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Soda Springs Obituaries
Jack Wyatt Porter
Nov 26, 2011
Jack Wyatt Porter, age 86, died November 26, 2011 at the CMH Living Center in Soda Springs, Idaho due to complications of Alzheimer's Disease. Jack was born February 15, 1925 in Ashton, Idaho to Blanche Middleton and Milburn Porter. He was the fifth of seven children. He married Mazie Camilla Isaac on August 23, 1946 in Portland, Oregon. He graduated...
Audrey Bernice Brooks
Nov 26, 2011
Audrey Bernice Brooks, 74; of Soda Springs passed away on Saturday, November 26, 2011 at her home. Audrey was born on January 23, 1937 in Calipatria, California the daughter of Herbert and Lucille Hughes Pitts. She married Clyde E. Brooks on July 3, 1989 in Reno, Nevada. He passed away March, 2001. Audrey was a CNA and had worked at...
Ernest "Coop" Leland Cooper
Nov 9, 2011
Our beloved father, Ernest Leland Cooper "Coop", 86; passed away peacefully at his home Wednesday, November 9, 2011. He was born on November 30, 1924 in Neoga, Illinois to Daniel A. and Grace Frick Cooper. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1941. He landed on Omaha Beach DD+1 and served with Patton's 3rd Army. He was very proud that...
Betty Ozburn Gorton
Nov 7, 2011
Betty Ozburn Gorton, 85; of Soda Springs Passed away on Monday, November 7, 2011 at the Caribou Memorial Living Center in Soda Springs. Betty was born January 21, 1926 in Soda Springs, Idaho the daughter of Aaron L. and Hazel Hawkes Ozburn. She had two brothers L.J. and Harry Dean. She grew up on the family farm north of Soda...
Clara L. Archibald
Nov 5, 2011
Clara Louise Archibald, 82; passed away Saturday, November 5, 2011 at her home in Soda Springs. Clara was born on August 18, 1929 in Buhl, Idaho the daughter of Eri E. and Nellie VanZante Butler. She lived in Buhl and Jerome, Idaho thru her High School years. She also lived in San Berdino and San Diego, CA for 3 years....
Robert Vernon Hardy
Nov 3, 2011
Robert Vernon Hardy, 60; passed away Thursday, November 3, 2011 at his home in Grace, ID. Robert was born on January 1, 1951 in Ogden, Utah the son of Golden LaMar and Darlene Iris Hemmert Hardy. He was raised in Grace, Idaho and graduated from Grace High School. He also attended a year at Steven Henagar College in Ogden, Utah....
Dahl Thompson
Nov 2, 2011
Dahl Thompson, 91; of Soda Springs passed away November 2, 2011 at the Caribou Memorial Living Center in Soda Springs. Dahl was born July 18, 1920 in Franklin, Idaho the daughter of Jonathan H. and Rachael Neilsen Neeley. She grew up in Cub River. She married Willard "Bill" H. Thompson on April 16, 1938. He passed away in January 2000....
Ellis Lavar Watts
Oct 29, 2011
Ellis LaVar Watts, 74, passed away in October in Colorado Springs, CO. He was born in Soda Springs, ID, the son of Ellis Alanson and Vivian Mikesell Watts. He grew up and attended school in Soda Springs and graduated from Soda Springs High School. He attended Utah State University and graduated in 1960 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. LaVar...
Mary Alene Treasure
Oct 5, 2011
Mary Alene Hogan Treasure, 88; a long time resident of Chesterfield, Idaho passed away Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at the Quail Ridge Assisted Living Center in Pocatello where she and her husband have resided for the past three years. Mary Alene was born on November 26, 1922 at Hatch, Idaho the daughter of Joseph Cleveland and Henrietta Ruger Hogan. She...
Cleve Morgan
Sep 30, 2011
Cleve Morgan, 80; of Soda Springs passed away Friday, September 30, 2011 at the Caribou Memorial Living Center in Soda Springs. Cleve was born on April 28, 1931 in Malad, Idaho the son of Edmond and Catherine Lewis Morgan. He was one of twelve children and spent his early years of life working on the family ranch in Deep Creek,...
