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Margaret Ann (Fritz) Massengill Smull

Margaret Ann (Fritz) Massengill Smull

Margaret Ann (Fritz) Massengill Smull, age 89, of Boise, died March 10, 2012, in Boise, Idaho. Memorial services will be held at 10.30am, Saturday, April 14, 2012 at the First United Methodist Church Cathedral of the Rockies of Boise. Arrangements are under the direction of the Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel. Fritz was born May 15, 1922 in St. Francis, Kansas, a...

Neil Harrison Smull

Neil Harrison Smull

Neil Harrison Smull, age 90, of  Boise, died March 18, 2012, in Boise, Idaho. Memorial services will be held at 10.30am, Saturday, April 14, 2012 at the First United Methodist Church Cathedral of the Rockies of Boise. Arrangements are under the direction of the Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel. Neil was born in St. Francis, Kansas, January 26, 1922, a son of...

Carolyn J. Price Schafer

Carolyn J. Price Schafer

Carolyn J. Price Schafer left us the morning of April 3, 2012, after a brief and unexpected illness. She was born on October 31, 1945, to Garth D. and Donna J. Staley Price.  Carolyn grew up in Twin Falls and graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1965.  She married Gene Schafer of Rupert in 1969.   Although they later divorced,...

Charles Eugene Roper

Charles Eugene Roper

Charles Eugene Roper passed away peacefully with his family by his side on March 23, 2012 at a local hospital after a long illness.  He was born November 25, 1933 in Cheyenne, Oklahoma to Joseph and Vina Roper.  Charles moved to Emmett, Idaho in 1953 where he met the love of his life, Bonnie Holbrook.  They were married on October...

Kenneth Arlander Clevenger

Kenneth Arlander Clevenger

Kenneth Arlander Clevenger, 90, died peacefully Thursday, March 8, 2012.  Ken was born October 29, 1921 in Seminole, Oklahoma to Ira and Laura (Wagoner) Clevenger.  His father was a sharecropper so the family moved frequently.  Any hopes for prosperity were dashed with the bank failure of 1929 and the repeated years of drought during the dust bowl years.  After Kenneth...

Kevin Nicholas Kuhn

Kevin Nicholas Kuhn

Kevin Nicholas Kuhn, 25 years, loving husband of Patricia and adoring father of 2-year-old Kayla Marie, died Friday, March 23, 2012 in Boise, Idaho. He is also survived by his parents, Kerry Ryan-Kuhn and John Kuhn; brother, Mitchel Kuhn; and sister, Madilyn Kuhn. A memorial service to celebrate Kevin’s life will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28th...

Larry C. Gregory

Larry C. Gregory

Larry C. Gregory, 64, of Meridian, Idaho went home to be with the Lord on March 27, 2012 after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease.  Larry was born April 5, 1947 in Boise to Clint and Irene Gregory.  He attended Boise schools and graduated from Boise High in 1965.  After graduation he attended B.J.C. then transferred to N.C.C.  in Eugene,...

Laura Ann Bogstie

Laura Ann Bogstie

Laura Ann Bogstie, 75, of Boise, passed away peacefully Wednesday, March 14, 2012, surrounded by her family. Laura was born November 3, 1936 in Langdon, North Dakota, to Joe and Rose Zeis.  She spent most of her youth in Wales, North Dakota until she met her only love, Orland L. Bogstie, and moved to Bristol, Indiana. They later moved to...

Lawrence G. Smith

Lawrence G. Smith

Lawrence G. Smith died at his home in Boise, ID on March 9th, 2012. Larry was born March 22nd, 1955 in Asheville, NC to Loyce Jones Smith and Duaine Allan Smith. Larry attended public schools in Lincoln, NE, Klamath Falls, OR and Boise, ID, then enlisted in the U.S. Army. After his discharge, he attended Boise State University, earning the...

Linda J. Anthony

Linda J. Anthony

Linda J. Anthony, 65, passed away on Sunday, March 4, 2012 at her home in Boise, ID, surrounded by her family. Linda was born on January 18, 1947 in Ashland, Pennsylvania, to Harold and June (Miller) Peiffer.  She graduated from Eleo High School in Myerstown, Pennsylvania. She was married to Robert W. Anthony at God’s Missionary Church in Lebanon, PA....

