Obituaries
Marilyn Emma Hansen
Aug 9, 2012
Our loving mother, Marilyn Emma Nielson Hansen, passed away in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on August 9, 2012, at the age of 84 with her family by her side. Marilyn was born November 24, 1927, in Goshen, Idaho. She was the eighth of eleven children born to Oliver and Astrid Johansson Nielson. She attended school in Goshen, Idaho, and graduated in...
Kenneth Rulon Parks
Aug 1, 2012
Kenneth Rulon Parks, 87, passed away on Wednesday August 1 st 2012. He was under the care of Idaho Home Health and Hospice. Kenneth was born July 26, 1925 at Riverside, Idaho to Rulon Parks and Martha VanOrden Parks. He graduated from Moreland High School in 1943. Kenneth is a veteran of World War II serving in the US Army...
Merlin A Orton
Aug 1, 2012
Merlin A Orton, 85, of Bend, OR, passed away August 1, 2012 at his home. He was born September 12, 1926 at Pocatello, ID to Thomas D. and Avilda Mecham Orton. He lived in the Boise area up through grade four and then moved to the Firth area where he graduated from Firth High School in 1943. His favorite sport...
Beulah Jean Baird
Jul 20, 2012
Beulah Jean Baird, 77, of Shelley passed away on July 20, 2012 at the Ashton Living Center. Jean was born on November 21, 1934 in Idaho Falls Idaho to Ora and Ardell Talbot. She grew up in Idaho Falls, Burton, Idaho, and Oakland, California. She married Bob Baird in 1952 and they later divorced. In 2008, Jean married Jay White....
Betty Idona Wadsworth
Jul 20, 2012
Our dear Mother, Grandmother, and Friend, passed away peacefully at her home, where she loved to be, on Friday, July 20. She was 89 years young. Betty Idona Wadsworth was born April 24 th 1923, to Fonda Idona Pierce and Roy Elliot, of Princeville, Oregon. She grew up mainly around the Twin Falls area. Her mother died when she was...
Dona Kathryn Anderson
Jul 12, 2012
Dona Kathryn Anderson passed away peacefully July 12, 2012, from cause’s incident to age. She was born in Preston, Idaho, April 13, 1926, to Adrian Solomon Campbell and Kathryn Marie McDermott. She graduated from Idaho Falls High School, worked in Blackfoot, and lived most of her life in Shelley. Dona married R. Vaughn Anderson on Jan. 14, 1948. To this...
Darlene Perkins Goff
Jul 12, 2012
Darlene Ellsworth Kelly Goff, passed away peacefully at the age of 74, on July 12, 2012 in Pocatello, Idaho. Darlene was born on September 17, 1937 in Shoshone, Idaho to Hattie Geneva Horton and Lorin Ellsworth. She was the youngest of six children with five older brothers. Growing up on a farm as a child she had plenty of chores...
Paul Dee Madsen
Jul 10, 2012
Paul D Madsen, 76 of Shelley, passed away Tuesday July 10, 2012 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, battling cancer. Paul was born July 29, 1935 in Blackfoot, Idaho to Lionel P. and Mabel Bassett Madsen. Paul grew up on his family farm. He attended Firth High School and graduated in 1953. Following soon after graduation he joined the United...
Mary Lou Dooley
Jul 2, 2012
Our beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and sister, Mary Lou Dooley, age 83, peacefully passed away in her home in Shelley, Idaho on July 2, 2012. Mary Lou was born on November 6, 1928, in Roosevelt, Utah to Louis Paul Neeley and Mary Pilling Neeley. She graduated from Shelby High School in Montana and continued her education at Brigham Young...
Barbra Rose Rich
Jun 30, 2012
Barbra Rose Rich of Shelley passed away peacefully in her home Saturday June 30, 2012 surrounded by her family. Barbra was born January 8, 1934 in St. Anthony, Idaho to Clyde Rose and Mable Ann Singleton Rose. She grew up in St. Anthony where she became lifetime friends with Carla, Margie, Bernice, Clayta and GaeNell. She graduated from South Fremont...
