Obituaries

Connie Jenkins

Oct 1, 2016

Connie Iverson Jenkins, 70, of Idaho Falls, passed away on October 1, 2016, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. She was born August 24, 1946, in Hurricane, Utah to Grant Wallace Iverson and Grace Spendlove Iverson. She attended schools in Washington and Hurricane, and also attended Dixie High School. She also graduated from Seminary and was active in the...

Glenn Christy

Sep 30, 2016

Glenn Adam Christy, III, 57, passed away peacefully Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, at his home at The Gables Assisted Living Facility. He was under the care of Encompass Hospice.

Glenn was born Jan. 10, 1959. Glen spent four years serving with the Marine Corps. He loved to hunt, fish and go camping. He loved to plant flowers...

Ella Morgan

Sep 29, 2016

Ella Lindsay Morgan, 93, passed away September 29, 2016, at Fairwinds Assisted Living Facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Ella was born on March 8, 1923, to Charles Ira and Nellie Nebeker Lindsay. She graduated from Rigby High School in 1941, and worked for the Mountain Bell telephone company until 1978.

She married Don Morgan on...

Bert "Bo Barney" Barney

Sep 29, 2016

Bert Ronald ‘Bo’ Barney, 59, of Idaho Falls, passed away September 29, 2016, at Pine Brook Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls. Bo was born November 21, 1956, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Bert Clifford Barney and Florance Alta Staggie Barney. He grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls. As a young man he moved to Wyoming, where...

June Couch

Sep 28, 2016

June Maurer Couch, 92, of Idaho Falls, passed away September 28, 2016, at her home. She was under the care of her family and Aspen Home Health and Hospice.

June was born June 7, 1924, in Pocatello, Idaho, to Daniel Frederick Maurer and Sarah Elizabeth Sainsbury Maurer. She lived in Blackfoot, Idaho, on a family farm and...

Elwood Kirby

Sep 28, 2016

Lafe Elwood Kirby, 93, of Idaho Falls, passed away September 28, 2016, in the loving arms of his family at Mount Vernon Assisted Living Center. He was under the care of Hands of Hope Hospice.

Elwood was born February 27, 1923, in Hyde Park, Utah, to LaFay Kirby and Mary Louisa Elwood Kirby. Elwood and his family...

Donald Combs

Sep 26, 2016

Donald (Don) Eugene Combs passed away peacefully in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on September 26, 2016, at the age of 85.

Don was born on September 1, 1931, on the family farm near Sharon, North Dakota, to Lillian Estell (McCann) and James Henry Combs. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1960 with a degree in...

Karen Halkar

Sep 26, 2016

Karen Louise Halkar, 63, of Idaho Falls, passed away September 26, 2016, at Good Samaritan Society - Idaho Falls Village. She was under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho.

Karen was born March 31, 1953, in Baraboo, Wisconsin, to Fred Christian Halkar and Eunice Helen Lefferts Halkar. She grew up in Idaho Falls and attended Linden...

Gene Forbes

Sep 26, 2016

Orval Eugene "Gene" Forbes, 72, of Idaho Falls, passed away peacefully September 26, 2016, at his home.

Gene was born March 25, 1944, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Orval Martin Forbes and Eleda Wilde Forbes. He grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls and graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 1962. He earned his Eagle...

Dee Hayes

Sep 25, 2016

Dee Fred Hayes, 56, of Ririe, Idaho Falls, and most recently of Tetonia, passed away September 25, 2016, on Pine Creek, in a fishing accident.

He was born October 5, 1959, in Rigby, Idaho, to Reed Bush Hayes and Helen Venetia Durrant Hayes. He attended school in Ririe and graduated from Ririe High School.

On...

Betty Dixon

Sep 24, 2016

Betty Iola Dixon, 71, of Shelley, passed away September 24, 2016, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.

Betty was born September 18, 1945, in Redondo Beach, California, to Joseph Carl Hurd and Ester Giesse Hurd. She grew up and attended schools in Redondo Beach.

She married William Roy Mason and they were later divorced. On...

Glenn Rodgers, Sr

Sep 23, 2016

Glennis Lewis "Glenn" Rodgers, Sr., 60, of Idaho Falls, passed away September 23, 2016, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in the arms of his loved ones. Glenn was born August 9, 1956, in Norfolk, Virginia, to Blease Fulton Gray and Mary Rodgers. He grew up and attended schools in Virginia. On December 31, 1986, he married Mary Jo...

Connie Call

Sep 23, 2016

Connie Wheeler Call, 81, of Bedford, Texas, and formerly of Idaho Falls, passed away September 23, 2016, in Bedford. After surviving ovarian cancer for more than 6½ years, Connie passed away peacefully in her home.

Connie was born on July 9, 1935, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Etsel & Fay Wheeler of Ririe. She graduated as Salutatorian from Ririe...

Vernon Ritchie

Sep 23, 2016

Vernon LaRoy Ritchie, 73, of Idaho Falls, passed away September 23, 2016, at his home. He was under the care of his loving family and Hospice of Eastern Idaho. Vern was born February 17, 1943, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Elbert Ritchie and Lila Mae Smout Ritchie. He grew up in Rigby, Idaho, and attended schools there. On September...

Darrell Christensen

Sep 20, 2016

Darrell Ray Christensen, 84, of Malad, passed away September 20, 2016, at Hospice of Eastern Idaho in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Private family services will be held.

Private Family Services. He passed away

Millie Crystal

Sep 19, 2016

Elsie Mildred "Millie" Erickson Crystal, 85, of Idaho Falls, passed away on September 19, 2016, at Lily & Syringa Assisted Living Center. She was born September 22, 1930, in Pocatello, Idaho, to John Doyle Richardson and Eva Edna Stewart Richardson. She grew up and attended schools in the area, graduating from Pocatello High School. On February 14, 1948, she...

Robert Saad, Jr

Sep 18, 2016

Send Flowers Robert Lawrence Saad, Jr.

December 4, 2015 - September 18, 2016

Robert Lawrence Saad, Jr., 9 months old, of Idaho Falls, passed away Sunday, September 18, 2016, at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, September 24, 2016, at Wood Funeral Home East Side, 963...

Robert "Bob" White

Sep 18, 2016

Robert Arthur "Bob" White, 63, of Idaho Falls, passed away September 18, 2016, at Teton Post Acute Care & Rehabilitation of complications of cancer. Bob was born January 1, 1953, in Salmon, Idaho, to Arthur Wilson White and Rosemary Andrews White. He grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls and graduated from Idaho Falls High School. A lifelong...

Karen Musselman

Sep 17, 2016

Karen Musselman’s life was tragically cut short in an automobile accident in Idaho Falls on Saturday, September 17, 2016.

Karen was born on July 19, 1937, to Nellie and Emery Skinner and lived at the foot of Mt. Sawtell in Island Park until age seven when she moved to a farm in Mud Lake and then to...

Cody Messenger

Sep 16, 2016

Cody Allen Messenger, 28, of Ammon, passed away September 16, 2016, at his home. He was under the care of his mother and Teton Hospice. Cody was born October 26, 1987, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Boyd Allen Messenger and Bethia Judy Messenger. He grew up in Ammon and graduated from Hillcrest High School. He was a member of...