Obituaries

Jordan Matthew Siepert
May 19, 2006
Jordan Matthew Siepert, age 14, of Salem, Idaho died at his home Friday May 19, 2006. Jordan was born July 24, 1991 at Rexburg, Idaho a son of Joseph Clifford Siepert and Janet Jean Ballard Siepert. He was raised in the Salem area attending Central Elementary, Kershaw Intermediate and Sugar Salem Jr. High and High School. Jordan participated on the...
Leland Wells Barney
May 18, 2006
Leland Wells Barney, 82, of Lewisville, died at his home Thursday, May 18, 2006. Leland was born July 28, 1923 at Lewisville, Idaho a son of Wells Barney and Blanche Lorene Fife Barney. He attended schools in Lewisville, graduated from Midway High School and attended one year at the University of Idaho in Moscow. He served with the United States...
Fern Elizabeth Renfroe
May 13, 2006
Fern Elizabeth Renfroe, 80, of Rigby, died Saturday, May 13, 2006, at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Fern was born on September 29, 1925, in Ashland, Kentucky a daughter of Tivis and Kathleen Nave Newsome. She was a member of the Westwood Christian Church in Ashland, Kentucky. She graduated Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia receiving her bachelors in...
Rafael Galvan Solorio
May 12, 2006
Rafael Galvan Solorio, 80, of Rigby died at his home on Friday, May 12, 2006. Rafael was born on December 6, 1925 in Guanajuato, Mexico a son of Rafael Galvan Lopez and Isabel Solorio Lopez. He was raised and attended school in Mexico. He lived in the United States since 1988. He was a member of the Catholic Church. Rafael...
Thelma Jean Sayer Bross
May 3, 2006
Thelma Jean Sayer Bross,77, of Boise, formerly of Rigby, died Wednesday, May 3, 2006 at the Capital Care Center in Boise. Thelma was born August 1, 1928 in Rigby, Idaho a daughter of John Earl Sayer and Leona Mcleran Sayer. She was raised and attended school in Rigby. Thelma was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Virginia Molen Mccandless
May 2, 2006
Virginia Molen McCandless, 89, of Menan, died at her home on Tuesday, May 2, 2006. Virginia was born January 2, 1917 in Menan, Idaho, the youngest child of William D. Molen and Ida May Staker Molen. Virginia spent most of her life in the Menan area-most of it in the family home on Main Street. She attended school at the...
Beth H. Brown
Apr 29, 2006
Beth H. Brown, age 81, of Rigby, died at her home from natural causes Saturday, April 29, 2006. Beth was born February 4, 1925 a daughter of Byron and Della Wilde Herbst. She attended schools in Groveland, Blackfoot and Salmon, graduating from Salmon High School. She attended Glen E Clark Business College in Idaho Falls. She married Larry B. Brown,...
Dean Willard Hayes
Apr 24, 2006
Dean Willard Hayes, age 76, of Rigby, died Monday April 24, 2006 at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehab in Rexburg, Idaho. Dean was born July 31, 1929 at Rigby, a son of Richard Willard Hayes and Edna Blanche Jensen Hayes. He attended Rigby Schools graduating from Rigby High School. He was active in basketball and track in High School. He...
Julian U Ybarlucea
Apr 22, 2006
JULIAN U. YBARLUCEA, age 62, of Monteview, died at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Saturday, April 22, 2006. Julian was born January 28, 1944 in Markina, Spain, the son of Roman Ibarlucea and Prudencia Urriolauscoa Ibarlucea. Julian grew up and attended schools in Spain until he was 19 years old. He immigrated to the United States...
Clora Lurline Champion
Apr 21, 2006
Lurline Champion, 91, of Rigby, died Friday, April 21, 2006 at the Idaho Falls Health and Rehab Center. Lurline was born on January 27, 1915 in Verona, Tennessee a daughter of Thomas Jefferson Staggs and Minnie Lorene Harris Staggs. She was raised and attended school in Ucon. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....

