Obituaries

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Gerald Scott Bird

Gerald Scott Bird

Mar 31, 2017

Gerald Scott Bird, 64, of Auburn passed away March 31, 2017 at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho surrounded by his family. Scott was born January 29, 1953, in Ogden, Utah a son of Afton Dale Bird and Bertha Miller Bird. Scott was raised in Roy, Utah and graduated from Roy High School. He worked at...

Arvin J Lords

Arvin J Lords

Mar 29, 2017

Arvin J Lords, 81, of Rigby Idaho passed away Wednesday March 29, 2017, at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City Utah. Arvin was born September 11, 1935 to James William Lords and Clarisa May Wilkins. Arvin was raised in Rigby and attended elementary school in Garfield and Graduated from Rigby High School. After high school Arvin went to Ricks...

William N Young

William N Young

Mar 18, 2017

William N. Young, 88, of Rigby, passed away March 18, 2017 at Pine Brook Assisted Living in Idaho Falls. Bill was born February 17, 1929, in Menan, Idaho to Tharrel and Hazel Newby Young. He attended school in Annis until the 8th grade. He married DeVona Baron on July 28, 1948 in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. Together they had...

Betty Jane Ferguson Reiman

Betty Jane Ferguson Reiman

Mar 16, 2017

Betty Ellis Ferguson Reiman, 83 of Rigby, passed away Thursday, March 16, 2017 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Betty was born September 14, 1933 in Thomas, Bingham, Idaho to James Albert Ellis and Alice Wandella Moses Ellis. She was raised in LaBelle and attended Schools in Labelle and Rigby, graduating from Rigby High School. On May...

Robert Dale Rounds

Robert Dale Rounds

Mar 12, 2017

Robert Dale Rounds, age 73, of Lewisville, passed away at his home, Sunday, March 12, 2017. Robert was born March 28th 1943 at the home of his Grandmother Lund, near Garfield, Idaho, the son of Merrill D. Rounds and Nina June Lund Rounds. Robert was raised in Lewisville. He attended school in Lewisville, Grant, Midway and Rigby. He graduated from...

Melvin Dean Widerburg

Melvin Dean Widerburg

Mar 10, 2017

Melvin “Mel” Dean Widerburg, 77, of Rigby, passed away Friday, March 10, 2017 at his home. Mel was born May 18, 1939, in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Leonard Orlando Widerburg and Martha Louise Moser Widerburg. He grew up on East River Rd. in Coltman, Idaho. In 1946, when Mel was 7, the family moved to Garfield. He attended schools in...

Verla Randall Mueller

Verla Randall Mueller

Mar 10, 2017

Verla Corlene McGavin Randall Mueller, 85, past away peacefully, incident to age, at her home in Grant, Idaho, on March 10, 2017. Verla was born November 24, 1931, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, daughter of George Gee McGavin and Hazel Jeanette Tanner McGavin. She graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 1949. Married Owen Dale Randall October 25, 1950, in Idaho...

Dorothy Louise Lora

Dorothy Louise Lora

Mar 10, 2017

Dorothy Louise Lora, 56 of LaBelle, Idaho, passed away Friday, March 10, 2017 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. Dorothy was born August 12, 1960 in Hartford, Wisconsin to John Casper Disch and Betty Jane Bielvaum Disch. On June 1, 1989, she married Honorio Montoya Lora in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They were blessed with 3 children; Jennifer,...

Claris Taylor

Claris Taylor

Mar 8, 2017

Claris Taylor, 86, of Rigby, Idaho passed away on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at Morning Star Assisted Living in Idaho Falls. Claris was born November 5, 1930, in Rigby, Idaho, to Delbert Kinghorn and Melba Maria Bright Kinghorn. She was raised in Rigby where she attended school and graduated from Rigby High School in 1949. After high school, she attended...

Dorothy Delayne Galbraith

Dorothy Delayne Galbraith

Mar 8, 2017

Dorothy DeLayne Galbraith, 86, of Rigby, passed away at her home on Wednesday, March 08, 2017. Dorothy was born December 21, 1930 in Rigby, Idaho a daughter of Ernest Arthur Bates and Mary Louise Musgrave Bates. She was raised in Rigby and attended Rigby High School. Dorothy married Clinton George Galbraith on January 23, 1948 in Rigby, Idaho. Their marriage...

