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Local Obituaries for Chubbuck, Idaho & Pocatello, Idaho in Bannock County.
Kristoffer Noel Kelly
Oct 16, 2022
Kristoffer Noel Kelly, loving father, son, husband, brother and friend, passed away suddenly on October 16, 2022.
Kristoffer was born September 7, 1977 to Dale and Nancy Kelly in Pocatello, Idaho and is the oldest of two sons.
Kris was preceded in death by his grandfather Noel Richards and grandmothers Patricia Kelly and Martha Richards.
He is survived by his wife Shellie, children...
Andrew Jerry Smith
Oct 15, 2022
Andrew Jerry Smith was born on February 13, 1938, in Candler County Georgia on a small farm near Metter, Georgia. His parents were Andrew Barnie Smith and Ruby Lucille Hutto. He had two sisters, Betty and Marylee who proceeded him in death. When he was about four years old his parents moved to Macon where they lived in several different...
Robert W. Rausch
Oct 14, 2022
Robert W. Rausch, Born - August 2, 1943, Died - October 14, 2022
Robert W. (Bob) Rausch was born on August 2, 1943, in Rexburg, Idaho, to Alma Moses Rausch and Faye A. Rausch. In 1944, the family moved to St. Anthony, Idaho, and then in 1951 the family moved to Mackay, Idaho. Bob worked on the family farm and ranch...
Arlene Petty Yearsley
Oct 13, 2022
Arlene Petty Yearsley, age 85, of Huntington Beach, California, returned to heaven after completing her life’s journey. She was born to Lewis Leroy and Hilda Coffin Petty in Swan Lake, Idaho on January 13, 1937. Arlene was the oldest of seven children. She lived in Swan Like then moved with her parents to Salmon, Idaho, then to Pocatello. She welcomed,...
Jay Christensen
Oct 12, 2022
Jay Harvey Christensen
October 2, 1929 - October 12, 2022
Jay was born in Downey, Idaho (actually in the farm house in Virginia, Idaho) to Edsel Christensen and Edith Egan Christensen. He was the fifth born of 13 children (HOLY COW!!!). He attended school in Downey and worked on the family farm. In addition, he helped the neighbors with potato harvest.
In 1948...
Ronald Vandom
Oct 11, 2022
Ron C. Vandom passed away on October 11, 2022.
A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.
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Jack Adelbert Thomsen
Oct 9, 2022
Jack Adelbert Thomsen was born January 11, 1933, to Joseph Delbert Thomsen and Virginia Rebecca Phelan Thomsen.
Jack was the second oldest of 5 siblings: Gayla, (Jack), Shirley, Ron, and Steven. Jack’s family moved to Glenns Ferry, Idaho where his dad farmed and sold produce. Jack was expected to help on the farm, but was not very enthusiastic about it. However,...
Pamela Joy Pelzel
Oct 9, 2022
Pamela Joy Pelzel, 66, passed away on October 9, 2022, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Awaiting her arrival at the gates of Heaven was her dog, Slider, who was her companion for 16 years, along with her other beloved pets Cody, Sage, her horses, and the first family pet, Frosty.
Pamela was born April 8, 1956 in Barstow, California.
Pam was a graduate...
Elmo "Mo" Muir
Oct 9, 2022
Elmo Muir, 92, passed away on October 9, 2022.
Elmo was born on a farm in Chesterfield, Idaho. He experienced the Great Depression while he was young. His family lost their farm, and they moved to St. Anthony when he was 9, almost 10 years old. They lived there for three years before moving to Layton, Utah. Mo was farmed...
Darlene Elizabeth Littleford Floyd Lott
Oct 8, 2022
Darlene Elizabeth Littleford Floyd Lott was born on August 15, 1935 in Rigby, Idaho to Royal Robert Littleford and Marvilla Margaret Ricks. She was delivered by her grandmother Littleford, a midwife. She moved to Pocatello with her family when she was 8 years old, eventually graduating from Pocatello High School in 1953. She married her sweetheart, William Dean Floyd on...
