Obituaries

Clay Steven Schaat
Sep 13, 2019
Clay S. Schaat, age 64, Salt Lake City, Utah and originally from Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away peacefully on September 13, 2019, at 9:15pm.
Clay was born in St. Anthony, Idaho, on May 13, 1955 to loving parents, Charly and Wanda (Josephson) Schaat. Clay was proceeded in death by his sister, LeeAnn Schaat, and brother, Randal C....
Michelle Cahoon Rich
Sep 6, 2019
Michelle Cahoon Rich, age 54 passed away Friday the 6th of September surrounded by her loved ones.
She was born April 16, 1965 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Norman Cahoon and Susan Searle. Michelle was a caring mother and grandmother who loved all that came into her life.
Teaching was dear to her heart,...
Evalyn Joy Packard
Sep 6, 2019
Evalyn Joy Packard, 78, of Menan, Idaho passed away Friday, September 6, 2019 at Bingham Memorial Hospital in Blackfoot.
Evalyn was born June 27, 1941 in Rigby, Idaho to Floyd Wayne Hall and Gladys Bernice Collier Hall. She was raised and attended schools in Menan and Rigby and attended cosmetology school in Utah. On December 17, 1962...
Michael Everett Robbins
Sep 4, 2019
Michael Everett Robbins, 53 of Rigby, Idaho, passed away Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at his home.
Michael was born December 27, 1965 in Klamath Falls, Oregon; the son of Herman Everett Robbins and Doris Charolett Knight Robbins. He was raised and attended schools in Sugar City, Idaho. He continued his education at Ricks College in Rexburg and...
Elaine Marie Hawker
Sep 4, 2019
Elaine Marie Hawker, devoted daughter, sister, and aunt, passed away at home on September 4, 2019. She fought cancer with indomitable courage and dignity.
Elaine was born December 11, 1961 in Rexburg, Idaho the first of three children born to Earl and Julia Hawker. She was raised in Rigby, Idaho and graduated with honors from Rigby High...
Sharon Ann Hood
Sep 4, 2019
Sharon Ann Hood, 72, of Rigby passed away at her home on September 4, 2019 surrounded by her family.
Sharon was born March 29, 1947 in Santa Monica, California a daughter of Jack Fields and Helen Daniels Fields. She attended school in Fullerton and attended Cal State and BYU. She married Arthur Hood on June 7, 1969...
Brent Roland Helm
Aug 29, 2019
On August 29, 2019, Brent Roland Helm — our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, friend, and so much more — passed away at his home after valiantly navigating the journey of cancer. Brent was born on December 23, 1947 in Pocatello, Idaho to Roland Thaddeus Helm and Mildred Susan Helm. Brent graduated in the first graduating class of...
Richard William Koplin
Aug 26, 2019
Richard William Koplin, 87 of Rigby, Idaho, passed away at his home Monday, August 26, 2019.
Richard was born August 26, 1932 in Blackfoot, Idaho to William Edward Koplin and Gerda M. Slink Koplin. He was raised and attended schools in Blackfoot, graduating from Blackfoot High School. Richard served honorably in the US Navy as a Petty...
William Phineas Cook
Aug 26, 2019
William Phineas Cook, age 91, of Rigby, Idaho, passed away at his home Monday, August 26, 2019.
William was born February 14, 1928 in Bonneville County, Idaho to John William Cook and Mary Helena Ritchie Cook. He attended schools in Garfield, Idaho and graduated from Rigby High School. He served in the East Central States Mission for...
Robert Franklin Fairchild Sr.
Aug 24, 2019
Robert Franklin "Frank" Fairchild, 73, of Idaho Falls, passed away peacefully Saturday, August 24, 2019. Formerly of Wilkes County, North Carolina, he was the son of Robert Paul Fairchild and Ruth Ailene Ferguson Fairchild.
After graduating from West Wilkes High School, Frank joined the Navy to serve in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. A southern boy who...
