Obituaries

Benjamin K Cromwell
Jan 31, 2005
Benjamin K Cromwell, 28, of Ririe, died Monday, January 31, 2005 at American Falls, Idaho. Ben was born August 21, 1976 at Rexburg, Idaho a son of Burl Cromwell and Barbara Newman Cromwell. He attended school in Ririe, graduating from Ririe High School. He attended Diesel Mechanic School at Wyoming Tech. Ben served six years in the Idaho National Guard...
Donald Davis Sucher
Jan 31, 2005
Donald Davis Sucher, of Rigby, passed away in Rigby, Monday, January 31, 2005. Don was born July 12, 1920 at Carleton, Thayer County, Nebraska a son of Ray William Sucher and Sylvia Caroline Morrow Sucher. As a child he attended grade school in Nebraska. The family moved to Idaho when he was a sophomore. He attended Roberts High School and...
Leorial Hadley Abbott
Jan 28, 2005
LEORIAL Hadley ABBOTT, age 85, of Idaho Falls, died Friday, January 28, 2005, at her home in Idaho Falls. Leorial was born September 28, 1919, in Rigby, Idaho, the daughter of Elmer Evan Waters and Melbie Ormond Waters. Leorial was raised and attended schools in Rigby. She was the Valedictorian of her eighth grade class, and her high school graduating...
Martha Mary Helsing
Jan 26, 2005
Martha Mary Haywood Helsing, 87, of Rigby, Idaho died Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at the Beehive Homes in Rigby of natural causes. She was born April 13, 1917, in Rigby, Idaho, the oldest child born to George Charles and Laura May Scott Haywood. She was born and raised on the family homestead farm north east of Rigby. She attended school...
Hazel Dorothy Lowder
Jan 24, 2005
Hazel Dorothy Lowder, age 90, of Idaho Falls, died Monday, January 24, 2005, In Idaho Falls from causes incident to her age. Dorothy was born March 19, 1914 south of Rigby, Idaho, the daughter of William Ferrin Ballantyne and Hazel Anne Crowther Ballantyne. Her mother died when she was only eighteen days old. She was raised by her grandparents, Shephard...
Marilyn Lucy Killian
Jan 21, 2005
Marilyn Lucy Killian, 61, of Ammon, Idaho and formerly of Clark, Idaho died Friday, January 21, 2005 at the hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Marilyn was born January 2, 1944 in Idaho Falls, Idaho the daughter of Edwin Alma Casper and Vonda Marie Schneiter Casper. She attended schools in Menan and Rigby, Idaho graduating from Rigby High School. She attended...
Lola Faye Blackburn Hill
Jan 21, 2005
Lola Faye Blackburn Hill, 86, of Idaho Falls, died January 21, 2005 at the Turtle and Crane Assisted Living Facility, of natural causes as well as a broken heart due to the passing of her husband just four months earlier. She was born November 13, 1918 in Sunnydale, Idaho to Heber Blackburn and Leona Bybee Blackburn. She graduated from Madison...
Lola Fay Hill
Jan 21, 2005
Faye B Hill Lola Faye Blackburn Hill, 86, of Idaho Falls, died January 21st At Turtle and Crain Assisted Living Facility, of natural causes as well as a broken heart due to the passing of her husband just four months earlier. She was born November 13th 1918 in Sunnydale, Id to Heber Blackburn and Leona Bybee Blackburn. She graduated from...
George Daniel Zundel
Jan 19, 2005
George Daniel Zundel, 84, of Rigby, Idaho died Wednesday, January 19, 2005 in Rigby, Idaho. He was born May 9, 1920 at Egin Bench, Idaho the son of David Eugene Zundel and Mary Rumsey Zundel. He attended schools in the Egin Bench, Idaho, St. Anthony, Idaho, Willard, Utah and Rigby, Idaho. He graduated from Rigby High School. He was a...
Zelda Agnes Jardine
Jan 18, 2005
Zelda Agnes Jardine, 94, of Idaho Falls, Idaho died Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at the Idaho Falls Health and Rehabilitation Center. Zelda was born November 10, 1910 in Taylor, Idaho the daughter of Daniel James Lords and Ella Catherine Cook Lords. She attended schools in Taylor, Buck and Ucon. She married William Fredrickson Jardine on November 29, 1930 in Pocatello,...
