Obituaries

Obituaries

Obituaries for Bonneville County, Idaho and surrounding areas

Seminar: How To Get Through The Holidays After The Loss Of A Loved One

Seminar: How To Get Through The Holidays After The Loss Of A Loved One

Nov 12, 2025

A seminar is held annually every November prior to Thanksgiving. This year the seminar will be held from 6-8 p.m. on November 12, 2025, at The Brickyard Event Center, 1025 South Ammon Road.

Musical Performances beginning at 6:00 p.m. featuring Thunder Ridge High School Choir and pianist Merrill Page

Light hors d’oeuvres will be served

Community Welcome

The attached booklet can be downloaded and/or...

Teresa Samson

Teresa Samson

Oct 13, 2025

Teresa Samson, 61, of Ammon, passed away on October 13, 2025, at her home. 

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 25, 2025, at the Ammon 4th Ward Building, 3000 Central Avenue. The family will visit with friends Friday from 6:30-8 p.m. at Wood Funeral Home East Side, 963 South Ammon Road and Saturday from 10-10:45 a.m. prior...

Jennifer Ramey

Jennifer Ramey

Oct 13, 2025

Jennifer Lou Harper Ramey, 63, joined her Father in Heaven on October 13, 2025, of complications from surgery. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandma, sister, and friend.

Jenni Harper was born April 5, 1962, in Ogden, Utah, to David and Barbara Harper. She was joined by her brothers, Wade, Rod, and Richard over the next eight years. She fought like...

Ladene Campbell

Ladene Campbell

Oct 12, 2025

Audrey Ladene Campbell, 90, of Rigby, passed away October 12, 2025, at Rigby Lake Assisted Living. She was under the care of One Source Home Health and Hospice.

Ladene was born September 24, 1935, in Rosemary, Alberta, Canada, to Carl Weston Lybbert and Mae Ullila Ogden Lybbert. She grew up and attended schools in Alberta, Canada and graduated from Moses Lake...

Jackie Bailey

Jackie Bailey

Oct 9, 2025

Jacquelyn "Jackie" Berrett Bailey, 66, beloved mother, partner, grandmother, and friend, passed away October 9, 2025, at EIRMC Hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

She was born on October 16, 1959, to William Reed Berrett and Colleen Lindsay Berrett. Jackie was raised alongside her brother Bill in Roberts and Idaho Falls, where she built a life surrounded by long and loyal friendships.

At...

Gladys Fay Oberg

Gladys Fay Oberg

Oct 9, 2025

Gladys Fay Oberg, 85, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 9, 2025, at her home.

Gladys was born August 8, 1940, in Malta, Montana, to Otis Norman Field and Virgie Irene Jones Field. She was the fourth of six children in a family that enjoyed a simple, rural lifestyle. Gladys attended local Montana schools. Later in life she also took classes...

Peggy Purcell

Peggy Purcell

Oct 8, 2025

Peggy Lee Purcell, 75, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 8, 2025, at her home. She was under the care of Symbii Hospice.

Peggy was born January 30, 1950, in Denver, CO, to Joseph Leo “Joe” Brennan and Elizabeth Lee “Betty” Reed Brennan. She grew up and attended schools in Denver and Boulder, CO. She also attended VOTEC where she earned...

Debra Faye Price

Debra Faye Price

Oct 8, 2025

Debra Faye Price, 72, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away October 8, 2025, at Idaho Falls Community Hospital.

Debbie was born October 13, 1952, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Floyd Leon Christensen and Margaret Faye Christensen (neé Sinclair). She grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls and she received her GED in 1970.

On November 13, 1981, she married Joe Charles...

William Robert Hatch Jr.

William Robert Hatch Jr.

Oct 7, 2025

William “Bill” Robert Hatch Jr., beloved father, grandfather, and friend, passed away peacefully on October 7, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. He spent his last days expressing his love for his family and reminiscing about cherished memories with family and friends. Known for his unique and unforgettable voice, sharp wit, and kindness, Bill lived a life full of adventures,...

Ricardo Salazar Osorio

Ricardo Salazar Osorio

Oct 6, 2025

Ricardo Salazar Osorio, 30, of Idaho Falls, passed away on October 6, 2025, from injuries sustained in a car accident. 

