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Local Obituaries for Chubbuck, Idaho & Pocatello, Idaho in Bannock County.
Byron C. Kesler
Apr 22, 2020
Byron C. Kesler, 82, passed away on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at a local medical center. There will be no services held at this time.
Mary Cleaver
Apr 21, 2020
MaryBelle (Mary) Cleaver (Valent) died peacefully at her residence on April 21, 2020 in Chubbuck, Idaho at the age of 90 years old. Mary is survived by her four children, Mark Kay Cleaver (Maralie Sue), Gregory Ralph Cleaver (May LuAnn), Rebecca Ann Amarteifio (Peter William), and Marjorie Lee Hunnewell (David Robert); her eight grandchildren; Aaron Kay Cleaver (Susan {Sue}), Melissa...
Clinon Chris "Cotton" Mitchell
Apr 21, 2020
Clinon Chris "Cotton" Mitchell, 84 passed away peacefully April 21, 2020 in Chubbuck, Idaho.Cotton was born December 12, 1935 to William and Martha (Jones) Mitchell in Grethel, Kentucky. In 1940, his family moved to Pocatello. He attended Tyhee Elementary School and Pocatello High School. He was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad. Cotton married the love of his life on...
Carma "Lou" Adams
Apr 19, 2020
Carma "Lou" Adams, 87, passed away peacefully April 19, 2020 in Pocatello, Idaho. She was born August 30, 1932. Carma Lou Neeley (she went by Lou) was born in Pocatello to Elmer Raymond Neeley and La Verne Orchard Neeley second to the youngest of ten kids, grew up in Pocatello and Blackfoot, Idaho. She was a homemaker, loving wife, and...
Shirley Purkett
Apr 19, 2020
Shirley May Robinson Purkett was born April 25, 1939 to Paul and Zella Robinson. Shirley was one of seven children, she had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Shirley met and married the love of her life George Peter Purkett on December 2, 1955. They enjoyed 48 years of marriage. Together they raised 3 boys, Sam, Bret and George Jr. In...
Dale Taylor
Apr 18, 2020
Dale Taylor, 83, passed at his home on Saturday, April 18, 2020 on his birthday. He was born on April 18, 1937 in Pocatello, Idaho. Dale met Virginia "Pompy" Phelps in 1956 while attending the University of Idaho and they were married on September 7, 1957. He worked for the Idaho Department of Transportation from 1957-April 18, 1997 and worked...
David Ervin Holmes
Apr 18, 2020
David Ervin Holmes, age 73, passed away Saturday April 18, 2020.David was born, the third of ten children, in Pocatello, ID, August 23, 1946 to Joseph Elbert Holmes and Doris Marie Sullivan. He grew up in the Boise, ID area before moving to Hyrum, UT for his senior year and to work for his aunt and uncle in their store....
Matthew Joshua Houghton
Apr 17, 2020
Matthew Joshua Houghton, 23 , passed away on April 17, 2020Matthew was born in Pocatello, Idaho to Joshua G. Houghton and Jennifer A. Higbee Houghton on March 3, 1997. He had an older brother, Talon Higbee and then a younger brother, William Higbee. His mother Jennifer passed away in August of 2015.Matthew is survived by his father, Josh Houghton of...
Arthur H Nielson, Jr.
Apr 15, 2020
Arthur H Nielson, Jr., 93, passed away peacefully, Wednesday, April 15, 2020 in Pocatello, Idaho. He lived independently in his own home until the end of his life. He was born on October 29, 1926 in his familys log house on Bonanza Bar Ranch, west of American Falls, Idaho to Effie Fern Halling and Arthur H Nielson, Sr. He grew...
William "Bill" Betts
Apr 13, 2020
William Edward "Bill" Betts, 86, passed away on April 13, 2020 in Pocatello, Idaho after a short illness. He was loved by family and friends. Dad was a devoted father, brother, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, and friend. Dad was born in Nampa, Idaho on November 12, 1933, to Raechal Muriel (Edwards) Betts and Charles Edward Betts. He was born on a...
