Obituaries from December 2004

Jack B. Bunnell, 64, of Grand View, died Nov. 4, 2004, at his home. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, atthe Gowen Field Chapel in Boise. Jack will be laid to rest next to his parents at Morris Hill Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Walter Eugean Villeneuve, 37, of Mountain Home, died Friday, Nov. 26, 2004, at a Boise hospital. Visitation will be held from 4-7 p.m. today, Wednesday, Dec. 1, at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2, at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel. Services will conclude at the chapel...

Daniel Lee Alexander, 33, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, at his residence. Arrangements are under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.

Henry DeGiorgio, 88, of Mountain Home, died Dec. 1, 2004, at the Life Care Center of Boise. Funeral mass was held Saturday, Dec. 4, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church. Internment followed at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Bernice Benham, 93, a long-time resident of Bruneau,died Dec. 6, 2004, in Vancouver, Wash. A memorial Graveside service will be held today, Dec. 15, at the Bruneau Cemetery at 11 a.m. with Pastor Steve Landis, Bruneau Community Church, officiating. A potluck dinner will follow at the Bruneau American Legion Hall. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home of Mountain Home...

Billy R. Hawkins, 60, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004, at home with his wife, Sheila, by his side. At his request no services will be held. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home. Billy was born Aug. 18, 1944, in Gray, Ga., the son of Edmond V. and Pauline Hawkins...

Ida F. Moniz, 88, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004, at a local hospital. At her request no services will be held here in Mountain Home. She requested to be taken back to Hawaii. Ida was born on Jan. 7, 1916, in Paia, Hawaii, the daughter of Frank and Rose Fernandez...

Vernon Enos Kyle, 70, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004, due to complications related to cancer. A memorial service was held at Aclesa Funeral Chapel in Boise on Dec. 9. Vernon was born in Weiser on Nov. 22, 1934. When he was just a toddler he wandered away from the family farm one winter day and became the subject of a county-wide search that lasted 36 hours, "thus beginning an adventurous and independent life," his family said...

Francis I. Jones, 77, of Mountain Home, died Monday, Dec. 20, 2004, at a Boise hospital. Services are pending and will be announced by Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Lloyd B. Satterfield, 86, of Bruneau, died Dec. 21, 2004, at a Boise hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home.

Daniel Lee Alexander, 33, of Mountain Home, died suddenly, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, at his home. Funeral services were held, Monday, Dec. 13, at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Burial followed at Mountain View Cemetery. A celebration (wake) of Danny's life was held at the home of Andrea and Claire White of Mountain Home...

Peter A. Porter, 48, of Mountain Home died Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004, at his home in Mountain Home, after a battle with cancer. His wife, Suk, and his mother, Joyce, were by his side. Funeral mass were celebrated Saturday, Dec. 18, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Mountain Home. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Ethel Mae Starkey, 90, of Mountain Home, died Thursday Dec. 16, 2004, in a local care center. Services were held Tuesday, Dec. 21, at Glenns Ferry Methodist Church. Graveside services followed at Glenn Rest Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Helen S. Johnson, 79, of Indian Cove, died Thursday Dec. 23, 2004, at her home with her family by her side. Memorial services were held Monday, Dec. 27, at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mountain Home. Arrangements under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

David Burdett Adams, 48, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004, at a Boise hospital, due to complications from a stroke. Private family services will be held. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Clarence E. (Bud) Boone, 86, of Hammett, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, at the Boise VA Regional Medical Center. Services were held Monday Dec. 27, at Hammett Community Church. Burial followed at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Lloyd B. Satterfield, 86, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday Dec. 21, 2004 at a Boise care center. Lloyd was born May 25, 1918 in Ozark County, Missouri, the son of Samson and Nora (Baxter) Satterfield. Lloyd and his family moved to Idaho in 1964 where he has lived for the past 40 years. Idaho was home to Lloyd where he enjoyed fishing and "just being in the outdoors and meeting people." Lloyd enjoyed collecting history from his family, and being around his two cats, Suzie and Baxter...

Frances Irene Jones, 77, of Mountain Home, died Monday, Dec. 20, 2004, at the Life Care Center of Idaho. Funeral services were at held Monday, Dec. 27, at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Burial followed at Mountain View Cemetery...

Mary Aline Powell, 74, died Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, in Mountain Home. The cause of death was attributed to the ravages of rheumatoid arthritis and heart disease. Aline was a direct descendent of the more than 6,000 Acadian people deported from their homeland by the British in the 1750s, some of whom settled in southern Louisiana. Acadia consisted of what are today the Maritime Provinces of Canada -- Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island...

Victora Renee Pehlke, 14, died Dec. 23, 2004, after a courageous battle with cancer since June. Funeral services will be held today, Wednesday, Dec. 29, at 2 p.m. at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Thomas Allen Brannan, 19, of Mountain Home AFB, died Dec. 19, 2004. A memorial service celebrating his life will be held Thursday at the base chapel, beginning at 1 p.m. A memorial service was held in his home town of Hayden, Colo., on Tuesday, Dec. 28, under the direction of Grant Mortuary of Craig, Colo...

Nelson H. Olds, Jr., 67, of Boise, the former mayor and police chief of Mountain Home, died Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, at the Veteran's Administration Hospital, Extended Care Unit, of lung and brain cancer. At his family's request, a celebration of his life will be held in June at Chico Cemetery, Chico, Calif. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Cloverdale Funeral Home, Boise...