Obituaries
Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Chubbuck, Pocatello, and Twin Falls, Idaho.
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,...
Darel Pingree
Apr 26, 2012
Darel "D.J." Joseph Pingree 1989 - 2012 Our beloved father, husband, grandson, and friend left this world too early, On April 26, 2012. D.J. was born October 7, 1989 to Katherine Pingree in Auburn, Ca. with his contagious smile that he always had; he brought joy to everyone's lives. D.J. lost his mother at a young age and was raised...
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...
Dragan Vrebac
Apr 23, 2012
Dragan Vrebac, 62 of Twin Falls , Id passed away April 23,2012 at his home, surrounded by family and close friends. He was born August 13,1949 in Bosanska Dubica, Bosnia . The son of Branko Vrebac and Nevenka Bundalo. On Septembar 23,1978 he married the love of his life Vesna Sola . To this wonderful union was born their only...
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...
H. E. Singley Jr.
Apr 16, 2012
H. E. Singley Jr., of Twin Falls, went to be with his Lord & Savior Jesus Christ on April 16, 2012 at the age of 99. He was born on November 5, 1912 in Wellington, Texas and graduated from Lubbock High School in 1930. He then attended Texas Tech College in 1931 as a pre-law major but had to withdraw...
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...
Thelma Lucille Kennedy
Apr 11, 2012
Thelma Tadlock Stone Kennedy, 90, of Twin Falls, passed away April 11, 2012 at Wynwood Retirement Center in Twin Falls. She was born on August 10, 1921 in Burley, Idaho the daughter of William and Virgie Ann Tadlock. Thelma married John Stone, and to this union was born two sons - Gary and Lanny. John and Thelma later divorced. She...
