Obituaries from February 2005

Anna "Anita" Gonzalez Herrera, 74, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005, at her residence. Vigil services will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel. Visitation will be held prior to the vigil from 4-6 p.m. at the chapel...

Robert "Bob" E. Grove, 70, of Mountain Home, died Friday, Jan. 28, 2005, at his residence. At his request no local services will be held. An Easter Brunch Wake will be held in Reno, Nev.. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Terrel (Terry) Staton, 78, of Tucson, Ariz., formally of Mountain Home, died Monday, Jan. 24, 2005, after a long battle with cancer. Memorial services will be announced by Rost Funeral Home at a later date. Arrangements under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

James "Jim" Prano, 67, of San Bernardino, Calif., formerly of Mountain Home, died Monday, Jan. 24, 2005, in Murtaugh, Idaho. Funeral services were held Saturday Jan. 29, at the American Legion War Memorial Hall in Mountain Home, under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Donna Jean Hall, 76, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005. Graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 4, at Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain Home. A gathering for family and friends will be held following the service at the family home, 520 N. 5th East St., in Mountain Home...

Harvey A. Sherman, 68, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005, at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center of complications from a stroke and diabetes. At his request, no services are planned. His body will be cremated and his ashes "scattered to winds somewhere in Idaho," his family said...

Eleanor M. Fischer, 91, of Mountain Home, died Jan. 29, 2005 at a local care center. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 7, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Mountain Home. Local arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

David Litton Thomas, 49, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2004 at his home, with his wife, Charissa, by his side. Memorial services were held Tuesday, Feb. 8, at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Margaret Lillian Merchant Boone Smith Roberts, 82, died Feb. 4, 2005, just before midnight, due to complications from Alzheimer's Dementia. The disease was "her greatest fear," her family said, noting that she had conquered cancer on two previous occasions...

Ramon Joseph Diaz, 85, of Mountain Home, died, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2005. Memorial prayer services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church. Inurnment service and military honors will follow at Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain Home, followed by lunch served by the American Legion Auxiliary, Post No. 26, at War Memorial Hall, 515 E. 2nd South St...

Burton L. Moore, Sr., 79, of Boise, died peacefully at home on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005, with his wife and children by his side, after a year-long fight with cancer. Mass of Christian Burial was held Monday, Feb. 14, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. A reception followed the services at the church. Burial was in Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home following the reception. Arrangements were under the direction Summers Funeral Homes, Boise...

Terrel (Terry) Staton, 78, of Tucson, Arizona, formerly of Mountain Home, died Jan. 24, 2005, after a long fight with cancer. At his request, he was cremated in Arizona. A graveside memorial service for family and friends will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday Feb. 18, at MountainView Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Galen John Truesdell, 27, of Mountain Home Air Force Base, formerly of Shelburne Falls, Mass., died Thursday Feb. 10, 2005. Memorial services were held at the Mountain Home Air Force Base Chapel on Tuesday, Feb. 15. Local arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home Mountain Home...

Charley Ray Floyd, 57, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday Feb. 8, 2005, at a Boise Hospital. Memorial Services were held Tuesday, Feb. 15, at Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. #2276 in Mountain Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

Irene Broadbent, 86, formerly of Mountain Home, died Feb. 12, 2005, in Torrance, Calif. Born Sept. 1, 1918, in Mountain Home to Pearle and Dr. Thomas E. Evans, she attended elementary school and high school in Mountain Home. She served in the WACs during WWII...

Orval Harden, 97, died peacefully at home in Grand View, on Feb. 18, 2005. Graveside services will take place at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, in Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home. He was born in Cherokee County, Kan., in 1907, the fourth child of John William Erastus Harden, and Cora Ann (Belk) Harden. He joined two older sisters, Lola and Leona, and a brother, who died shortly after he was born...

Janice Rainey Haderlie Fleming, 69, of GrandView, died Feb. 20, 2005 at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise of pnuemonia. A viewing will be held Thursday, Feb. 24, from 5-7 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home. Services will be held Friday, Feb. 25, at 2 p.m. at Riverside Cemetery in Grand View. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Jolene C. O'Hare, 71, died Feb. 16, 2005, at the Trinity Mission Health and Rehab Care Center in Nampa. Jolene was born May 23, 1933, in Long Beach, Calif., to Jody Ruland Cook and Wilmerth May (Adair) Cook. She lived and attended school in Albion, Idaho, until the age of 13, when they moved to Mountain Home, "although her heart never left Albion," her family said...

Geraldine R. Kraus, 86, died peacefully at her residence in Mountain Home on Wednesday Feb. 16, 2005. Visitation was Sunday Feb. 20, at Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home. Services were held Monday at the First Congregational Church. Burial followed at Riverside Cemetery in Grand View. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, Mountain Home...

LeRoy Raymond (Doc) Watson, 80, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, with his wife, Anne, by his side, after a short illness at home. Vigil services were held Sunday, Feb. 20, at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. Funeral mass was held Monday, Feb. 21, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church with burial to follow at Mountain View Cemetery...