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 11, 2025, at Wood Funeral Home East Side, 963 S. Ammon Road. A Rosary will be held Friday at 6 p.m. with a visitation to follow until 8 p.m. and Saturday...

Bonnie Marie Gannon

Bonnie Marie Gannon

Oct 6, 2025

Bonnie Marie Gannon, 74, of Congress, Arizona, passed away October 6, 2025, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.

Bonnie was born September 3, 1951, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Harold Laurel Hansen and Alyce Marie Krause Hansen. She grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls and graduated from Bonneville High School. She also attended Ricks College.

On December 30, 2022, she...

Richard E Gramm

Richard E Gramm

Oct 5, 2025

Richard E Gramm (The Man, The Myth, The Legend--and occasionally, Santa Clause)

The year was 1958, Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue” was topping the charts. On the 17th of that December, Richard Earle Gramm was born, ready to bring laughter to the masses and hang 10 on every wave this ocean of life brought his way.

Rick was born to Millie Ann Hines...

Shirley Ann Roberts

Shirley Ann Roberts

Oct 5, 2025

Shirley Ann Roberts, 93, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 5, 2025, at her home. She was under the care of her family and Brio Hospice.

Services are pending.

A complete obituary will be posted once it becomes available.

Dwayn Allen Gunkel

Dwayn Allen Gunkel

Oct 5, 2025

Dwayn Allen Gunkel, 54, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 5, 2025, from a hereditary heart condition at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.

Dwayn arrived in the world on March 22, 1971, in Sturgis, South Dakota, to David and Yvonne Gunkel. The family moved around a lot, but Dwayn spent most of his childhood and formative school years in Glen Rock,...

Eldon Anderson

Eldon Anderson

Oct 3, 2025

Eldon Ervin Anderson, 84, of Meridian, Idaho, passed away peacefully on October 3, 2025, at MorningStar Assisted Living in Idaho Falls.

Eldon was born on May 24, 1941, in Burley, Idaho, to Iloise (Daley) Anderson and Erwin Jones, who passed away in a motorcycle accident when Eldon was six months old. He was later adopted by his step-father, Afton “Shady” Anderson,...

Shelley Marie Johnson

Shelley Marie Johnson

Oct 3, 2025

It is with great sadness her family announces that Shelley Marie Johnson passed away on October 3, 2025, in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

She was born June 15, 1959, in Anchorage, Alaska. She was raised in Anchorage, and after graduating high school, moved to Hawaii to attend BYU. In December of 1989, she married Steve Johnson of Ririe, Idaho, in Idaho Falls,...

Barbara "Barbie" Rae Hatt Perry Parke

Barbara "Barbie" Rae Hatt Perry Parke

Oct 2, 2025

Barbara Rae Hatt Perry Parke, 83, of Idaho Falls, passed away on October 2, 2025, at her home. She was under the care of Solace Hospice and her loving family.

Barbara was born August 8, 1942, in Patten, Maine, to Raymond Harold Hatt and Helen Mary MacLean.

She grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts, until moving to Idaho in 1954. Barbara attended...

Edith Maxine Barber

Edith Maxine Barber

Oct 1, 2025

Maxine Barber passed away peacefully in her sleep on October 1, 2025, at Lincoln Court Retirement Community at the age of 96.

Maxine was born on November 20, 1928, in Plano, Idaho, the 6th of 7 children, to Russell and Hazel Hillman. She grew up in Plano and Rexburg and spent summers helping out on the family ranch in Kilgore, Idaho....

Renee Payton

Renee Payton

Oct 1, 2025

Alta Renee Payton, 82, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 1, 2025, at home.

Renee was born February 18, 1943, in Rigby, Idaho, to Oscar Searl Wheeler and Melva Hunsaker Wheeler. She grew up and attended schools in Ririe and graduated from Ririe High School.

On August 25, 1962, she married Virgil “Gene” Payton in Ririe, Idaho. Renee and Gene made their...

Gary Allen Burtenshaw

Gary Allen Burtenshaw

Sep 29, 2025

Gary Allen Burtenshaw, 87, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away on September 29, 2025.

He was born on June 2, 1938, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Leroy and Ila Charlotte (Davenport) Burtenshaw, Gary was one of six children, with three brothers and two sisters, and he grew up in Firth, Idaho. On November 2, 1956, he married Audrey Joyce (Wilson) Burtenshaw,...