Obituaries

Obituaries

Obituaries for Bonneville County, Idaho and surrounding areas

Diana Fox

Diana Fox

Oct 25, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Diana “Jean” Fox, 61, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 25, 2015, at Teton Post Acute Care & Rehabilitation. Jean was born February 10, 1954, in Pocatello, Idaho, to Robert Milton Howarter and Lovell Norene Tharp Howarter. She was the second of four children. She grew up and attended schools in Pocatello and graduated...

Grant Richards

Grant Richards

Oct 25, 2015

Grant Thomas Richards, 84, of Ammon, passed away on October 25, 2015, at his home. He was born on April 18, 1931, in Egin, Idaho to Lewis Thomas Richards and Rella Dora Johnson Richards. He grew up and attended schools in the area. Grant served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. On October 17, 1950, he married Barbara...

Jane Simmons

Jane Simmons

Oct 24, 2015

Jane Franklin Sharpe was born February 4, 1918 to Jacob and Elizabeth (Sowers) Sharpe in Knoxville, Tennessee. Jane was the oldest of eight children and grew up on a farm by Powell Station, Tennessee. After losing her parents, she lived and worked in Georgia and New York City to help support her siblings. Jane married Frank A. Trojahn, Sr., on...

Eva Leal

Eva Leal

Oct 23, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Evarista Torres Leal, 84, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 23, 2015, at her home. She was under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho. Eva was born September 4, 1931, in Brownsville, Texas, to Ramon Torres and Josfiana Hernades Torres. On December 26, 1949, she married Raymundo Leal in Big Springs, Texas. To...

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

Oct 23, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Matthew Ryan Henry, 33, of Idaho Falls, passed away on October 23, 2015, at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born on June 15, 1982, in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Mark Anthony Henry and Shirley Marie Grimaud Henry. His family moved to San Diego, California, then Sanford,...

Edis Thomson

Edis Thomson

Oct 22, 2015

Edis Lea Wadsworth Thomson, 94, formerly of Idaho Falls, passed away on Thursday, October 22, 2015, at the home of her son in Star, Idaho. She was born April 21, 1921, in Taylor, Idaho to Glen Wadsworth and Lula Rachel Starkie Wadsworth. She grew up in the area and attended Taylor School where she graduated as Valedictorian of her 8th...

Gary Mcmanus

Gary Mcmanus

Oct 22, 2015

Gary James McManus passed away, Thursday, October 22, 2015, in Murray, Utah, after a valiant battle with cancer. Gary was born April 28,1955, to Albert Gene and Genevieve McManus in Concord, California. He was an only child for twelve years. He was their whole world. On June 6,1967, along came a surprise 'Joan Mary'. She truly is a great addition...

Leo "Leo The Lion" Frandsen

Leo "Leo The Lion" Frandsen

Oct 22, 2015

Leo James Frandsen peacefully passed away on October 22, 2015, in Omaha, Nebraska, at a mere 10 months old. Leo was born eight weeks early with a rare case of gastroschisis, a birth defect in which Leo's organs developed outside his body. Leo was born December 15, 2014 in Omaha to Jeffrey James Frandsen and Demi Lyn Lawrence Frandsen. He...

Verlin "Gene" Ball

Verlin "Gene" Ball

Oct 20, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Verlin Eugene “Gene” Ball, 85, of Idaho Falls, Idaho passed away on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at his home. Gene was born on April 4, 1930, to Morris Marion Ball and Elsie Wilkins Ball. He was born and raised in Ucon, Idaho and graduated from Ucon High School. Gene later entered the Navy, where...

Karen Swearingen

Karen Swearingen

Oct 20, 2015

Karen K Swearingen, 59, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 20, 2015. Karen was born September 28, 1956, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Blaine Ellis Ashment and Mary Irene Ashment. She grew up and attended schools in Rigby, Idaho, and graduated from Rigby High School. On September 20, 1974, she married Micheal Lyndon Swearingen in Rigby, Idaho. To this union...

