Noretta Welch Watts
Feb 3, 2018
Noretta Welch Watts, 80, passed away on February 3, 2018 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was born in Bancroft, Idaho, daughter of Delbert and Lila Welch. Growing up in Bancroft she graduated for North Gem High School. In 1956 she married Ellis LaVar Watts in Logan LDS Temple. They are the parents of three children. They moved to Colorado Springs...
Shirley Gay Hadley
Feb 2, 2018
Shirley Gay Hadley was born on September 25, 1963, in Sandusky, Ohio, and passed away on February 2, 2018, in Bancroft, Idaho of natural causes. Shirley is survived by her husband, Randy Joe Hadley, her children, Joshua Rinehart, Portland, OR, Sabrina Hadley, Pocatello, ID, Kaden Hadley, Soda Springs, ID, nine grandchildren, and her fur babies, Reggie and Ziggy. She is...
Robert "Bob" Herd Mendenhall
Feb 1, 2018
Robert "Bob" Mendenhall, 84, of Preston, ID passed away on February 1, 2018. He was born on October 15, 1933 in Thatcher, ID, the son of Murat Herd and Katie Anderson Mendenhall. He was raised on the family farm in Thatcher and graduated from Grace High School. Bob served in the US Army for 5 years. He also spent several...
Mary E. Christensen
Feb 1, 2018
Mary Elizabeth Thornock Christensen, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, passed away Thursday, February 1, 2018, in Pocatello. She was 83. Mary was born April 14, 1934, in Bloomington, Idaho, the 2nd of five children born to George Lorton and Eliza Evalyn Hale Thornock. She was raised in Pocatello, Idaho. She earned a baccalaureate degree in Education from ISU and taught...
Minor L Thompson Sr.
Jan 31, 2018
Minor L Thompson Sr., 74, of Bancroft, Idaho passed away on Wednesday, January 31, 2018. Minor was born on May 7, 1944 in Cookville, TN the son of William Collie and Dollie Morris Thompson. He lived in Woodward Oklahoma for 20 years and then Rock Springs, Wyoming for 10 years and Bancroft, Idaho for 7 years and the last 3...
Nathan Kaye Gorton
Jan 29, 2018
Nathan Kaye Gorton, 40, born August 22, 1977 in Soda Springs, Idaho. He was the son of Jim and Stephanie Gorton. Nathan married Alicia Flores in West Jordan, UT. They were later divorced. They were blessed with a precious son Nicholas Diego Gorton. Nathan's life was cut short due to the alcohol addiction that took over his life. He's now...
Dallas Popa
Jan 27, 2018
Dallas Deraine Popa, 93 , of Grace passed away Saturday, January 27, 2018. Dallas was born on January 27, 1925 in Alexander, Idaho the son of Dan and Sarah Caroline Ashbaker Popa. He graduated from High School and had perfect attendance for all 12 years. Dallas served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He married Eunice Maxine Thomas on August...
Alberta P. Tolman
Jan 24, 2018
Alberta Tolman passed away Wednesday January 24, 2018 at the age of 79 at her daughter's home in Riverside, Idaho. She was born in Rexburg, Idaho, 17 May 1938 to William Albert Pincock and Ruby Rushforth Pincock and given the name of both her parents; Ruby Alberta. She grew up on the family farm just west of Sugar City, Idaho....
Russell H. Crouse, Jr.
Jan 21, 2018
Russell H. Crouse, 92, Soda Springs, Idaho, passed away, Sunday, January 21, 2018 with his daughters by his side. Russ was born June 11, 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Luella Smith Crouse and Russell H. Crouse Sr. Russ joined the Navy at the age of 17 serving in the South Pacific during WWII. After the end...
Dewayne Wallace Hamblin
Jan 16, 2018
Dewayne Wallace Hamblin, 89, of Carnation, Washington formerly of Soda Springs, Idaho passed away on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. Dewayne was born on December 4, 1928 in Clearfield, Utah the son of Melvin and Della Arave Hamblin. He was raised in Clearfield, Utah and moved to Soda Springs, Idaho in 1945. He married Anna Elizabeth Hines on June 7, 1949...