Lynn Lewis Moedl
Aug 20, 2019
Lynn Lewis Moedl, age 85 of Ririe, Idaho passed away August 20, 2019, at his home.
Lynn was born February 1, 1934 in Idaho Falls, Idaho a son of Elmer Moedl and Iola Lewis Moedl. He attended Grant Elementary, Midway High School and graduated from Rigby High School. On June 29, 1956, he married LaRue Brown in...
Grant Orland Hunsaker
Aug 20, 2019
Grant was born in Rexburg and raised in Rigby, ID in a family of enough kids to contain a football team, a basketball team, a baseball team, and a golf team without using the same person twice. As an only child of 26 kids he was the one everybody liked. He enjoyed a good inside joke and would be...
Luella Avery Jones
Aug 17, 2019
Luella Avery Jones, of Milo, returned to her heavenly home a few hours shy of her 90 th birthday on August 17, 2019 in her home surrounded by loved ones. She was born August 18, 1929 in Osgood, Idaho. Luella was the ninth child of thirteen children born to Charles Ira Avery and Bertha Eames.
She attended...
Wynn Whitmeyer
Aug 15, 2019
Wynn Whitmeyer, 75 of Rigby, Idaho, passed away Thursday, August 15, 2019 at EIRMC in Idaho Falls after a one and half year battle with cancer.
Wynn Was born July 6, 1944 in Burbank, California to Arthur Russel Whitmeyer and Dorothy Margarete Brossard Whitmeyer. He attended schools in Camarillo, California and Ventura College. He enlisted in the...
Douglas White Parker
Aug 15, 2019
Douglas White Parker, age 70 of Lewisville, ID passed away peacefully Thursday, August 15, 2019 at his home under the compassionate care of Hands of Hope Hospice.
Doug was born February 6, 1949 in Payson, Utah a son to Robert LeWarne Parker and Clara Deseret White Parker. He proudly served in the United States Army.
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Dan J Walker
Aug 8, 2019
Dan J Walker, 87 of Rigby, Idaho, passed away Thursday, August 8, 2019 at the Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg, Idaho.
Dan was born June 4, 1932 in Rigby, Idaho to Lorenzo William Walker and Stella Jenkins Walker. He attended schools in the Rigby area. He enlisted in the US Army and served honorably from 1952...
Jeanne Clifford
Aug 6, 2019
Evelyn Jean "Jeanne" Clifford was born July 30, 1941, in Lyman, Idaho, to Rodney Bert Howell and Eva Benson Howell. She grew up in Archer, Idaho, on a farm and it was well known that she hated chickens. Since she was the only girl in the family, she often liked to say that she was “the rose among the...
Coralle Knight
Aug 6, 2019
Coralle Machen Knight entered the world on July 5, 1930 in Sugar City, Idaho and left it to return to her Heavenly Father on August 6, 2019. She was born to Harry E and Thelma Machen. As a young girl she and her family moved to the Hamer area. She spent many long days in the field, irrigating, cutting,...
Triana Marie Galley
Aug 4, 2019
Triana Marie Galley, beloved mother, sister and daughter passed away tragically on August 4 th , 2019 in Island park, ID.
She leaves behind three beautiful children, Jaxon Dean (8), Paislee Marie (5), and Boston Wade (4), her best friend and cherished sister Amber Langlais of Ashburn, GA, her brother Percy Padilla II of Oakland, CA, and...
Ileta Mae Dixon
Aug 4, 2019
Ileta Mae Dixon, 83, of Menan, Idaho passed away Sunday, August 4, 2019 in Menan. She was born on August 21, 1935 in Lorenzo, Idaho, the daughter of Arvil Earl Haddon and Ella Lowiene Krupp Haddon.
She attended school in Lorenzo, Idaho through the 9 th grade. She married Edward Arnold Dixon in Dillon, Montana. Their marriage...
