Obituaries

Ida Green
May 23, 2005
Ida Green, age 84, of Rexburg, died at Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Monday, May 23, 2005. Graveside Services will be held Friday, May 27, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. in the Hayden Cemetery. Friends may call on Friday at Eckersell Memorial Chapel in Rigby from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. Burial will be in the Hayden Cemetery under the direction of...
Letha Mcgrath
May 22, 2005
Letha McGrath, 90, of Rigby, died at her home, Sunday, May 22, 2005. Letha was born May 30, 1914, at Ogden, Utah a daughter of Elias Call and Lola LaVern Dean Call. She attended schools in the Ogden Area graduating from Ogden High School. She married John C McGrath Sr., February 29, 1964 in Juarez, Mexico. She spent her married...
Dwight Emery Gohr
May 21, 2005
Dwight Emery Gohr, 40, of Rigby, Idaho died, Saturday, May 21, 2005 near Palisades, Idaho from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Dwight, was born, June 1, 1964 in Idaho Falls, Idaho the son of Jack Howard Gohr and Connie Mae Fowler Gohr. He attended schools in Menan, Roberts and Rigby, Idaho graduating from Rigby High School in 1982. He...
Doris Magdalene Sloan
May 20, 2005
Doris Magdalene Johnson Sloan, 87, of Rigby, Idaho, died May 20th 2005 at Life Care Center of Idaho Falls. She was born in her parent’s family farm house on May 12th, 1918 in Hayes Center, Nebraska the youngest of seven children to hard working parents Henry Johnson and Mary Walker Johnson. She attended High School at Hayes Center, Nebraska and...
Dow Conrad Bain
May 19, 2005
Dow Conrad Bain, 83, of Idaho Falls died at his home May 19, 2005. Dow was born February 14, 1922 at Grimes, Oklahoma a son of William C. Bain and Wilda Bina Morrison Bain. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. at the Green Acres Mortuary in Glendale, Arizona on Tuesday, May 24, 2005. The family will visit with...
Jessie Ruth Bingham Moss Nield
May 18, 2005
Jessie R. Nield, age 81, of Ririe, Idaho, passed away on May 18, 2005, at the Rexburg Nursing Center in Rexburg, Idaho. Mom was born December 13, 1923, in Riverdale, Utah, the fourth of eleven children of Walter Edward and Lillian Rose Jespersen Bingham. Her family worked together raising watermelons, cantaloupes, and tomatoes and they were noted for being the...
Betty Ruth Madsen
May 15, 2005
Betty Ruth Madsen, 83, of Rigby, died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Sunday, May 15, 2005 from complications following a stroke. Betty was born November 4, 1921 in Idaho Falls to Charles Ira and Nellie Nebeker Lindsay. She grew up in the New Sweden area and attended Eagle Rock Elementary. The family moved to Rigby where she finished her...
Dean Waters Hammon
May 13, 2005
DEAN W. HAMMON, age 77 of Menan, died Friday, May 13, 2005 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Dean was born October 5, 1927 at Ammon, Idaho the son of Heber Levi Hammon , and Sarah Ann Waters Hammon. Dean attended schools in Menan and Midway. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dean married Barbara...
Joseph Eurnur Hutchison
May 13, 2005
Joseph E.Hutchison, 65, of Idaho Falls, died at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center May 13, 2005, from cancer. Joe was born December 11, 1939, at Missoula, Montana. He was raised by his grandparents Harry Hutchison and Grace May Daniels Hutchison. He attended schools in Harlowton, Montana. After graduating from Harlowton High School he served in the U.S. Army National Guard...
Ashlee R. Monson
May 12, 2005
Ashlee Reese Monson, newborn daughter of Micheal Neils Monson and Marisa Brooke Wengren Monson, died May 12, 2005, at Mountain View Hospital. Survivors include her parents, Micheal and Marisa Monson; sisters, McKenna, Cassidy, and Mya Monson, all of Idaho Falls; brother, Tyler Petersen of Idaho Falls; grandparents, Gary and Sharon Mueller of Idaho Falls, Stuart and Brenda Wengren of Buhl,...
