Obituaries
Barbara Bowcutt
May 5, 2006
Barbara LaRae Simons Bowcutt, 62, died May 5, 2006 after a long battle with cancer. She was born February 6, 1944 in Sunnydale, Utah. Barbara was the third born of eight children to Ray Simons and Irma Simons Whitmill. The family lived in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, Firth, Idaho and Shelley, Idaho. Barbara moved to Shelley, Idaho where she continued to...
Wesley Brigham Christensen
Apr 21, 2006
Wesley B. Christensen, 89, died April 21, 2006. From this life, he peacefully passed surrounded by his family who loved him dearly. Wesley was born July 15, 1916, in Shelley, Idaho, to Leonard Lorenzo and Sarah Gardner Christensen. He grew up and attended schools in Shelley. His extended schooling included the College of Southern Idaho and Utah State. On March...
Belva Parkinson Worlton
Apr 20, 2006
Belva Parkinson Worlton, 79, of Shelley, Idaho passed away April 20, 2006 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center after a short illness. Belva was born February 5, 1927 in Plano, Idaho to Cleone & Vera Weatherston Parkinson. She graduated from Edmunds High School and attended Ricks College. On November 1, 1946 she married Phill Worlton in the Idaho Falls LDS...
Lettie Oles Harker
Apr 18, 2006
Lettie Oles Saunders Harker left this world to rejoin her beloved companion on Tuesday April 18, 2006 at Franklin, Idaho surrounded by her loving family. Lettie was born January 19, 1911 at Farnum, Idaho to Simon and Medora Wade Saunders. She lived there in that tiny farm community until she was six years old. While there she lost three siblings...
Arva Edith Wuthrich
Apr 15, 2006
Arva Edith Wuthrich, 83, of Idaho Falls, died April 15, 2006, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born April 7, 1923, in St. Charles, Idaho to Odell and Lillie Williamson. She attended grade school in St. Charles and graduated Valedictorian of her class from Fielding High School in Paris, Idaho. She studied art under Dan Peterson, a nationally-known...
Margene Y. Christensen
Apr 14, 2006
Margene Young Christensen returned to God April 14, 2006 due to an embolic stroke at the age of 79. Margene, or Marge to her friends was born January 25, 1927 in Malad, Idaho as the fifth of six children to Verle Wooden and Edith Tippetts Young. Her siblings in order of birth are Darrell, Verline, Waid, Winifred (Freddie), and the...
Dolly Tschikof
Apr 10, 2006
Dolly Tschikof, 81, of Firth, beloved wife and mother, passed away April 10, 2006 in Idaho Falls. Dolly was born the 12th of 13 children on May 7, 1924 in Shelley, Idaho to Henry Kirk and Margaret Williams. Her early years were spent on a ranch along the Blackfoot River until the family moved to Firth. She attended Firth schools...
Beulah C. Jensen
Apr 3, 2006
Beulah C. Jensen 88, passed away at her home in Idaho Falls, Idaho April 3rd, 2006 of congestive heart failure. She was born January 9th 1918 to Laura and Holger Christensen in Shelley, Idaho. Beulah was the 4th of 8 children. She married Edgar R. Jensen October 13, 1937 at the court house in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Beulah grew up...
Douglas Dell Mitchell
Apr 2, 2006
Douglas Dell Mitchell, 56, of Firth died April 2, 2006 from injuries received in a snowmobiling avalanche accident in Spencer, Idaho. He was born August 31, 1949 in Shelley, Idaho to Ardell and Hanna Mae Fortner Mitchell. He attended school in Firth and graduated from Firth High School. He married Aurora Lucio and they had one daughter, Maria Mae. They...
Vivian Bateman
Apr 1, 2006
Vivian (Bailey) Bateman, 81, passed away at her home in Shelley, Idaho, April 1st 2006, of natural causes. Born February 25, 1925 in Ammon, Idaho to Jessie Henry and Mercy Meranda Bailey, Vivian was the tenth of twelve children. She married LaVal Jay Bateman January 10, 1944 at San Marcos, Texas. The marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls...
