Obituaries

Mary Jean Stringham
Dec 9, 2006
Mary Jean Cook Stringham, age 75, of Milo, died at home, Saturday, December 9, 2006. Mary was born March 27, 1931, at Garfield, a daughter to John William and Mary Helena Ritchie Cook. She married Robert Lee Stringham, July 17, 1953 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. She was an active member of the LDS Church and had served in...
Veda Mable Green Erickson
Dec 8, 2006
Veda Mable Green Erickson, age 83, of Lewisville, died Friday, December 08, 2006, in Rigby. Veda was born December 26, 1922 at Menan, a daughter to William Lorenzo and Dora Amanda Taylor Green. She attended Menan schools and graduated from Midway High School. On September 7, 1940 she married John Neal Erickson in Butte, Montana. Their marriage was later solemnized...
Gary Alexander Neuvert
Dec 8, 2006
Gary Alexander Neuvert, 64, of Rigby, formerly of Lodi, CA, died December 8, 2006 from a heart attack at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Gary has resided in Rigby Idaho since 2000. He was born, the youngest of three, January 30, 1942 in Stockton, CA to Alex and Ella Neuvert. Gary graduated from Stagg High...
Jeanette Hebertsen
Dec 6, 2006
Jeannette Cole Hebertson, 83, of Idaho Falls, passed away of natural causes December 6, 2006, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Jeannette was born August 6, 1924, in Leadore, Idaho, to Charles and Lottie (Clarke) Cole. When she was two, her family moved to Ririe and then to Rigby when she was five. After attending school in Rigby, she completed...
Janet Jones
Dec 1, 2006
Janet Jones, 71, of LaBelle, died, Friday, December 01, 2006, at her home of natural causes. Janet was born April 13, 1935 at Hyde Park, Utah a daughter to Bartley Ray Purser and Emma Balls Purser. She attended schools in Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. As a young lady she loved to Rodeo and was Rodeo Queen for the...
Shirley Amelia Ricks
Nov 29, 2006
Shirley Amelia (Smith) Ricks, age 79, of Rigby, Idaho, died Wednesday, November 29, 2006, at Home in Rigby, Idaho. She was born Dec. 31, 1926, in Rigby Idaho, the daughter of James Francis Smith and Ivy Rhodes Smith. She attended and graduated from Rigby High School. She is a member of the LDS Church where she served in the cub...
Audrey Louise Linger
Nov 28, 2006
Audrey Louise Linger, age 81, of Mud Lake, died Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Audrey was born march 30, 1925 in Lamar Colorado, the daughter of Cleo Abraham Smith, and Ruby Pearl Shoaf Smith. She moved to Mud Lake in 1934 and attended schools in Lamar Colorado, Mud Lake and Roberts. She married Carl Edward...
Lamar Anton Casper
Nov 19, 2006
LaMar Anton Casper, 64, of Elk Bend, Idaho died Sunday, November 19, 2006 at his home in Elk Bend of Pancreatic Cancer. LaMar was born July 24, 1942 in Annis, Idaho, a son of Edwin and Vonda Schneiter Casper. He was raised in the Menan area where he attended school at Menan Elementary, Midway Jr. High and Rigby High School....
Rayelda Peterson Pfost
Nov 13, 2006
RAYELDA Peterson PFOST, age 84, died Monday November 13, 2006 in the Idaho Falls Care Center. Rayelda was born February 9, 1922, at Shelton, Idaho, the daughter of Raymond C. Peterson and Mary Ellen Cleverly Peterson. Rayelda grew up in the Clark area, and attended Rigby Schools. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
Michael Miller Mcgarry
Nov 8, 2006
Michael Miller McGarry, age 57, of Hamer, Idaho, died Wednesday, November 8, 2006, at the Idaho Falls Health and Rehab in Idaho Falls. Michael was under the care of Aspen Hospice. Michael was born September 26, 1949 at Rexburg, Idaho a son to Loren Jones McGarry and Venice Miller McGarry. He attended schools in Kilgore and graduated from Clark County...
