Obituaries from November 2009

David Williams Rowett, 52, of Sacramento, Calif., passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at home. A viewing will be held Tuesday, Nov. 3, from 4-6 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held at 11 am on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at St James Episcopal Church and burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...

Harold F. Mumford, 78, of Mountain Home, passed away on Oct. 19, 2009, at a local care center. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. What Uncle Harold meant to me! He was always my favorite because I spent so much time with him as a small child. I remember way back when he lived here in Ponca City and he worked for the Sanitation Department. He was always bringing me something! It might be a bike or a watch or whatever else of a treasure he found...

Sherman H. Stump Jr., 79, of Glenns Ferry, passed away on Nov.1, 2009, at his home following an illness. Services will be held on Saturday, Nov. 7, with a viewing from 10-10:45 a.m. and services beginning at 11 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Glenns Ferry. Burial will follow at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mtn Home...

Sherman Henry Stump Jr., 79, of Glenns Ferry, passed away at his home on Nov. 1, 2009. A viewing will be held at the Glenns Ferry LDS Church on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m. with funeral services following at 11 a.m. Burial will be at the Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements are by Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Dorothy (Rutherford) Ratliff was born June 19, 1916 in Elko, Nevada to charles and Carrie (Kendrick) Rutherford. She was raised in North for on the Rutherford Ranch. She me Karl Ratliff at the ranch when he came to ride horses for her Uncle Frank Rutherford. They married in May 1938...

Blaine Triplet Huddleston, 58, of Mountain Home, passed away at his home on Nov. 3, 2009. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mtn Home. Blaine was born on Oct. 4, 1951, in Filer, to George and Betty Huddleston. He was raised and schooled in the Filer area. He worked as a logger and various jobs...

Connie Blake Hansen passed away October 28, 2009. She was a graduate of Mountain Home High '59' and earned her RN at Los Angles Country Hospital in 1962, her Bachelor of Science at Seattle University, Masters at the University of Washington, PhD at University of San Diego, and her midwifery at Frontier School in Kentucky. ...

Linda Sue Teel, 60, of Mountain Home, passed away on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, at her home following an illness. Per her request, no services are planned. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Linda lived the first half of her life all over the South. She joined her family in Mountain Home in 1982...

Juanita Pearl Collett, was born in Grand View, Idaho, Feb. 19, 1929, and died Nov. 4, 2009, in Boise, after a prolonged illness. A viewing will be held Friday, Nov. 13, from 4-6 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Knight Community Church at 11:30 a.m. Burial will follow at the Riverside Cemetery in Grand View. A community potluck dinner at the Grand View Senior Center will follow the committal service...

Irene D. Morse, 71, of Boardman, Ore., died Nov. 6, 2009, at OHSU Hospital in Portland, Ore. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 11 a.m. at the Chapel of Macy & Son, McMinnville, Ore., with Rev. Jim Peterson officiating. Viewing will be held on Friday, Nov. 13, from 3-7 p.m. at the Chapel of Macy & Son. Internment will be at Evergreen Memorial Park, McMinnville. Irene, daughter of Irene Elizabeth Petersen and John Malcolm Davis, was born on June 10, 1938, in San Diego, Calif...

Kellie Farris, 37, of Mountain Home, passed away on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. at a Boise hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

Daniel (Sonny) H. Duffy, 73, of Featherville, died Nov. 9, 2009, in Arivaca, Ariz. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m., Dec. 1, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. A lunch reception will follow at the American Legion Hall...

Floyd James "Jim" Venable Jr., 82, of Prairie, passed away on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, at his home following an illness. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 20, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Jim was born on July 13, 1927, in Oakland, Calif., the son of Floyd and Mary Venable. ...

Carrie Victoria Vanderpool, 48, of Mountain Home, passed away on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, at a local hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Damon Robinson, 34, of Mountain Home, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at a local hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Alice Mary Beary Breslin died Nov. 10, 2009, at Elmore Medical Center Nursing Home in Mountain Home, Idaho. She was born April 11, 1914, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the sixth child of nine, to Thomas Beary of Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, and Mary Allen Beary of Derk, County Limerick, Ireland...

Loretta S. Mason, 57, of Glenns Ferry was afflicted with cancer in August 2009 and went to be with our Lord and her parents when she passed away at home on Nov. 12, 2009. A celebration of her life will be held at a later date. Cremation under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Darlene Bonnie Fuller, 67, of Mountain Home, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at a Boise hospital. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Daniel (Sonny) H. Duffy, 73, died in his sleep of a heart attack at his winter home in Arrivaca, Ariz., on Nov. 9, 2009. Judy, his beloved wife, was at his side. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m., Dec. 1, 2009, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home, along with an honor guard presentation by the 40/8. There will then be a military honor inurnment at the Idaho Veteranšs Cemetery in Boise at 3 p.m. that same day...

Donna Carol Carothers, 76, of Grand View, passed away on Nov. 18, 2009, at a Boise hospital. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28, at Knight Community Church. Inurnment will follow at Riverside Cemetery in Grand View. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

On Nov. 14, 2009, our mother, Paulyne Woollen, passed to the other side to be with our father. She was born in Sterling, Mo., on April 9, 1924. When she was eight she moved to Mountain Grove, Mo., with her family, and grew up there. Later she met our Dad at a government training camp in Missouri. Mom trained to be a machinist (all 5'2" of her). After the war Mom, Dad, and Donna moved west with our Aunt Joanne and Uncle Wayne to Idaho...

Damon Dion Robinson, 34, of Mountain Home, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at a local hospital. Funeral services were held on Saturday, Nov. 21, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Burial with military honors followed at Mountain View Cemetery...

Our cowboy took his last ride to meet his Heavenly Father on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. He lived a long, full life and was fortunate enough to have spent it doing what he loved... being a cowboy. A memorial service will be held for Bud W. Allen, 80, of King Hill, at 3 p.m., on Wednesday, Nov. 25, at Glenns Ferry High School. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Jill M. Aiken, 62, of Mountain Home, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, at a Boise hospital. A viewing will be held from 10-10:45 a.m. and funeral services at 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Alvina Paulina Huber White Gauthier went to be with our Heavenly Father on Nov. 22, 2009. She was born to Freida Bashans and Peter "Louie" Huber on June 6, 1928, in Mobridge, S.D. She married Wilbur White in 1944 and had two children and three stillborn children. They divorced and she married Roger Gauthier on Aug. 31, 1949, and had 14 children...

Dorothy I. Smith, 100, of Boise, died Wednesday, Nov. 18, at a Meridian care center. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 2, on her 101st birthday, at 2 p.m. at Summers Funeral Homes, Boise Chapel. A graveside service will be scheduled for sometime in the spring at Glenn Rest Cemetery, Glenns Ferry...

Helen R. Sousley, 86, died suddenly at her home at the Villas at Riverplace senior retirement community, in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, of natural causes. Helen was born in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 17, 1923, the fourth of eight children of Presbyterian minister Charles Payton Rigler and Ava Aileen Mayo Rigler. ...