Leonard "Spike" Berk Barnett
Mar 18, 2006
Spike Barnett passed away on Saturday, March 18th, 2006 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. After battling many complications for three months he succumbed to respiratory failure. Spike was born in Payson, Utah on July 5th, 1946 to Berk and Peggy Barnett. He grew up in Taylor, Idaho and graduated from Shelley High School. Spike held the office of an...
Sarah Crook Allred
Mar 13, 2006
Sarah Crook Allred, 85, of Shelley passed away Monday evening, March 13, 2006 at Turtle and Crane Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls, from pancreatic cancer. She was under the care of Aspen Hospice. Sarah was born December 14, 1920, in a little log house in Iona, the youngest of nine children born to Willard Hyrum Crook and Alzada Angeline...
Alan Peter Becker
Feb 26, 2006
Alan Peter Becker, 65, of Firth, Idaho passed away February 26, 2006 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center from injuries received in an automobile accident. He was born March 20, 1940 in San Jose, CA. Pete attended Almaden Valley Grade and Junior High School and graduated fro Santa Clara High School in Santa Clara, CA. Pete’s military career consisted of...
Alvin Habbeshaw Criddle
Feb 22, 2006
Alvin H. Criddle, 88, of Basalt, Idaho passed away in Idaho Falls, Idaho February 22, 2006. Alvin was born February 20, 1918 in Basalt, Idaho the son of Charles Criddle and Harriet Habbeshaw Criddle. He grew up in Basalt. On November 30, 1942 he married Marjorie Frandsen in Malad, Idaho. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti, Utah Temple....
Lonny Wendell Jensen
Feb 11, 2006
Lonny Wendell Jensen, 47, of Basalt, passed away in the company of his cherished family on February 11, 2006, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center from complications following heart surgery. He was a loving and dedicated husband, father, son, brother, and son-in-law. Innumerable friends and acquaintances will also miss him greatly. Lonny was born, December 28, 1958, in Rexburg, Idaho,...
Olivia Marie Russell
Feb 9, 2006
Olivia Marie Russell came into this world on September 17, 2005 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to the proud parents Kurt Garth Russell and Christina Marie Fullmer Russell. Her life began with a fight, being born with medical problems she took her first airplane ride at less then 48 hours old to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. She...
Norene Cox Crofts Hoehn
Jan 29, 2006
Norene Cox Crofts Hoehn, 63, of Shelley passed away January 29, 2006 at her home of natural causes. She was born December 7, 1942 in Blackfoot, Idaho to Jay E. Cox and Theda Manning. She was the oldest of their five girls. She grew up in Shelley and Wolverine areas and attended area schools in Shelley. She married Darrell Crofts...
Harold Edwin Johnsen
Jan 28, 2006
Harold Edwin Johnsen, 88, of Firth died January 28, 2006 at the Bingham Memorial Extended Care Center at Blackfoot. He was born May 21, 1917 in Basalt, Idaho to Hyrum Parley Johnson and Elizabeth Chapman. He attended grade school at Basalt. The family later moved to Goshen. He receives an honorary High School diploma from Firth High School May 22,...
Martin J. Baranek
Jan 23, 2006
Martin J. Baranek, 94, of Basalt died January 23, 2006 at his home under Hospice care. He was born January 18, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois to Paul Baranek and Helen Stacek. He was taken to Czechoslovakia with his sister, he attended school there. He returned to America in 1930 to live with relatives in Thompson Falls, MT. In the late...
Douglas Hugh Wells
Jan 18, 2006
Douglas Hugh Wells, 69, of Shelley, Idaho, died January 18, 2006, at Eastern Idaho Medical Center of natural causes. He was born March 11, 1936, to Dallas Tyler Wells and Doris Lucile Bowman Wells at the home of Percy and Rachel Bowman, his grandparents in Woodville, Idaho. He grew up in Woodville and lived in Shelley all his life. He...
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