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Duane E. Kearn
Apr 29, 2012
Duane E. Kearn, 82, passed away peacefully at a local hospital surrounded by his family Sunday, April 29, 2012. Duane was born February 11, 1930 in Union, Kansas to Lloyd and Verla (Hawkins) Kearn. He attended the local schools through the 10th Grade. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and eventually served as Corporal from 1947-1950. Duane married Irene...
Edna Myers
Apr 28, 2012
Edna F. Myers, 92, passed away on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Edna was born on the 6 th of September, 1919, in McCune, Kansas and about the age of 12 her family moved to Nampa, ID due to farming hardships in Kansas. She was the 4 th of 7 children born to her parents, including 1 brother and 5 sisters....
Jeanie Aman
Apr 28, 2012
Jeanie was born April 28 th , 1955 in Jerome Idaho to Orpha and Ronald Frields. From the time she was a small girl, she was called "Topper" by her family. Her little brother Kevin was born two years later. Her Dad's Air Force career took the family to various locations in the western United States and Europe and she...
Ben F Mcmurria
Apr 28, 2012
Ben Fudge McMurria Born: May 25, 1916 Died: April 28, 2012 CHUBBUCK-Ben Fudge McMurria died on Thursday, April 26, 2012 in the arms of his loving family, he would have been 96 years old on his May 25th birthday. Ben is now in the arms of Myrna Belle Dudley McMurria who preceded him in death by 14 years and his...
Rodney Swenson
Apr 26, 2012
Rodney A Swenson loving son, brother, husband, father and friend passed from this life on Thursday, April 26, 2012, surrounded by his family and friends. Rodney was born to Philip and Edith Swenson on December 10, 1936 in Firth, Idaho. Rodney married the love of his life, Gay Stringham on August, 25, 1957. Rod and Gay had four children, Shane,...
Kevin J Benglan
Apr 25, 2012
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation: trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened " or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move…on” TUPAC Kevin J Benglan, 26 Passed away at PMC, with his family beside him. Kevin was born January 13, 1986 in Pocatello, Idaho,...
Iva Turner
Apr 24, 2012
Iva Jean Turner, 83, passed away peacefully Tuesday, April 24, 2012, at St. Luke hospital in Boise, ID surrounded by her family. Iva Jean was born in Hinckley, UT and later moved to Pingree, ID. It was there that she spent her childhood with her family and eventually graduated from high school. After graduating from high school Iva Jean married...
Virgilena M. Leclaire Poog Johnson
Apr 22, 2012
Virgilena M. LeClaire Poog, 77 passed away peacefully with her family by her side on Sunday, April 22, 2012. Virgilena was born March 23, 1935 to Sophronia Marie Shay Poog and Edmo LeClaire. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Virgilena was a graduate of Pocatello High School then later went to ISU and...
Edmund Dean Brown
Apr 20, 2012
Dean Brown, 88, passed away at Portneuf Medical Center on the evening of Friday, April 20, 2012 from natural causes. Graveside services for Ed are planned for on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 2:30 P.M. at Restlawn Memorial Gardens. At the family's request there will be no visitation. Veteran honors will be performed by the Pocatello Veterans Honor Guard. Friends...
Joy Morrison
Apr 18, 2012
POCATELLO a�" Joy South Morrison died peacefully of natural causes on April 18, 2012, at the age of 87 in Draper, Utah, at the home of her daughter. Morrison is known to many in the Pocatello area because of her involvement in promoting community events at the Idaho State Journal. One retired Journal publisher, "Al" Ricken, described Morrison as the...
Bruce Edwin Hansen
Apr 16, 2012
On April 16, 2012 Bruce Edwin Hansen returned to our Father in Heaven. The following is his self-written obituary. “Well sir, iffen you are a reading this while you're a sittin' at your kitchen table, or perhaps in your easy chair after a hard day's work, and you're a perusin' the obits looking for someone you know or more likely...
Norma Cummings
Apr 16, 2012
Norma Jean Manning Cummings, 83, of Las Vegas, Nevada, passed away Monday, April 16, 2012 at her daughter's home in Herriman, Utah. Norma is the wife of Don Cummings and sister of Leon, Darrell, & Denny Manning and the late Allen Manning and LuDean Harper. Funeral Service for Norma will be held on Saturday April 28, 2012 at 11:00 A.M...
Doug K. Evans
Apr 16, 2012
Douglas Kenneth Evans, 53, of Pocatello, passed away Monday, April 16, 2012, at home, peacefully surrounded by family. Doug was born in Pocatello, Idaho, on August 10, 1958, to Kenneth Evans and Raema Doran. He spent his whole life living in the Pocatello area. Doug attended public school in Pocatello and was in Highland High School's class of 1977. In...
William "Bill" Johnson
Apr 16, 2012
William (Bill) Norman Johnson, age 88, loving husband, father, brother and grandfather was welcomed back in the Arms of his Creator on April 16, 2012 after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. Bill was born on May 23, 1923 to Helen Groll and Norman Albert Johnson in Manitowoc, Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan. As a young man, he...
Murray Grant Green
Apr 14, 2012
Murray Grant Green, 87, of Pocatello passed away Saturday, April 14, 2012 at Ridge Wind Assisted Living Facility, Pocatello. Murray was born on May 26, 1924 in Pocatello, Idaho to Vivian Vilate McMurray and Samuel Green. One of seven children, Murray had a strong love for music, the outdoors and the satisfaction of a job well done. These traits followed...
Tom James, Sr.
Apr 13, 2012
Tom James, Sr. 74, passed away peacefully at his home Friday, April 13, 2012 surrounded by his family. Tom was born January 10, 1938 in Elbridge, Tennessee to Henry Thomas “Peck” and Laura Ellen (Cunningham) James. He was raised on a Tennessee farm, plowed fields with a team of horses, picked cotton, and completed his primary education in Tennessee and...
Alan Willmore
Apr 11, 2012
MCCAMMON, ID - Alan Willmore, 69, of McCammon, passed away on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Funeral arrangements are pending under the care of Colonial Funeral Home (208) 233-1500.
Bud Henry Hinckley
Apr 11, 2012
POCATELLO- Bud Henry Hinckley, 93, of Pocatello, Idaho, peacefully passed away on Wednesday, April 11th after a brief illness. He was born in 1918 in Sugar City, Idaho to Henry E. and Roszina Hinckley He grew up in the Upper Snake River Valley, moving throughout the area with his family. In school, he enjoyed the performing arts. He attended and...
Cecelia "Cookie" Hill
Apr 9, 2012
POCATELLO - Cecelia "Cookie" Louise Peterson Hill, 69, of Pocatello, passed away on Monday, April 9, 2012, at her home. She was born in Butte, Montana to Harold James Peterson and Vivian Yvonne Cantrell on October 8, 1942. She spent the first part of her life in Montana. Cookie married Gail W. "Bill" Hill on March 5, 1979. She spent...
William "Bill" Navo
Apr 9, 2012
William "Bill" Navo, 78, of Fort Hall, passed away Tuesday, April 9, 2012 at a local hospital. Bill was born in Lincoln Creek on the Fort Hall Indian reservation in a traditional moon house. He was the son of Charlie Navo and Zuni White Bear Navo. His grandparents were Old Man White Bear, (a tribal headman in Virginia City, Montana,...
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