Obituaries
Amber Dawn Golightly
May 25, 2025
Our precious Amber Dawn Golightly, 46, passed peacefully through the veil to return to her loving Heavenly Father on Sunday, May 25, 2025. It was a beautiful spring day with the smell of lilacs in the air. Amber always loved lilacs.
Amber was born to her loving and devoted parents, Kaylene Owens and Marvin Chadwick Golightly on December 7, 1978 in...
Clareen Mae Higbee Jones
May 23, 2025
Clareen Mae Higbee Jones, 88, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 23, 2025 at the Franklin County Transitional Care Center in Preston, Idaho. She was born on May 27, 1936 in Downey, Idaho to Otto Fredrick and Clara Mae Denton Higbee. She married Alfred Jones on June 28, 1954 and they were later sealed in the Idaho Falls Temple on...
Rodney Alan Pearce
May 17, 2025
Rodney Alan Pearce passed away at home on May 17, 2025, due to complication of old age. He was born on August 15, 1938, to John (Jack) D. L. Pearce and Edith Bingham Pearce in Cornish, Utah. He spent his youth swimming in the West Cache Canal, working on the family dairy farm and playing in the river bottoms along...
Frank Howard Pearson
May 17, 2025
Frank Howard Pearson, 90, passed away peacefully on May 17th, 2025 at his home in Fairview, ID.
Frank was born March 3rd, 1935 in Cornish, UT to Reynold Everett and Cordelia Stocks Pearson. He spent his childhood working hard alongside his family to make ends meet on the family farm.
He attended Electronics school in Kansas City, MO following graduation from North...
Gary Douglas Bennett
May 13, 2025
Gary Douglas Bennett, 41 years old, of Preston, Idaho, died on May 13, 2025. He was born on July 3, 1983, in Sandy, Utah. At six weeks of age, in the arms of a Social Worker for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he flew on a big old plane from Utah to Arkansas to live with and...
Janet Jean Hintz Galloway
May 10, 2025
Janet Galloway was born on January 3, 1947, in Salem, Oregon. She grew up on a small farm outside Silverton, Oregon with her parents and two sisters. Janet attended business college. She worked as a civilian for the military. Where she met her husband Bryan Kent Galloway. They were married in SLC on April 28, 1971. They had four children...
Sharon Choules Wilkinson
May 9, 2025
Sharon Choules Wilkinson, 80, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, returned to her Heavenly Father on May 9, 2025.
Sharon was born November 15, 1944, in Preston, Idaho to Richard Clark Choules and Radia Morrison Choules. She was the eldest of four daughters. Her formative years on the Riverdale, Idaho family farm instilled in her the values of hard...
Jack Ernest Johns
May 4, 2025
On a beautiful spring day, his favorite time of year in Cache Valley, Jack Ernest Johns, JJ, 89 was welcomed through the veil. He passed with loving family around him on May 4, 2025. He was the last living member of his generation. We know he was welcomed home with joy and love. He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather,...
Jennifer Rebecca Blais Winward
Apr 28, 2025
Our beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend, Jennifer Rebecca Blais Winward, returned to her Heavenly Father on April 28, 2025, in Preston, Idaho, at the age of 50. She was born on May 21, 1974, in Laconia, New Hampshire, to Eugene and Bernice Blais.
Jennifer was a devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served...
Delores Gay Moses
Apr 26, 2025
Delores Gay Moses, 77, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2025.
She was born on March 22, 1948, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Roanoke, Virginia, daughter to loving parents Lawrence William Moses Jr. and Frances Louise Musselman Moses.
Delores was a woman of integrity. Those who knew her would describe her as humble and kind. She was a strong believer in...
Todd David Johnson
Apr 26, 2025
It is with heavy hearts and profound sadness that we announce the passing of Todd David Johnson, 57. He passed away on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at his home from causes due to heart and kidney failure. He was born on 04/04/1968 in Pocatello, Idaho. He was the oldest of three boys of David Merrell Johnson and Gloria Lee Johnson....
Dineen Choules Eberhard
Apr 22, 2025
Dineen Choules Eberhard, 84, passed away April 22, 2025, in Murray, Utah from complications of pneumonia. She was born August 1, 1940, in Preston, Idaho, the daughter of Oliver James and Myrtle Choules. She was married to Ernest Jan Eberhard on March 6, 1969. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple.
Born the last of six children, Dineen...
Beverly Kaye Hitchcock Hyden
Apr 21, 2025
Beverly Kaye (Hitchcock) Hyden, 73, passed away peacefully on April 21, 2025, while living at the Rocky Mountain Nursing Home in Logan, Utah. Beverly was born in September 1951, in Booneville, Mississippi. She was the second child and first daughter of Mary Kate (Jones) and Jeffie Andrew Hitchcock and grew up in Booneville until the age of 17. Beverly’s family...
James Michael Daniel
Apr 13, 2025
James Michael Daniel, 83, passed away on April 13, 2025, in Preston, Idaho. He was born on April 14, 1941, in Pocatello, Idaho, the son of Minnie Daniel and step-son of Danny O. Daniel. He was married to Deanna Daniel (Dani), on July 15, 1972. Their marriage was later solemnized in the St. George Utah Temple.
Jim was raised in Blackfoot,...
Albert Vaughn Mankin
Apr 9, 2025
Albert Vaughn Mankin
May 28, 1946 – April 9, 2025
Off he went, April 9, 2025, after completing a life well lived. We are thankful for this incredibly quiet, kind man. He loved and taught us so much.
Albert Vaughn Mankin was born May 28, 1946, the youngest child of Lola Works and Ernest Elmo Mankin, in Delta, UT. He was raised in...
LaRae Halverson Gibbons
Apr 8, 2025
On Tuesday, April 8, ,2025, LaRae Halverson Gibbons, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, passed away from an unexpected illness, at the age of 76. LaRae was born on November 25, 1948, in Billings Montana to Delbert and Cleone Halverson. She was a graduate of Sky View High School, where she fell in love with her sweetheart, Joseph Wynn...
John Charles Monroe
Apr 5, 2025
John Charles Monroe, age 64, passed away peacefully on April 5, 2025. He was born on August 20, 1960.
John shared many years with his longtime companion, Madonna Monroe. Together, they raised their family and later enjoyed the role of grandparents.
He is survived by his three children: Justin Monroe, Tommy Monroe (Dana Hellems), and Autumn Lowder (Daniel Lowder). He also leaves...
Ruth Ann Beutler Jenson Gregory
Apr 3, 2025
Ruth Ann Beutler Jenson Gregory was born August 10, 1942 to Ernest and Mary Pearl Beutler. She lived her first twenty or-so years in Dayton, Idaho. She married William A. (Bill) Jenson in June 1964. They lived in Logan UT, Boston MA, and then Bennington ID, until Bill perished from the impact of a tractor roll-over in August of 1981....
Benjamin Nathan John Armatage
Apr 2, 2025
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear son Benjamin Armatage on April 2, 2025, from a sudden illness at the age of 25 in Seattle Washington at Northwest University of Washington hospital. His parents Steven and Arlene Armatage were at his bedside. He was born on November 18, 1999, in Boise Idaho,
Ben filled our...
Gwen Goodman
Mar 31, 2025
Gwen Goodman was born June 9, 1934, in Vernon, Apache, Arizona to Alvin Ezra Goodman and Bertha Rothlisberger. She left his earthly life peacefully on March 31, 2025, in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona with her daughter at her side. She was the second child born of 7 children to Alvin and Bertha. She is survived by her sister Patsy Seymore of...
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