Obituaries

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Jill Marie Berg

Jill Marie Berg

Jun 5, 2008

Jill Marie Berg, 56, of Rigby, passed away June 5, 2008, at her home. She was born May 8, 1952, in Butte, Montana, a daughter of Robert Carter and Minnie Triniman Carter. On August 30, 1976 she married John Berg in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Jill taught school for thirty-two years, six years in Wisdom, Mont., and twenty-six years at Roberts...

Wayne Freeman

Wayne Freeman

Jun 2, 2008

Wayne Freeman, 89, of Rigby passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Monday, June 2, 2008. He was born November 1, 1918 in Brigham City, Utah, a son of Harry Freeman and Effie May Tingey Freeman. He attended schools in Brigham City. After graduating from high school he joined the US Army and served in the Infantry during WWII....

Lyle Anglesey

Lyle Anglesey

Jun 1, 2008

Richard Lyle Anglesey, age 80, of Rigby, died Sunday, June 1, 2008 at his home, he was under the care of Idaho Home Health and Hospice. Lyle was born November 13, 1927 in LaBelle, Idaho a son to Rulon Lavern Anglesey and Mary Ellen Barnes Anglesey. He attended school in LaBelle and Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. He married...

Alan Haws

Alan Haws

Jun 1, 2008

Alan Haws, 78 of Idaho Falls, died at his home, Sunday, June 1, 2008. He was born June 6, 1929, at Newdale, a son of Rayman Haws and Mary Olive Dodson Haws. He was raised in Newdale and attended schools in Sugar City. He continued his education at Ricks College. He enlisted in the US Army February 27, 1951, and...

Dorothy Mae Downs

Dorothy Mae Downs

Jun 1, 2008

Dorothy Mae Downs, age 76, of Shelley, died at her home Sunday, June 1, 2008. She was born March 1, 1932, at Salt Lake City, Utah, a daughter to Norman Fryer and Flora Duncan Fryer. She attended schools in Hamer, Idaho. She married Jesse Gale Downs April 13, 1949 at Roberts, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho...

Iris B. Weekes

Iris B. Weekes

May 24, 2008

Iris B. Weekes, age 72, of Rigby, died at Rexburg Nursing and Rehab, Saturday, May 24, 2008. Iris was born April 20, 1936 at Pingree, Idaho a daughter to Harold Pea and Thelma Walters Pea. She was raised by her step Father Henry Floyd Andrus of Garfield, Idaho. She attended several schools in the Rigby area. She received her L.P.N....

Arta Nielson

Arta Nielson

May 24, 2008

Arta Nielson, age 91, of Rigby, died Saturday, May 24, 2008, at Homestead assisted Living of Rigby. Arta was born October 6, 1916 at Oxford, Idaho a daughter to Amos Howell Lewis and Ruth Porritt Lewis. Arta grew up in Oxford Idaho one of nine children. She attended school there and was very close to her five sisters and three...

Beverly Jean Kirkpatrick

Beverly Jean Kirkpatrick

May 24, 2008

Beverly Jean Kirkpatrick, age76, of Rigby, died at her home Saturday, May 24, 2008. Beverly was born December 2, 1931 at Sentinel Butte, North Dakota a daughter to Earl Benton Bird and Norma Lebo Bird. She graduated from Medora DeMores High School in 1949. She married Ted LeRoy Kirkpatrick September 2, 1954 in Medora, North Dakota. She worked on the...

Robert Wesley Eames

Robert Wesley Eames

May 23, 2008

Robert W. Eames, age 79, of Menan, died Friday, May 23, 2008 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls . He was born March 26, 1929 at the family home in Menan, a son of John Wesley Eames and Leota Luella Konkel Eames. He attended Menan grade school and graduated from Midway High School where he was student...

Ramon Garr Widdison

Ramon Garr Widdison

May 19, 2008

RaMon Garr Widdison, 72, of Rigby, passed away Monday, May 19, 2008, in Idaho Falls of heart failure. He was born January 8, 1936, in Plano, Idaho, the son of Garr and Dareta Brown Hemsley Widdison. He was the oldest of five children. He graduated from Madison High School, Ricks College and earned his B.S. from Brigham Young University. RaMon...