Vera Archibald
Jan 17, 2005
VERA ARCHIBALD, age 82, of Rigby, died at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Monday, January 17, 2005. Vera was born August 17, 1922, in Rexburg, Idaho daughter of David Heber Manwaring and Sarah Zella Hart Manwaring. She was raised and attended school in Rexburg and graduated from Madison High School. She continued her education at Ricks College. Vera married Don...
Charles Meng
Jan 17, 2005
Charles Meng 86, of Rigby died Monday, January 17, 2005. Charles was born December 22, 1918 in Burton, Idaho a son of Karl Friedrich Meng and Marie Alene Schleifer Meng. He was raised and attended school in Burton and graduated from Madison High School. He attended carpentry school in Weiser, Idaho. Charles married Evelyn Margaret Doney on January 2, 1941...
Thurza Poole
Jan 14, 2005
Thurza Cherry Poole 84, of Menan, Idaho died Friday, January 14, 2005 at the Life Care center in Idaho Falls. Thurza was born on January 8, 1921 in Menan, Idaho a daughter of George Aaron Cherry and Ada Lawson Cherry. She was raised and attended school at Menan and graduated from Midway High School. Thurza worked at the JL Hayes...
Glen Ervin Elsberry
Jan 14, 2005
Glen Ervin Elsberry, age 92, died January 14, 2005 at the Beehive Homes Assisted Living in Riverton, Utah. Glen was born on February 2, 1912, in Marshalltown, Iowa, the son of John F. and Leona E. Bellus Elsberry. He was educated in Amber, Wisconsin. Glen married Etha G. Parker on February 26, 1935, in Iron Mountain, Michigan. He farmed with...
Melba Ragan
Jan 11, 2005
Melba Ragan, 91, of Shelley, Idaho died Monday, January 11, 2005 at her home in Shelley. Melba was born on June 9, 1913 in Grant, Idaho a daughter of Margery Margaret Bramwell Miller and Charles Albert Miller. Melba married Raymond Kenneth Ragan on December 27, 1930 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She grew up in the Grant and Idaho Falls areas...
Milton E. Montague
Jan 9, 2005
Milton E. Montague, age 84, of Rexburg, died at the home of his daughter in Rexburg, Sunday, January 9, 2005. Milton was born June 7, 1920, in Rigby, Idaho, the son of Glen Ernest Montague and Myrtle Cordon Montague. Milton grew up and attended schools in Rigby, Idaho He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints....
Othella Luella Erickson
Jan 7, 2005
Othella Luella Jensen Erickson, 94 of Arco, Idaho died Friday, January 7, 2005 in Arco, Idaho. She was born February 7, 1910 in Lewisville, Idaho the daughter of James B. and Julia Petrina Peterson Jensen. She attended school in Roberts, Idaho. She worked as a reporter for the Rigby newspaper and for Gem State Insurance as an insurance agent and...
Zella Mae Blakely
Jan 5, 2005
Zella Mae Blakely, 85, of Ririe, Idaho died January 5, 2005 in the Idaho Falls Health and Rehabilitation Center. Zella was born August 13, 1919 at Poplar, Idaho to Clarence LeRoy and Emma Briggs Mattson. On December 12, 1942 she married Joseph Lawrence Blakely. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple on August 29, 1964. They...
Cindy Marie Kelly
Jan 3, 2005
Cindy Marie Kelly, age 47, of Rexburg, died at her home Monday January 3, 2005. Cindy was born April 21, 1957 in Salt Lake City, Utah a daughter of Robert Hancock Wanlass and Virginia Lee Swafford. She attended schools in Salt Lake City graduating from South High School. On February 22, 1975 she married Richard Brent Kelly in Salt Lake...
Velda Carrie Meyerhoffer
Jan 2, 2005
Velda Carrie Meyerhoffer, 93, of Idaho Falls, died at the Good Samaritan center in Idaho Falls, Sunday January 2, 2005. Velda was born October 28, 1911, at Rigby, a daughter of Olof Jensen and Carrie Alzina Ball Jensen. She attended schools in Rigby graduating from Rigby High School. She married Roy Meyerhoffer June 30, 1930 in Rigby. She and her...
