obituaries

Sep 3, 2009

Tristan Lee Ashby, 8 months, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, September 3, 2009, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. He was born January 1, 2009, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Steven Ashby and Kayla Haslam Ashby. He lived his short life in Shelley and Ammon. He is survived by his mother, Kayla Ashby of Ammon; his...

Sep 3, 2009

Burdett Lords, 86, of Idaho Falls, died Thursday, September 3, 2009, at his home. He was under the care of Aspen Home Health & Hospice. He was born April 17, 1923, in Idaho Falls to Robert J. and Lillian Mae Bowcutt Lords. As a young boy he lived in El Centro, California. The family moved back to Idaho and Burdett...

Sep 3, 2009

Mary Johnnetta Shick, 83, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, died Thursday, September 3, 2009, at her home in Idaho Falls. She had been under the care of Idaho Home Health and Hospice. She was born April 13, 1926, in Twin Falls, Idaho, to John R.V. Call and Celia Woodland Call. She grew up in Eureka, California, and attended Eureka High School....

Aug 25, 2009

Edna Wride Johnson, 98, of Idaho Falls, died August 25, 2009, at her home. She had been under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho. She was born May 4, 1911, in Provo, Utah, to Angus and Harriet Ann Clinger Wride. She spent her first years in Provo, moving to Aberdeen, Idaho, in 1917. She graduated from Aberdeen High School...

Aug 24, 2009

Glenn "Scotty" Joel Scott, 87, of Idaho Falls, died August 24, 2009, at Idaho Falls Health & Rehabilitation. He was born September 17, 1921, in Letha, Idaho, the sixth child born to Joel Mannon Scott and Esther Vernon McMurtrey. He grew up and attended schools in Salmon. He served in the United States Army as a Tailgunner during World War...

Aug 20, 2009

Betty Jane Dalling Smith, 62, formerly of Idaho Falls, died August 20, 2009, at her home in Shelley, Idaho, of brain cancer. Betty was born January 12, 1947, in Rexburg, Idaho, to John L. and Mildred Jenkins Dalling. She grew up in and attended schools in Moore, Idaho, until the family moved to Idaho Falls in 1960. She graduated from...

Aug 19, 2009

Zella May Dannehl, 79, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, died Wednesday, August 19, 2009, at Idaho Falls Health and Rehabilitation. She was born February 26, 1930, in Basalt, Idaho, to Lorin Farr Freeman and Dolores Jensen Freeman, the 10th child of 16. She grew up in Basalt and graduated from Firth High School in 1947. On September 22, 1952, she married...

Aug 17, 2009

William McAdoo Gibson, 90, of Idaho Falls, died August 17, 2009, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born November 24, 1918, in Ft. Worth, Texas, to Albert Henry Gibson and Dora D. Hickman. He was raised in Ft. Worth and later served with the 96th Infantry Division on Okinawa from 1944-1945. He earned the Bronze Star and two...

Aug 16, 2009

Jarvis Anderson, 79, of Ammon, Idaho, died Sunday August 16, 2009, at his home. He was born July 10, 1930, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Marvin Joseph Anderson and Flora May Hammer Anderson. Jarvis was raised in Ammon and graduated from Ammon High School in 1948. He left the Rocky Mountains to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in his...

Aug 13, 2009

Verna Lee Bodily, 80, of Idaho Falls, died August 13, 2009, at her home of natural causes. She had been under the care of Creekside Hospice. She was born June 10, 1929, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Warren E. Wright and Hazel Sarah Fridal. She spent the first seven years of her life in Salt Lake and then the...

Aug 9, 2009

Marie Papworth Wright, 84, of Idaho Falls, died August 9, 2009, at Good Samaritan Nursing Home-Idaho Falls Village of natural causes. She had been under the care of Hands of Hope Hospice.

She was born September 4, 1924, in Afton, Wyoming, the youngest of four children born to William Elmo Papworth and Florence Mae Roberts Papworth. She grew up...

Aug 7, 2009

James N "Jack" Stiles was born December 3, 1914 in Peek Ellis, Oklahoma, the son of James M Stiles and Alwena Gerken Stiles. With 3 sisters before him, the family relocated to Idaho Falls, ID.

Jack served in WWII in Australia, and returned home to marry the love of his life, Shirley M Nielsen on April 16, 1949. They...

Aug 3, 2009

Luana "Lu" Claire Hyde Mecham, 82, of Ammon, died August 3, 2009, of injuries sustained in a automobile accident.

She was born April 27, 1927, in Logan, Utah, to William Hyde Jr. and Claire Martineau Hyde. She grew up on a farm in Blue Creek, Utah, as well as Logan. She attended Logan High School and graduated in 1944....

Aug 1, 2009

Bonnie Jean Petersen, 75, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, died Saturday, August 1, 2009, at Good Samaritan, Helping Hands Unit of natural causes.

She was born March 28, 1934, to Oscar I. Shepherd and Phylin Simmons Shepherd in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. She grew up in Mt. Pleasant, Moroni, Chester, and Sunnyside, Utah. She selflessly helped raise her siblings while her...

Jul 28, 2009

Ella Elizabeth Nelson Griggs, 95, of Idaho Falls, and formerly of Driggs, died July 28, 2009, at the Idaho Falls Health & Rehabilitation Center after suffering a stroke in March.

She was born May 28, 1914, in Chapin, Teton County, Idaho, the second of eleven children born to James Clarence Nelson and Viola Agnes Thompson Nelson. She lived in...

Jul 20, 2009

Melissa Ann Rice, 24, of Idaho Falls, died July 20, 2009, in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

She was born January 25, 1985, in Salmon, Idaho, to Brenda and Rock Rice. She grew up in Idaho Falls and graduated from Hillcrest High School in 2003.

She worked at Melaleuca.

She was a member of the Church of...

Jul 17, 2009

Howard LaVar Peterson, 93, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, died Friday, July 17, 2009, at Lincoln Court in Idaho Falls of congestive heart failure with his daughters at his side. He was under the care of Creekside Home Health and Hospice. LaVar was born January 13, 1916, in Lyman, Idaho, to James Howard Peterson and Vilda Lutz Peterson. When he was...

Jul 16, 2009

Frank Talmage Butler, 97, of Ammon, died Thursday, July 16, 2009, at the Gables of Shelley.

He was born February 10, 1912, in Manard, Camas County, Idaho, to Horace Calvin Butler and Ida Rebecca Goold Butler. When he was only a few years old, the family moved to Acequia, north of Rupert, where he was raised and attended school....

Jul 15, 2009

Virginia Noreen Gierisch Lewis, 85, of Idaho Falls, died July 15, 2009, at her home of natural causes.

She was born April 14, 1924, in Burley, Idaho, to William R. Gierisch and Annie Kramer Gierisch. She grew up in Burley and in 1942, she graduated from Burley High School. She attended the LDS School of Nursing in Idaho Falls...

Jul 14, 2009

William Rue "Bill" Cook, 83, of Idaho Falls, died Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at his home. He was under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho.

Bill was born on December 20, 1925, in Hyde Park, Utah, to Alma Cook and Nellie Vilate Perkes. He was the youngest of four children; his elder brother Keith, who died at age...