Wanda Marie Acosta
Apr 11, 2020
Wanda Acosta, 95, went to be with the Lord on April 11, 2020. She was born September 28, 1924. Wanda resided in Pocatello, Idaho with her son Jessie.Wanda enjoyed mailing birthday cards, sending care packages, crochet, gardening and feeding the animals from her back yard. She had a good memory remembering MANY birth dates. Most of all Wanda was loving,...
Randie Ball
Apr 11, 2020
Randie Lynn Wright, 38 of Idaho Falls, Passed away in her sleep on April 11, 2020. She was born Nov. 3 1981 in Salt Lake City UT, to Randy Wright and Terrie Misseldine. They moved to Shelley ID in the mid 80's where she spent most of her childhood growing up with her sibling, Josh 41, Chasity 37, Sammy 27,...
Rosalie May Hottel
Apr 10, 2020
Rosalie May Hottel, age 79, passed away on Friday, April 10th, 2020, at Portneuf Medical Center after suffering from a stroke. Rosalie was born in Boise, Idaho at the Salvation Army Home on March 7th, 1941, from then on, she was a spitfire. She once climbed a billboard with quite a crowd gathering to see her; of course she had...
Josette R Duran
Apr 9, 2020
Josette Duran, 39, passed away on Thursday, April 9, 2020 in Bountiful, Utah. She was born on September 12, 1980 in Pocatello, Idaho to Joe and Marlene Duran. Josette graduated from American Falls High School and she worked as a Laborer. Josette is survived by her parents, Joe and Marlene Duran; and 2 brothers, Albert and Aaron. She was preceded...
John Patrick O'Neill
Apr 8, 2020
John Patrick O'Neill, "Johnny", age 75, passed away peacefully on Wednesday April 8th, 2020.Johnny was born in Manchester, Connecticut on December 15, 1944. He lived there for about 20 years. He is the son of the late Thomas J. O'Neill and Mary Margaret (Peggy) O'Neill. He has one daughter, Jacklene Hutcheson, her husband John and son Tyler, of New York.Johnny...
Wayne Lewis
Apr 7, 2020
Wayne R Lewis was born on October 6, 1954 in Blackfoot, ID to loving parents Harry Neil and Dorothy A Rowe Lewis. He grew up as one of seven children. He loved his siblings Randy, Rick, Peggy, Jacque, Larry and Barry. He often told his children stories of the mischief they would all cause together growing up. On September 29,...
Gerard "Jerry" Steven Nicholas
Apr 6, 2020
Gerard Steven Nicholas was born on 2/21/1949 in Jamaica, New York. He grew up in Elmont, New York. He graduated from Sewanhaka High School in 1968. Eventually Jerry moved to Massachusetts where he met his sweetheart, Dolores DelSignore at a party through her brother Dan who he worked with. They fell in love at first sight. They got married on...
Glen Walter Horsch
Apr 6, 2020
Glen Walter Horsch passed away Monday April 6, 2020 at the age of 75. Glen was surrounded by his wife, two daughters, and granddaughter when he went to be in the glory of our Lord and Savior after a long battle of failing health.Glen was born on May 22, 1944 in American Falls, Idaho. He was raised on a farm...
Bertha Clark Cook
Apr 5, 2020
Bertha Cook, 83, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on April 5, 2020 after battling kidney failure.Bertha was born on March 3, 1937 in Taylor, Idaho to Frank Clark and Rosalia Lords. She was the eleventh of eleven children. Following her birth, the family later moved to Idaho Falls. At the age of sixteen, she met and fell in...
Bruce Briggs
Apr 5, 2020
Bruce Stuart Briggs suddenly passed away from health-related issues on 4 April 2020. He was the youngest son of Fenton and Elsie Briggs, both since deceased and is survived by a sister Annette Selders; a brother Larry Briggs; and daughter, Jade Angela Jorgensen.Bruce had a degree in Elementary Education from Idaho State University where he graduated Summa Cumme Laude and...
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