Obituaries from March 2005

Walter Dean Prescott, 89, formerly of Hammett, died Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, in the Gooding Rehab and Living Center. Memorial services were held Tuesday, March 1, at the Wendell Idaho LDS Church. Internment was at the Wendell cemetery. Dean was born in Smithfield, Utah, in 1915. His family dry farmed and ranched until moving to Grace. In 1925 they moved to Wendell where he continued his education and graduated from Wendell High School in 1932...

Martin Hoegg, 74, of Mountain Home, died Thursday Feb. 24, 2005, at home, with his family by his side. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home. Martin was born April 13, 1930, in Tepl, Germany which is now the CK Republic, Czechoslovakia, to Odolf and Marie (Moser) Hoegg. Martin was raised in Saltzburg, Austria...

Lois Fern (Bailey) Cunningham, 88, died in King Hill Feb. 26, 3005. Graveside services will be held at Gibbonsville, Idaho, cemetery, at 11 a.m. today, Wednesday, March 2. She will be buried beside her husband, Paul. Lois was born in Chesterfield, Cherry County, Neb., June 30, 1916. She was the seventh of 10 children born to Arthur Lincoln Bailey and Priscilla Belle (Woolard) Bailey...

Anna Mae McWilliams, 86, of Camas, Washington, formerly a longtime residence of Mountain Home, died peacefully on Monday, March 1, 2005. Visitation will be held on Thursday, March 10, from noon until 8 p.m. at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Louise Gibbs-Hobson, 91, of Glenns Ferry, died Feb. 9, 2005, at Elmore Medical Center. Private memorial services have already been held. Louise is survived by: her son, Stephen (Stacy) Hobson, of Georgetown, Texas; her daughter, Casey Jones of Glenns Ferry; stepson Richard (Chris) Hobson of Salt Lake City, Utah; a niece; a daughter-in-law, Linda Hobson, and two grandchildren...

V. Lynn Riddle, 57, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday March 1, 2005, at her home. Graveside inurnment was held Tuesday, March 8, at Mounain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home. Lynn was born on July 13, 1947, in Boise, to M.A. "Bud" Riddle and Vyonda J. Rice Riddle. Lynn grew up in Mountain Home and graduated from Mountain Home High School...

Jodie L. Valen, 37, of Mountain Home, died at her home on Saturday, March 5. Private family services will be held. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, Boise Chapel.

Marie Evelyn Blacken, 88, of Mountain Home, died Thursday March 10, 2005, at a local care center. Memorial services will be held in Snohomish, Wash., at a later date. Cremation is under the direction of Rost Funeral Home. Marie was born on Sept. 11, 1916, in Christina, Mont., to Paul and Ramona (Davis) Donisthorpe. She was the second of five children...

Wylee Burl Yates, 75, a long-time residence of Mountain Home, died Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at a Boise hospital. Local memorial services will be held Monday, March 28, at 5 p.m. at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. Wylee chose to be cremated and his remains be intered beside his mother and father in Providence Baptist Church Cemetery in Woodland, Ala. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Providence Baptist Church in Woodland...

Elizabeth (Betty) Klassen Clark, 95, died March 18, 2005, at the Mountain Home hospital. Memorial services were conducted Tuesday at the First Congregational Church in Mountain Home. Inurnment will be held in Boonville, Calif., at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

David Randall Benson, 30, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, March 17, 2005, at his residence. Graveside services were held Tuesday, March 22, at the Middleton Cemetery in Middleton, Idaho. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Archie E. Hoffman, 93, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, March 20, 2005. Memorial services will be held at 11 am. Friday, March 25, at Summers Funeral Homes McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home, with inurnment to follow at Mountain View Cemetery. A reception to follow at the funeral home...

Jodi Lynn Valen, 37, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, March 5, at her home. Private family memorial services were held. Arrangements were by Summers Funeral Homes, Boise Chapel. Jodi was born Feb. 13, 1968, in Long Beach, Calif. She is survived by: three children, Blair, Mikel, and Alesha, of Nampa; her mother and stepfather, Chyrl and Scott Grondahl of Nampa; her brother and sister-in-law, Garret and Heather Tillitt of Kuna; her brothers, Brandon Seek of Kuna and Mathew Seek of Nampa; and her grandmother, Talma Justesen of Nampa.. ...

Jeannie (Covington) Chinn, 72, of Boise, died Sunday March 27, 2005 in Boise, after a brief illness. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, March 30, at 2:00 p.m. at Mountain View Cemetery. Services are under the direction of the Summers Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Nona Verle Frost Jones, 91, of Bruneau, died March 27, 2005. She had been at Boise Samaritan Village Care Center for the last eight months. Private graveside services will be held at Bruneau Cemetery on Thursday, March 31, at noon. Arrangements are under the direction of Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel in Boise...

Glenna (Davison) West, 82, of Mountain Home, died March 27, 2005, in Nampa, after an extended illness. Services will be held on Monday, April 4, at 10:30 a.m. at the Assembly of God Church, 315 S. 4th East St., Mountain Home. Burial will follow at 1 p.m. at Prairie Cemetery, in Prairie. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Earl Hale, 73, of Mountain Home, died March 23, 2005, at a Boise hospital. Services will be held on Wednesday, March 30, at 11 a.m. at Bible Baptist Church, 1555 American Legion Blvd, Mountain Home. Burial will follow with military honors at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...