Obituaries

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Clarence Dewey Hope

Clarence Dewey Hope

May 9, 2004

Clarence Dewey Hope, 99, of Rigby, died at his daughter’s home in Rigby Sunday, May 9, 2004. Clarence was born June 2, 1904 at Sugar Salem, Idaho a son of James Hope and Fannie Elzada Higley Hope. He attended schools at Salem, Idaho He married Zella Keppner October 15, 1924, in the Salt Lake City, Utah LDS Temple. He was...

Vivian Marie Griffith

Vivian Marie Griffith

May 7, 2004

Vivian Marie Griffith, 85, of Rigby, Idaho died Friday, May 7, 2004 in Rexburg, Idaho at the Rexburg Nursing Center. Vivian was born November 20, 1918 at Pontiac, Michigan the daughter of John Foster and Ethel Lumm Foster. She married Lloyd James Griffith in Yuma, Arizona on June 18, 1935. He preceded her in death in 2001. She was a...

Veda Shippen Call

Veda Shippen Call

May 6, 2004

Veda Shippen Call Veda Shippen Call, peacefully passed from this life surrounded by her children on the evening of May 6, 2004, in Fresno, Ca.. Veda was born Mar. 11, 1929, to Thomas C & Cora Boyce Shippen in Menan, Idaho. She grew up in Lewisville, where she attended elementary school. She graduated from Midway High School and spent a...

Clarence Earl Swinehart Sr.

Clarence Earl Swinehart Sr.

May 4, 2004

Clarence Earl Swinehart Sr., 61, of Idaho Falls died Tuesday, May 04, 2004, at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Clarence was born on August 8, 1942, in Flint, Michigan the son of Paul Allen Swinehart and Mary Kenworthy Swinehart. He attended school in Flint. Clarence married Linda Lee Craft on June 10, 1967 in Tijuana, Mexico. He was a...

Charley "Penny" Glee Potmesil

Charley "Penny" Glee Potmesil

Apr 25, 2004

Charley “Penny” Glee Potmesil; 82, of Idaho Falls, Idaho died Sunday, April 25, 2004 in Idaho Falls at the Hospital. Penny was born April 13, 1922 in Chelsea, Oklahoma the daughter of Charles Mackin and Lola Thomas Mackin. She married Louis Lee on February 3, 1940 in Cassville, Missouri. He preceded her in death. She married Stanley Potmesil on November...

Jessie Vilate Sharp

Jessie Vilate Sharp

Apr 25, 2004

Jessie Vilate Sharp, 90, of Grant, Idaho died Sunday, April 25, 2004 in Pocatello, Idaho. Jessie was born January 15, 1914 in Grant, Idaho the daughter of Frances Ada Gardner and Pricilla Rose Randall Gardner. She attended schools in Rigby, Midway, Riverside and graduated from Blackfoot High School. She attended Nursing School in Idaho Falls, Idaho earning her LPN. She...

Betty Larae Landon

Betty Larae Landon

Apr 24, 2004

Betty LaRae Landon; 70, of Ririe, Idaho died Saturday, April 24, 2004 in Rigby, Idaho at the Pinebrook Assistive Living Center. Betty was born November 17, 1933 at Ririe, Idaho, the daughter of Buck Smith and Mary Rachael Mortensen Smith. She attended schools in Ririe, Idaho and graduated form Ririe High School. Betty married Alden M. Landon in Ririe, Idaho...

Ray Stanley Nebeker

Ray Stanley Nebeker

Apr 23, 2004

Ray Stanley Nebeker, 92, of LaBelle, Idaho died Friday, April 23, 2004 at his home in LaBelle. Ray was born February 26, 1912 in Milo, Idaho the son of John Halmag H. Nebeker and Pearl Sarah Ellen Price Nebeker. He attended school in Clark, Idaho until the eighth grade. His family moved to LaBelle to farm when he was young...

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...