Obituaries

Edna Birch

Edna Birch

Oct 30, 2015

Edna Bauer Birch, 85, of Shelley passed away Friday October 30, 2015 at her home. Edna was born August 23, 1930 in Charlo, MT to Alfred & Alta Jeanette Leavitt Bauer. She attended schools in Charlo and graduated from Charlo High School. After high school she moved to Spokane, WA where she worked at a hospital for a year. She...

Theo Elaine Fielding

Theo Elaine Fielding

Oct 27, 2015

Theo Elaine Fielding, 100, passed away Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at Fairwinds in Idaho Falls. Theo was born March 21, 1915 in Shelley, Idaho to Arthur and Bessie Oliver.  She attended schools in Shelley, and graduated from Shelley High School in 1933.  Her love was playing basketball and was very good at it because of her quickness and agility.  That...

Orville Christensen Cox

Orville Christensen Cox

Oct 27, 2015

Orville Christensen Cox was born June 22, 1934 in Idaho Falls to Orville Sutherland and Ruth Christensen Cox. He passed away October 27, 2015 in Idaho Falls. Orville met Ines Gilgen as she was walking on her first day of school at Shelley High School. Her family had just moved there from Switzerland. He was a graduate of Shelley High...

Monte Dewayne Owens

Monte Dewayne Owens

Oct 26, 2015

Monte DeWayne Owens, 82, of Shelley, Idaho, passed away October 26, 2015 at his home after a courageous battle with cancer. Dad was born November 27, 1932 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Reed Dewain Owens and Nelda Montaque Owens. He was the oldest of four children. His brothers are Jesse Max, Dale Blaine, David Reed and one sister, Mary Gayle....

Deaun Johnson

Deaun Johnson

Oct 20, 2015

Deaun Johnson died at EIRMC, on Oct 20, 2015 from respiratory failure. She was born to Greba Jiles and Clarence Henrie in Wilson, Wyoming on June 17, 1930. She met & married Max Johnson in Rigby, Idaho in October, 1948. They then moved to Firth, Idaho, where she has resided since. She is survived by: one daughter, Judy Christensen, three...

Jonathan Bryton Ruiz

Jonathan Bryton Ruiz

Oct 12, 2015

Early morning on October 12, 2015, our dear Jonathan Bryton Ruiz passed away. He was brought into this world by Felix Ruiz Jr. III and Mirna Varela Hardcastle on January 16, 1999. He was fortunate to have two sets of parents, Felix Ruiz Jr. III and Adela Ruiz, and Mirna Varela Hardcastle and Clinton Hardcastle. Jonathan is remembered to be...

Mary Lou Young

Mary Lou Young

Oct 6, 2015

Mary Lou Savage Young passed away October 6, 2015 in Blackfoot, Idaho. Born July 11, 1931 mom grew up and came of age during the depression and World War Two era. The necessities of life were hard work and a good team or two of horses. But there was also time for athletics which her and her brothers excelled in....

Jan Andries Rabe Nel Jr.

Jan Andries Rabe Nel Jr.

Oct 5, 2015

Jan (Jannie) Andries Rabe Nel passed away at his family home after a brief struggle with cancer at age 47. His place of death was Firth, Idaho on October 5, 2015. His parents are Jan Andries Rabe Nel (deceased); and Johanna Magadalena Nel, ne’ Fourie. He was preceded in death by his Father Jan Andries Rabe Nel, on August 10,...

Shirley Kelley

Shirley Kelley

Oct 2, 2015

Shirley Hampton Kelley, 85, of Shelley, Idaho passed away at her home on October 2 , 2015 in the loving care of her family. She was born October 7, 1929 to Dick and Ida Hampton.  She was born in Jameston, Idaho and graduated from Shelley High School. She married John Kelley January 10, 1950 in the Idaho Falls, LDS temple. ...

Gloria L Mcgregor

Gloria L Mcgregor

Oct 1, 2015

Gloria L McGregor passed away of cancer on Oct. 1, 2015 at her son's residence, where she had been living for the last 2 years, all of her children came to her side. WE LOVE YOU MOM. Gloria was born in Brigham City Utah, on Oct. 6th 1945, the daughter of George and Nettie LaVon Hastings. Gloria worked at the...