Brinda Crystal

Brinda Crystal

May 18, 2008

Brinda Crystal, 86, of Rigby, passed away May 18, 2008, at East Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born December 6, 1921, in Rigby, a daughter of Eldon Elias Merrill and Nancy Dinsdale Merrill. She attended schools in Annis and graduated from Midway High School. November 23, 1942, she married Vearl C. Crystal in Rigby, and was later solemnized in...

Sylvia "June" Guidinger

Sylvia "June" Guidinger

May 17, 2008

Sylvia “June” Guidinger, age 91, of Lava Hot Springs, formerly of Rigby, died Saturday, May 17, 2008 at the Aspen Grove Assisted Living Center in Lava Hot Springs. She was born June 6, 1916, in Downey, a daughter of Franklin Barnes and Anna Fenetti Jensen Barnes. She attended Woodland and Downey Schools. March 24, 1934 she married Norris Lewis Guidinger...

Venna Colleen Whittaker

Venna Colleen Whittaker

May 14, 2008

Venna Colleen Whittaker, age 54, of Lyman, Idaho died at home Wednesday, May 14, 2008. She was born November 9, 1953 at Rexburg, Idaho a daughter to Jacob Emmett Whittaker and Donna Mortensen Whittaker. She attended Madison County Schools graduating from Madison High School. She attended Ricks College. She was an active member of the LDS Church. She worked for...

Karla M. Wilding

Karla M. Wilding

May 13, 2008

Karla Marie Mortensen Wilding, 79 of Terreton, passed away May 13, 2008, at Idaho Falls Health and Rehabilitation. She was born November 6, 1928, in Salem, ID, a daughter of Warren Mortensen and Alta Alldredge Mortensen. She attended school in Sugar Salem and graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 1947. She married Nile Wilding October 1, 1947 in the...

Claude Cyril Tremelling

Claude Cyril Tremelling

May 10, 2008

Eckersell Memorial Chapel, 101 West Main Street, Rigby, Idaho 83442, 745-6604 Claude C. Tremelling, 86, of Rigby passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 10, 2008, at Fairwinds Sandcreek Retirement Community in Idaho Falls. He was born on July 28, 1921, at the family home in Lyman, Idaho. He grew up on the family farms in Lyman and Lorenzo where he...

Susan C. Metzger

Susan C. Metzger

May 7, 2008

Carolyn Susan Metzger, age 66, of Rigby, died at her home of cancer, on Wednesday, May 7, 2008. She was born December 1, 1941, in Salt Lake City, UT, the second child of Wallace Marion Clinger and Ruth Cloward. She was raised in Salt Lake and was a graduate of East High School. She continued her education and graduated from...

Stuart Arnold Newman

Stuart Arnold Newman

May 6, 2008

Stuart Arnold Newman, 65, of Menan, died May 6, 2008, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born June 14, 1942 in Idaho Falls, a son of Arnold Andersen Newman and Paula Burton Newman. He was raised in Milo, attended schools in Idaho Falls and graduated from Bonneville High School. He received his Associate Degree in Auto Mechanics from...

Vestal Freda Adams

Vestal Freda Adams

Apr 27, 2008

Vestal Freda Adams, 88 of Rigby, died at her home April 27, 2008. She was born April 18, 1920, in Ava, MO, a daughter of Arthur D. Frye and Matilda Lakey Frye. March 8, 1947 she married Harold Adams in Sunnyside, WA. Vestal was a long time member of the Art Guild, an artist and painter with Valley Art Guild,...

Floyd Duane Hall

Floyd Duane Hall

Apr 27, 2008

Floyd Duane Hall, 72, of Menan, died at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, April 27, 2008. He was born April 27, 1936, in Hamer, Idaho, a son of Floyd Wayne Hall and Gladys Bernice Collier. He attended schools in Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School with high honors. He continued his education at the University of Utah, studying...

Merle Jackson Deroche

Merle Jackson Deroche

Apr 24, 2008

Merle DeRoche, 85 of Lewisville, died April 24, 2008, at the Homestead Assisted Living Center of Rigby. She was born July 20, 1922, at Alta Wyoming, a daughter of Rhodum Stanley Jackson and Johanna Leone Beard Jackson. She attended schools in Alta Wyoming and Teton Basin. September 8, 1942, she married Clarence Alexander “Bud” DeRoche in Rigby, Idaho. And lived...