Recent Obituaries

Penni Leanne Newman

Feb 6, 2019

Penni Newman left this world to join the angels on the evening of February 6th, 2019 in the home she shared with her husband Raymond Newman. She is preceded in death by mother Mary Belle and father Bob, Grandmother Ellen, Mother and Father in law Bill and Ethel Newman. Penni will live on in the hearts of husband; Raymond,...

Venice Gossard

Feb 6, 2019

Venice Gossard (Mom) was born on February 26, 1929, in Henrieville, Utah to Marie Smith and Elijah Goulding. She moved to St. Anthony, Idaho when she was a year old and spent 8 happy years with Marie’s large and loving family.

Marie remarried and they moved to Lima, Ohio. Marie had 3 more children, Mom’s siblings, Billie,...

James Nelson Wheatley

Feb 4, 2019

James Nelson Wheatley, 89 years old, of Meridian, Idaho returned to his Heavenly Father in the evening hours of Monday February 4th at his home.  Jim was born June 1, 1929 in Tucson, Arizona to his father, also James Nelson Wheatley and his mother, Viola Martha Hanson.   His family later moved to the Glendale, California area.  Jim was the...

Allen Neil Barr

Feb 4, 2019

Allen Neil Barr

Allen Neil Barr, 76, a resident of Garden Valley, passed away February 4, 2019 in Garden Valley.

No public services are planned.

Arrangements are under the direction of Bowman Funeral Parlor of Garden City.

Bert Trask, Jr

Feb 3, 2019

Bert passed peacefully on from this life and into the next at the age of 83. He never lost his sense of humor, his warmhearted smile, or his longing for McCall Idaho! His wife Bonnie, and sister Patricia, preceded him in death A loving father to daughters, Tami, Tori, and Tobi. A proud grandfather to Mitchell, Jacob, Mallory and...

Joellen Haney

Feb 1, 2019

JoEllen Haney

The world’s greatest mom and finder of all things lost has passed. JoEllen Haney passed away peacefully Friday, February 1, 2019 after a yearlong battle with cancer.

She was born December 13, 1942 in Orofino, Idaho to Fern Jane Pollock and Harry R. Pishl. The middle child between older sister, Anne and younger...

Joseph Gordon Ames

Feb 1, 2019

oseph Gordon ‘Joe’ Ames

February 10, 1956 – February 1, 2019

Payette, Idaho

Joseph Gordon Ames, 62, was born in Ontario, Oregon on February 10, 1956, to Harlan and Mary (Bieber) Ames of Payette. He graduated from Payette High School in 1974. After high school he was employed at Foodland Grocery as a...

Jane Elizabeth Gurley Scotton

Feb 1, 2019

Jane Elizabeth Gurley was born October 4, 1960 to parents George Bernard Gurley and Virginia Jeanne Gurley. She was welcomed into the family by her sisters Laurel and Cathy as well as her brother John who they lovingly referred to as their “Baby Jane” all throughout their childhood. The family enjoyed a lot of shared love at home as...

Dale Wardle Chase

Jan 31, 2019

Dale Chase was born September 21, 1944 to Ellis Bennion Chase and Audrey Melissa Wardle Chase in Idaho Falls, Idaho.  He was a 3r d    generation Idahoan!  Dale’s dad died in Nampa, Idaho when Dale was 10 years old. Audrey then moved the family of 6 to Pocatello where she taught school. Dale graduated from the last great class...

Sue Claire Freeman Morris

Jan 30, 2019

Sue Claire Freeman Morris was born February 28, 1933, in Commerce, Oklahoma to Dumas and Ruth Freeman. Sue had an older sister, Marliese and a younger brother Jim Freeman.

Sue moved with her family to Idaho in October 1946 and entered the eighth grade at North Junior High. She graduated from Boise High School in 1951 and...

Virginia May Winkler Baker

Jan 30, 2019

Virginia (Ginny) was born in McCall, Idaho on May 5th 1927. She was the oldest of five girls. She grew up in Council, Idaho graduating Council High School in 1945. After graduation she worked as a telephone switchboard operator in Council. In 1946 she married Warren L. Baker and from that union had two sons, Jim Lee Baker and...

Donnie Lee Parker

Jan 30, 2019

Donnie Lee Parker, 71, of Nampa, Idaho passed away January 30, 2019 in Boise, Idaho.

Donnie was born February 14, 1947 to Mirl Dean Parker and Mae Marie Bond in Merced, California. The family then moved to Tallahassee, Florida and then to New Hampshire where he lived in Londonderry and Laconia. Finally ending up in Nampa, Idaho...

Wayne Douglas Slaughter

Jan 28, 2019

Wayne Douglas Slaughter

Wayne Douglas Slaughter, 48, a resident of Eagle, passed away January 28, 2019 in Eagle.

Wayne was born October 10, 1970, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Jay Wayne Slaughter and Kathy Bobo Slaughter.

He married Amber Christensen on September 4, 2004.  They had 4 beautiful children; Andersen, Benson (deceased),...

Joseph James Scolet

Jan 27, 2019

Joe (Joseph) James Scolet, born January 27, 1951 passed through to heaven January 27, 2019. He is with all we loved on earth and we will see him soon.  He was survived by wife Ingrid Kotter Scolet, son Bryan Scolet, daughter Mandie Scolet Stephen, and daughter Nicole Scolet. He is also survived by son in law Mike Stephen, and...

Richard (Dick) Gempler

Jan 27, 2019

Richard “Dick” Gempler was Born in Tracy, Minnesota on Oct. 5th, 1936 to Frank W. Gempler and Lenora F. (Silver) Gempler.

Dick was the Fourth Child of five children born to Frank and Lenora Gempler, Lyle, Robert, Carol, Richard, and Thomas. He Passed from this Life on Sunday January 27th, 2019 from complications of a short battle...

Holly H. Reese

Jan 26, 2019

Holly passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones at Intermountain Hospital in Salt Lake City on January 26, 2019 after a brief battle with an unexpected virus. She was 76 years old.

Hollis “Holly” Hilton Chance was born in Long Beach, California on December 9, 1942 to Richard and Wilma Chance. From her first marriage she had...

Dorothy Kay Lake

Jan 25, 2019

Dorothy Kay Lake

Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, Dorothy Kay Lake was born in Price, Utah on October 10, 1952 to Thomas and Connie Naylor. She grew up in Kearns, UT where she met her junior high school sweetheart and love of her life, James Russell Lake at the age of fourteen. The two wed on...

Vinnie Dora Clark

Jan 24, 2019

Vinnie McCamish met the love of her life, Robert “Bob” Clark, at a church dance while he was at port in Melrose Massachusetts. They married and spent the next 59 years together on adventures that took them as far east as Maine, as far west as California and to Hawaii.

Vinnie was an extremely proud and supportive...

Christine M. Wing

Jan 23, 2019

Christine M. Wing

1951 – 2019​

Chris passed away on January 23, 2019 after an extended illness.

She was born in Council, Idaho to Jack and Shirley Wing. Growing up, she was fortunate to be surrounded by many loving relatives, including a very dear, older brother, Ernie. Her days were filled with bike...

Nicholas P Meyers

Jan 22, 2019

Nicholas Paul Meyers of Boise, Idaho, aged 72, passed away of natural causes on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise, Idaho while surrounded by family and friends

Nick was born on February 26th, 1946 to Joseph and Zelda (Eslinger) Meyers in Boise, Idaho. Having grown up here he graduated from Boise High School...