Obituaries

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Clora Lurline Champion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Mckenzie Rae Barnett

Mckenzie Rae Barnett

Mar 29, 2006

McKenzie Rae Barnett, age 15, of Menan died Wednesday March 29, 2006 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls from injuries she received in an automobile accident. McKenzie was born April 17, 1990 at Jackson Hole Wyoming a daughter of Kristopher Michael Barnett and Jenny Browning Barnett. She attended schools in Menan and Rigby. She enjoyed Photography, History,...

Ramona Joy Hancock

Ramona Joy Hancock

Mar 28, 2006

Ramona Joy Hancock 77, of Lyman died Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at the Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg. She was born on November 16, 1928 in Rigby, Idaho a daughter of Wesley Waitsell Russell and Sylvia Elnore Peterson Russell. She was raised and attended school in Rigby. Ramona married Elwood Thomas Hancock on August 26, 1945 in Dillon, Montana. Their...

Kennith Dean Call

Kennith Dean Call

Mar 27, 2006

Kennith Dean Call, age 80, of Rigby, died Monday, March 27, 2006 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Kennith was born November 14, 1925 at Idaho Falls, a son of John Omer Call and Sarah Matilda Dinsdale Call. He attended school in Rigby. He served with the U.S. Navy during WWII. He married Della Reece on September...

Mary Lou Lords

Mary Lou Lords

Mar 27, 2006

Mary Lou Lords 74, of Idaho Falls, died Monday, March 27, 2006 at her home in Idaho Falls. Mary Lou was born December 21, 1931 in Rexburg, Idaho, the daughter of Orrin B. Jeppson and Addaline Belnap Jeppson. She grew up in Archer, Malad, and Preston, Idaho attending Rigby Schools, and graduated from Rigby High School. She was an active...

Kay Ben Gunderson

Kay Ben Gunderson

Mar 27, 2006

Kay Ben Gunderson, age 67, of Menan died Monday, March 27, 2006 at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Idaho. Kay was born September 25, 1938 at Menan, Idaho a son of Alvin Vern Gunderson and Erma Matilda Olsen. He graduated from Rigby High School in 1956 and then from Ricks College in 1958. Kay served a LDS Mission to the...

Marjorie Tibbitts Smith

Marjorie Tibbitts Smith

Mar 25, 2006

Marjorie T. Smith age 77, of Rigby, died Saturday, March 25, 2006, at her home from complications of cancer. She was born January 17, 1929 in Rigby, Idaho the daughter of Wayne E. Tibbitts and LaRetta Jones Tibbitts. She attended elementary school in Lorenzo and graduated from Rigby High School. She continued her education attending and graduating from Ricks College...

Richard Carl Powell

Richard Carl Powell

Mar 24, 2006

Richard Carl (Dick) Powell, 74, Rigby, returned home to his Father in Heaven on Friday, March 24, 2006 after an extended illness. He was at his home at the time of his passing. He was born at Pomeroy, Garfield, Washington, June 13, 1931. He was the second of three sons born to Robert Carl Powell and Edna Louise Light Powell....

John Lee Feranchek Jr.

John Lee Feranchek Jr.

Mar 17, 2006

John Lee Feranchek Jr., 61, of Rigby, Idaho died Friday, March 17, 2006 at the hospital in Idaho Falls. John was born April 25, 1944 in Miami, Oklahoma the son of John Lee Feranchek Sr. and Geneva Genell Perkins Feranchek. He was raised in Fairfield, California and attended schools at Armijo High School, Solano Community College and Napa Junior College....

Artella Ann Schneiter

Artella Ann Schneiter

Mar 15, 2006

Artella Ann Schneiter, age 86, of Archer, Idaho died at Madison Memorial Hospital Wednesday, March 15, 2006. Artella was born September 11, 1919, at Archer, Idaho a daughter to George Lelen Weekes and Martha Lavon Galbraith Weekes. She married Erven Clair Schneiter June 24, 1939 in Archer, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple, April 12,...