Mark C Taylor
Apr 20, 2006
Mark C Taylor, age 54, died at his home in Rigby, Thursday, April 20, 2006. He was under the care of Hospice Alliance. Mark was born June 3, 1951, at Rigby a son of Grant Randall and Rella Cottle Taylor. He attended schools in Lewisville, Midway and Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. He married Cody Rae Taylor July 8,...
Myrtle Engberson Hammer Buckland
Apr 16, 2006
Myrtle Engberson Buckland 91 of Rigby died Sunday, April 16, 2006, at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Myrtle was born August 22, 1914, in Iona, Idaho to Hyrum and Rosetta Burns Engberson. The family lived in Iona until she was 2 years old when they moved to a farm near Irwin, Idaho. Myrtle attended elementary school in Irwin before...
Keith Webb Franks
Apr 13, 2006
Keith Webb Franks, age 29, died in Idaho Falls, Friday April 13, 2006. Keith was born October 13, 1976, at Ogden, Utah, a son of Kenny Franks and Denice Louise Olsen Franks. He attended elementary school in Lovell, Wyoming and Jr. and Sr. High School in Rigby and ITEC in Idaho Falls. He loved to draw, play guitar, computer games...
Hettie Hunter
Apr 10, 2006
Hettie Hunter, 94, of Ririe, died at her home Monday, April 10, 2006. Hettie was born September 28, 1911 at Montpelier, Idaho a daughter of Swiss immigrants John Frederick and Marie Kohler Aegerter. She attended school in Montpelier graduating from Montpelier High School. She then attended Ricks College and Utah State University in Logan, Utah, graduating with a Bachelors degree...
Lanae Lynn Nelson
Apr 7, 2006
LaNae Lynn Nelson 22, of Idaho Falls, died Friday, April 7, 2006 of injuries received in an automobile accident. LaNae was born on July 30, 1983 in Rexburg, Idaho a daughter of Darrell Lynn Nelson and Rebecca Lynn Sprague Nelson. She attended school in Rigby and St. Anthony where she received good grades and graduated from South Fremont High School....
Thomas E. Staggs Sr
Apr 3, 2006
Eckersell Thomas E. Staggs SR passed away Monday, April 3, 2006 at his residence in Canaveral Groves, Florida. Tom was born on January 12, 1950 in Rigby, Idaho. He served in the U.S. Navy for 30 years as a proud submariner. He Retired in 1998 as a Senior Chief Storekeeper. At the time of his death he worked as Inventory...
Edna Mayo Gold
Apr 2, 2006
Edna Mayo McCulloch Gold, age 92, of Ririe, died at her home Sunday, April 2, 2006. Edna was born November 23, 1913 at Rexburg, Idaho a daughter of Alexander McCulloch and Ethel Violet Mayo McCulloch. She attended schools in Rexburg. She married Harold D. Gold in Dillon, Montana, October 28, 1945. She was a homemaker. She moved to Ririe in...
Lagrande Devon Willmore
Apr 1, 2006
LeGrande DeVon Willmore, age 75, died at his home in Rigby, Saturday, April 1, 2006. Legrande was born November 11, 1930 in Preston, Idaho, the son of Ernest Alfred and Thelma Taylor Willmore. LeGrande grew up and attended schools in Preston, and Ucon, Idaho, and graduated from Ucon High School. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ...
Darwin W Freeman
Mar 29, 2006
Darwin W. Freeman, 57, of Idaho Falls, passed away Wednesday March 29, 2006, in Lewisville from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born on January 23, 1949, in Brigham City, Utah to Wayne and Ileen Freeman. He was an Eagle Scout. He graduated from Rigby High School and received his Masters Degree in Physics from Arizona State University....
Carol Poole
Mar 29, 2006
Carol Poole 54, of Menan, passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2006, in Lewisville from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was born September 30, 1951 in Rigby, the daughter of Wayne and Ileen Freeman. She graduated from Rigby High School and attended business school in Salt Lake City, Utah. Carol married her high school sweetheart, Brent Poole on September...