Cordia Davies was born April 6,1913. She passed away Saturday, April 2, 2011, in Boise, Idaho. Cordia was the youngest of three children born to Ben and Delia Centers. She married Alvie McMahan and to them was born two children Cleva and Dwayne. Alvie died in 1967 and in 1970 Cordia married Meyrick Davies. They lived in Fresno California until...

Mildred E. "Millie" Brown, 80, Boise, Idaho, formerly of Middleton and Ontario, passed away peacefully at a Boise care facility, Saturday, April 9, 2011. Mildred E. Brown was born May 27, 1930, the third child of Clinton Clyde Robinson and Alma Verna Eastland in Holdenville, Oklahoma. She grew up through the toughest years of the great depression. When she was...

Dora (Reimers) Howard, of Boise, Idaho died suddenly Friday, April 1, 2011 at the age of 86. Dora was a native Idahoan born in Pearl, Idaho September 3rd, 1924. She married her husband of 62 years John, who preceded her in death in 2004, on August 1st, 1942. They raised a family of 5 children in Washington State then returned...

Hazel Swensrud was born February 21, 1919 in Duluth, MN to Edwin and Anna (Erickson) Mattson. She grew up in the Lunds Valley area and graduated as Valedictorian of her class from Powers Lake HS in ND in 1937. She attended Minot State University and started her teaching career the following year. She taught at two different county schools in...

Merold L. Fisher, age 92, died March 29, 2011 at a local nursing home. A long-term Boise resident, Merold was born August 12, 1918 in Danbury, Nebraska to Myrtie (Doud) and James Lester Fisher. The family moved to Boise in 1935 from Nebraska after Merold graduated high school. He enlisted in the US Army Air Force during WWII, was stationed...

Mary Olive (Winn) Harter, 90, of Boise, died Saturday, March 26, 2011 at a local care center. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, April 2, 2011 at the University Christian Church, 1801 University Dr., Boise. Mary Harter was born September 6, 1920 in Prosser, Washington to Mr. Conrad Winn and Mrs Lulu Myrtle (Tucker) Winn. She...

Edna Todd, 71, of Boise, went to be with her heavenly father on March 23, 2011 after a long battle of Dementia. Edna was born April 27, 1939 to William and Darlene Schatto Johns in Twin Falls, ID. Her family moved to Barstow, CA. before moving to Boise in 1953. She graduated from Boise High School before meeting the love...

Janice Nystrom Brown James, age 89 of Boise Idaho, died Tuesday March 22nd at her apartment in Valley View of causes related to age. Jan was born on March 29th, 1921 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Daughter of Joseph Oscar and Frances Cordelia Sloan Nystrom. She was raised and educated in Salt Lake City graduating from East High in...

David Arthur McFaddan, 76, of Meridian, died Saturday, March 26, 2011 at home of melanoma. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, April 2, 2001 at St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral. Inurnment will follow in Dry Creek Cemetery. Services are under the direction of the Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel. Reception following at Spurwing Country Club. David was born in Boise,...

On March 20, 2011, David B. Hiatt, age 64, of Boise, Idaho, passed away at home surrounded by his family. Dave was born on April 9, 1946 in Twin Falls, Idaho, the son of “Chic and “Kay” Hiatt. He graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1964 and from the College of Idaho in 1969 where he double majored in...

Lauren M. Long, 88, of Boise, passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Lauren was born on December 20, 1922 in Lebanon, Oregon to Alfred and Bessie Long. He was the third of seven children born to the Long family. The family moved to Tillamook, Oregon where he attended school and played basketball for Tillamook High School. Lauren graduated in...

Dorothy died March 6, 2011 in her apartment at Willow Park Assisted Living in Boise. Dorothy was born on April 6, 1919 in New London Connecticut, the second child of Roger and Sarah Hodsdon. Her father was a naval officer and so she and her older sister, Betty and younger brother Roger traveled across the country many times with their...

Louise Colaianni 88, Meridian, Idaho, formerly of Pocatello, Idaho, died Monday March 14, 2011 at St. Luke’s Meridian Hospital after a brief illness. Louise was born in Pocatello, Idaho, November 27, 1922, to William L. and Pearl B. Smith and was the first of two children. She attended Pocatello High School graduating with the class of 1941. She married her...

1914-2011 Born on February 5, 1914, in San Francisco, CA, to Rudolph and Nellie Collins Hoffmann, he was the oldest of four children. He graduated from Polytechnic High School in December 1931, and started college at University of California, Berkeley, in January 1932, working at many jobs to pay his way through college. He was voted into Tau Beta Pi...

Vern Perkins of Boise, Idaho passed peacefully in his sleep on March 7, 2011. He was 88 years young. He was born September 24, 1922 to Milton and Opal Perkins in Baker, Oregon. Vern graduated from Eugene High School in 1940. He participated in sports at Santa Clara and Eugene High. He played in the Eugene Junior Symphony Orchestra as...

Barbara J. Plouzek, 83, of Boise, died on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at a Boise hospital of natural causes. She was born to Anton and Agnes (McCargar) Plouzek in Crete, Nebraska on December 6, 1927. A funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, March 7, at Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel, with Rev. Dan Woodworth officiating. Burial will follow...

Ann Terteling Sparks passed away unexpectedly at her home in Boise on March 1, 2011. Ann, the first child of Joseph Wesley and Reba Marguerite Terteling, was born on November 25, 1933 in Boise. She spent most of her life in Idaho, attended Boise schools, and subsequently graduated from Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma, Washington. After graduation she attended the...

Joan A. Jensen, 74, of Boise, went home to be with her Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, on Monday, February 28, 2011, while surrounded by loved ones. Joan was born to Joseph and Hazel Christopherson on December 29, 1936 in Portland, Oregon. She was married to Dwyane L. Jensen (Sonny) on September 3, 1955. Together they had two beautiful sons,...

Joyce Page Murphy Swensen age 84, passed away Monday February 28, 2011. Joyce was born September 9, 1926 to Willis D. Page and Anna E. Christensen Page in Grace Idaho. Joyce was born in Grace, Idaho, attended Grace High School (Class of ‘45) and attended Utah State University in Logan, UT. She married Gus Murphy in Salt Lake City and...

Gary Tryer Riley, 64, was born Dec. 6, 1946 in Orlando, Fla., and died Feb. 24, 2011, at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, in Boise, Id. A memorial service is scheduled for Thursday, March 3 at 1:30 p.m. in the Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel, Boise. The service will be followed by his interment at the Veterans Cemetery at 3 p.m. where...