Obituaries from February 2011

Julianna Hetz, 91, of Mountain Home, died Jan. 30, 2011, at a local hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

Loretta M. Fadeley, 74, of Mountain Home, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at her home, following an illness. Services will be held at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, on Monday, Feb. 7, a viewing from noon until the 2 p.m. funeral service. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Daryel D. Crain, 66, of Mountain Home, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at a Boise hospital. A private family graveside service was held on Friday, Feb. 4, at Mountain View Cemetery. Daryelıs ashes, along with his wife Judyıs ashes and son Dwaneıs ashes were all laid to rest together. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Loretta M. Fadeley, 74, of Mountain Home, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at her home, following an illness. Services will be held at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, on Monday, Feb. 7, with a viewing from noon until the 2 p.m. funeral service. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

Julianna Hetz, 91, of Mountain Home, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at a local hospital. A memorial service was held on Thursday, Feb. 3, t Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Inurnment will be held at a later date in Aurora, Ill. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Roxie A. (Mink) Bossenberger, 55, formerly of Mountain Home, passed away on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, at her home in Grand Prairie, Texas. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Roxie was born to Herbert and Jean (Thomason) Mink on Nov. 25, 1955, in Weiser. She started school in Cambridge until 1967 when the family moved to King Hill. In 1969, the family moved to Mountain Home where Roxie finished school and graduated from Mountain Home High School in 1974...

Jack E. J. Green, 72, of Mountain Home, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, at his home, following an illness. Per his request, no service will be held. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

Francis H. Hicks, 86, of Mountain Home, passed on peacefully in the company of his family and loved ones on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, at a Meridian hospital. A rosary will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at Our Lady of Good Counsel, in Mountain Home. ...

Maria "Mitzi" Magee, 78, of Mountain Home, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, at a Boise hospital. Services will be held at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, on Friday, Feb. 18, with a viewing from noon until the 2 p.m. funeral service. Mitzi was born in the small farming community of Seibersdorf, Austria, on March 11, 1932. She lived as normal a life as was possible during those times. The war years were very bad...

Virginia R. Kast 92, of King Hill, died Thursday Feb. 17, 2011, at North Canyon Medical Center in Gooding. Memorial services will be announced at a later date. Cremation was under the direction of Demaray Funeral Service-Gooding Chapel. Condolences may be shared with the family by visiting the obituary link at www.demarayfuneralservice.com...

Betty Mae Arambarri, 87, passed from this earth on Feb. 16, 2011, at a Boise hospital. A viewing will be held at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, from 4-6 p.m., on Sunday, Feb. 20. A funeral mass will be held at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church on Monday, Feb. 21, at 10 a.m., with internment following at the Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry...

Pauline Worley Harper Boyd, 89, died on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, in a Mountain Home care center. Services will be held on Friday, Feb. 25, at 10 a.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. Burial will follow at 2 p.m. at the West End Cemetery in Buhl, Idaho...

Virginia Rose Silva Kast, 92, of King Hill, passed away suddenly on Feb. 17, 2011, at North Canyon Medical Center in Gooding. Virginia was born on Dec. 2, 1918, in Sparks, Nev., the oldest of four children of Edward Manual Silva and Marian Emery Silva. She grew up in Browns Valley, Calif., and attended high school in Marysville and Sutter...

Marjorie Louise (Fenstermaker) Grubb, 87, of Mountain Home, peacefully passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011, at a local care facility. A graveside service was held Saturday, Feb. 26, at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. A gathering of family and friends followed at her daughter's home...

William "Bill" Howard Walker, 89, of Glenns Ferry, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, at a local hospital. A rosary will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. A memorial service will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 1, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, 115 N. 4th East St., in Mountain Home...

Ruth Allen Pierce passed away in her sleep on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, at the Guardian Angel Cottage in Lewiston, Idaho. A memorial service was held on Monday, Feb. 21, at the Church of the Nativity (Episcopal), in Lewiston. Born on Oct. 11, 1918, in Boise, Idaho, to James Allen and Helen Purkhiser Dement, Idaho pioneers, Ruth grew up in various locations around the northwest, moving frequently because her father owned and operated newspapers. She graduated from Wallowa High School in 1936...

Diane Lynn Crane, 57, of Mountain Home, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, at her home. A memorial service is pending at this time. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Diane was born on June 5, 1953, in Redwood City, Calif., the daughter of Richard and Barbara (Hine) Lake...