Ralph Roy Reeves
Sep 30, 2011
Ralph Roy Reeves, 83; of Pingree passed away Friday, September 30, 2011 in Pocatello at the Portneuf Medical Center. Ralph was born on October 26, 1927 in Adair County, Iowa the son of Carl Delmar and Winnifred Alberta Ford Reeves. He served in the Army Air force Reserves and served in WWII. He married Suzanne Howe on October 26, 1958...
Doyle Smith
Sep 30, 2011
Doyle Smith, 73; of Grace passed away Friday, September 30, 2011 at the Caribou Memorial Living Center in Soda Springs. Doyle was born December 31, 1937 in Sugar City, Idaho the son of Hilbert and Leitha Roberts Smith. He married Norma Roberts on October 6, 1956 in Sugar City, Idaho. She passed away August 27, 1991. He married Virgina Wheeler...
Tim Crane
Sep 27, 2011
Timothy William Crane, 66; beloved father, husband, and brother passed away at his home Tuesday September 27, 2011, after a long, valiant battle with cancer. Tim was born January 5, 1945; son of William and Lula Robison Crane, in Montpelier, Idaho. He grew up in Bennington, ID where he attended and graduated from local schools. He served an LDS mission...
Brenda Lee Godfrey
Sep 24, 2011
Brenda Lee Godfrey was born Sept. 12, 1962 in Soda Springs, ID to Rueben Ross Godfrey and Darlene Clegg. She returned to her Heavenly Father on Sept. 24, 2011 after suffering fatal injuries in a motorcycle accident. Brenda grew up in Soda Springs, ID and graduated from Soda Springs High in 1980. Growing up, she had one big goal in...
Donniece Crane Whitehead
Sep 13, 2011
DonNiece Crane Whitehead died peacefully Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011 in Las Vegas, NV of conditions related to age. DonNiece was born Jan. 23, 1929 at home in Mink Creek, ID to William Ernest Crane and Anne Jemima Keller Crane, the seventh child in a family of eight children. She attended Preston High School and graduated from Utah State University with...
Dell Lowe Maughan
Sep 13, 2011
Dell Lowe Maughan, 72 of Grace, Idaho peacefully departed this earthly life on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at his home surrounded by his family due to complications of lymphoma. Dell was born December 15, 1938, in Grace, Idaho to Raymond L. and Elnora Lowe Maughan. He was raised in Bancroft, Idaho and graduated from North Gem High School in 1957...
Thomas "Tommy" M. Thomas
Sep 13, 2011
Thomas Marion (Tommy) Thomas was born in Malad, Idaho on June 13, 1921 to David Price and Mary Pierce Thomas along with four sisters and five brothers. Tommy played baseball, basketball and football on championship teams at Malad High. After graduating in 1939, he worked for his brother, Stanley, in the grocery business in California. In 1940 he returned to...
Shirley Helen Balls
Sep 10, 2011
Shirley Helen Whitaker Balls, 84, of Soda Springs passed away Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 at the Caribou Memorial Hospital Living Center. She was born Dec. 11, 1926 in Montpelier to Secyl Fenton and Hortense Marie Groo Whitaker. Shirley graduated from Montpelier High School in 1945 and attended one year of college at Utah State University in Logan. She served an...
Fred "Frederick" Allen Workman
Sep 9, 2011
Frederick "Fred" Allen Workman, 62 passed away in his home on September 9, 2011. Fred was born on November 1, 1948 to Allen Kenneth and Betty Marie Rees Almblade. They were later divorced. Betty remarried Alden R Workman and was later adopted by Alden. As a teenager Fred grew up in Coalville on the farm with his Grandparents, Ralph and...
Dorthy "Dottie" Harris
Aug 27, 2011
God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be. So he put his arm around you and whispered "come with me" with tearful eyes I watched, and saw you pass away. Although I loved you dearly, I could not make you stay. A golden heart stops beating, hard working hands at rest. God broke my heart to...
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