Stories from Thursday, January 15, 2015

The Mountain Home Tigers started the new year off in the right way, picking up wins over Gooding and Minico. Mountain Home 75, Gooding 42 The Mountain Home Tigers opened the new year with a 75-42 non-conference win over the Gooding Senators last Tuesday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers opened the new year with conference losses to Bishop Kelly and Middleton. Bishop Kelly 57 Mountain Home 27 A slow start for Mountain Home put the Lady Tigers in the hole Wednesday night at Bishop Kelly, as they lost to the Lady Knights 57-27 in conference girls basketball at Bishop Kelly...

Rookie firefighter Jared Hart from the Mountain Home Fire Department extinguishes smoldering hay removed from a barn behind a home at 2114 Summer Wind Dr., as crews continued to extinguish the fire inside the structure Jan. 6. Firefighters linked the fire to spontaneous combustion, which destroyed bales of hay inside the horse barn but was contained before the fire had a chance to cause any significant damage to the structure...

Edith Verna Martin, age 88 of Glenns Ferry, passed away on Jan. 14, 2015, at her daughter's home in Hazelton, Idaho. Per her request, no services will be held. Cremation is under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, located at 500 North 18th East St. in Mountain Home...

Kelli Sue Hooper Hutton, 51, passed away Jan. 12, 2015, after battling cancer for over four years. Kelli was born Aug. 7, 1963, in Reno, Nev., to Jerry and Donna Hooper. Kelli had three great kids, Sean Crane and Shelbi and Jacob Ward. Kelli lived her life with a great deal of enthusiasm and high energy. She made friends everywhere she went. Her family and friends will miss her a great deal. We all loved you, Kel...

Leslie W. Peterson, 88, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, at a Glenns Ferry care center. No local services will be held. Funeral services will be held in Rye, Colo., at a later date with internment at the Brookside Cemetery in Rye, Colo. Idaho arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Judith Louise Dunn, age 69 of Mountain Home, passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, at a Meridian hospital. No formal services will be held. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.

Philomena (Nina) Reali passed away Jan. 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. There will be no local memorial services. Philomena was born May 18, 1929, in McKeesport, Pa. She resided in Mountain Home from 1990 to 2012. She is survived by her sisters, Laura Roberts, Ann Schloss and Teresa Cowan along with many other relatives and friends. Her final resting place will be in Clairton, Pa., alongside her loving mother and father, Elizabeth and Joseph...

Richard Claude Henle, 82, residing in Mountain Home since 2010, passed away peacefully at his home on Jan. 13, 2015. Arrangements are under the care of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Claude was born to Leon Claude Holstein and Mae (Cole) Holstein on Aug. 29, 1932, in Yakima, Wash...

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast, sponsored by the Mountain Home Community Black History Committee, was held Jan. 17 with former Gunfighter chief of staff Bruce Wong as the featured speaker. Complete coverage of the event will appear in the Jan. 21 edition of the Mountain Home News.