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Gwen Cavill "Chub" Bird

Gwen Cavill "Chub" Bird

Apr 17, 2007

G. C. Bird, 75, of Shelley passed away April 17, 2007 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.             He was born October 14, 1931 in St. Anthony, Idaho the youngest of 11 children, born to Alfred James and Elizabeth Maud Janes Owen Bird.  He grew up in St. Anthony and later graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 1949. After returning...

Donna Pearl Eaton

Donna Pearl Eaton

Apr 13, 2007

Donna Pearl Eaton, 89, of Shelley passed away at home on Friday, April 13, 2007. She was born on September 15, 1917 to Fonzo and Pearl Wagstaff Tyner in Shelley the 3rd of three children.  She was raised in Shelley by her aunt & uncle Thomas and Lela Binch and was very well liked.  She attended school in Shelley and...

Louis Calvert Hanson

Louis Calvert Hanson

Apr 5, 2007

Louis Calvert Hanson, age 80, passed away on April 5, 2007 from complications resulting from a sudden cardiac arrest.    Louis was born on May 27, 1926, in Shelley, Idaho to Louis Lorenzo and Mary Hortense Hanson. He grew up in Shelley where he attended school and graduated from Shelley High School.   After he served in the U.S. Navy during World...

Jody Edward Howell

Jody Edward Howell

Apr 2, 2007

Jody Edward Howell, 51, of Firth passed away April 2, 2007 from injuries received in an automobile accident. He was born September 22, 1955 in Alturas, California to Charles Edward and Virginia Lee Golden Howell.  He grew up in Redding, California and graduated from Enterprise High School in 1973.  He entered an apprentice training program in Heating/Ventilation/ Air Conditioning with...

Wanda B. Christensen

Wanda B. Christensen

Mar 25, 2007

Wanda B. Christensen, 77, of Shelley, ID, died March 25, 2007, at her home of natural causes. She was born February 4, 1930, in Shelley, ID, to Walter Heber Bowler and Alverta Adella Nuttall Bowler.  She was the fourth of five children.  Wanda was raised and attended schools in Shelley.  She attended Business College in Idaho Falls, and took a...

J. E. "Ted" Kendrick

J. E. "Ted" Kendrick

Mar 15, 2007

J.E. “Ted” Kendrick, 83, passed away peacefully in his sleep on March 15, 2007, at his home in Shelley. He was born on Sept. 8, 1923 in Granger, Utah, the only son of Thomas Henry Kendrick and Nettie May Pitts Kendrick.  He graduated from Granger High School.  Ted served his country in the Army Air Corps during World War II...

Ardell Orma Talbot

Ardell Orma Talbot

Mar 13, 2007

Ardell Orma Brown Talbot, 92, of Shelley passed away March 13, 2007 at her home in Shelley from natural causes. She was born November 10, 1914 in Orient, Iowa to Worthy Dell and Margaret Henderson Brown.  Her family moved from Iowa to Idaho Falls when she was young and she helped her father on his farm.  She graduated from Idaho...

Leroy John Andersen

Leroy John Andersen

Feb 28, 2007

LeRoy John Andersen, 80, of Idaho Falls passed away February 28th at the Good Samaritan Center in Idaho Falls of natural causes. He was born March 25, 1926 in Goshen, Idaho to James and Olga Andersen who had immigrated from Denmark.  He was married June 18, 1945 to Elva Faye Smith.  Their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls...

Naomi Christensen

Naomi Christensen

Feb 25, 2007

Naomi Lawrence Christensen, 86, died Sunday, February 25, 2007, at her home in Shelley.    She was born Sept. 29, 1920, in Shelley, to Stanley Allen Lawrence and Kathryn Elliott Lawrence.  She grew up in Shelley and graduated from Shelley High School where she participated in two school plays--her favorite high school activity.    On July 30, 1939, she married Thomas F....

Uriel Vazquez

Uriel Vazquez

Feb 24, 2007

Uriel Vazquez, 42, of Shelley died February 24, 2007 at his home from a brain tumor under the care of Hospice Alliance of Idaho Falls.   He was born June 14, 1964 in Aguililla, Michoacan, Mexico to Manuel and Genoveva Mendoza Vazquez.  He attended school in Mexico before coming to the U.S. in 1980.  He married MaryBella Quintero, they were later...

