Obituaries

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...
Wilma Jane Dumont
Jan 19, 2008
Wilma Jane Dumont, age 74, died January 19, 2008 at the Life Care Center in Boise, Idaho, from natural causes. Wilma was born on April 15, 1933 to William LeRoy and Jane Ann Staggie. Wilma was a member of the LDS Church and married Max J. Dumont on June 11, 1950. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls,...
John Ray Burnside
Jan 18, 2008
Ray Burnside, age 83, of Rigby, died Friday, January 18, 2008, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Ray was born January 13, 1925, at Driggs, Idaho a son of John and LeVon Knight Burnside. He attended Rexburg School and Madison High School. He married Donna Jean Brunson in Rexburg, December 27, 1943. Their marriage was later solemnized...
Nada Moore Hale
Jan 17, 2008
Nada Moore Hale age 93 of Rigby, Idaho passed away on January 17, 2008 of a massive stroke. She was born the 22 of September 1914 in Provo, Utah to James Eden Moore and Ethel Priscilla Hawkes. After the death of her mother during the influenza epidemic of 1919 she intermittently lived with her grandmother Hawkes and her father. When...
Irene Alice Rolfe
Jan 16, 2008
Saint George, Ut – Irene Alice Rolfe, 75, passed away Wednesday Jan 16. She was born 16 August 1932 in Vita, Manitoba, Canada to John Garrett Russell and Violet May Bryant. She married Dee Rolfe, 8 September 1951 in San Diego, California. Irene grew up in Ridgeville, Manitoba before she moved to live with her Grandmother Lynch in San Diego,...
Larry Lynn Messerli
Jan 16, 2008
Larry Lynn Messerli, age 61, of Idaho Falls, passed away at his home January 16, 2008. He was born June 29, 1946 in High River, Alberta, Canada to Henry and Alta Messerli. The Family moved to Idaho in 1952. In 1958 they moved to Terreton and he graduated from West Jefferson High School. In 1966 he started work for Petrolane...
Gaye Lajeanne Hilker
Jan 14, 2008
Gaye LaJeanne Hilker, age 67, of Rigby, died at her home Monday, January 14, 2008. She was born July 8, 1940 at Long Beach, CA a daughter of Harold Bernard Hilker and Gwen “Toad” Brown Hilker. She spent time in Southern California, Iowa, and Japan before moving to Idaho Falls in 1952. In 1959 she moved to Rigby. She attended...
Wilford Lee Hammon
Jan 14, 2008
Wilford Lee Hammon, age 88, of Menan, died at Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg, Monday, January 14, 2008. He was born June 5, 1919, at Ammon, a son of Heber Levi Hammon and Sarah Ann Waters Hammon. He grew up in Ammon and Bone Idaho; he attended schools in Ammon, and Ucon and graduated from Mid-way High School near...
Dennis M. Frandsen
Jan 11, 2008
Dennis M. Frandsen, age 61 of Idaho Falls, died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Friday, January 11, 2008. He was born April 23, 1946 at Idaho Falls, a son of Wardell Frandsen and Carmen Bennett Frandsen. He attended schools in Menan and Rigby and graduated from Idaho Falls High School. He married Janeen Korrel, they were later divorced, he...
David Ronald Killmeyer
Jan 9, 2008
David Ronald Killmeyer, age 71, of Rigby, died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Wednesday, January 09, 2008. David was born February 28, 1936 at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania a son of Albert Herman and Carol Ann Gobrish Killmeyer. He grew up and attended schools in Pittsburgh, Penn. Graduating from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh. David married Mary Nancy...
Dale Lloyd Peterson
Jan 9, 2008
Dale Lloyd Peterson, age 66 of Rigby, died Wednesday, January 9, 2008. He was born March 18, 1941 at Rigby, one of eleven children born to Ray and Ellen (Cleverly) Peterson. He was raised in the Rigby area and attended Rigby and Clark schools and served in the Idaho National Guard. Dale loved to play his guitar and sing, and...
Harvey Dale Schneiter
Jan 5, 2008
Harvey Dale Schneiter, age 80, of Idaho Falls, died at the Idaho Falls Life Care Center January 5, 2008. Dale was born July 27, 1927 in Ashton Idaho, a son of Anton A. and Hazel E. Park Schneiter. He graduated from Midway High School in 1945. Dale then served in the Navy from 1945 – 1949 stationed in Guam as...
Thain Watson Jr.
Jan 4, 2008
Farrell Thain Watson Jr., age 75, of Menan, died at his home, Friday, January 4, 2008. Thain was born December 14, 1932, a son to Farrell Thain Watson Sr. and Icie Virginia Bailey Watson. He attended Midway High School for one year and graduated from Rigby High School. He enjoyed playing football and basketball at both schools. On August 20,...
Dorothy Mae Hansen
Jan 3, 2008
Dorothy Mae Hansen age 83, of Thornton died Thursday, January 3, 2008, at her home. Dorothy was born on May 3, 1924 in Thornton, Idaho a daughter of Edward and Hazel Anderson Briggs. Dorothy, “Dot” grew up in Thornton Idaho and graduated 8th grade from Union School in Independence and attended Rigby High School. She married George Fredrick Hansen July...
Agnes Lloyd Poulsen
Jan 1, 2008
Agnes Lloyd Poulsen, age 97, formerly of Rigby, died in St. George, Utah Tuesday, January 1, 2008. She was born in her maternal grandparent’s home in Providence, Utah to Archie E. Lloyd and Agnes Elizabeth Neddo Lloyd on May 29, 1910. She was the second child of ten children, six boys and four girls. Her first five years were spent...
