Obituaries
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Local Obituaries for Chubbuck, Pocatello, and Twin Falls, Idaho.
Amanda D. Gallegos
Feb 10, 2018
Amanda D. Gallegos, 33, passed away February 10, 2018. Funeral services will be held at 12:00pm on Friday, February 16, 2018 at Wilks Funeral Home, 211 W. Chubbuck Road, with Pastor Scott Sampson officiating.There we will be a viewing held from 6-8pm on Thursday, February 15, 2018 and one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Condolences and...
Dalen Scott Graham
Feb 10, 2018
Dalen Scott Graham, 22, was born November 28, 1995 in Thousand Oaks, California. His death occurred on February 10, 2018 at 5:16 a.m. at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho after a tragic truck accident. Dalen moved to Acton, California when he was 6 years old. He went to the local schools in Acton where in high school he played...
Jack Gene Buchanan
Feb 8, 2018
Jack Gene Buchanan, 84, of Pocatello, ID, surrounded by his loving family, passed away due to complications from heart failure Thursday, February 8 at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. A long way from birthplace, Yancy County, North Carolina, Jack Buchanan, born to Issac and Crettie (Peterson) Buchanan, was the youngest of 11 children. After leaving home at age 16 for...
Fern Perry
Feb 7, 2018
Fern Perry passed away peacefully February 7, 2018. No services are scheduled at this time. Condolences and memories may be shared with the family under the "Tribute Wall" tab above.
Elaine Fowler
Feb 7, 2018
Surrounded by her family, Elaine K. Fowler passed peacefully in her home on February 7, 2018 from an extended illness. She was born on November 18, 1944 to her proud parents, Peter J. and Mildred L. Tuma. Elaine was raised in the family business, Tuma Interiors. She was blessed with tremendous design sense and made a lifelong career as an...
Franklin Wheeler
Feb 6, 2018
Franklin Wheeler, 84, passed away on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at the Idaho State Veterans Home. He was born January 6, 1934 in Fort Hall, Idaho. He was the 2nd of 3 children of Chesaw and Ada Mink Wheeler. Franklin married Florence Igawanup Wheeler and they had no children. She passed away and was buried in Lincoln Creek. Franklin retired...
Edythe Jane Hansen
Feb 6, 2018
Edythe Jane Hansen, 90, long time Chubbuck resident, passed away peacefully on February 6, 2018 at a local care facility. With her, it made five generations of strong women together to pass her along to Heaven.Edythe was born March 28, 1927 in North Platte, Nebraska to William Patterson and Myrtle Miller. At an early age her family moved to the...
Breanna Y. Romero
Feb 6, 2018
Breanna Romero passed away February 6, 2018. Breanna was born July 3, 2001 to Tony & Tamara. She grew up in the Pocatello area and attended Tyhee Elementary, Hawthorne Jr. High and was attending Pocatello High School at the time of her passing. Breanna enjoyed running, art work and drawing, music, shopping, traveling and had a great love for animals....
Helen JoAnn Sauer
Feb 6, 2018
Helen Joann Sauer, of Twin Falls Idaho passed away peacefully at home February 6, 2018 at the age of 77.She was the last child born , as well as the last to survive of 13 siblings born to Birk and Alice Ward on October 1, 1939 in Arkansas. Helen was proceeded in death by her husband John Sauer of 42...
Janet Lee Keller
Feb 5, 2018
Janet Lee Willes Keller, 76, returned home to our loving Heavenly Father, surrounded by her family, on Monday, February 5, 2018 in Pocatello, Idaho following a sudden illness. Janet was born March 21, 1941 in Pocatello, Idaho to Walter LeRoy Willes and Una Mary Jenks Willes. Janet graduated from Pocatello High School in 1959. At a young age Janet developed...
Joyce D. Birr
Feb 5, 2018
Joyce Diette Birr, 57, passed away peacefully in Blackfoot, Idaho on Monday February 5th 2018. Joyce was born in Colfax, Washington to Jennifer and Larry Long Sr. on March 7th 1960. Joyce loved scrap booking, embroidery, and anything artistic. She also loved reading and had two dogs, Crystal and Angel, that meant the world to her. She was preceded in...
Harmon Junior Allen
Feb 5, 2018
Harmon Junior Allen, 93 of Jerome, passed away February 5, 2018 in Twin Falls, surrounded by his loving family. He was born on May 30, 1924 to Harmon and Lucille Allen. He graduated in 1943 from Burley Highs School. He married Maxine Walker, to this union were born three children, Gary Allen - Deceased, Dan Allen of Amarillo, Texas and...
Dan Mathew Palmer
Feb 4, 2018
Dan Mathew Palmer, son of Elmer Smith and Violetter Elizabeth Paskins Palmer, passed away at his home in Pocatello Idaho on Saturday, February 3rd, 2018, at the age of 76. He was born in his family's farmhouse in Preston, Idaho early on the morning of November 15, 1941. He arrived without the help of a doctor or even a midwife...
Jesse Ray Hargrove
Feb 3, 2018
February 3, 2018, Jesse "Ray" Hargrove said goodbye to his friends and family all too soon. He will be missed terribly. Jesse Ray was born July 5, 1966 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He spent his childhood west of Pocatello, Idaho. He attended American Falls schools. Ray learned stucco and plastering while attending Job Corp in Washington. He loved his...
Austin Forrest Pevo
Feb 3, 2018
Austin Forrest Pevo - AKA "Frost Pevo", 23, of Pocatello, passed away on February 3, 2018. He was born to Susan S. Pevo on December 17, 1994. He was the youngest of 3 siblings. Austin was born and raised on the Fort Hall Reservation and was a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. At the time of his death, he...
John Lucian Ellis
Feb 3, 2018
Rev. John Lucian Ellis, of Twin Falls, Idaho passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his family on February 3, 2018 at the age of 82.
John was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 22, 1935 to parents Ernest L. and Marie C. Ellis. He was the fourth child, joining Mary Elizabeth, Doris, and Ernest (Bill).
John married his high...
Francisco Dimas Martinez
Feb 2, 2018
Francisco Dimas Martinez, 20, passed away February 2, 2018. He was born and raised in Pocatello and Fort Hall, Idaho. He attended school in American Falls and Sho Ban High School. He never married but has one son from a previous relationship with Chelsea Goodrider of Fort Hall. Francisco worked as a landscaper, as an inventory specialist and worked odd...
Fred Henry
Feb 2, 2018
Fred was born September 14, 1926 in Franklin, Pennsylvania, the son of Richard C. and Francis E. (Runninger) Henry. He grew up with his two sisters in Franklin where he graduated from high school in 1944.
After high school, he went to work at a machine shop building air compressors and then at a factory that built Oil Well and...
Karen Marie Coleman
Feb 1, 2018
Karen Coleman, 69, passed away on Thursday, February 1, 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Helen and Howard Pattan and as an infant moved to Pocatello, Idaho. There were five sisters who together made their own Girl Scout Troop. On November 6, 1968 Karen married James Coleman in Pocatello, Idaho. They were married...