Bonnie June Stumpp
Oct 8, 2022
Bonnie June (Davis) Stumpp was born June 15, 1938. With her arrival into this world, she brought with her a strength beyond expectation. For those of us who knew her, she was a pillar upon which we built our lives. Her early years were spent as a tomboy growing up in the desert of Utah. She, while one of eleven...
Delois Stanger
Oct 7, 2022
Delois Stanger, 86, passed away on October 7, 2022. She was born in Oakley, Idaho to Red and Sybil Anderson. She lived most of her life in the Inkom/Pocatello area. She was a wife and mother and will be deeply missed.
Delois married Calvert “Oley” Stanger on August 18, 1960. She liked to go camping, fishing and she loved to cook....
Willard Earl Larson
Oct 6, 2022
Willard “Bill” Earl Larson passed away peacefully at his home in Pocatello, Idaho on October 6th, 2022 at the age of 85.
He was born October 1st, 1937 in Burley, Idaho, to Earl Swanty Larson and Ruth Maude Hayward Larson. A few months before he turned eight, the family moved from the Magic Valley to a ranch in Carmen Creek near...
Donata Branson
Oct 6, 2022
Donata Hickman Branson, 69, passed away on Thursday, October 6, 2022.
Donata was born May 2, 1953 in Pocatello, Idaho to Jean and Elmer Hickman. Donata enjoyed residing in the Pocatello area because of the beautiful nature areas she enjoyed visiting.
She graduated from Pocatello High School. On September 2, 1981 Donata married Kelly S. Branson in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Donata enjoyed...
Mary Lee Hurt
Oct 5, 2022
Mary Lee Bocek Hurt
05/16/1940 – 10/05/2022
A limb has fallen from the family tree.
I keep hearing a voice that says, “Grieve not for me.
Remember the best times, the laughter, the song.
The good life I lived while I was strong.
Continue my heritage, I’m counting on you.
Keep smiling and surely the sun will shine through.
My mind is at ease, my soul is at...
Marilyn Hatch
Oct 4, 2022
October 4, 2022, Marilyn Miller Hatch, 86, passed quietly from the effects of Alzheimer’s, leaving behind the recipe for Hot Water Sponge Cake, memories of her upside-down smile, and a song that will play perpetually in her children’s heads about a lonely petunia in an onion patch.
She was born April 22, 1936 upstairs in her grandmother’s narrow white house in...
Susan Matkin
Oct 4, 2022
Susan Matkin, 64, passed away on October 4, 2022 in Pocatello, Idaho.
Susan Elizabeth Stewart Matkin was born a military brat in Anniston, Alabama on June 25, 1958, to her parents in LTC, John and Judy Stewart. As a military brat, Susan’s childhood was full of constant moving and new schools. She not only grew up across the country, including...
Joseph Newman Blodgett
Oct 4, 2022
Joseph Blodgett was born in Deer Lodge, Montana. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to Hamilton, Montana. At 12 years old, Joseph moved to Missoula, Montana. In his early 20’s, he moved to Lewiston, Idaho where his other family had moved. He later moved to Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho and finally lived in Pocatello, Idaho until his death.
He attended Hamilton, Montana...
Emogene Monica Haugen
Oct 4, 2022
Emogene Haugen, 88, Pocatello, passed peacefully to be with her Heavenly Father, surrounded by family and close friends October 4, 2022, following a brief illness.
Emogene was born October 7, 1933 in Mahnomen County, Minnesota, the youngest of her brothers and sisters. She spent her early childhood on the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota before moving to Vancouver, Washington at...
Michael Smith Winward
Oct 3, 2022
Michael K. Smith Winward presumably joined his Father in Heaven on October 3, 2022. His remains were recovered May 8, 2023. The actual circumstances and cause of his death are unknown.
Mike was born on July 22, 1936, in Portland, Oregon to Jack Earl Smith and Faye Winward Hume. He was the youngest of four children. Mike spent his childhood in...
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