Guerdon Donald Tormohlen

Guerdon Donald Tormohlen

On the morning of March 28, 2012, Guerdon D. Tormohlen (better known to family and friends as Gus) passed away nearly one month after celebrating his 90th birthday. On February 23, 1922, Guerdon was born to parents William F. Tormohlen and Rosena Steinhoff in Ft. Morgan, CO as the second of their four children (Leora Sharp, Russell Tormohlen and Milton...

Helen M. Alexander

Helen M. Alexander

Helen M. Alexander, 94, of Boise, died Wednesday, March 21, 2012, in a local care center of natural causes. Helen was a devoted and loving daughter, sister, and friend.  Having been born and lived her whole life in Boise, she was a member of Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, as well as Philo Ptochos, “Friends of the Poor”....

Sharon R. Streibel

Sharon R. Streibel

Sharon R. Streibel passed  away March 12, 2012 in Wickenberg, AZ.  She was born the 20 th of December 1937 in Salt Lake City, UT.   She moved to Pocatello, ID at a young age where she grew up and attended St. Joseph’s School and Pocatello High School. She succumbed to complications of Inclusion Body Myocitis, after bravely fighting the disease...

Donald David Harris

Donald David Harris

Donald David Harris 1930-2012 passed away on March 5, 2012 of heart failure. A funeral service will be held on Friday, March 9, 2012, at 1:00 p.m., at Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel, Boise, with viewing one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at 3:00 p.m. at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery, Boise. Born on August 25, 1930 in Scenic,...

Marguerite L. Diffendaffer

Marguerite L. Diffendaffer

Marguerite L. Diffendaffer, 88, of Blaine, WA, passed away February 29 , 2012. Marguerite was born May 16, 1923 to Alfred Grant Moore and Dora Eunetha Johnson Moore at Council, Idaho.  She grew up in Council, and New Plymouth, Idaho and graduated from New Plymouth High School.  In New Plymouth she met James “Jim” M. Diffendaffer, the boy next door....

Marjorie E. Reimers

Marjorie E. Reimers

Marjorie E. Reimers, 78, of Eagle, passed away peacefully Friday morning March 16, 2012 surrounded by her family. Marge was born April 8, 1933 in Caldwell, Idaho to Louie and Ruth Packer, and was the second eldest daughter of four children. She graduated from Boise High School in 1951, and met her only love Melvin Reimers. They shared a wonderful ...

Marjorie Wilson Wall Pratt

Marjorie Wilson Wall Pratt

Marjorie Wilson Wall Pratt, The only child of Louise and Grover Wilson, was Grandmother, Mother, Best friend; passed away on March 18, 2012 at 2 p.m., at home, surrounded by her loving family and friends. She was a third generation Idahoan, where her early childhood was spent in Silver City where her grandparents owned The Idaho Hotel. They later purchased...

Martha M. (Wilcox) Allen

Martha M. (Wilcox) Allen

Martha Mary Wilcox Allen, 94, died March 2, 2012, in a local assisted living home. A memorial service will be held on , at , at Eagle United Methodist Church, Eagle, Idaho. Private burial will be at Dry Creek Cemetery, Boise. Burial arrangements are under the direction of Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel, Boise. Mrs. Allen was born March 26, 1917 in...

Marvin Glen Bean

Marvin Glen Bean

Marvin Glen Bean, 82, of Boise, died on March 27, 2012, and went home to his Lord and Savior and to be with his wife and son. Glen was born in Stockton, Missouri on April 14, 1929, to Fred and Ollie (Anderson) Bean. The family moved to Idaho in 1935 when Glen was only six years old. He graduated from...

Nathaniel James Barna

Nathaniel James Barna

Nathaniel James Barna, twelve-year old son of Paul and Kim Barna, died peacefully on March 25, 2012. Nathan was born on June 21, 1999, sixteen weeks prematurely.  He began a challenging journey that was often uphill but was surrounded by loving and caring friends and family.  In the end his body couldn’t endure another tough illness and he ended his...

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