Obituaries
Sheradon Jay Kohler
Jun 8, 2023
Sheradon Jay Kohler, of Shelley ID, passed away June 8, 2023.
Sheradon was born December 6, 1976 in Idaho Falls, ID to Larry and Anna Ruth Kohler. He was the 7th of 11 children. He spent his childhood in Firth Idaho riding dirt bikes, four wheelers, shooting guns, and fostering his love for the great outdoors.
Sheradon attended school in...
Clinton Lamar Mecham
Jun 5, 2023
Clinton Lamar Mecham, 79, of Firth passed away on June 5, 2023.
He was born on May 12, 1944 in Shelley, Idaho to Oren Clinton and Udeen Palmer Mecham. He was the oldest of six children.
He grew up and attended schools in Firth, graduating from Firth High School in 1962.
On April 17, 1972 he married Janice Ferguson in...
Jean Lind
Jun 3, 2023
If you’re about to throw away that empty cereal box — stop.
Instead, consider Norma Jean Lind, (you knew her as Jean). She would turn it inside out to become a Christmas gift box. Or she’d grab some floral contact paper and transform it into a sock drawer divider. Or she’d hermetically laminate it with packaging tape to mail...
Lynne Christensen
May 30, 2023
On Tuesday, May 30, 2023, Elnora Lynne Davis Christensen, loving wife and mother of five children, passed away in the home of her daughter at age 84. Lynne was born on July 23, 1938, in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Ivan and Nora Davis, the second daughter of five children. Ivan was a sheepherder and potato farmer; Nora was a...
Heber LaMont Barnard
May 29, 2023
Life Sketch of Heber LaMont Barnard by Nichols H. Barnard, oldest son.
Heber LaMont Barnard was born July 6, 1927, in Blackfoot, Idaho to John Nichols Barnard and Elizabeth Emma Allen Barnard. He was the seventh of eight children. Three of the children died young from heart ailments. John and Elizabeth’s firstborn daughter and first son had both passed...
Jared Craig Eborn
May 28, 2023
Jared Craig Eborn passed away May 28 2023. He was born June 14th 1985 to Becky Mead & Craig Eborn. He grew up in Shelley and spent most of his afternoons at the high school with Grandpa Eborn. His nights were spent watching wrestling and reading books with Grandma Karon Eborn. He graduated in 2003 from Shelley High School,...
Shirley Afton Lundquist
May 20, 2023
Shirley Afton Harker Lundquist, 88, of Shelley, Idaho passed away May 20, 2023 at the Gables Assisted Living Center, surrounded by her children.
She was born on May 13, 1935 in Idaho Falls to Norman and Afton Harker.
Shirley lived her childhood in a little white house on Jamestown/Taylor Road. She graduated from Shelley High School.
...
Donna Harker
May 14, 2023
Donna June Stears Harker was born October 31, 1928, in Shelley, Idaho, to Elven and Bertha Eaton Stears. She was the first of four children. The Stears family moved to Idaho Falls when Donna was 5 years old. Donna attended Hawthorne Elementary and O. E. Bell Junior High. A farming opportunity took the family to Goshen, Idaho, in Donna’s Sophomore...
Ivean Griffiths
May 13, 2023
Ivean Hansen Griffiths, 99, passed away at Promontory Point Rehabilitation on Saturday, May 13, 2023, from complications after a fall.
She was born in Hyrum, Utah, on April 10, 1924, to Reuben and Lauretta Jane Allen Hansen. She was the 4th of 5 daughters.
She graduated as Valedictorian from South Cache High School in Hyrum, Utah. After graduation she attended...
John F. Grange
May 11, 2023
John F. Grange, 57, of Shelley, joined his father, mother, and older brother in heaven on May 11, 2023.
John was born March 27, 1966 in Pocatello, Idaho. He came home from the hospital on April 15 and was adopted into the Claud and Lelia Grange family which he was sealed to in June of that same year.
He...
Barbara Jean Griffin
May 9, 2023
Barbara Jean Horne Griffin, 86, of Shelley, Idaho, died May 9, 2023.
