Longtime resident Richard (Dick) Gough 78 passed away peacefully on September 4, 2014 at Caribou Memorial Hospital from complications to pneumonia.


Dick was born in Idaho Falls on February 4, 1936 to Eldon and Merelda (Robinson) Gough. He lived on a farm in Iona Idaho through his grade school years. They moved to a ranch in Carmen, ID. where he grew up and graduated from Salmon High School in 1954. He went to work at Cobalt, Idaho. There he met and married Beverly Stringham on October 6, 1956. He helped her raise her daughter Debra. They had two daughters Vickie and Merelda in Salmon, Idaho and upon moving to Soda Springs, their son Richard was born. Dick spent many years working in the mining and farming community. He loved the outdoors, camping, hunting, trap shooting, fishing and horses. He spent many happy years taking his children and grandchildren hunting and fishing. Dick and Beverly enjoyed dancing together through their marriage of almost 60 years.


He is survived by his loving wife Beverly, daughters Debra Stringham of Twin Falls, ID, Vickie Miller of Pocatello, ID, Merelda Gough of Green River, WY and son Richard (Annette) Gough of Elko, NV. He had 7 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild. He is preceded in death by his grandparents Richard and Pearl Gough, parents Eldon and Merelda Gough and brother Dennis Hanson Gough.


Services will be held on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 1 p.m. at the Sims Funeral Home. The family will visit with friends on Wednesday evening from 7-8 p.m. at the Funeral Home and also on Thursday from 12-1 p.m. prior to services. Burial will be in the Fairview Cemetery in Soda Springs.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested donations made to the MS Foundation or any charity of your choosing in his memory.

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