Florence May Burnside

Florence May Burnside

Mar 7, 2017

Florence “Flossie” May Smith Burnside, 88 of Rigby, Idaho, passed away March 7, 2017 in Brenda, Arizona. She was surrounded by her caring and loving family. Florence was born August 3, 1928, in Twin Falls, Idaho, to Joseph Ellington Smith and Veirgia May Greene Smith. She was the baby of 8 children; 6 brothers, Forest, Glen Eugene, Donald, Spencer and...

Colleen M. Lundquist

Colleen M. Lundquist

Mar 7, 2017

Mary Colleen Lundquist, 86, of Ririe, passed away Tuesday, March 7th 2017 at Parkwood Meadows assisted Living in Idaho Falls. Colleen was born August 24th 1930 in Ririe, Idaho a daughter to Herbert Sylvester Poore and Ila Ellen Freeman Poore. She attended Ririe schools graduating from Ririe High School. She married Allan Davies in February of 1948 in Idaho Falls....

Kathleen Alison Faria

Kathleen Alison Faria

Mar 7, 2017

Kathleen “Kay” Alison Faria, 93, of Castro Valley, California passed away, Tuesday, March 7, 2017 in Rexburg, Idaho at the Homestead Assisted Living. She was born May 18, 1923 in San Francisco, CA, the daughter of Thomas Roland Webster and Sarah Ann Hanby Webster. Kay married Clarence Gregory Faria on August 8, 1942 in Oakland, California. She worked as a...

Helen Pearl Farmer

Helen Pearl Farmer

Mar 4, 2017

Helen Pearl Hansen Farmer, 98 (in her 99th year, as she would say), passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Saturday March 4th at the Sagewood at Daybreak Senior Living Center in South Jordan, Utah. Helen was born in a little two-room log house on a dry farm in Teton, Idaho on December 9, 1918. She was the third...

Grace Augusta Terry

Grace Augusta Terry

Mar 3, 2017

Grace Augusta Terry, age 83, of Ririe, passed away Friday, March 3rd 2017 at Lincoln Court in Idaho Falls. Grace was born August 30th 1933 at Miles City, Montana a daughter to Christian Bear and Nelsine Nelsen Bear. She attended schools in Snohomish, Washington, Missoula, Montana and graduated from high school in Stevensville, Montana. She married Donald Lawrence Terry June...

Larry Glen Hansen

Larry Glen Hansen

Feb 28, 2017

Larry Glen Hansen, 80 years old, died on February, 28, 2017 in his home in Grants Pass, OR. He was born to Glen Reid Hansen and Sylvia Davies on November 20, 1936 in Rexburg, Idaho He was a man of many talents and used them in a variety of ways, at work, at home and for his church, serving two...

Vernon Fred Jensen Sr.

Vernon Fred Jensen Sr.

Feb 28, 2017

Vernon Fred Jensen Sr., age 86 of Rigby, passed away at his home Tuesday, February 28th 2017, surrounded by family. Vernon was born January 28th, 1931 in Menan, Idaho to Conrad Jensen and Elsa Violet Rottweiler Jensen. He had seven siblings, Blaine, Dee, Don, Bob, Bernice, Carma and Doris. He attended schools in Kilgore, Idaho and Dillon, Montana. Vernon met...

Sheron Rae Eckersell Olson

Sheron Rae Eckersell Olson

Feb 22, 2017

Sheron Rae Olson, age 83, passed away on February 22, 2017 at her home in Bountiful Utah. Sheron was born in Rigby, ID on March 28, 1933 to Adam Berdett and Pearl (Thomson) Eckersell. Sheron grew up in Rigby, ID and graduated from Rigby High School. She married Alan W. Muncey in 1951, living in France for two years as...

Delray Holm

Delray Holm

Feb 21, 2017

DelRay was born August 12, 1931 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Carl Theophilus Holm and Zula Wilcox Holm. He attended Roberts Elementary and Roberts High School. He joined the National Guard in 1946, served in the Army during the Korean War, and reached the rank of Sargent 1st class. He married Shirlee Ann drake on June 23, 1950. To this...

Maribeth Surerus Carson

Maribeth Surerus Carson

Feb 20, 2017

Maribeth Surerus Carson, 41, of Idaho Falls passed away at her home in Idaho Falls. She was born October 15, 1975 at the LDS Hospital in Idaho Falls to John William Surerus and Marianne Ressler Surerus. Mari attended schools in Roberts, Idaho Falls, and Terreton. She graduated from Skyline High School. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ...