Obituaries

Dec 16, 2018

Ralph Junior Butler, 92, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 16, 2018, at his home. He was under the care of his loving family and Aspen Home Health and Hospice. Ralph was born August 4, 1926, in Bone, Idaho, to Ralph Francis Butler and Carrie Lenore Beckly Butler. He grew up in the Bone area and attended school in...

Dec 15, 2018

Click to watch tribute of Emil's life Emil Otto Cherney, 83, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 15, 2018, at his home. He was under the care of his family and Hands of Hope Hospice. He was born May 18, 1935, in Dickinson, North Dakota, to Philip Frank Cherney and Mary Helen Michalenko Cherney. He was the youngest of...

Dec 15, 2018

Lawrence Charboneau passed away on December 15, 2018, at the age of 64. He was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He moved back to Portland as a young man where he married and raised his family. He returned to Idaho in his later years.　He worked as a painter and loved to wheel and...

Dec 14, 2018

"Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear." Matthew 13:43 Michel Habib Keriakos Boulos, 84, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 14, 2018. Michel was born May 23, 1934, in Quena, Egypt, to Habib Keriakos Boulos and Nozha Faltas Boulos. He grew up...

Dec 14, 2018

Mildred Irene Moore Christensen, 97, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 14, 2018, at her son Van’s home in Idaho Falls. She was under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho.

Irene was born May 14, 1921, in Ririe, Idaho, to Ezra Moore and Violet Smith Moore. She grew up and attended school in Ririe and Midway...

Dec 13, 2018

Margaret Kathryn "Kathy" Simpson, 73, of Idaho Falls, passed away Thursday, December 13, 2018. Kathy was born on September 18, 1945, in Butte, Montana, to William Francis Drowns and Lodema Chatterton Drowns. Kathy is survived by a sister, Beverly Dutton, of Idaho Falls. She is preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, Francis Dale Drowns and Edward Willis...

Dec 13, 2018

Julie Ann Doucet, 77, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 13, 2018, at home at the MorningStar Independent Senior Living Center. She was under the care of her loving family with assistance from Aspen Health Care. Julie was born July 5, 1941, in Rochester, New Hampshire, to J. Paul LaRoche and Lena Langevin LaRoche. She grew up in Rochester,...

Dec 12, 2018

Lyle Dwayne Erbe, 69, of Ammon, passed away December 12, 2018. Lyle was born September 30, 1949, in Hoven, South Dakota, to Willard Woodrow Erbe and Althea Merkle Erbe. He grew up on a farm in Java, South Dakota, and went to farm school until 3rd grade. He then went to Bowdle Public School. On September 10, 1966, he...

Dec 11, 2018

Click here to view her video tribute. Lola Bird Geary was born May 18, 1916. She passed away peacefully on December 11, 2018 at the home of Ralph and Vicki Collette Geary Schmidt in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Lola came into this world with her twin sister Leon in Milo, Bonneville, Idaho. The twins were delivered by their...

Dec 10, 2018

Lavonna Spaulding Perry, 87, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 10, 2018 from complications of pneumonia. Lavonna was born March 19, 1931, in Independence, Madison County, Idaho, to Earl Eli Spaulding and Gladys Vie Thomason Spaulding. She attended schools in the Ririe area and graduated from Ririe High School. She also attended several colleges, including Ricks College, and received...

Dec 10, 2018

Ronald Bruce Lively, 77, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 10, 2018, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Ron was born July 24, 1941, in Okemah (Rural), Oklahoma, to Shelton Lively and Molly Grace McClanahan Lively. He grew up and attended schools in Oklahoma. He served with honor in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and was stationed...

Dec 10, 2018

Wilma Ada Madsen, 100, passed away December 10, 2018, at her home.

Wilma Ada Madsen was born July 29, 1918, in Pocatello, Idaho. She was the daughter of Arthur William Miles and Ada Jane Neibaur Miles. She attended schools in Firth, Idaho. One of her favorite things to do was sing the songs of her youth to...

Dec 9, 2018

Colleen Marie Heileson Wilson, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 9, 2018, at her home. Colleen was born April 25, 1940, in Rigby, Idaho, to Orson Howard Heileson and Josie Maxine Smith Heileson. She grew up and attended schools in the area and graduated from Idaho Falls High School where she participated in Drill Team and the High School...

Dec 9, 2018

Eleanora Hattie Phillips, 88, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 9, 2018, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.

Eleanora was born March 22, 1930, in Fargo, ND, to Herbert Schock and Marie Rudolph Schock. She moved during her grade school years and went to high school in Rupert, ID; resided in the surrounding areas. She lived in...

Dec 9, 2018

Cort (Alonzo) Zimmerman, 94, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 9, 2018, at Lincoln Court Retirement Community.

Cort was born on August 2, 1924, near Emmett, Idaho to Anah B. Lathrop and Cort Clinton Zimmerman. He attended school in Emmett, graduating from Emmett High School in 1942. He graduated from The College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho,...

Dec 9, 2018

Michael "Mike" Francis Case, 72, of Idaho Falls, passed away December 9, 2018, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center of complications related to Alzheimer’s Disease. Mike was born August 1, 1946, in Vallejo, California, to Elmer W. Case and Marie Knight Case. He grew up and attended schools in Utah and Idaho. On June 10, 1963, he married the...

Dec 8, 2018

Gloria Dawn Carson Rhodehouse passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on December 8, 2018. Gloria was born August 15, 1938, in Dillon, Montana, to Bonnie Belle Westfall and Alva C Carson. She was the oldest of three children having two brothers, Bruce and Terry. Gloria and her father shared a very special bond. Her parents traveled as she...

Dec 8, 2018

Delores Hudman, 89, of Shelley, Idaho, passed away in Idaho Falls, surrounded by loving family, on Saturday, December 8, 2018. Delores was born at the LDS Hospital in Idaho Falls, on October 11, 1929, the eldest child of six children, to Velma (Hansen) and Alonzo Eckersley. She lived on her grandfather Hansen’s farm and attended school in a two-room...

Dec 8, 2018

Judy Lee Balls Walker, 68, of Ammon and formerly of Aberdeen, passed away peacefully on December 8, 2018. Judy was born November 6, 1950, in Moses Lake, Grant, Washington to Ivan Albert Welker and LaMay Rindlisbacher. Judy was adopted on January 9, 1956, at the age of five, by Thomas Earl Balls and Martha Faye Benson Balls. Later that...

Dec 8, 2018

Theodore Bruce Smith, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away on Friday, 8 December 2018, at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Vacaville, California, after a sudden, short illness.

Ted was born 26 September 1942, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, to William Roger and Elna Yoland Whitney Smith, the sixth of eleven children. He attended Washington High...