Stories from Friday, August 15, 2014

Leona Gertrude Strickland Yates Albert passed away at Ochoco Care Center in Prineville, Ore., on July 12, 2014, at the age of 90 years ,with granddaughter Kara and Kara's husband, Pat, at her side. She was born to William (Bill) P. Strickland and Lena G. Wilson Strickland in Hot Springs, Idaho, on Jan. 23, 1924...

Husband, father, grandfather, friend, rancher and sheep man, John Urquidi left us on Aug.13, 2014. John was born to Basque immigrant parents, Jose and Victoria Urquidi, in Mountain Home, Idaho, on July 16, 1925. One of two boys, John and his brother, Tony, spent their younger childhood attending school in Mountain Home while living in the Bengochea Hotel during the winter. They spent their summers in Little Camas with their father...