Jana Lee Simmons
Nov 5, 2006
Jana Lee Simmons, 35, of Meridian, Idaho, died Sunday, November 5, 2006 in LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Jana was born November 14, 1970, at Idaho Falls, a daughter to Kent George Izatt and Carolyn Lee Dutson Izatt. She attended schools in Ririe, graduating from Ririe High School in 1989. She then attended Idaho State University and was...
Annie Strupp Olaveson
Nov 5, 2006
Annie Olaveson, 87, a resident of the Rigby area died November 5, 2006 at the Life Care Center in Idaho Falls of complications resulting from an automobile accident. Annie was born November 1, 1919 in Annis, Idaho a daughter of Frank and Etta Mabel Drake Strupp. Annie attended school in Annis. Annie married Oscar Darrell “O.D.”Olaveson on June 2, 1935,...
Myrtle Hareland Ohman
Oct 30, 2006
Myrtle Hareland Ohman, 91, was born July 8, 1915 in Hannaford, North Dakota. Our angel of a mother was called to God to be an angel for many on October 30, 2006 surrounded by her children at her bedside. She defined the words mother grandmother, great grandmother, aunt, cousin and friend to so many. Her strength, commitment, Passion, sense of...
Kent Lee Foster
Oct 30, 2006
Our husband, father and grandfather Kent Foster has gone to be with our heavenly father on October 30, 2006. We will miss him surely but he is in a better place now in heaven with family and friends. Kent loved his family and doing whatever he could with them. His hobbies were fishing, camping, fourwheeling, skiing, and visiting with others....
Rolla Leora Staggs
Oct 30, 2006
Rolla Leora Staggs, 82, of Rigby died Monday, October 30, 2006, at the Golden Pines Assisted Living Center. Rolla was born on August 8, 1924 in Gilead, Nebraska a daughter of Henry H. Willems and Ida Bodtke Willems. She was raised and attended school in Gilead, Nebraska and graduated from Hebron High School in Hebron, Nebraska. She was a member...
Jeffrey Scott Kraupp
Oct 29, 2006
Jeffrey Scott Kraupp, 44, of Ririe, died Sunday, October 29, 2006, at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho. Jeffrey was born April 1, 1962 at Idaho Falls to Jacob Frank Kraupp and Donna Sigman and was raised by Jacob Frank Kraupp and Amy Jane Kinghorn Kraupp. He attended school in Lewisville, Menan and Rigby. He worked as a truck driver...
Joyce Lounsbury Barber
Oct 27, 2006
Joyce Lounsbury Barber, 74, of Archer, Idaho died October 27, 2006, at Idaho Falls, Idaho. She was born August 24, 1932, in Rupert, Idaho to Ralph Oren and Alice Fern Broadhead Lounsbury. She grew up and graduated from high school in Ririe, Idaho. On June14, 1950, she married Ronald Lincoln Barber at Ririe, Idaho and on March 16, 1966 they...
John Albert York
Oct 27, 2006
John Albert York, 64, of Rigby, died October 27, 2006 of injuries received in an automobile accident. John was born September 28, 1942, a son of Joseph A. York and Eva Collier York. He attended Tipton Elementary and Tipton High School in Tipton, Oklahoma. He married Glenda Jean Potter December 19, 1964 at Maggie Valley, North Carolina. He worked for...
Shane C. Morgan
Oct 23, 2006
Shane C. Morgan was born August 20, 1966 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Joe C. Morgan and Sydney Pedler Morgan. He passed away October 23, 2006 at Idaho Falls, Idaho of natural causes. He attended elementary school in Sandy, Utah. The family then moved to Shelley, Idaho in March of 1977 where he graduated from high school. In the...
David Reed Sanders
Oct 19, 2006
David REED SANDERS, age 59 of Hamer, Idaho died at his home in Hamer, Thursday, October 19, 2006. Reed was born June 15, 1947 at Rigby, Idaho, the son of David Ray Sanders and Geneva Brown Sanders. Reed grew up and attended schools in Hamer. He graduated from West Jefferson High School in1965. He attended the University of Idaho at...
