Obituaries

Oct 16, 2009

Sylvia Yvonne Wood (August 26, 1926- October 16, 2009)

Sylvia Yvonne Wood, 83, a life long resident of Teton Valley, passed away peacefully Friday, October 16, 2009 at Teton Valley Hospital due to natural causes. Sylvia was born in Cedron, Idaho on August 26, 1926 to Jacob and Polly Zohner. She was their 5th child and their 2nd daughter....

Sep 28, 2009

Yolanda Margarita Barajas Vallo, 61, of Victor, Idaho, was received back into the waiting arms of her heavenly father on Sept. 27, 2009, after injuries received in a motorcycle accident. She was born April 6, 1948, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to Jose Barajas and Christina Rosa Mendez Barajas. She was raised and attended schools in Lodi, Calif. She graduated from...

Sep 6, 2009

Private family service.

Sep 5, 2009

Private family service.

Aug 8, 2009

Private family service.

Jun 22, 2009

Joe Hillman, 78, of Driggs, Idaho, passed away June 22, 2009 at the Teton Valley Hospital of lung cancer. Joe was born on May 8, 1931 in Driggs, Idaho. He was the ninth child born to Roy and Iva Valentine Hillman. He grew up on a farm near Driggs and attended the local schools graduating from Teton High School in...

Jun 15, 2009

Andrew Lee Piquet, 20, of Driggs, ID, died June 15, 2009. He was born March 22, 1989in Driggs, ID to Laren and Laura Piquet. He grew up on a farm in Bates near Driggs and graduated from Teton High School in 2007. Andrew enjoyed football, writing poetry, movies, music, hunting, spending time with friends, family and his loyal dog Dixie....

Jun 5, 2009

Funeral services will be Saturday, June 13, 2009 at the L.D.S. Church in Jackson. A visitation will be an hour prior to the service. An obituary to follow.

May 29, 2009

George Ephraim Jensen died May 29, 2009, of pneumonia and natural causes at his daughter's home in Boise, Idaho. He was born August 27, 1918 in Hayden, Idaho. He was the son of Ephraim Enoch Jensen and Mary Elizabeth Rawlins. He spent most of his life in Teton Valley as a farmer. George was a decorated war veteran of WWII....

May 23, 2009

William "Bill" Vrabec, age 68, of Driggs, Idaho, died suddenly in Driggs on Saturday, May 23, 2009.

Bill was born May 4, 1941 in Port Townsend, Washington to John and and Hazel Wilson Vrabec. He served in the Navy. He married Cathy Decker, they were later divorced and he married Lou Slotte on July 6, 1969 in Midvale, Utah....

May 1, 2009

Y.P. (Pat) Bates, of Alta, Wyoming; died May 1, 2009 in the Teton Valley Hospital from pancreatic cancer. He was born July 10, 1929 in Norman, Arkansas to David and Effie Bates, In 1941 the family moved to Clifton, Colorado where he graduated from Fruitvale High School. HE attended what was then the Mesa Junior College in Grand Junction, Colorado,...

Apr 27, 2009

Larry T. Wilde was born August 2, 1956 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Boyd P. Wilde and LaFern Rowberry Wilde. In 1967, when Larry was 11, their family moved to Jackson. His father managed the B&W Market, and his mother was a busy homemaker, raising six children and one niece. In high school, two of Larry's favorite past-times were playing...

Apr 4, 2009

Joseph Wendell Bagley, age 86 of Victor, passed away Saturday, April 4, 2009 in Rigby.

He was born November 8, 1922 in Victor, Idaho to George Parley Bagley and Heda Johnson Bagley. He grew up working on the family farm and attending school in Victor, graduating in 1941 before attending Ricks College.

On September 28, 1949 he married...

Mar 19, 2009

Delbert T. Kunz, age 79, of Victor, Idaho died Thursday, March 19, 2009 at his daughter's home in Idaho Falls. Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 11:00 A.M. at the Victor L.D.S. Church in Victor, Idaho. Burial will be in the Driggs Cemetery under the direction of the Valley Mortuary in Driggs.

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Feb 4, 2009

Leaving a legacy of love, family, and friends, Lester K. Wade returned to his eternal home on February 4, 2009 due to complications from hip surgery at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Lester was born on December 27, 1936, in Driggs, Idaho, to Lyn and Davida Breckenridge Wade. He spent his early years on his family's...

Jan 21, 2009

Ms. Sandra Kay Tietsort of Driggs, Idaho passed away at the young age of sixty on January 21, 2009. She died peacefully in the loving environment of her son's home in Victor, Idaho.

On March 27, 1948 in Norfolk, Virginia, 'Sandy' was born to Edith Whitmire and Wavely M Groves Sr. and was lovingly raised by Helen Ruth Whitmire...

Jan 10, 2009

Richard Thomas "Tom" Knight, 79, of Driggs, Idaho, died January 10, 2009 at EIRMC surrounded by his family.

He was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania on March 2, 1929 to Ester Couser and Frank Knight, He is the second of five children.

Tom spent most of his childhood in Pennsylvania before serving in the US Army during the Korean...

Dec 25, 2008

Clara Egbert Ward, age 91, of Felt, Idaho, passed away on Thursday, December 25, 2008 at the Ashton Memorial Nursing Home in Ashton, Idaho.

Clara was born August 10, 1917 in Valview, Idaho to Hyrum Edzell and Marion Morgan Egbert. On November 25, 1936, she married Leonard Ward in the Logan, Utah Temple. The couple made their home in...

Dec 24, 2008

Ruby H. Fullmer, 82, of Tetonia, Idaho, died December 24, 2008, at her son's home in Idaho Falls.

She was born March 28, 1926, to Paul August Hansen and Matilda Jane Hansen. She grew up in Clawson, east of Tetonia, and graduated from Teton High School. On June 7, 1948, she married Earl Ray Fullmer in Tetonia. Their marriage...

Nov 27, 2008

Damon Lagana, age 37, of Driggs, Idaho, died Thursday, November 27, 2008 at the Teton Valley Hospital of heart failure. Damon was born July 31, 1971 in Norwalk, California. As a youth he played Little League baseball and Pop Warner football. He went to school at Norwalk High. He took up the family trade as a carpenter. Damon and his...