Claire Ann Yates
May 12, 2005
Claire Ann Yates, 20, of Rigby, Idaho and formerly of Pullman, Washington died Thursday, May 12, 2005 in Rigby. Survivors include; a daughter, Destry Lynn Stipe of Rigby, Idaho. Her father, John Raymond Yates of Pullman,Washington. Her mother, Phyllis L. Martin of Spokane, Washington. A sister, Whitney Yates of Pullman, Washington and two brothers, James Yates of Pullman, Washington and...
Janice Marie Prophet
May 12, 2005
Janice Marie Prophet, age 57, of Rigby, died Thursday, May 12, 2005, at the E.I.R.M.C. Janice was born February 15, 1948 in Rigby, Idaho a daughter of John Ray Storms and Nola Walker Storms. She attended grade school in Ammon, Jr. High school at Bonneville and graduated high school at Rigby. Janice married Dale Ray Prophet on March 4, 1966...
David Lawrence Moorefield
May 10, 2005
David Lawrence Moorefield, 59, of Rigby, died at Madison Memorial Hospital Tuesday, May 10, 2005. David was born 29 January 1946 at Cobleskill, New York a son of Emmett Bruce Moorefield and Rowena Alice Switzer Moorefield. He graduated from South Pass High School in California. He worked as a Highway Patrol Dispatcher for the California Highway Patrol, as a Forrest...
Vera Inez Geisler
May 6, 2005
Vera Inez Geisler, 86, of Annis, Idaho died Friday, May 6, 2005 at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Inez was born December 20, 1918 in Annis, the daughter of George Denzel and Elsie Merrill Rainey. She married Clyde Geisler, on January 17, 1934 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple on...
Clifford Dale Ring
May 5, 2005
Dale Ring, 71, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, May 5, 2005 from injuries received in an automobile accident. Dale was born November 14, 1933 at Wood Lake, Nebraska a son of Ernest Ring and Evelyn Hammond Ring. Dale worked throughout his life as a Long Haul Truck Driver. After he retired from driving truck he worked wherever he could as...
Alta Mae Clifford
Apr 28, 2005
Alta MAE Clifford, age 93, of Rigby, died Thursday, April 28, 2005 in Rigby. Mae was born September 19, 1911 in Rexburg, Idaho, the daughter of William and Catherine Ann Petersen Walker. Mae grew up and attended schools in Pocatello, Idaho. She married Arnold Edgar Lee February 22, 1933 in Logan, Utah. He preceded her in death. She later married...
Duane Lee Eddins
Apr 27, 2005
Duane Lee Eddins, 74, of Rigby, died Wednesday, April 27, 2005, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Duane was born April 29, 1930, at LaBelle, Idaho a son of George William Eddins and Sarah Meiklejohn Eddins. He attended school in LaBelle and Caldwell, Idaho. He married Lois LaVerne Cope, February 1, 1952 in LaBelle. Their marriage was later solemnized in...
Rex Lyle Furness
Apr 24, 2005
Rex Lyle Furness, 81, passed away peacefully at his home in Grant, Sunday, April 24, 2005 after being diagnosed a short time ago with cancer. He was born November 18, 1923, in Sugar City, Idaho, to Tobias Furness and Lucy Ricks Furness. He graduated from High School in Sugar City in 1941. He attended the southern branch of the University...
Winnie Hoggan Cottle
Apr 24, 2005
Winnie Hoggan Cottle, 89, of Menan died at her home April 24, 2005, surrounded by those who loved her. She was born August 3, 1915, in Lewisville, Idaho to Alma John and Ellen Jardine Hoggan. She attended Lewisville Elementary and Midway High School. On December 30, 1931, she married Lyle Cottle in Menan. Their marriage was later solemnized in the...
Irene Louise Ellis
Apr 23, 2005
Irene Louise Ellis, 90, of Hamer, died Saturday, April 23, 2005 at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehab Center in Rexburg, Idaho. Irene was born April 10, 1915 at Idaho Falls a daughter of Benjamin Davies and Rose Zehnder Davies. She attended schools in Hamer. She married Melvin Purser Ellis, May 21, 1936 in Idaho Falls. Their marriage was later solemnized...