Obituaries from April 2005

Lyman "Nick" F. Whiterock, 70, of Owyhee, Nev., died Saturday, April 2, 2005, in a Boise hospital. Services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, at the HDC Building in Owyhee. Burial will follow at Big Dick Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Elsa O. Bodenheimer, 94, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, April 2, 2005, at a care center in Mountain Home. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Joanna M. Drake, 73, of Mountain Home, died Monday, April 4, 2005, at Elmore Medical Center in Mountain Home after a long battle with cancer Graveside services will be held on Friday April 8, at 11 a.m. at Mountain View Cemetery, Mountain Home. Following the graveside service there will be a reception at the Elks Lodge in Mountain Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home of Mountain Home...

James H. Robertson, 95, of Mountain Home, died Monday, March 28, of natural causes. Graveside services were held April 2 at Morris Hill Cemetery. He was born on May 19, 1910, in Boise to James Gordon and Addie L. Robertson. He attended school in Boise, Twin Falls, Coos Bay, Ore., and graduated from Boise High School, later attending the University of Idaho...

Marjorie A. (Marge) Campbell (Vandegrift), 87, died peacefully with her family at her side on April 6, 2005. A brief "Celebration of Life" ceremony was held at her most recent residence, Plantation Place Assisted Living in Boise on Saturday, April 9. She was interred with her late husband at Cloverdale Memorial Park in a private family ceremony. Arrangements were under the direction of Cloverdale Funeral Home...

Ronald Wayne Jones, 64, of Mountain Home, died April 6, 2005, at a Boise hospital, surrounded by his family. Memorial services were held Saturday April 9, at the American Legion Hall in Mountain Home. Military Honors were presented by American Legion Post 26, Mountain Home. Services were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Hazel Lorna Rogers, 84, died peacefully at Boise hospital on Wednesday, April 6, 2005. Memorial services were held Tuesday, April 12, at Our Lady of Limerick Catholic Church in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home of Mountain Home...

Emma Oleah True, 97, died Thursday, April 7, 2005, at the Elmore County Long Term Treatment Center in Mountain Home. Funeral services were held at Tuesday, April 12, at the Mountain Home LDS Church. Inurnment will be held at a later date at Glenn Rest Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel...

Capt. David Olen Dernier, 42, of the United States Air Force, formerly of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, April 13, 2005. No service date was announced. Arrangements were with Schertz Funeral Home of Schertz, Texas. Dernier was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on Sept. 9, 1963...

John L. Maledy, 79, Mountain Home, died after a long battle with cancer on Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at his home, with his daughter by his side. Per John's request no services will be held. A celebration of John's life will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, at 1775 E. 23rd North St., Mountain Home...

Gladys Hislop Minnerly, 92, formerly of Mountain Home, died Monday, April 11, 2005, at a Meridian Care Center. She previously lived in Mountain Home and Parma, Nu Acres, Idaho. Funeral services were held Friday, April 15, at the Summer Funeral Homes, Ustick Chapel, Meridian. Inurnment followed at the Meridian Cemetery...

Anna May (Sword) McWilliams, 86, a long-time Mountain Home resident, died March 1, 2005, in Camas, Wash. A memorial service will be held for Anna at Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel, at 10:30 a.m., Friday, April 22, with a luncheon following at The Elks Lodge...

Faye C. Dench-Richards, 72, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, April 14, 2005, at her home, with her family by her side. Memorial services will be held today, Wednesday, April 20, at 11 a.m. at St. James Episcopal Church. Committal will follow at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Sandra Mae Cochran, 63, of Mountain Home, died Monday, April 11, 2005, at a Boise hospital. Graveside services were held Friday, April 15, at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel...

Delores Eddie Gray Hightower, 69, of Mountain Home, died Friday, April 14, 2005, in Bruneau, at her daughter's home, surrounded by her family. A viewing will be held today, Wednesday, April 20, from 4-7 p.m. at Summers' Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. ...

Raymond L. (Ray) Betty, 73, of Glenns Ferry, died Wednesday, April 13, 2005, with his family close by. Services were held Monday, April 18, at First Baptist Church of Glenns Ferry. A committal service followed at Glenns Rest Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Evelyn A. Baun, 87, of Mountain Home, died in her sleep on April 16, 2005. Visitation will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Friday April 22, at Rost Funeral Home, 240 N. 4th East St., Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, at the First Congregational Church in Mountain Home. Committal will be at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Diana M. Ongay Lebron, 52, of Mountain Home, died peacefully on April 17, 2005, at a Boise hospital. Visitation will held from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday April 21, at Rost Funeral Home, 240 N. 4th East St., Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, April 22, at Iglesia Bautista Emanuel Church, Mountain Home...

Blanche E. Woodall, 89, formerly of Grand View, died Saturday April 16, 2005, at a Boise Care Center. Services were held Monday April 25, at Knight Community Church with committal at Riverside Cemetery in Grand View. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

John L. (Jack) Noble, 75, of Mountain Home, died April 21, 2005, at his home. Graveside service were held Tuesday April 26, at Bruneau Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home. Jack was born the second of five children to John E. and Lora Lemon Noble on Aug. 1, 1929. He attended Bruneau Elementary and High School...

Doreen I. Greb, 86, formerly of Mountain Home, died early Sunday morning on her birthday, April 24, 2005, at Westminster Nursing and Convalescent Center in Westminster, Md. Services and burial were private. Arrangements were handled by Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home, Westminster, Md...

Marie B. Wallace, 94, of Mountain Home, died Monday, April 4, 2005, in Bountiful, Utah. She will be buried, along with the ashes of her late husband, David, in a joint memorial service on Saturday, April 30, at 11 a.m. at MountainView Cemetery. Both sets of ashes will be inurned together...

Gretchen M. Smith, 95, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, April 20, 2005, at a care center in Meridian. Funeral mass was held Saturday, April 23, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Mountain Home. Burial followed at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements were by Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel...

Patricia Ann Herron, 82, of Mountain Home, died April 18, 2005, at the Elmore Long Term Care Unit. Memorial services were held Saturday, April 23, at the Church of the Nazarene. Inurnment followed at Mountain View Cemetery. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...