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Robert Lee Knudson

Robert Lee Knudson

Robert Lee Knudson, 73, of Eagle, Idaho passed away on February 5, 2019. Robert, or Bob as he was known to his friends, was born to Emerald and Elizabeth Knudson on January 16, 1946 in Windom, Minnesota. He graduated from Westbrook High School in 1964 and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Telecommunications from St Mary’s University. As one...

Loretta Macbain Celebration Of Life Announcement

Loretta Macbain Celebration Of Life Announcement

Celebration of Life Loretta J. MacBain (Carrabello) It is with our deepest sorrows that we inform you of Loretta's passing on Friday, February 1st.  Thankfully she had a very peaceful departure with her husband and children by her side. In her final hours her bible study friend, Carolyn, played guitar and sung worship songs to her, after which she began...

Esther Charlotte May Sherman

Esther Charlotte May Sherman

Esther Charlotte May Sherman went home to meet her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Saturday, February 2nd, 2019. Esther was born on May 11th, 1927 on a small farm in Ontario, Oregon to Blaine and Effie May. She was part of a large, loving family of 11 siblings who remained close-knit for their entire lives. She was the first...

Loretta Juanita Macbain (Carrabello)

Loretta Juanita Macbain (Carrabello)

Loretta Juanita MacBain (Carrabello) died on February 1, 2019 at her home in Boise, Idaho. Loretta was born on February 7, 1942 in Oakland, California to Sabio and Juanita (Telles) Carrabello. She spent her formative years in between San Leandro and Hayward, California then graduated from Hayward High School in 1960. Shortly after graduating she married her high school sweetheart,...

Charles Carl Heady

Charles Carl Heady

DOB: Aug 5, 1950 DOD: Jan 20, 2019 Birth Place: Seattle, WA City of residence: Emmett. ID Parents: William Dale Heady and Lois Morine Heady Date of service: No date has been set for a memorial service. History: Chuck and his family moved to Boise when he was around 11 years old and lived in the area the rest of...

Robert H. Cooper

Robert H. Cooper

Bob, 83, passed away at home on January 27, 2019. Bob was born on June 16, 1935 in Boise, Idaho to Sam and Inez Cooper. He married Joan Bailey on November 22, 1956, were married for 62 years, and raised three children. Bob started driving logging trucks at fifteen years of age, and continued hauling everything from explosives to potatoes....

Patricia (Pat) Patchin

Patricia (Pat) Patchin

Patricia (Pat) Patchin of Boise, passed away peacefully at home on January 23, 2019 following an extended illness. She was born in Casper, Wyoming, she and her twin sister Pauline were the youngest of seven kids born to Alma and Ruth Layland. She grew up on ranches in western Wyoming, helping her folks do all that was necessary to make...

Ruth M. Wiegers

Ruth M. Wiegers

Ruth M. Wiegers of Boise passed away on January 24 at age 92. Born in 1926, Ruth was the oldest child of Ernest and Myrtle Counsell. She grew up on a dairy farm near Osage, Iowa, with two siblings. Shortly after she moved to Denver in 1948, she fell when the high heel on her shoe broke as she stepped...

George ‘Bill’ William Wallace

George ‘Bill’ William Wallace

George ‘Bill’ William Wallace passed away on the evening of January 11th, 2019 at the age of 89 after several years in the loving care of family in Boise, Idaho. George was born in Nampa, ID on July 21, 1929 to Bessie (Bays) Wallace and Oran V. Wallace. He graduated from Nampa High School in 1947 and married Mary ‘Cathy’...

Mary Ann Bennett Moffett Southerland Waggoner

Mary Ann Bennett Moffett Southerland Waggoner

On January 2, 2019 in Boise, Idaho Mary walked into the arms of Jesus, after suffering a stroke on Christmas Day. She was born to Taylor and Edna Bennett on July 31, 1935 in Newcastle, Indiana. She was the second of four siblings and three stepsiblings. They spent many hours playing in the barn, even throwing corncobs at each other....