Nathanael Nate Richard Osburn

Nathanael Nate Richard Osburn

Sep 9, 2015

Nathanael “Nate” Richard Osburn, 20, of Shelley lost his battle with depression on September 9, 2015. He was born August 2, 1995 in Idaho Falls to Tracy Allen and Debra Sue Stanley Osburn. He graduated from Shelley High School in 2014. In high school he was a member of the Ballroom Dance Team and was active in Theater and Drama....

Wallace Richard Reid

Wallace Richard Reid

Sep 5, 2015

Wallace Richard (Wally) Reid passed away peacefully Saturday, September 5, 2015, at his home, east of Firth. He was born May 2, 1929, at the family ranch in a little valley along the Blackfoot River, in Presto, Idaho, to Robert E. and Agnes Just Reid. He was the youngest child of a loving family of five boys, Eldro, Vincent, Fred...

Abbie Hatley

Abbie Hatley

Sep 4, 2015

Dora Lee “Abbie” Hatley was reunited with the love of her life on September 4, 2015.  She finally caught the bus at the age of 89 years young. Abbie was born on July 20, 1926 in Elmdale Kansas to Oliver Blakely Harvey and Ruby Adean Stone Harvey. After graduating high school, she worked at the Herington Air Force Base as...

Lila Larsen Simmons

Lila Larsen Simmons

Aug 27, 2015

Lila Larsen Simmons, 69, of Goshen passed away August 27, 2015. She was born March 15, 1946 in Idaho Falls to Alden and Irma Green Larsen. She attended schools in Idaho Falls and graduated from Idaho Falls High School. She attended Ricks College and BYU graduating with a Bachelor Degree in Child Development/ Elementary Education. On August 26, 1967 she...

Donald S. Hoggan

Donald S. Hoggan

Aug 20, 2015

Donald Schofield Hoggan, 84, passed away at his home in Shelley, Idaho, on August 20th, with friends and loved ones at his side. Don was born on August 31, 1930, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Dean Clarence Hoggan and Elsie Elizabeth Schofield Hoggan.  His childhood was filled with hunting trips, fishing excursions, and sports of any kind.  He graduated...

Arleene Prescott

Arleene Prescott

Aug 17, 2015

Arleene Prescott of Goshen, Idaho passed away August 17, 2015. RoNella Arleene Prescott was born on her grandparent’s ranch June 20, 1932 in Ora, Fremont County, Idaho to Dewey Bowman and Katherine Niederhaus.  Arleene was the third of nine children. She moved several times as a child from farm to farm in St Anthony area as it was during the...

Tom Jay Brewington

Tom Jay Brewington

Aug 12, 2015

Thomas Jay Brewington was born January 9, 1966 to Jay and Ella Brewington of Firth.  He was the first of four children and the first grandchild for his dad's family.  Tom is survived by his wife of 19 years, Michelle Griffin Brewington, and his son, Zakary Jay Brewington, his mother, Ella Brewington, and his siblings, Theresa Brewington Fresh of Blackfoot,...

Jan Andries Rabe Nel

Jan Andries Rabe Nel

Aug 10, 2015

Our beloved Husband, Father, Brother, Oupa and Oupatjie, Jan Nel, passed away on Monday, August 10th from complications related to cancer. He died peacefully at his home in Firth, Idaho. Jan was born on April 13, 1942 in Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. He was married to his Eternal Sweetheart, Johanna Magdaleena Fourie, on September 11th, 1965 and sealed for time and...

Virginia Lee Mecham

Virginia Lee Mecham

Aug 7, 2015

Virginia Lee Delaney Mecham, 76, of Goshen, passed peacefully away August 7, 2015 at her home in Ammon. Ginny was born September 11, 1938 to Daniel Joseph and Ilda Hazel (Jensen) Delaney.  She graduated from Snake River High School and attend Ricks College.  On April 6, 1957 she married Norman Arthur Mecham in Blackfoot, Idaho.  They were later sealed in...

Jennifer Leigh Thompson

Jennifer Leigh Thompson

Aug 4, 2015

Jennifer Leigh Thompson peacefully left this earth on August 4, 2015 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was currently at Life Care Center with loving family members by her side. Jennifer was born July 14, 1975.  She was the second daughter of Bobbie Glen Thompson and Joyce Lynn Rowberry Thompson.  She was greeted by her sister Suzan LeeAnn and...