Obituaries

Susan Ann Hodges
Jan 1, 2007
Susan Ann Hodges age 50, of Rigby died Monday, January 1, 2007 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Susan was born January 1, 1957 in Bellflower, California a daughter of Jerome Bernard Ebenkamp and Leanore Claire Layton Ebenkamp. She attended school at Victor Elementary, West Torrance High School, El Camino Jr. College in Gardena, California and the University of...
Rex Rolfe
Dec 29, 2006
Rex Rolfe, A man of few words but much influence, Sgt. Rex Rolfe, 85, of Rigby, Idaho died December 29, 2006. Born and raised in Rigby, Rex made his home here and was a pillar in the community and his Church. He stood as a family patriarch and was a tremendous example to everyone he came in contact with. Rex...
Mildred Louise Miles
Dec 25, 2006
Mildred Louise Miles, 83, of Rigby, died, Monday, Decmeber 25, 2006, in Boise, Idaho. She was born November 1, 1923 in Rigby, Idaho a daughter of Carl Oscar Olson and Janie Louise Campbell Olson. She was raised and attended school in Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. She worked for Berlin’s Grocery Store and then for the telephone company for...
Grant Orlin Gunderson
Dec 25, 2006
A tribute to our beloved husband, brother and friend, on Christmas day, December 25, 2006 Grant Orlin Gunderson age 59 passed away at home with his loving wife and family around him. For a year and a half Orlin fought cancer, liver disease, a collapsed lung and two heart attacks. Orlin fought like a warrior to live and showed us...
Jimmy "Jim" Ray Stephenson
Dec 25, 2006
Jim Ray Stephenson, age 61, of Rigby, died at his home Monday, December 25, 2006. He was under the care of Aspen Home Health and Hospice. Jim was born April 12, 1945 at Missoula, Montana a son of Floyd M. and Vina Bonnie Blyeu Stephenson. He lived in Missoula, Montana until his family moved to Idaho where He attended and...
Orrin Vernice Douglass
Dec 22, 2006
ORRIN VERNICE DOUGLASS age 82, of Tetonia, Idaho, died December 22, 2006 in Rexburg, Idaho. Vernice was born September 4, 1924 at Glenns Ferry, Idaho, the son of Orrin Charles, and Stella Madsen Douglass. Vernice grew up and attended elementary schools in Cache, where he walked or rode a horse to school. He graduated from Teton High School, where he...
Elden Ross Packer
Dec 22, 2006
Elden Ross Packer, age 79, of Rigby, died Friday, December 22, 2006, at Rosetta Assisted/Senior Living in Idaho Falls. Elden was born April 10, 1927, at Blackfoot, Idaho a son of Arden Sharp Packer and Mable Walters Packer. He married Fern Ethel Petersen Oakden, November 27, 1997. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
Darsel Merle Morgan
Dec 19, 2006
Darsel Merle Morgan, age 84, of Idaho Falls, died Tuesday, December 19, 2006, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Darsel was born May 18, 1922, at Clark, Idaho a son of Vernal Edward Morgan and Jennie Aletha Heyrend Morgan. He attended Rigby Schools. On October 6, 1940 he married Virginia Call in Idaho Falls. He served in the United States...
Oscar Kenwood "Ken" Jones
Dec 17, 2006
Oscar “Ken” Jones, age 74, of Rigby, died at his home Sunday, December 17, 2006 from an apparent heart attack. Ken was born January 29, 1932 at Rigby a son of Clemence Lanor “Berry” Jones and Stella Pearl Lemmon Jones. He attended schools in Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. He then attended Ricks College and the University of Idaho....
Mary Jean Stringham
Dec 9, 2006
Mary Jean Cook Stringham, age 75, of Milo, died at home, Saturday, December 9, 2006. Mary was born March 27, 1931, at Garfield, a daughter to John William and Mary Helena Ritchie Cook. She married Robert Lee Stringham, July 17, 1953 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. She was an active member of the LDS Church and had served in...
