Obituaries

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Walter David Shelton

Walter David Shelton

Apr 17, 2004

Walter DAVID Shelton, 54, of Rigby, died at his home, Saturday, April 17, 2004. Dave was born October 14, 1949, at Grey Bull, Wyoming, the son of John R. Shelton and Mary Fae Keller Shelton. He grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls, Idaho and graduated from Idaho Falls, High School. Dave worked as a Mechanic at the INEEL...

Ellen Marie Moss

Ellen Marie Moss

Apr 16, 2004

Ellen Marie Moss, 89, died Friday, April 16, 2004, at her home near Ririe. Ellen was born March 26, 1915, at Grapevine, Texas a daughter of James Laurie Hunter and Delilah Jane Dolberry Hunter. She attended schools in Grapevine and Fort Worth, Texas. She moved to Idaho in 1932 and on June 7, 1934 she married Arlo James Moss in...

Edwin Arthur Casper

Edwin Arthur Casper

Apr 15, 2004

Edwin Arthur Casper, 81, of Idaho Falls, died at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Thursday, April 15, 2004. Edwin was born July 30, 1922 at Menan, a son of Alma Edwin Casper and Lucy Sellars Casper. He attended schools in Salt Lake City, Ogden, West Weber, and Menan graduating from Midway High School. He worked for Garrett Frieghtlines until...

Felipe Lazalde

Felipe Lazalde

Apr 14, 2004

Felipe Lazalde, 62, of Rigby died Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at his home. Felipe was born February 5, 1942 in Sain Alto Zacatecas Mexico, the son of Macario Lazalde and Andrea Chihauhua. He was raised and attended school in Mexico. He worked for Kingston produce for 15 years and Snake River Plains for 10 years. Felipe married Alicia Borunda on...

Arden James Jensen

Arden James Jensen

Apr 12, 2004

Arden James Jensen, 90, of Rigby, Idaho died Monday, April 12, 2004, at the Idaho Falls Care Center. Arden was born on September 30, 1913 in Rigby, Idaho the son of Olof Jensen and Carrie Alzina Ball Jensen. He attended school in Rigby. He played football and basketball for Rigby High School and was team captain. During his summers he...

Zelma Hall

Zelma Hall

Apr 9, 2004

ZELMA Hansen HALL, 77, of Rigby, Idaho, passed away Friday, April 9, 2004 at her home. Zelma was born March 13, 1927 in Menan, Idaho, the daughter of Ole Hansen and Lula Jensen Hansen She attended schools in Menan, Idaho, and graduated from Midway High School. She married Gordon G. Hall April 17, 1946 in the Idaho Falls, L.D.S. Temple....

Phyllis Jean Mitchell

Phyllis Jean Mitchell

Apr 2, 2004

Phyllis Jean Mitchell, 55 of Rigby, died Friday, April 2, 2004 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Jean was born April 14, 1948 at Fort Bragg, N. C., a daughter of Carl Kenneth Dailey and Ruth Harriet Mickenham Dailey. She graduated from Gresham High School in Gresham, Oregon. On July 5, 1972 she married Richard Merlin Mitchell. He preceded her in death...

Joseph Wiliam Sharp

Joseph Wiliam Sharp

Mar 29, 2004

Joseph William Sharp, age 91, of Grant, died Monday, March 29, 2004, at Good Samaritan Center in Idaho Falls. Joseph was born August 18, 1912 at Bybee, Idaho a son of William and Mary Eliza Jones Sharp. He attended schools in Lewisville and Rigby and while in school drove the horse drawn buggy and sleigh to school picking up the...

Norma Elthea Sanders

Norma Elthea Sanders

Mar 22, 2004

Norma E. Sanders, 84, of Hamer, Idaho died at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Monday, March 22, 2004. Norma was born September 18, 1919 at Idaho Falls, Idaho, the daughter of Lewis Henry Daniels and Hazel Florence Hatfield Daniels. She grew up in Swan Valley, Idaho and attended grade school there. She graduated from Idaho Falls...

Claude Junior Carlyle

Claude Junior Carlyle

Mar 14, 2004

Claude Junior Carlyle, age 67, of Idaho Falls, Idaho died Sunday, March 14, 2004 at his home in Idaho Falls. Claude was born on May 28, 1936 in Ririe, Idaho the son of George Smith Carlyle and Dorothy Myrtle Summers Carlyle. He was raised and attended school in Ririe, Idaho graduating from Ririe High School. Claude married Sandra June Hill...