Dorothy Wadsworth

Dorothy Wadsworth

Feb 20, 2007

Dorothy (Larsen) Wadsworth, 92, formerly of Shelley, passed peacefully in her sleep on February 20, 2007, at Ogden Regional Medical Center, of Pneumonia.  She was born in Aberdeen, Idaho on 27 Sept. 1914 to Grace Claypool and Julius Larsen.  She was a loving wife & mother of two.  A Grandmother of 14, & Great-Grandmother of 41 & Great-Great Grandmother of...

Virginia Croft

Virginia Croft

Feb 12, 2007

Virginia Croft, 92, of Shelley died Monday, February 12, 2007 at the Mallory House in Idaho Falls.   Virginia was born April 23, 1914 in Shelley, Idaho to Heber and Sarah Byington Arave.  She lived in Shelley her whole life with the exception of the last few years.   On July 1, 1933 she married Stanley Croft.  Stanley died February 12, 1981.  ...

Gary Allen Stears

Gary Allen Stears

Feb 10, 2007

Gary Allen Stears, 49, died Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007, after a nine month fight with a brain tumor. He died in his home in the presence of his family.  He was born on June 22, 1957, to DeLen Thomas Stears and Lois Rae Brooks Stears in San Bernadino, Calif., and grew up in Shelley, Idaho. He married Laura Kaye Slaughter...

Robert Louis Shafer

Robert Louis Shafer

Feb 4, 2007

Robert Louis Shafer, 81, of Firth passed away February 4, 2007 at his home. He was born November 4, 1925 in Beyers, Colorado to Charles Anthony and Lillian Rhyne Shafer.  He served in the United States Marine Corps during Word War II.  He was wounded in Okinawa and received the Purple Heart. On November 21, 1945 he married Norma Moss...

Louree Davis Walker

Louree Davis Walker

Feb 2, 2007

Louree Davis Walker, 78, passed away February 2, 2007 at Mount Vernon Assisted Living in Idaho Falls from complications of Alzheimer’s. She was born September 27, 1928 in Shelley, Idaho, to Francis and Mary Shelley Davis. She grew up in Shelley, attending Shelley High School, Ricks College and Utah State University.  After graduating from Utah State University with a Bachelor...

Gayle Christensen Baxter

Gayle Christensen Baxter

Feb 1, 2007

ONE WHO LOVED….. AND WAS LOVED   Gayle Christensen Baxter passed from this life of natural causes on February 1, 2007 surrounded by those who truly loved her.    She was born April 21, 1915 in Shelley, Idaho to Jennie McBride Christensen and Davis Christensen weighing just 3 pounds.  She has been a survivor ever since.  She married her sweetheart, James Willard...

Doris Lillian Summers

Doris Lillian Summers

Jan 30, 2007

Doris Cox Summers, 91, of Idaho Falls died January 30, 2007 at the Turtle & Crane Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls. She was born Doris Lillian Wadsworth on March 4, 1915 in Idaho Falls to Bertie Wadsworth and Eliza Jane Stoddard of Taylor, Idaho.  She was the third of seven children.  She went to grade school in Taylor and...

Lawrence B Hanson

Lawrence B Hanson

Jan 27, 2007

Lawrence B Hanson, 85, of Riverdale, Utah and formerly of Shelley, Idaho passed away January 27, 2007 at the Aspen Care Center in Ogden, Utah of natural causes.  He was under hospice care. He was born February 12, 1921 in Shelley, Idaho to Melvin and Lillian Beckstrand Hanson, the second of 11 children.  He grew up in Shelley, working on...

Stephanie Michelle Scholes

Stephanie Michelle Scholes

Jan 23, 2007

Stephanie Michelle Scholes, 24, of Firth was taken to her Heavenly Father on January 23, 2007.  She passed away at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah due to a Pulmonary Embolism while recovering from a liver transplant. Stephanie was born October 26, 1982 at Blackfoot, Idaho to Von Alvin and Rosemary Stephens Scholes.  She was well...

Wayne Leroy Nield

Wayne Leroy Nield

Jan 12, 2007

Wayne Leroy Nield, 77, passed away quietly Friday January 12, 2007 at his home in Shelley. He was born July 27, 1929 to Frank Leroy and Selma June Charlesworth Nield in Anaconda, Montana.  They later moved to the Idaho Falls area were he attended school.  He lost his beloved mother when he was 8 years old.  His father remarried Myrtle...

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