Pauline Fraser Egbert
Jan 15, 2018
Pauline Fraser Egbert was born on December 31, 1926, in Grace, Idaho (out in Bench area) She was the first of four children born to Glen and Arvilla Fraser of Grace, Idaho. Pauline grew up on the family farm just inside the town of Grace. She spent a lot of time playing with her sister Carol, who was only a...
Patricia "Pat" Joan Frisk
Jan 4, 2018
Patricia "Pat" Joan Frisk, 86, of Soda Springs, ID passed away Thursday, January 4, 2018. Pat was born on December 8, 1931 in Coeur d'A lene, Idaho the daughter of Carl and Florence Barton Strand. She attended Linfield College where she earned a BA and was a Sigma Delta Gamma. She married Donald Leroy Frisk on August 24, 1966 in...
Duane Jay Bitton
Jan 3, 2018
Duane Jay Bitton, 83, of Grace, ID passed away on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. Duane Jay Bitton was born April 26, 1934 at Lago, Idaho. He was the third child of Louis Bingham and Eva Elizabeth Balls Bitton. He was preceded in death by his parents, older sister, LaVora White, brother-in-law Junior White, brother Junior Bitton, and two great grandsons....
William Henry "Hank" Brown
Jan 2, 2018
William Henry (Hank) Brown, 85, passed away Tuesday, January 2, 2018, at the Caribou Memorial Hospital, surrounded by his family. He had suffered a sudden stroke just two days before. Hank was born October 30, 1932 to Arthur Louis Brown and Opal Grace John, at home in Goshen, Idaho. He was the third of six children. His parents and brothers,...
Helen Joy Roholt
Dec 27, 2017
Helen Joy Paskins Roholt, 86, passed away peacefully in her home December 27, 2017. Born on Feb. 21, 1931 in Idaho Falls, ID to George and Ann Paskins, Helen was the third of five children. She lived most of her young life in Grace, ID where she attended Grace High School, excelled in her studies, and graduated with high honors....
Glenn Schenk
Dec 26, 2017
Parley Glenn Schenk, loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle and friend passed away surrounded by his family on the morning of December 26th 2017 at University Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Glenn was born in Lund, Idaho to Parley Leroy Schenk and Neomia (Pat) Freda Jenson on October 30, 1935. Glenn was the oldest son of 8 children....
Jim Egbert
Dec 20, 2017
James "Jim" Robert Egbert, 75, of Henry, Idaho was called home by his heavenly father on Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at the Caribou Memorial Hospital in Soda Springs. Jim was born on June 11, 1942 in Salt Lake City, Utah the son of Thomas James and Elva D. Feller Egbert. He was raised in Salt Lake City, UT. He served...
Carolina Cardenas Lopez
Dec 19, 2017
CaroLina Cardenas Lopez, 78, of Soda Springs, Idaho passed away on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at her home. She was born on June 27, 1939 in San Antonio, Texas the daughter of Matilda and Pola Ortiz Cardenas. CaroLina had lived in San Antonio, Texas and Salem, Oregon and lived in Grace, Idaho and had spent many years in Soda Springs,...
Roene Potter Barfuss
Dec 7, 2017
Roene Potter Barfuss, 76, of Bancroft passed away on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at her home. Roene was born on March 30, 1941 in Bancroft, Idaho the daughter of Luther LeRoy and Alice Payne Potter. She was raised in Lava Hot Springs and graduated from Marsh Valley High School in 1959. She married Lester Oliver Barfuss when she was 18...
Anna "Anne" Peck
Dec 5, 2017
Anna (Anne) Marie Peirano Peck, age 96 passed away on December 5, 2017 in Soda Springs, Idaho at the home of Alice and Val Gibson. She was born November 8, 1921 in Hackensack, New Jersey. She was the youngest of 8 girls born to Joseph and Harriet (Boyce) Peirano. Her father died when she was 14 months old. She graduated...
