Obituaries

Barbara Wulff

Jun 25, 2017

Barbara Valentine Wulff, 84, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away June 25, 2017, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Barbara was born February 14, 1933, in San Lorenzo, California, to Arthur Lovell Kirtlan and Alice Maccaskie Hickery Kirtlan. She grew up and attended schools in California and graduated from Hayward High School. She married Roger Plummer. She later married...

Joseph "Joe Keller" Keller

Jun 25, 2017

Joseph Andrew "Joe" Keller, 34, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away June 25, 2017, at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah, surrounded by his loved ones. Joe was born December 27, 1982, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Ronald George Keller and Barbara Jo Tucker Keller. He grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls and graduated...

David Call

Jun 24, 2017

David Douglas Call, passed away June 24, 2017, at his home.

David was born September 8, 1964, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Lynda Clifford and Douglas Call. He attended Bonneville Junior High School and Bonneville High School.

David worked at Idaho Supreme, Idaho Fresh Pak and in the potato industry for ten years. He then...

Theodore Watanabe

Jun 24, 2017

Theodore Y. Watanabe, the original "International Man of Mystery" entered into heaven on June 24, 2017, after complications from a stroke. He was lucky to celebrate his 93rd birthday a week prior with his nieces and nephew from California. Ted was born in Harrington, Washington, to parents, Kinu Hosaka and Shigeji Watanabe. He was the eldest of three boys,...

Brody Purcell

Jun 23, 2017

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June 23, 2017

Brody John Purcell, infant son of Jared John Purcell and Nikelle Anna Bair Purcell, passed away June 23, 2017, at Mountain View Hospital in Idaho Falls. A graveside service will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 1, 2017, at Ammon Cemetery.

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Robert "Bob" Isaacs

Jun 22, 2017

Robert Glen "Bob" Isaacs, 77, of Idaho Falls, passed away June 22, 2017, at his home. He was under the care of Encompass Home Health and Hospice and his loving family. Bob was born March 31, 1940, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Joseph Alvin Isaacs and Ora Blanche Tyler Isaacs. He grew up and attended schools in Ammon and...

Pearl Crow

Jun 22, 2017

Pearl Gardner Crow, 99, of Ammon, passed away June 22, 2017, at The Gables of Ammon Assisted Living Center. She was under the care of Aspen Home Health & Hospice. Pearl was born March 31, 1918, in Labelle, Jefferson County, Idaho, to Franklin Gardner and Effie Pearl Clements Gardner. She moved to Ammon, Idaho, in October, 1924, and resided...

Martin Littleton

Jun 21, 2017

Martin Wilson Littleton III died of Parkinson's Disease in Idaho Falls at the MorningStar Reflection All-Inclusive Memory Care on June 21, 2017, at the age of 83. On that day Martin and Ann, his devoted wife of almost 60 years, were surrounded by the wonderful caregivers from Reflections and the Encompass Hospice nurses. Martin's every need was met as...

Bob Hammer

Jun 20, 2017

Robert Russell Hammer, 80, of Idaho Falls, passed away June 20. 2017, at Promontory Point Rehabilitation in Ammon. Private family services are planned.

Private Family Services will be held. Bob passed away on

Ralph Hartwell

Jun 19, 2017

Ralph Melton Hartwell, 85, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away June 19, 2017, at his home. He was under the care of his family, Cloudnine, and Hospice of Eastern Idaho.

Ralph was born August 19, 1931, in Albion, Idaho, to Frank Hartwell and Lillian Melton Hartwell. His early years were spent on the family ranch in Mud...

Sharon Taylor

Jun 17, 2017

Sharon Taylor, 74, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away June 17, 2017, at her home.

Sharon was born February 17, 1943, in Centralia, Illinois to Herschel Elva Taylor and Florence Irene Klasen Taylor. She grew up in Chicago, Illinois and attended Siena High School.

She married Stephen Lee Sides on April 29, 1962, in Forest...

Angel Palacios Hernandez

Jun 17, 2017

J. Angel Palacios Hernandez, 62, of Roberts, passed away June 17, 2017, at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. Angel was born May 31, 1955, in Rancho de Calvillo, Mexico, to Juan Palacios and Genoveva Hernandez Palacios. He grew up and spent the first sixteen years of his life in Mexico. After coming to the United States he lived...

Pat Stricklan

Jun 15, 2017

Violet May "Pat" Stricklan, 81, of Idaho Falls, passed away June 15, 2017, at The Gardens of Rigby. Pat was born March 17, 1936, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Wallace Lemuel Hancock and Violet Mae Hill Hancock. She grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls and Nampa and graduated from Nampa High School. She also attended AGC Craft...

Lyle "Ooley" Piram

Jun 15, 2017

Lyle "Ooley" Piram, 69, of Idaho Falls passed away June 15, 2017 at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah.

He was born September 13, 1947 in Idaho Falls to Victor Francis Piram and Sarah Bucchner Piram. He grew up and attended school in Idaho Falls and continued his education at Idaho State University.

He...

Melani Smith

Jun 15, 2017

Melani Anne Smith, 49, of Idaho Falls, passed away June 15, 2017, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Melani was born December 14, 1967, in Longview, Texas, to Allen Lee Jensen and Gwynda Anne Lindsey Jensen. She grew up in Lyman, Wyoming, where she graduated from Lyman High School as...

Eileen Gardner

Jun 14, 2017

Eileen Soelberg McKinney Gardner, 91, of Idaho Falls, passed away June 14, 2017, at Promontory Point Rehabilitation.

Eileen was born September 20, 1925, in Washington DC, to Earl James Soelberg and Exie Alberta Singley Soelberg. She grew up and attended schools in Rexburg and Idaho Falls and graduated from Roland Hall Finishing School in Salt Lake City....

Kathleen Swaner

Jun 14, 2017

Kathy, our mother, wife, sister, aunt, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandma, and best friend, passed away in the loving care of her family on June 14, 2017, at her home in Ammon, Idaho. Kathy was the sixth of seven children born on June 28, 1959, in Ogden, Utah, to Leon Berrett Jones and Margaret Cragun Jones. She was raised in Pleasant...

E. Lavar Palmer

Jun 14, 2017

Elmer LaVar Palmer, 83, of Idaho Falls, passed away June 14, 2017, at his home. He continued to share his powerful witness and love for God and Jesus Christ with everyone to the end of his life.

LaVar was born September 20, 1933, in Preston, Idaho, to Elmer Smith Palmer and Violetter Elizabeth Paskins Palmer. He grew...

Arthur Rowe

Jun 14, 2017

Arthur Flavious Rowe, 87, of Ammon, passed away June 14, 2017, at Life Care Center of Idaho Falls.

Arthur was born April 26, 1930 in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado to Flavious Josephius and Neva Bethel (Holland) Rowe. He attended school in his early years in Cheyenne Wells, before the family moved on to Kansas and then Missouri. Art...

Ginny Christenson

Jun 13, 2017

Ginny Alberta Christenson, of Coltman, Idaho, passed away on June 13, 2017, at her home. She was 64 years young. Ginny was born August 23, 1952, in Baudette, Minnesota, to Albert and Mildred Hasbargen. She grew up in Border, Minnesota, on the family farm, attended school at Border School and Indus High School, and graduated from Rainy River Community...