Betty Lou Holton

Betty Lou Holton

Betty Lou Holton, age 88 passed away of heart failure Friday at a local hospital, just 51 days after her husband's death. They say you can die of a broken heart, & if 67 years of marriage wasn't proof enough of their love, then her parting was. She was born August 1930, in Alpena Arkansas to J. Samuel & Velvie...

Jeffrey Paul Corder

Jeffrey Paul Corder

Jeff was born September 10, 1966 in Bozeman, Montana, to Diane Corder Fisher and Terry Corder. He joined his family in Heaven on December 9, 2018. Jeff attended schools in Boise, Idaho, and graduated from Boise High School in 1985. While attending Boise High he was an honor student and was a member of Key Club, serving as governor of...

Phyllis Zubizareta

Phyllis Zubizareta

Phyllis Zubizareta (Felisa Mendiola, born July 10, 1922) passed peacefully in her sleep on December 19, 2018, at Life Care Center of Treasure Valley at the age of 96. She was the daughter of Ana Ostalaza and Gervacio Mendiola and wife to Antonio Zubizareta. Phyllis was born in Baker, OR and her family moved to Boise, ID when she was...

Robert (Bob) Earl Surgeon

Robert (Bob) Earl Surgeon

Robert (Bob) Earl Surgeon 1931 - 2018 Robert (Bob) Earl Surgeon, 87, of Boise died Dec. 17, 2018 at home with 3 of his kids by his side. Robert was born on June 24, 1931 in a covered wagon on the banks of the Snake River in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Forrest (Curly) Surgeon and Annis Azalee Kiser. He was...

Brian Jeffery “Jeff” Hull

Brian Jeffery “Jeff” Hull

9/9/58-12/6/18 Jeff Hull passed away after a brief battle with metastatic esophageal cancer on December 6 th , 2018.  He was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, on September 9 th , 1958, to Martha Mae Sharp and Ralph Edward Hull.  Shortly after, the family moved to Boise.  In 1960, his sister, Sabrina, was born.  And in 1964, his brother, Lance,...

Alice Caroline Hair

Alice Caroline Hair

It is with extreme sadness that the family of sweet Alice "Caroline" Hair announces her passing on December 2, 2018. Caroline was born Alice Caroline Janson to Joseph B. Janson and Stella Lee Janson February 16, 1933 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Her father was an authentic Swedish masseur, and her mother a school teacher. She grew up in Excelsior Springs...

Carol Louise Gaertner

Carol Louise Gaertner

Carol was born in Seattle, WA on Oct. 5, 1938 to Walter and Alena Swift Voegtlin. She passed into the loving arms of her heavenly father on Dec. 4, 2018 Carol met the love of her life, Gary G. Gaertner at WSU and they married on July 3 , 1958. To this union were born their 3 children, Rene, Shannon,...

Larry Dean Cook

Larry Dean Cook

Larry Cook, age 83, died on Monday, November 26, 2018 at his home in Meridian, Idaho.He was born on August 16, 1935 in Ponca City, Oklahoma to Tom W. and Anna Belle (Myers) Cook, he was the oldest of four children.   He lived on a farm in Uncas, Oklahoma that his grandparents homesteaded during the Cherokee Strip Run.  The family...

Gary Leroy Mccracken

Gary Leroy Mccracken

Gary Leroy McCracken, 74, of Boise, Idaho passed away on November 29, 2018 with his family by his side. Gary was born February 9, 1944, in Boise, to Bonnie and Leroy McCracken.  He attended Garfield Elementary before moving with mother and step-father Clarence “Skinner” Block to various military bases.  Gary particularly enjoyed his years in Panama where he participated in...

Frieda Noel

Frieda Noel

On Thanksgiving- Thursday, November 22, 2018, Frieda Noel, loving mother and grandmother of many, went to be with her Lord at the age of 90. She was born October 17, 1928 in York, Nebraska to farming couple Benjamin and Anna Buller. A man caught her eye immediately in church one day and she ended up marrying the love of her...

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