Obituaries
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Local Obituaries for Chubbuck, Pocatello, and Twin Falls, Idaho.
LaDonna R Garner
Jun 12, 2024
LaDonna R Garner, 89, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 12, 2024.
She was born May 4, 1935, to Henry Kruse and Sarah Hodges Kruse in Fairbury, Nebraska. She was the fourth of seven daughters of Henry and Sarah. The family moved to Pocatello when she was young, and she lived here her entire life. She graduated from Pocatello High School...
Virgil Edward Dodd
Jun 12, 2024
Virgil Edward Dodd, a World War II veteran passed away June 12, 2024 of old age. Virgil was the third of four sons born to Jacob Dawson Dodd and Grace Garfield in Ogden, Utah. He talked about his early youth living in Jarbidge, Nevada where his father and grandfather were freighters. The family eventually moved to Bountiful, Utah where...
Sharon RaNae Phillips
Jun 12, 2024
Sharon RaNae Dwight, born October 23, 1939, to Theodore Kermit Dwight and Lillie Loretta Wallin Dwight, returned to her Heavenly Father on June 12, 2024. She was born in Salt Lake City Utah, welcomed by loving parents and raised in a family of all girls. As a young child she lived in San Diego California after her father was transferred...
Norma Montelbetti
Jun 11, 2024
Norma Montelbetti, 91, passed away on June 11, 2024.
Norma was born May 19, 1933, in a three-room log home on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada to William and Catharina (Friesen) Dyck. She had two older brothers ( Edwin, John) and a sister (Ruby). With her family, grandparents, and many aunts and uncles living close by, she grew up surrounded by...
Glen Ernest Bucher
Jun 11, 2024
Glen Ernest Bucher, 62, passed away on June 11, 2024.
Glen was born June 28th 1961 to Glen D. Bucher and Rose Murrieta-Bucher and passed away June 11th 2024.
As a kid he loved football, with his Mom being his biggest fan. He used to do glass etching. Wherever he was as a kid, his little sister, Terri was following behind...
Rachel Hale Christensen
Jun 11, 2024
Early the morning of June 11, 2024, Rachel Hale Christensen—beloved wife, mother, and grandmother—was called home to her Father in Heaven. She was reunited with her husband, Jack; her two sons, Wayne and Wes; her parents; her five brothers and a sister and countless family and friends. Rachel was born—the sixth of seven children—on January 17, 1927, in Oakley, Idaho,...
Mary H. Cook
Jun 10, 2024
Mary Hendrix Cook, a long-time resident of Pocatello, passed away June 10, 2024, at Caring Hearts Senior Center. She was 95. Mary was born January 8, 1929, to Edmund Allen and Marguerite Whitehead Hendrix and spent her childhood in Lund, NV. The family moved to Murray, UT, as Mary started high school. After graduation, she learned teletype and worked for...
J Bart Williams
Jun 9, 2024
J Bart Williams was born on April 3, 1956, in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Bart was one who was known to keep to himself and had a wondering soul. He preferred spending his time with his dog Darby, in the mountains, camping and fishing.
Bart is preceded in death by his parents, Frank and June Williams; as well as 2 nephews, Keith and...
Blaine R Nalder
Jun 9, 2024
Blaine R. Nalder, 74, of Pocatello, Idaho, passed away peacefully on June 9, 2024, surrounded by his loving family. Born on July 19, 1949, in Ogden, Utah, to Reed William Nalder Sr. and Margaretha Nelestein, Blaine was the sixth of fourteen children.
From a young age, Blaine showed a keen interest in masonry, a trade he learned from his father. His...
Edward Dean Hartman
Jun 9, 2024
Edward Dean Hartman
September 6, 1922-June 6, 2024
Ed's passing was truly a sad day, he passed four months short of his 102 birthday. As his granddaughter, I wanted to take time to remember Ed and how he had a life well lived, including...
Walter David Pankau
Jun 7, 2024
Walter David Pankau, 87, passed away, June 7, 2024 at home.
Dave was born February 20, 1937 in Cheyenne, WY to Walter Pankau and Ruth Burnett Pankau. Dave attended schools and graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Cheyenne.
On May 3, 1958, Dave married Susanne Maurine Tibbetts in Cheyenne.
Dave made his career with the Union Pacific Railroad working in various positions...
John "Fred" McDaniel
Jun 7, 2024
John "Fred" McDaniel, 89, passed away on June 7, 2024.
Private family services will be held at a later date.
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Jack M. Buffat
Jun 6, 2024
Jack M. Buffat, age 85, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Thursday, June 6, 2024.
He was born in Pocatello, Idaho to Jean Emile Buffat and Barbara McCardell Buffat on November 17, 1938. He grew up as the only son with two sisters; Barbara Jean and Vickie Kaye. He graduated from Pocatello High School in 1956. He married...
Marlow R Overdorf
Jun 6, 2024
Marlow Ray Overdorf passed away at a local care facility in Pocatello, June 6, 2024. On June 16, he would have been 82. He was born to parents Dean (Gardner) and James Overdorf. He grew up in Idaho Falls and later in Chubbuck. He went to Pocatello High School.
We heard of when he worked at a chicken farm in Rockford...
Ronald Thayer Cogswell
Jun 6, 2024
Ronald "Ron" Thayer Cogswell, 91, of Twin Falls, Idaho passed away on Wednesday, June 6, 2024 at St. Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center.
Ronald was born at the home of Frank and Ellie Cogswell on March 13, 1933. He was the only child of Dale O. and Lorena Cogswell also of Twin Falls. He graduated from Twin Falls High...
Steven Earl Newman
Jun 5, 2024
Steven Earl Newman, 75, passed away on June 5, 2024. He was born on January 26, 1949, in Layton, Utah. He started school life in Ogden, Utah for Kindergarten and first grade, and moved to Pocatello and went to Tyhee Elementary and finished second through fifth grades. He attended Hawthorne for his middle school years and continued his education until...
Fern Hazle Martin
Jun 5, 2024
Fern Hazel Cox, 92, of Pocatello, Idaho passed away on June 5th 2024 in Blackfoot, Idaho.
She was born in Claremont, New Hampshire on December 10th 1931, the 8th of 10 children, to Worth Lyman Cox and Eva Louise Macie and raised in Unity, New Hampshire. She was married and divorced three times but prefers her maiden name.
Fern graduated from high...
Joseph Ray Barlow, Sr.
Jun 5, 2024
Joseph Ray Barlow, Sr., 66, passed away on June 5, 2024. Â
A full obituary will appear here as information becomes available. Â
No formal services are planned at this time.
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Dixie Ann Curtis
Jun 5, 2024
Dixie Ann Curtis, 79, passed away on June 5, 2024. Â
[Dixie wrote this obituary soon after her initial cancer diagnosis in 2022. Some information has been edited for clarification, accuracy, and simplicity.]
If you are reading this, I’ve passed on. I wanted to write my own obituary, knowing that it will not be distributed until after my passing. All I can...
Ruth Patheal
Jun 5, 2024
Ruth Patheal, 76, of Filer, Idaho passed away on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.A full obituary will be posted as it becomes available.Memories and condolences may be left with the family on the guestbook below.
