Obituaries

Sarah Phyllis Wilding Eldridge
Mar 1, 2008
Sarah Phyllis Eldridge, age 90, of Milo, died Saturday, March 01, 2008, at her home of natural causes. Sarah was born November 12th, 1917 to George David Wilding and Florence Hill Wilding. She married Wiley Fern (Bill) Eldridge on August 22nd, 1936 and they raised their family in the Sugar City, Rexburg and Island Park areas. When the Teton Dam...
Wretta Ellen Ward
Feb 29, 2008
Wretta Ellen Ward, age 90, of Rigby, died Friday, February 29, 2008 at Rexburg Nursing and Rehab in Rexburg, Idaho. Wretta was born February 26, 1918, at Hibbard, Idaho a daughter of Whitney Squires and Harriet Della Hendrick Squires. She attended Madison County Schools graduating from Madison High School. She married Melvin Ward in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple December...
Mary Elaine Poole
Feb 28, 2008
Elaine B. Poole, age 93 of Menan died Thursday, February 28, 2008 at Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born September 1, 1914 at Millcreek, Utah to Mary Lovenia Boam Brinton and Samuel Howard Brinton. She attended grade school in Coltmann, Idaho, then graduated from Midway High School. After graduation she worked in Salt Lake City, and then was...
Evron Lemmon
Feb 27, 2008
Evron Dansie Lemmon, age 100 of Rigby passed away Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born September 23, 1907 in Draper, Utah. Her Father was Charles Nephi Dansie and her Mother was Mary Amy Fitzgerald Dansie. Evron attended Rigby schools and graduated from Rigby High School with the class of 1925. She went...
Mary E. Moulton
Feb 26, 2008
Mary E. Moulton, age 87, of Rigby, died at The Gables of Ammon, Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Mary was born December 20, 1920, at Dubois, Idaho a daughter of William King Harvey and Emma Katie Yaggy Harvey. She attended schools in Hamer and Roberts. She married Orvil Westergard and they later divorced. She then married Oran Moulton. She was a...
Warren Neil Ackerman
Feb 26, 2008
Warren Neil Ackerman, age 61, a devoted husband, father & friend of Rigby, Idaho died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Warren Ackerman, son of Frank and Bea Ackerman, was born June 18, 1946 in Sacramento, CA. It was here that he grew up and attended school. He graduated from Carmichael High School and attended American...
Shona Lynn Chavez
Feb 24, 2008
Shona Lynn Chavez, age 46, of Idaho Falls, died at her home in Idaho Falls February 24, 2008 of natural causes. Shona was born June 20, 1961 at Rexburg, Idaho a daughter of Hermilo Emil Chavez and Harriet Martha Lee Chavez. She attended schools in Rigby and Eastern Idaho Vocational Technical College and earned and associates degree in Business Marketing....
Levern Scott
Feb 19, 2008
Levern Arthur Scott, age 81, of Annis, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Levern was born March 11, 1926 at Annis, a son of Arthur Edward Scott and Opal Young Scott. He attended schools in Annis and graduated from Midway High School. August 25, 1944 he joined the U.S. Army and served in the...
Thyrald Harris Finn
Feb 16, 2008
Thyrald Harris Finn, age 87, of Rigby, died at his home Saturday, February 16, 2008. Thyrald was born October 4, 1920 at Clark Ward, Idaho, a son of Wilford Harris and Sarah Jeffs Finn. He attended schools in Clark and Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. He then attended Ricks College. He married Elaine Rushton March 16, 1944 in the...
Calvin F. Reed
Feb 13, 2008
Clavin F. Reed, age 82, of Rigby, died at Madison Memorial Hospital Wednesday, February 13, 2008. Calvin was born July 10, 1925, in Ririe, Idaho a son of Freeman Reed and Lula Yearsley. He attended Lorenzo Elementary, Midway High School, Brigham Young University Provo, and Utah State University in Logan Utah. On October 1943 he began his service in the...
