Obituaries

Cloyd Dale Hancock
May 1, 2007
Cloyd Dale Hancock age 62 of Lewisville died May 1, 2007, at the Rexburg Nursing Center. Cloyd was born October 12, 1944 in Rigby, Idaho a son of Solomon Ward Hancock and Rosetta Fife Hancock. He was raised in Lewisville and attended the Grand Opportunity School in Grant. He graduated from the LDS Instutute in Rigby. He was a member...
Kay Lynn Howard
May 1, 2007
Kay Lynn Howard, age 65 passed away May 1, 2007 at his home in Lyman surrounded by his loving family. Kay was born September 19, 1941 in Teton City to Cleo John and Sarah Alta Hansen Howard. He grew up in Teton City attending Teton Elementary. He graduated from South Fremont High School in 1959. During the Vietnam War he...
Pamela Jean Smith
Apr 26, 2007
Pamela Jean (Anderson) Smith passed away in her home April 26, 2007, of cancer. Pamela was born February 24, 1948, to Clinton and Velma Anderson. She was raised in Thornton, and continued to live on the family farm after she married. As a child she loved all living things and spent most of her time helping her father on the...
Lena Cherry Galbraith
Apr 24, 2007
Lena Cherry Galbraith, age 83, of Lyman, died in her home, April 24, 2007. She was born August 31, 1923 in Burton, Idaho, the fifth child of Joseph Andrew Cherry and Margaret Pearl Murphy Cherry. She attended schools in Burton and Rexburg, graduating from Madison High School in 1942. She married Lloyd Elmer Galbraith of Lyman August 4, 1942. Their...
Alfred Vernon Ball
Apr 24, 2007
Alfred Vernon Ball, Jr., age 71, of Monteview, died at Mount Vernon Assisted Living in Idaho Falls, Tuesday, April 24, 2007. A.V. was born May 19, 1935 at Rigby, a son of Alfred Vernon Ball Sr. and Ruey Allen Ball. He graduated form Rigby High School. His education was continued at Brigham Young University for one year and Utah State...
Ornealo Burke Lee
Apr 24, 2007
Ornealo Burke Lee, age 87 of Grant, died April 24, 2007, peacefully in her sleep in Idaho Falls of causes incident to old age. She was born August 27, 1919, in Iona, the third of six children of Samuel B Burke and Sarah Longhurst Burke. The family lived in Iona until she was seven, when they moved to Bynum, Montana...
Benjamin Scott Kirkpatrick
Apr 24, 2007
Benjamin Scott Kirkpatrick, age 20 of Rigby died of complications from long term kidney disease at his home in Rigby, April 24, 2007. Benjamin was born September 27, 1986 at Rexburg, a son of Lyle Dean Kirkpatrick and Doreen Eyre Kirkpatrick. Benjamin grew up and attended schools in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School in 2005. While attending High...
Florence Lemmon Pond Dabell
Apr 18, 2007
Florence Lemmon Pond DaBell age 100 ½, of Rigby died April 18, 2007 at The Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rigby. Florence was born August 29, 1906 in Garfield, the third child in the family of twelve to Washington Lemmon and Ida E. Hamilton Lemmon. As she grew up her family moved to Marysville, where she attended Ashton High School...
Blake Harris Bjarnson
Apr 18, 2007
Blake Harris Bjarnson, age, 24, of Rigby died April 18, 2007 in Ririe. Blake was born August 23, 1982, at Santa Rosa, California, the son of Dee Bjarnson and Tamara Weeks Bjarnson. Blake grew up and attended schools in California, and graduated from Rigby High School. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He...
Derek Albert Robert Webb
Apr 14, 2007
Derek Albert Robert Webb age 81 of Menan passed away Saturday, April 14, 2007, at Madison Memorial Hospital. He was born December 20, 1925 in Norwich, Norfolk, England to George Robert Webb and Ellie May Betts Webb. In his youth he attended a small country school near Norwich. Having completed his primary schooling, he joined the Royal Air Force. He...
