Obituaries from September 2004

Gary L. Kraus, 58, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, at a local hospital. Funeral services were held Monday, Aug. 30, at the Knight Community Church in Grand View. Burial followed at Riverside Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Everett G. Maybon, 59, died peacefully Aug. 30, 2004, at a Mountain Home care center, after a long battle with cancer. Viewing will be on Wednesday, Sept. 1, from 5-7 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, 240 N. 4th East St. in Mountain Home. Funeral services will be at the Mountain Home Elks Lodge on Thursday, Sept. 2, at 11 a.m...

Winston Canady, 75, died Saturday, Aug. 28, 2004, after fighting a long battle of Mylo-Fibrosis. Viewing was held on Tuesday, Aug. 31, and services will be held at 11 a.m. today, Wednesday, Sept. 1, at the Mountain Home Elks Lodge. Burial will following at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...

Alvin H. "Pete" Enoch, 42, died Aug. 24 at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise. Following his wishes, he was cremated. A celebration of his life was held on Aug. 28 at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Nazarene in Mountain Home. Pete was born Dec. 29, 1961, in Burley, to Leonard and Pauline Enoch...

Irene F. Smith, 74, formerly of Mountain Home, died Sept. 4, 2004, at her son's home in Gooding, surrounded by her children after a battle with illness. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Sept. 9, at 2 p.m. at the Assembly of God Church in Mountain Home. Burial will be in the Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...

Robert H. Pusey, 89, of Glenns Ferry died Monday, Aug. 30, 2004, at the Elmore Medical Center Nursing Home in Mountain Home. Services were arranged by Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel of Mountain Home. A visitation was held on Friday evening in Mountain Home, with services on Saturday, Sept. 4, at the Glenns Ferry Methodist Church. Graveside services followed at Glenn Rest cemetery...

James Harold Ivie, 60, formerly of Glenns Ferry, died Sept. 4, 2004, at Mercy Medical Center in Nampa, from complications of pulmonary fibrosis. Memorial services were held at Crossroads Assembly of God in Wilder, on Friday Sept. 10. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Zeyer Funeral Chapel, Nampa...

Otis D. Vandagriff, 75, died Sept. 8, 2004, following a lengthy battle with cancer. Visitation was held at Rost Funeral Home, 240 N. 4th East St. in Mountain Home, on Sept. 12. Funeral services were held at the First Southern Baptist Church on Monday, Sept. 13, with burial at Mountain Home Cemetery...

Donald T. Merrill, 73, of Mountain Home, died Thursday Sept. 9, 2004, at Elmore Medical Center in Mountain Home. Memorial services were held Saturday, Sept. 11, at 4 p.m. at Grace Fellowship, 3730 S. 132nd West Airbase Road, in Mountain Home. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home and Cremation Service...

David H. Chitwood, 51, of Mountain Home, died as a result of a plane crash on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004, in a rural area of Elmore County. Memorial services will be held at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mountain Home, today, Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home & Cremation Services Mountain Home...

DeWayne F. Spies, 57, of Plainview, Neb., formerly of Mountain Home, died Sept 19, 2004, at Grand Island, Neb., at the VA Hospital in Grand Island, after a battle with cancer. Cremation was under the direction of Apfel-Butler Geddes Funeral Homein, Grand Island. Burial was held Thursday, Sept. 23, at Plainview...

Alfred Theodore Rathbun, Sr., 94, a long-time resident of Mountain Home, died Sept. 21, 2004 at a care center in Boise. Graveside services were held on Monday, Sept. 27, at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Services were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Mary Margaret Frangen Dayley, 65, died Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004, at the Elmore Medical Center Nursing Home. Graveside services were held Tuesday, Sept. 28, at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel...

Richard W. Kartchner, 85, of Mountain Home, died Friday, Sept. 24, 2004, at the Elmore Medical Center Nursing Home. Visitation will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30 at Leavitt's Chapel of Flowers in Ogden, Utah. Graveside services will follow at 3 p.m. at Leavitt's Aultorest Memorial Park in Ogden. Local arrangements are under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Nina "Ducky" D. Killeen, 68, of Mountain Home, died Monday, Sept. 20, 2004, at a Boise hospital. At her request no services will be held. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Ducky was born in Bath, England, on Sept. 21, 1935, the daughter of Richard Theodore and Elizabeth May (Presley) Scarrott. She finished school and worked at a sugar factory in Bristol...