Stories from Monday, November 23, 2009

"The Accordion Man," by Domingo Aguirre and his daughter, Silva, is now available at the Mountain Home Museum through the Mountain Home Historical Society--Publications Committee. The book covers the Aguirre Family from 1881 to 2009. There are 16 pages of colored pictures highlighting Prairie, Idaho, ranching and the family...

The Dusty Rose Inn will host a live nativity scene and nativity program on Dec. 6, beginning at 5 p.m. It is the fourth year that Jen and John Sower, the owners of the bed and breakfast located at 815 N. 3rd East St. (also known historically as "the pink house"), have offered the special Christmas event, which is free to the public...

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. ...