Vicki Lynn Foster Hope
Apr 13, 2007
Vicki Lynn Foster Hope, 48, of Boise, formerly of Rigby went to be with her father in Heaven on April 13, 2007 at her home. She was born September 26, 1958 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Kent and Judy Foster. She attended school in Rigby and graduated from Rigby High School. She received her LPN in Nursing at VoTech. Vicki...
Hugh Calvin Ireland
Apr 13, 2007
Hugh Calvin Ireland, 76, of Rigby, passed away at this home on April 13th, 2007. He was born June 16, 1930, at Boise, Idaho a son of Paul Walter Ireland and Alberta Hobsen Ireland. He married Norma Ann Riddle, August 21, 1955 in Mountain Home, Idaho. Hugh lived to work and work hard! Hugh spent four years in the Navy...
Coral Blanch Johnson
Apr 5, 2007
Coral Blanch Johnson, 77, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, April 5, 2007 at home in Idaho Falls. Coral was born in Elmo, Utah a daughter to Archie Thomas Guymon and Ellen Blanch Nelson Guymon. She attended schools in Utah and Idaho and graduated at Madison High School. She married Lee Earnest Hill in August of 1948, together they had six...
Ardell Frank Higley
Apr 5, 2007
Ardell Frank Higley, age 63, of Idaho Falls died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, April 5, 2007. He was born January 10, 1944 in Rigby, Idaho, a son of the late Lloyd Frank Higley and Rayeld Peterson Pfost. Ardell was raised in the Rigby area, was a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and loved...
John Ryan Groth
Apr 3, 2007
John Ryan “J.R.” Groth, age 47 of Rigby died at his home Tuesday, April 3rd 2007. He was born August 3, 1959 in Idaho Falls Idaho, a son of the late William Lloyd Groth and Virginia Ellen Ryan Groth. He was raised in Lewisville and attended school in Midway and Rigby. June 30, 1989 he married Debbie Diane Barzee in...
Alberta Smuin
Apr 3, 2007
Alberta Smuin, age 87, of Terreton, died Tuesday, April 03, 2007, at the home of her daughter in Idaho Falls. She was under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho. She was born February 29, 1920, in Vernal, Utah, a daughter of Ezra Coleman Boren and Bertha Ann Kendall Boren. She was raised and attended school in Vernal, Utah and...
Gwendolin Donna Groom
Mar 26, 2007
Gwendolin “Gwen” Donna Groom age 82, of Garfield died at Pinebrook Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls, Monday, March 26, 2007. She was born May 5, 1924, the only daughter of Joseph R. Smith and Eliza Ann Maxfield Smith. She spent her youth and attended school in Coltman, graduated from Ucon High School in 1942 and later attended The Business...
Wilma Cook Ririe Pettit
Mar 26, 2007
Wilma Cook Ririe Pettit, 93, of Salem, Oregon, formerly of Ririe, died March 26, 2007 of natural causes. She was born August 26, 1913 in Milo, Idaho a daughter of George Hunter Cook and Elva Elizabeth Garn Cook. She attended schools in Milo, graduated from Ucon High School and attended the Business College in Idaho Falls. She married Eldon Clyde...
Lana Anderson Clements
Mar 22, 2007
Lana Anderson Clements, 62, of Salt Lake City died at LDS Hospital March 22, 2007. She was born in Martinez, California on November 12, 1944 to Harold and Irene Anderson and spent her childhood in Northern California. Lana attended BYU where she received a Masters Degree in business. She taught business classes at Provo High and spent 13 years as...
Jared James Fisher
Mar 22, 2007
Jared James Fisher, 32, of Logan Utah, died in Ogden Utah, Thursday, March 22, 2007. Jared was born June 26, 1974 at LaJolla, California a son of Michael James Fisher and Lorraine Garrett Fisher. Jared spent his youth and attended schools in Rock Springs Wyoming, graduating from Rock Springs High School. He graduated from Western Wyoming College and attended Utah...