Angel Vargas

Angel Vargas

Oct 19, 2015

Luis Angel Vargas passed away October 19, 2015, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Angel was born July 10, 1992, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Maria Elena Geyer and Adrian Chavez. The one person who took him in as an infant, and the only person Angel considered his mom, was Ranae Reyes. Angel was raised in Idaho Falls and attended...

Mary Ann Reese

Mary Ann Reese

Oct 18, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Dearly beloved, Mary Ann Reese, has soared away to join her Savior and reside for eternity in the mansion she built while here on earth. Ann is the much-adored wife of L. Eugene Reese, having lived in joyous matrimony for nearly 60 years with him after their marriage in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple....

Kirk Prestwich

Kirk Prestwich

Oct 17, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Kirk Melvin Prestwich, 54, of Idaho Falls, passed away on October 17, 2015, in North Dakota. Kirk was born in Idaho Falls on March 15, 1961 to Leo Verdell and Thora Gibbs Prestwich. He was the youngest of three children. His grade school years were spent at Longfellow Elementary, his class was the last...

Lorna Meppen

Lorna Meppen

Oct 17, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Lorna Alice Pearce Meppen, 86, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 17, 2015, surrounded by her loving family at Morningstar Senior Living Center. Lorna was born September 23, 1929, in Iona, Idaho, to Thomas Joseph Pearce Jr. and Harriet Amanda Loveland Pearce. She grew up and attended schools in Iona and graduated from Iona...

Bobby "Bob Marler" Marler

Bobby "Bob Marler" Marler

Oct 16, 2015

Bobby Howard Marler, 73, of Viera, Florida, and Ririe, Idaho, passed away October 16, 2015, in Viera of complications of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). He was born in Idaho Falls to Loran J. Marler and Zella Ryset Marler and spent his youth in Lima, Montana, and Idaho Falls. He attended Idaho Falls High School but left to join the U.S....

Eugene Richards

Eugene Richards

Oct 16, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Parson Eugene Richards, 77, of Emmett, Idaho, passed away October 16, 2015, in Boise, Idaho. Eugene was born October 1, 1938, in Shelley, Idaho, to Elmo K. Richards and Melva Lamb Richards. The family moved to May, Idaho, when Gene was 17. There he met the love of his life, Alice Lorraine Traughber. They...

Dennis Mccafferty

Dennis Mccafferty

Oct 15, 2015

Dennis Ross McCafferty, 73, of Idaho Falls passed away Thursday, October 15, 2015, at home with his family present. Dennis was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Ross and Hazel (Potter) McCafferty. Dennis attended schools in Idaho Falls. Following school he joined the Army. Due to medical conditions he was not able to complete a career in the Armed Forces...

Jim Winchester

Jim Winchester

Oct 15, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video James Edward Winchester, 89, of Idaho Falls, passed away October 15, 2015, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Jim was born January 20, 1926, in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada, to Charles Bernard and Martha May Standen Winchester. He grew up and attended schools in Calgary, Alberta. On November 14, 1981, he married Natalie...

Maria Lopez

Maria Lopez

Oct 14, 2015

Click Here To View Memorial Video Maria De Jesus Garcia López, 78, de Idaho Falls, falleció el 14 de Octubre, 2015, en su casa. Ella estaba bajo el cuidado de Hearts for Hospice. Maria nació el 28 de Noviembre, 1936, en Aguililla Michoacán, Las Canoas, México, a Eliseo Garcia Pimentel y Angela Barriga Sanchez. En el 24 de Agosto, 1955,...

Anita Conan

Anita Conan

Oct 13, 2015

Anita Gay Rowberry Conan, 55, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away October 13, 2015, at her home, from complications of cancer. She was under the care of her family and Teton Healthcare. Anita was born March 11, 1960, in Pocatello, Idaho, to Morris LaDell Rowberry and Joyce Marlene Godby Rowberry. Following the death of her mother, her father brought her...