Stories from Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Hundreds of people gathered to welcome the 2003 Capitol Holiday Tree to Mountain Home on Sunday. With lights flashing, a police escort led the way for the massive Englemann Spruce into the parking area at the Desert Mountain Visitor Center. This is the first time Idaho has been selected to provide the holiday tree for the nation's capitol and area residents helped to send it off for its trip to Washington, D.C. in style...

The federal FY 2004 Military Construction Appropriations bill conference report, which passed the House of Representatives and the Senate last week includes millions of dollars for improvements at Mountain Home AFB. The bill, which now goes to President Bush for his expected signature, would provide:...

As the 2003-2004 girls basketball season heats up, the questions are flying as to who will win the SIC 4A basketball title this year. The six coaches have voted, and those votes have been tabulated, with a first place vote earning six points, second place, five points, and so on, down to one point for a sixth-place vote. The results are as follows, with first place votes in parentheses:...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers opened their basketball season last weekend with losses at home against Boise and Centennial. Boise 80 Mountain Home 43 The Lady Braves from Boise broke away for a 23-8 lead at the end of the first quarter last Friday night at Mountain Home, but Mountain Home refused to quit, and scored 19 second quarter points to trail 48-27 at halftime...

Carol Ann Grace Dorman, 57, of Rupert, formerly of Mountain Home, died Nov. 15, 2003. Services will be held at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Rupert on Nov. 19. She was born on Aug. 3, 1946, in Rupert. She lived in Rupert until she was two, when she and her family moved to Tennessee. She returned to Rupert at age five and lived there until age 23 when she married Daniel Dorman. Carol and Dan resided in Mountain Home for about 20 years. Carol then returned to Rupert...

Grace Elizabeth Pfeiffer Smith, 92, of Boise, formerly of Mountain Home, died Nov. 6, 2003, of natural causes in Boise. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Alsip & Persons Funeral Chapel, Nampa. Services were held Wednesday, Nov. 12, with Pastor Edward Kerschensteiner of the Boise Valley Church of the Brethren officiating. Internment followed at Kohler Lawn Cemetery...

Evelyn Ann Jeffery, 50, died Sunday, Nov. 9, 2003, after a long fight with medical issues. Memorial services were held Friday, Nov. 14, at her daughter's home in Boise. Evelyn was born on May 11, 1953, in Jersey City, N.J., to Reginald Kenneth and Louise Evelyn (Mansmann) Jeffery...