Veda Mable Green Erickson
Dec 8, 2006
Veda Mable Green Erickson, age 83, of Lewisville, died Friday, December 08, 2006, in Rigby. Veda was born December 26, 1922 at Menan, a daughter to William Lorenzo and Dora Amanda Taylor Green. She attended Menan schools and graduated from Midway High School. On September 7, 1940 she married John Neal Erickson in Butte, Montana. Their marriage was later solemnized...
Gary Alexander Neuvert
Dec 8, 2006
Gary Alexander Neuvert, 64, of Rigby, formerly of Lodi, CA, died December 8, 2006 from a heart attack at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Gary has resided in Rigby Idaho since 2000. He was born, the youngest of three, January 30, 1942 in Stockton, CA to Alex and Ella Neuvert. Gary graduated from Stagg High...
Jeanette Hebertsen
Dec 6, 2006
Jeannette Cole Hebertson, 83, of Idaho Falls, passed away of natural causes December 6, 2006, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Jeannette was born August 6, 1924, in Leadore, Idaho, to Charles and Lottie (Clarke) Cole. When she was two, her family moved to Ririe and then to Rigby when she was five. After attending school in Rigby, she completed...
Janet Jones
Dec 1, 2006
Janet Jones, 71, of LaBelle, died, Friday, December 01, 2006, at her home of natural causes. Janet was born April 13, 1935 at Hyde Park, Utah a daughter to Bartley Ray Purser and Emma Balls Purser. She attended schools in Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. As a young lady she loved to Rodeo and was Rodeo Queen for the...
Shirley Amelia Ricks
Nov 29, 2006
Shirley Amelia (Smith) Ricks, age 79, of Rigby, Idaho, died Wednesday, November 29, 2006, at Home in Rigby, Idaho. She was born Dec. 31, 1926, in Rigby Idaho, the daughter of James Francis Smith and Ivy Rhodes Smith. She attended and graduated from Rigby High School. She is a member of the LDS Church where she served in the cub...
Audrey Louise Linger
Nov 28, 2006
Audrey Louise Linger, age 81, of Mud Lake, died Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Audrey was born march 30, 1925 in Lamar Colorado, the daughter of Cleo Abraham Smith, and Ruby Pearl Shoaf Smith. She moved to Mud Lake in 1934 and attended schools in Lamar Colorado, Mud Lake and Roberts. She married Carl Edward...
Lamar Anton Casper
Nov 19, 2006
LaMar Anton Casper, 64, of Elk Bend, Idaho died Sunday, November 19, 2006 at his home in Elk Bend of Pancreatic Cancer. LaMar was born July 24, 1942 in Annis, Idaho, a son of Edwin and Vonda Schneiter Casper. He was raised in the Menan area where he attended school at Menan Elementary, Midway Jr. High and Rigby High School....
Rayelda Peterson Pfost
Nov 13, 2006
RAYELDA Peterson PFOST, age 84, died Monday November 13, 2006 in the Idaho Falls Care Center. Rayelda was born February 9, 1922, at Shelton, Idaho, the daughter of Raymond C. Peterson and Mary Ellen Cleverly Peterson. Rayelda grew up in the Clark area, and attended Rigby Schools. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
Michael Miller Mcgarry
Nov 8, 2006
Michael Miller McGarry, age 57, of Hamer, Idaho, died Wednesday, November 8, 2006, at the Idaho Falls Health and Rehab in Idaho Falls. Michael was under the care of Aspen Hospice. Michael was born September 26, 1949 at Rexburg, Idaho a son to Loren Jones McGarry and Venice Miller McGarry. He attended schools in Kilgore and graduated from Clark County...
Jana Lee Simmons
Nov 5, 2006
Jana Lee Simmons, 35, of Meridian, Idaho, died Sunday, November 5, 2006 in LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Jana was born November 14, 1970, at Idaho Falls, a daughter to Kent George Izatt and Carolyn Lee Dutson Izatt. She attended schools in Ririe, graduating from Ririe High School in 1989. She then attended Idaho State University and was...