Ida Maria Butler
Jun 29, 2012
Ida Maria Koski Butler passed away in the morning on the June 29, 2012, at the family home in Woodville, Idaho. She was born the ninth of 12 children on April 29, 1925, to Andrew Koski (Antti Kirkinnen) and Alma Sophia Rantala both of whom emigrated from Finland about 1909. She is survived by one older sister Silvia Marchand who...
Bc Baker
Jun 17, 2012
BC Baker, 46, of Twin Falls passed away Sunday, June 17, 2012 at St Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Boise. BC was born July 23, 1965 in Amarillo, TX the son of Harold and Dorothy Baker. He lived with his family in Amarillo until he was 8. He graduated from Jerome High School and attended CSI receiving his associate’s degree...
Ronald Reed Richardson
Jun 16, 2012
Ronald Reed Richardson of Blackfoot, Idaho passed away on June 16, 2012 while camping at Birch Creek in Idaho. He was born August 19, 1949 to John and Maurine Richardson. Ron grew up in Southern California with his two siblings, Norene and Delia Sue. Ron married Sandra Altimus on February 5, 1969 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They have enjoyed 43...
Gary Lee Fletcher
Jun 13, 2012
Gary Lee Fletcher, 80, of Shelley passed away June 13, 2012 due to a lingering illness at Bingham Memorial Hospital surrounded by his loving family. Gary was born September 23, 1931 in Idaho Falls to William Preston and Jannie Eaton Fletcher. He was raised in Vernal, Utah until age seven when the family moved to the Shelley area. He graduated...
Roland John Thompson
Jun 10, 2012
Roland John Thompson, 73, of Idaho Falls, quietly passed away on June 10, 2012, surrounded by loving family in his apartment. Roland was born on November 12, 1938. He was raised in the Blackfoot area on his family’s ranch and later in town where the Thompson family ran Archie’s Trailer Park. He graduated from Blackfoot High School in 1957. He...
Connie Virginia Smith
Jun 6, 2012
Connie Virginia Smith passed away, Wednesday, June 6, 2012, peacefully with her children by her side at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, ID. She was born November 24, 1936 in Shelley, Idaho to loving parents, V. Melvin and Emma V Bradley. She was the first of four precious children, followed b y sister, Nina, sister LaRene, and only brother, Carl. ...
Marley Reianna Chatterton
May 31, 2012
Marley Reianna Tubbs Chatterton, 29, of Pocatello returned into her Heavenly Father’s embrace Thursday, May 31, 2012. Marley was born May 8, 1983 in Palmer, Alaska, to Sid and Tina Tubbs. She was raised in Firth, Idaho where she graduated high school in 2001. After high school, Marley’s love for learning continued as she received her Bachelors degree in Business...
Laverne Harker
May 28, 2012
LaVerne Elkington Harker was born in Tooele, Utah on April 3, 1917 to William and Elzie McLaws Elkington. When she was just a child, the family made the big move from Tooele to Idaho Falls, Idaho where her father had acquired a large dry farm in the hills east of Idaho Falls. Here the family worked and grew grain and...
Helen Ruth Harker
May 24, 2012
Our sweet mother, grandmother and sister Helen Ruth Andersen Harker passed away peacefully on May 24, 2012. She was born on April 8, 1928 in Ogden, Utah to Otto Rosel Andersen and Ruth Doul Griffin. Helen spent her growing up years in Ogden, Utah and Harrisville, Utah and later in Nyssa, Oregon. She lived with her parents and brothers Rosel...
Marie Ann Long
May 13, 2012
Marie Long (aka Mary Ann) was born to Dick and Evelyn Lehner, (themselves born of German and Polish immigrants), on July 9th, 1928, in Southside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended Catholic school as a child and graduated from Bethel High School in 1946. It was as a cheerleader there that she met her “high school sweetheart” and future husband, Robert A....