Ariana Berkouwer

Ariana Berkouwer

Feb 28, 2004

Ariana Berkouwer; 75, of Rigby, Idaho and formerly of The Netherlands died Saturday, February 28, 2004 in Rexburg, Idaho Ariana was born September 21, 1928 in Ijselmonde – Zuidholland – The Netherlands, (Holland), the daughter of Jan Bol and Huibert Je Deruyter. She attended school there until World War II when the Germans dispanded the education program. She later earned...

Cecil Calkins Allen

Cecil Calkins Allen

Feb 26, 2004

Cecil Calkins Allen, 86, of Terreton, Idaho died Thursday February 26, 2004 in Idaho Falls, Idaho at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Cecil was born July 1, 1917 in Grace, Idaho the son of Lorenzo P. Allen and Mary Ellen Calkins Allen. He was a member of the LDS Church. Cecil attended schools in Grace, Idaho and graduated from...

Matthew Philip Vineyard

Matthew Philip Vineyard

Feb 18, 2004

Matthew Philip Vineyard, 47, or Rigby, Idaho died Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at his home in Rigby, Idaho. He was born September 14, 1956 in Idaho Falls, Idaho the son of Carson Vineyard and Emma Gay Williams Vineyard. Matt grew up and attended schools in Rigby, Idaho. He was a graduated from Rigby High School. He was a member of...

Edward D. Koplin

Edward D. Koplin

Feb 12, 2004

Edward D. Koplin Sr. age 64, of Rochester, Minnesota died Thursday, February 12, 2004 in Rochester. Edward was born July 2, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah the son of Edward George Koplin and Lucille Jones Koplin. He attended schools and LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a published poet and had a heaven sent talent...

George Truman Bemis

George Truman Bemis

Feb 5, 2004

George Truman Bemis, 64, of Lewisville, Idaho died Thursday, February 5, 2004 in Rexburg, Idaho. George was born October 28, 1939 at Los Angeles, California the son of Granville Clark Bemis and Vera LaVon Spyker Bemis. He attended schools in Riverside, California and graduated from Poly High School. He married Rose Marie LaLonde in Riverside, California on August 30, 1958....

Oliver Perry Hawkins

Oliver Perry Hawkins

Feb 4, 2004

Oliver “Perry” Hawkins, age 54, of Idaho Falls, Idaho died Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at the EIRMC in Idaho Falls. Perry was born on November 25, 1949 in Rigby, Idaho the son of Jack Baxter Hawkins and Vila Pearl Lemmon Hawkins. He was raised and attended school in the Rigby area and graduated from Rigby High School. He graduated from...

Ronald James Ball

Ronald James Ball

Feb 4, 2004

Ronald James Ball, age 87, of Lewisville, died at his home, Wednesday, February 4, 2004. Ronald was born August 15, 1916, at Lewisville, a son of Alfred William Ball and Ann Taylor Walker Ball. He attended schools in Lewisville and graduated from Midway High School in 1934. He attended the University of Idaho Southern Branch for 3 years. He married...

Juliana P. Harris

Juliana P. Harris

Jan 24, 2004

Juliana P. Harris, 88, of Lewisville, Idaho died Saturday, January 24, 2004 in Idaho Falls at the hospital. Juliana attended grade school in Lewisville and Rupert, Idaho. She attended high school in Rupert, Idaho and Los Angeles, California. She married William M Harris on October 17, 1938 in Rexburg, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS...

Gail Sommers

Gail Sommers

Jan 22, 2004

Gail Sommers, of Rigby, Idaho died Thursday, January 22, 2004 at the Idaho Falls Care Center. He was born October 14, 1926 in San Bernadino, California, to Samuel Sommers Sr. and Grace Estella Rock Sommers. At the age of four his family moved to Idaho. He attended school at Hibbard, Idaho near Rexburg. At the age of seventeen he joined...

Larue C. Brunson

Larue C. Brunson

Jan 19, 2004

Eckersell Funeral Home 101 West Main Rigby, Idaho 83442 208-745-6604 LaRue Clements Brunson, 70, of Island Park, Idaho and formerly of Pocatello and Rexburg, Idaho died Monday, January 19, 2004 at EIRMC hospital in Idaho Falls from complications of diabetes and lingering illness. She was born June 1, 1933 to Carroll D. and Opal Rebecca Williams Clements in Rigby, Idaho....