in the US Army during the Korean Conflict, and was a member of the Sebring Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of...
Payton Wayne Sauer
Feb 16, 2007
Payton Wayne Sauer, infant son of Wayne Neal Sauer and Lyssa Ann Dowdy Sauer died at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, February 16, 2007. He was born February 4, 2007 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He is survived by his Parents Wayne Neal Sauer and Lyssa Ann Dowdy Sauer of Terreton, a brother Trystan Sauer of Terreton,...
Carol Ann Wilson
Feb 14, 2007
Carol Ann Wilson, 61, of Ririe, died at home Wednesday, February 14, 2007. Carol was born April 14, 1945 at Murray, Utah a daughter to Frank Yates Paget and Dawna V Hiatt Paget. She married Jim Wilson December 20, 1962 at Sandy, Utah. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple, February 5, 1965. Carol was the oldest...
Leah Katreena Weber
Feb 13, 2007
LEAH Katreena WEBER, age 75 of Annis, Idaho, died at her home in Annis Tuesday, February 13, 2007. She was born December 9, 1931 at Lewisville, Idaho, the daughter of Charles Benjamin Dinsdale and Hildred Hoffman Dinsdale. Leah grew up and attended schools in Annis, and attended Rigby High School. She was an active member of the Church of Jesus...
Frances Louise Martin
Feb 13, 2007
Frances Louise Martin 85, of Idaho Falls, died Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Frances was born on September 19, 1921 in Johnson County, Texas the daughter of Acey Dean Samuels and Faye Josephene Elizabeth Haugh Samuels. She was raised in Texas, Oklahoma and, when she was 13, the family moved to Arizona. She married...
John Thomas Thomson
Feb 12, 2007
John “Jack” Thomas Thomson, 80, of Rigby, died Monday, February 12, 2007 at the home of his daughter in Eureka, Nevada. John was born May 26, 1926, at Rexburg, Idaho a son to Royal Thomson and Verna Gladys Ingram Thomson. He was raised in the Rexburg area and attended schools at Rexburg and Sugar City. He married Ann Rawson in...
Evelyn Mae Jones
Feb 11, 2007
Evelyn Mae Jones, age 80, of Rigby, died Sunday February 11, 2007 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Evelyn was born February 23, 1926, at Idaho Falls, a daughter to Charles Franklin Kronberg and Hazel Estelle Armstrong Kronberg. She attended Idaho Falls Schools graduating from Idaho Falls High School. She married Gilbert LeRoy Jones, in Idaho Falls,...
Gary Kennard Schiess
Feb 9, 2007
Gary Kennard Schiess, 41, died Friday, Feb. 9th, 2007 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Rigby, Idaho. Gary was born Dec. 27, 1965 in Logan, Utah to Donald Jay and Faye Pitcher Schiess. He attended schools in Rexburg, Idaho graduating from Madison High School in 1984. He went to Ricks College and to Southern Utah State in...
Rendon David Lovell
Feb 9, 2007
Rendon D. Lovell, 82 of Ririe, died of complications related to strokes, Friday, February 9, 2007 after residing three years at Rexburg Nursing and Rehab in Rexburg, Idaho. He was born July 30, 1924 at the family home in Ririe to George Hyrum Lovell and Harriett Larkin Borrowman Lovell. Rendon attended and graduated from Ririe High School prior to entering...
Mildred Hannah Corey
Feb 6, 2007
Mildred Hannah Corey, age 90, of Archer, Idaho, died Tuesday, February 6, 2007 in Rexburg, Idaho. Mildred was born December 21, 1916, the daughter of James Briggs, and Hannah Elizabeth Nelson Briggs. Mildred grew up and attended schools in Archer and Rexburg, Idaho. She married Darwin Corey, March 21, 1940 in the Logan L.D.S. Temple. She was an active member...
Steven Owen Hale
Feb 6, 2007
Steven Owen Hale, age 54 of Rigby, died Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Steven was born April 11, 1952 in Blackfoot, Idaho, the son of Owen Moss Hale and Mary Dellie Higby Hale. Steven grew up and attended schools in Pingree, Idaho. He graduated from Snake River High School, and attended...
Roberta Geisler
Feb 6, 2007
Roberta Geisler, 71, of Annis died February 6, 2007, at the Teton House Assisted Living Center in Rexburg. Roberta was born November 14, 1935, a daughter of Charles Robert Cox and Hannah Dora Blake Cox. She attended schools in Shelley and graduated from Shelley High School. She joined the Air Force in December of 1953 and served until December of...
Reva Hill
Jan 30, 2007
Reva Lavon Hill, 79, of Rexburg, died at home Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Reva was born June 23, 1927 at Idaho Falls a daughter to Albert Leland Hobley and Ida Wilkins Hobley. She attended Rigby and Ucon Schools. She married Horace Edmund Hill, September 6, 1947 in Rexburg. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple March 14,...
Sterley Mondell Smout
Jan 29, 2007
Sterley Mondell Smout, 68, of Idaho Falls, died Monday, January 29, 2007 at Overton, Nevada from injuries he received in an automobile accident. Sterley was born February 3, 1938 at Annis, Idaho a son to Sterley Peter Smout and Shirley Tolman Smout. He married Jo Fordyce. They later divorced. He ranched in the Leadore area. He enjoyed drawing western theme...