Obituaries

Deon Heath

May 2, 2011

Deon Cook Heath, 86, of Idaho Falls, passed away May 2, 2011 at her home. She was under the care of Hands of Hope Hospice. Deon was born March 29, 1925, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to David Earl Cook and Delretta Alice Hodson Cook. She was the youngest of three children. She graduated from Ammon High School and obtained...

Pearl Zoerb

Apr 28, 2011

On April 28, 2011, Pearl Eleanor Pederson Zoerb passed away at Bonaventure Senior Living Community at the age of 103. Pearl was born November 4, 1907 near the small town of Lunds Valley, North Dakota to Baard Pederson and Hilda Erickson Pederson. She grew up in a small house built by Norwegian immigrant farmers and was the third of...

Raymond Bastanero

Apr 28, 2011

Raymond Bastonero, 83, of Idaho Falls, died April 28, 201, at his home, the Eagle Rock Ranch, from prostate cancer. Ray was born August 22, 1927, in Peoria County, Illinois. His parents, Frank and Lucy Pasero Bastonero, were from Northern Italy and immigrated to the United States around 1903. Ray was in the Merchant Marines and was a Korean War...

Ernest Budeau

Apr 28, 2011

Ernest Budeau, 95, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, passed away April 28, 2011, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center of cancer. Ernest was born October 9, 1915, in Anamoose, North Dakota, to Samuel Budeau and Salmina Schultz Budeau. He grew up and attended school in Anamoose. He served in the U. S. Army Air Force during World War II. Ernest married...

Lawrence Yule

Apr 28, 2011

Lawrence Frank Yule, 82, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 28, 2011 at his home. He was under the care of OneSource Home Health Care. Larry was born June 30, 1928 in Denver, Colorado to Joseph Lyle Yule and Geneva Oral Tower Yule. He grew up in Denver and graduated from North High School. He continued his education at...

Clifton "Cliff Garriott" Garriott

Apr 26, 2011

Biography

Clifton Keith Garriott, 85, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 27, 2011, at his home of causes incident to age. Clifton was born December 29, 1925, in Waltham, Minnesota, to Henry Ferrel Garriott and Florence Livingston Garriott. The family moved to Idaho Falls when he was six years old and he attended school here. He served in the...

Martha 'Martie' "Martie Lane" Lane

Apr 25, 2011

Martha “Martie” Lane, loving wife, mother, sister and friend, quietly passed away of leukemia on April 25, 2011, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She was born November 17, 1941, in Idaho Falls, the youngest daughter and seventh child of Ezra P. And Rosella A. Rhoades. She grew up and attended schools in the area. In...

Ruby Harris

Apr 25, 2011

Rufina “Ruby” Viscaino Harris, 78, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 25, 2011, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Ruby was born April 7, 1933 in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii to Manuel Viscaino and Petra Mercado Viscaino. On June 27, 1981, she married Paul Eugene Harris in Idaho Falls. Ruby worked in the mail room for Melaleuca until December of 2005....

Rita Stone

Apr 25, 2011

Rita Jean Stone, 78, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 25, 2011 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Private family services will be held at the family ranch. &nbsp Born: February 17, 1933&nbsp Place of Birth: Pocatello, ID&nbsp Death: April 25, 2011&nbsp Place of Death: Idaho Falls, ID Private Family Services Private family services will be held at the family...

Thomas Harper

Apr 24, 2011

Biography

Thomas Jackson Harper passed away following a brief illness Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center surrounded by his family and pastor. He was born the only child of Milford A. and Goldie Mae Harper April 21, 1936 in Shenandoah, Iowa. He lived in Shenandoah until age 7 when his family moved to Omaha,...

Margaret Lindsley

Apr 24, 2011

Margaret Estella Hawkes Lindsley, 92, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 24, 2011, at The Gables Assisted Living in Ammon, Idaho, of causes incident to age. Margaret was born January 9, 1919, in Lillian, Idaho, near present-day Drummond, to Hazen Araha Hawkes and Helen Grey Emery Hawkes. She attended grade school in Drummond and was proud of winning the...

Caroline Nardini

Apr 24, 2011

Caroline Eugenia Nardini, 74, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 24, 2011, at Peak Village Assisted Living Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She was under the care of Creekside Hospice. Caroline was born January 4, 1937, in San Jose, California, to Martin John Nardini and Geraldine Quigley Nardini. She graduated from university with double bachelor's degrees and taught Microbiology at...

Dorothy Cutler

Apr 24, 2011

Biography

Mom chose to leave us on a beautiful sunny Easter morning, April 24, 2011. Dorothy Johnson Cutler was born January 20, 1925 to Lloyd Johnson and Leona Jackson Johnson and raised in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Their farm was on the Shelley, Idaho Falls border line. Mom rode a horse to the one room grade school. She then went...

Deann Skinner

Apr 24, 2011

On April 24, 2011, our beloved wife and mother, Erma DeAnn Skinner of St. George, Utah, age 78, passed away. DeAnn was born to Eugene James Jenson and Erma Dean Jenson of Idaho Falls, Idaho, on March 12, 1934, and raised on her father’s farm in Clark. She attended Rigby High School, then married Blaine Skinner in the Idaho...

Ricky "Rick Layne Nisson" Nisson

Apr 23, 2011

Ricky Layne Nisson, 61, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 23, 2011 at his home. Rick was born May 11, 1949 in Idaho Falls to Frank Ray Nisson and Evelyn Lorraine McDaniel Nisson. He grew up in Idaho Falls and attended Hawthorne Elementary, O.E. Bell Jr. High, and graduated from Idaho Falls High School. He continued his education at...

Maxine Edwards

Apr 21, 2011

Maxine Jane Hunt Edwards, 66, of Blackfoot, Idaho, passed away April 21, 2011, at Bingham Memorial Hospital in Blackfoot following a lingering illness. Maxine was born March 11, 1945, in Portland, Oregon, to John Vernal Hunt and Mildred Jane Oakey Hunt. She grew up Roberts and attended schools there. On November 8, 1968, she married LeRoy Don Edwards in...

Rosa Bump

Apr 21, 2011

Biography

Rosa Bump, 96, of Idaho Falls, passed away Thursday, April 21, 2011 at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. The family will hold memorial services in Tampa, Florida. Arrangements are under the direction of Wood Funeral Home, 273 N. Ridge Ave.

Facts Born: October 8, 1915 Death: April 21, 2011 Place of Death: Idaho Falls, ID

Lorna Wells

Apr 21, 2011

Lorna Bell Merrell Wells, 92, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 21, 2011, at Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rigby, Idaho, of causes incident to age. Lorna was born April 3, 1919, in Apple Valley, Idaho, to Joseph Merrell and Sarah Delilia Brown Merrell. The family lived on various farms in Idaho and Oregon until she was six years old,...

Kay Rose

Apr 21, 2011

Kay R. Rose was born September 6, 1921 in Goodland, Kansas to Victor H. Roussin and Mary Speakman Roussin. She graduated from high school and then worked in offices until she went to work at an Army hospital in Denver, Colorado. She met her future husband, Jack Armstrong Rose there. They were sent by the Army to post-war Germany...

Thelma Ashton

Apr 21, 2011

Thelma Mae Ashton, 91, of Idaho Falls, passed away April 21, 2011 at her home. Thelma was born February 11, 1920, in Ogden, Utah, to Robert Lemuel King and Florence Mae Flint King. She attended Emerson Elementary and O.E. Bell Jr. High School. Thelma married Lorenzo Dow Young on May 20, 1936. They were later divorced. She married William Hubbard...