She was born the youngest of eight children on February 15, 1937 to Karl Albert Horne and Merinda Lauridsen. She grew up in Thornton, Idaho and attended Madison High School (Class of 1955). She married her husband, Gover Weldon Griffin, on July 25, 1956, and they moved...
Bernice McCune Hatch
May 7, 2023
Bernice Darlene McCune Hatch, age 84, passed away peacefully in Kingwood, Texas on May 7, 2023, after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Bernice was born on November 17, 1938 in Tacoma, Washington to George and Violet (Pennick) McCune where she grew up to graduate from Franklin Pierce High School, later going on to get her CNA through Ricks College at...
Darla Shelley
May 6, 2023
Darla Chaffin Shelley was born September 8, 1936 in Blackfoot, Idaho to Melvin Levar Chaffin and Lydia Edline Bergeman and left this mortal world on May 6, 2023 in American Falls, Idaho.
She grew up in Blackfoot, Idaho, and was a 1954 Blackfoot High graduate.
She loved horsemanship- she was featured in Western Horseman magazine, was the 1954-57 Rodeo...
Earl Edwin Frongner
Apr 28, 2023
Earl Edwin Frongner, 91, passed away April 28, 2023.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 A.M. May 12, 2023 at the Shelley Hillcrest Cemetery under the direction of Nalder Funeral Home.
Family and friends are invited to a luncheon from 1:00 till 3:00 pm at Papa Tom’s Pizzeria conference room, 1830 S Woodruff Ave, Idaho Falls.
...
Eric Davis Newman
Apr 28, 2023
Eric Davis Newman, Dad, Grandpa, Husband, Brother, & Friend, Age 71 of Idaho Falls, Idaho passed from this life on Friday April, 28 2023 at home, surrounded by his family after a courageous battle with cancer.
Eric was born December 6, 1951 in Twin Falls, Idaho to Harry Davis and Jeanette Louise “Shelton” Newman. Eric spent his first 5...
Roberto Juan Ismael Medina
Apr 22, 2023
Te recordaré por tu valentía
Te recordaré por tu ejemplo en todos tus echos
Te recordaré por tu animo de progresar
Te recordaré por tu personalidad tan amistosa
Te recordaré por buen sentido del humor
Te recordaré por tu inteligencia
Te recordaré por el amor a nosotros tus hijos
Te recordaré por tu fidelidad a Dios
Te recordaré por...
Betty Jane Carson
Apr 21, 2023
Betty Jane Carson passed away Friday, April 21, 2023 surrounded by loved ones.
Betty was born to Dennis Niels Christensen and Edith Victoria (Vic) Jolley on July 10th, 1937 at the LDS Riverview Hospital in Idaho Falls. After Vic and Dennis divorced, Vic married Harry Matthew Messenger and added five more children to their family, raising Betty...
Edith Fredrickson
Apr 21, 2023
Edith Fredrickson, long time resident of Blackfoot, passed away on April 21, 2023.
Edith was born on July 4th in Burley, Idaho to Joseph Rex and Margaret Mahoney Fredrickson, residents of the Declo/Albion area. She was raised for six years in Albion. Then the teacher’s college in Albion closed and her family moved to Blackfoot.
Edith enjoyed...
Darlene Ruth Harper
Apr 7, 2023
Darlene Ruth Kelsey Harper, 86, of Shelley, Idaho, passed away Friday, April 7, 2023, at her home of natural causes.
Darlene was born December 28, 1936, in Shelley to LaVar Orson Kelsey and Catherine Annette Malcom. The second child and first daughter in the family, and a life-long resident of Shelley, Idaho.
Darlene graduated from Firth High...
Evelyn Marie Jensen
Apr 6, 2023
Evelyn Marie Jensen, 92, of Blackfoot passed away April 6, 2023 at Bingham Memorial Hospital.
She was born July 6, 1930 in Basalt, Idaho to Robert Dickins Lockyer and Laura Bell Fowler. She grew up in Kimball, Idaho.
On October 21, 1948 Evelyn married Rulon Thain Jensen. They lived in Jackson, Wyoming where Thain worked on the ranch...
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