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Local Obituaries for Chubbuck, Pocatello, and Twin Falls, Idaho.

Jericho Alexander Malavé

Jericho Alexander Malavé

Apr 22, 2020

Jericho Alexander Malavé was silently born April 22, 2020 at 11:19 AM. He is the son of Joshua Norman and Jessica Amber Malavé.Jericho was an angel. He had an amazing journey. He was diagnosed early on with Trisomy 18. He got to feel so much love in his short 26 weeks of life. Every week was full of love, excitement,...

Clinon Chris "Cotton" Mitchell

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...

Mary Cleaver

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...

Carma "Lou" Adams

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

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...

David Ervin Holmes

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....

Dale Taylor

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...

Alma Dale Baird

Alma Dale Baird

Apr 18, 2020

Alma Dale Baird, age 98 of Twin Falls, ID formerly of Cheyenne, WY, passed away peacefully at her daughter's home on April 18, 2020. Alma was born in LaPlata, MO on February 22, 1922 to Frank & Pearl Easley. She graduated from LaPlata High School, then attended and later graduated from Beauty School. Alma met her husband, Ralph Baird in...

Matthew Joshua Houghton

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...

Warren Wallace

Warren Wallace

Apr 17, 2020

Warren Hamilton Wallace Obituary 5/18/20 Warren Hamilton Wallace was the only child born to Warren Hamilton Wallace Sr. and Jesse Alma (Dot or Dottie) Carpenter on August 2, 1925 in San Diego, CA. He attended public schools in San Diego. Dottie taught her son the art of fishing, which became his lifelong passion and a source of deep peace. His...

Arthur H Nielson, Jr.

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...

Raymond L. Dey

Raymond L. Dey

Apr 15, 2020

July 25, 1942 to April 15, 2020 Loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend. Survived by his wife Katherine (Warren) L. Dey, three (3) children (and spouses), 11 grandchildren, one great grandson, one sister, and our dog Oscar. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, parents, and one brother.

William "Bill" Betts

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...

Robert James Brown

Robert James Brown

Apr 12, 2020

Robert James Brown, 81 of Twin Falls, passed away Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020 at his home in Twin Falls with his wife, children grandchildren and great grandchildren by his side. He was born in San Pedro, California La Rambla Precinct on August 25, 1938, the son of John Harvey Brown and Virginia Moray. On April 4, 1994 he married...

Wanda Marie Acosta

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

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

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

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

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...