Obituaries

Carol Ann (Jones) Saunders

Jan 22, 2024

In loving memory of Carol Ann Saunders who passed away on January 22, 2024, due to complications of interstitial lung disease.

Carol was born May 23, 1938, to Lorella Rosalie Cook and Paul Hardy Jones in Norfolk, Nebraska. She was the third of three children. Her siblings were Charles “Chuck” and Quella.

She was preceded...

Carol Mcclaskey

Jan 22, 2024

Carol Florence McClaskey, 70, of Idaho Falls, passed away January 22, 2024, at Idaho Falls Community Hospital. She was under the care of Aspen Home Health & Hospice.

Carol was born April 8, 1953, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Uriel Freeman Ames and Faye Veloy Ames. She grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls.

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Wayne Christensen

Jan 22, 2024

Wayne Christensen, 80, of Iona, Idaho, passed away January 22, 2024, at his home surrounded by his loving family.

Wayne was born January 25, 1943, in Vancouver, Washington, to Floyd and Faye Christensen. He was the oldest of five children: Ronald (Betty) Christensen, Cheryl Carlsen, Debra Price and Neil (Vickie) Christensen. Wayne attended school in Idaho Falls...

Sharlene Kay (Metcalf) Croney

Jan 22, 2024

Sharlene Kay Croney, 60, of Ammon, passed away January 22, 2024, from a brief illness surrounded by her loving husband and children.

Sharlene was born June 19, 1963, in Pocatello, Idaho, to Donald Garland Metcalf and Delorace M. Hale Metcalf. She grew up and attended schools in Pocatello and graduated from Pocatello High School. Sharlene also attended...

Shelley Sampson

Jan 22, 2024

Shelley Sampson, 57, of Idaho Falls, passed away January 22, 2024, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.

Shelley was born January 8, 1967, in Richfield, Utah, to Kenneth Sampson and Emalou Webb Sampson. She grew up and attended schools in Shelley, Idaho, and later graduated from Idaho Falls High School.

She was a member of...

Patsy "Pat" Jean (Swartz) Dunzik

Jan 21, 2024

Pat Dunzik, 91, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, January 21, 2024, at her home in Idaho Falls, ID. In her final days she was attended around the clock by her daughter, son, son-in-law, and grandchildren.

The family share a deep gratitude that she was able to remain in and spend her final days in...

Lexi (Harden) Traughber

Jan 21, 2024

Lexi Traughber, 77, of Irwin, passed away January 21, 2024, at Idaho Falls Community Hospital surrounded by her loved ones.

Lexi was born April 2, 1946, in Ephrata, Washington, to Albert Harden and Edna Ruth Kopp Harden. She grew up and attended schools in Swan Valley and graduated from Idaho Falls High School.

On March...

Phillip D. Short

Jan 21, 2024

Phillip D. Short, 81, of Idaho Falls, passed away January 21, 2024, at MorningStar Senior Living Center. He was under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho and his loving family.

Phillip was born October 7, 1942, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to L.W.  Short and Marie  Young Short. He grew up and attended schools in Blackfoot, Idaho,...

Olga Marie Rhodes

Jan 20, 2024

Olga Maria Josefa Rhodes, 83 of Ammon, passed away on January 20, 2024, at her home.

Arrangements are pending.

A full obituary will be posted once it becomes available.

Faye (Prestwich) Huskinson

Jan 20, 2024

Faye Huskinson, 86, of Idaho Falls, passed away January 20, 2024, at her home. She was under the care of Aspen Home Health & Hospice and her loving family.

Faye was born October 1, 1937, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Osmer LeRoy Prestwich and Dorothy Luella Pearce Prestwich. She grew up and attended schools in Lincoln, Idaho,...

Darrell Tinker

Jan 20, 2024

Darrell Ray Tinker, 84, of Idaho Falls, passed away Saturday, January 20, 2024, at his home surrounded by his loving family.

He was born September 10, 1939, in Hailey, Idaho, the son of Cecil Verdell Tinker and Hazel Dean Catherine Phillips Tinker. He attended schools in Hailey, Rigby, Montpelier, and Bellevue, Idaho, receiving his GED from Rigby,...

Jim Jensen

Jan 20, 2024

If there is a river to be fished in heaven, with a cold Budweiser and a pack of Camels at hand in a favored flannel shirt, Jim is there right now, soaking up the sun with his soulmate, his good old dog, Jake.

James Paul “Jim” Jensen was born August 28, 1954, to Lola (Gaffield) and Clarence...

Michael Jack Mcclaskey

Jan 19, 2024

Michael Jack McClaskey, 71, of Idaho Falls, passed away January 19, 2024, at home.

Michael was born January 19, 1953, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Kenneth Leon McClaskey and Barbara Mary Leavitt McClaskey. He grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls.

On February 3, 1970, he married Carol Florence McClaskey in Utah. Michael and...

Miles Allen Hendry

Jan 18, 2024

Miles Allen Hendry was born at 6:43 p.m. on Thursday, January 18, 2024, to parents, Christopher and Sarah Hendry at EIRMC in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Miles weighed one pound, ten ounces and was twelve and a half inches long. If love could have saved our little soldier, he would have lived forever. However, Miles' time on earth...

Mark Davis

Jan 18, 2024

Mark Steven Davis, 74, of Ammon, passed away January 18, 2024, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.

Mark was born November 3, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Gerald Rulon Davis and Mary Lucille Jensen Davis. He grew up and attended schools in Utah before moving to California where he graduated from Campbell High School. He...

Shamarie Ann Johnson

Jan 18, 2024

ShaMarie Ann Johnson, 33, of Idaho Falls, passed away January 18, 2024, at her home.

ShaMarie was born July 6, 1990, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Kevin Wayne Moses and Karen Annette Richins. She grew up and attended schools in Idaho Falls and attended Idaho Falls High School.

In 2017, she married Eric Doyle Johnson...

Marc Leonard

Jan 17, 2024

Marc Gregory Leonard, 69, of Shelley, passed away January 17, 2024, at Idaho Falls Community Hospital.

Marc was born August 31, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan, to Alton Lewis Leonard and Carol Ruth Smith Leonard. He attended the University of Alaska Anchorage and graduated with his Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice.

Marc was married and blessed...

Jerald "Jerry" Lee Prestidge

Jan 17, 2024

Jerald Lee Prestidge, 71, of Idaho Falls, passed away January 17, 2024, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.

Jerry was born April 4, 1952, in American Falls, Idaho, to Walter Prestidge and Norma Lee Isom Prestidge. He attended Aberdeen Elementary, Oleary Jr. High, and graduated from Twin Falls High School. Jerry and his family moved around a...

Rosalie Yost Roberts

Jan 17, 2024

Our beloved mother and grandmother, Rosalie Yost Roberts, 85, of Ammon, Idaho, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Rosalie was born in a log house on January 30, 1938, in Bancroft, Idaho, to Glenn Fred Yost and Frances Carter Yost. She grew up on the family farm just...

Margaret "Peggy" L. (Monson) Winters

Jan 17, 2024

Margaret “Peggy” L. Winters, 83, of Idaho Falls, passed away January 17, 2024, at Idaho Falls Community Hospital.

Peggy was born August 15, 1940, in Spokane, Washington, to George K. Monson and Loucille Smuin Monson. Her mother passed away when she was four years old, so she was raised by her step-mother, Louana Oakey Monson. She graduated...