Margarete Maria Schuster
Feb 13, 2008
Margarete Maria Schuster, age 84, passed away Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at Idaho Falls Health and Rehab. She was born April 12, 1923 at Steinenbrucke, LindLar, Germany, a daughter of Franz Wilhelm Joseph Jahns and Agatha Braun Jahns. She was raised and attended schools in Germany. Margarete met Leo Heinrich Schuster while working as a conductress on the train system...
Clarence "Smitty" Smith
Feb 13, 2008
Clarence M. “Smitty” Smith, age 86, died at his home near Rigby, Wednesday February 13, 2008 due to incident of age. “Smitty” was born October 24, 1921 in Williston, North Dakota to Ernest and Carrie Kreiger Smith. The family came to Filer and then later Roberts. He attended school there. In his early teens the family moved to California. Clarence...
Dorothy Mitchell
Feb 10, 2008
Dorothy Mitchell, age 85, of Monteview died of cancer, at her home Sunday, February 10, 2008. She was born October 31, 1922 at Blackfoot, a daughter of Aaron Milton Thompson and Fern Rider Thompson. She was raised in Hamer and graduated from Hamer High School. July 1, 1940, she married Warren Thomas Mitchell in Pocatello. She worked as a secretary...
Donald C. Walker
Feb 8, 2008
Donald Carlos Walker, 76, our beloved husband, father, and grandfather passed away February 8, 2008 at his home in Lewisville. Donald was born February 21, 1931 in Lewisville, Idaho to William B. Walker and Evelyn Gerard Walker. He grew up in Lewisville where he attended grade school. He graduated from Midway High School in 1949 where he participated in football...
Tacy Edith Anthony
Feb 7, 2008
Tacy Edith Anthony, age 64, of Idaho Falls, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Thursday, February 7, 2008. She was born May 5, 1943, at Idaho Falls, a daughter of Robert Remior and Edith Harriet Hill Remior. She was raised by her Mother and Step Father Harvey Jenkins in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. April 15,...
Lorraine Pitman
Feb 5, 2008
Lorraine Pitman, age 82 of Idaho Falls, passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Tuesday, February 5, 2008. She was born January 20, 1926 at Trail City, South Dakota, a daughter of Joseph Grenz and Justina Haas Grenz. She was raised and attended schools in Eureka, South Dakota. She married LeRoy Biederstedt, they were later divorced. She Married John...
Wayne Kay Bowden
Feb 5, 2008
Wayne K. Bowden, 85, of Milo, died Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center with his children by his side. He was born November 12, 1922 in Brigham City, Utah, the son of Alma Henry and Myrtle Danielson Bowden. He was the third of seven children growing up in Dayton, Idaho, and attending Weston High School. He...
Marcellene Ethel Wheeler
Feb 5, 2008
Marcellene Ethel Wheeler, age 103, of Ririe, died Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at her home in Ririe. She was born on November 17, 1904 to Nels Jenson and Margaret Ann Finn Jenson. She grew up in Shelton and attended Buck Grade School. She married Albert A. Wheeler June 20, 1923 in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple. She was an active...
Eva May Coleman
Jan 24, 2008
Eva May Coleman, age 93, of Terreton, died at the home of her daughter Thursday, January 24, 2008. She was born November 30, 1914, at Garfield, Idaho, a daughter of Stephen John Miller and Cora May Ellis Miller. She was raised and attended schools in Garfield. May 18, 1938, she married Waldo Everett Coleman in the Salt Lake City, L.D.S....
Phillip Edward Taylor
Jan 23, 2008
Phillip Edward Taylor, age 50, formerly of Rigby, passed away at his home, in Chandler, Arizona, Wednesday, January 23, 2008. He was born October 22, 1957 at Rigby, a son of Elbert Dale and Lila Cheney Taylor. He was raised in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. He continued his education at Ricks College. He served a mission to...
