Russell Lorin Sortor
Jan 29, 2015
Russell Lorin Sortor, 79, of Samaria, Idaho, passed away on Thursday, January 29, 2015. Russell was born on April 26,1935 to William F. and Mary Ann Sortor. He was the fourth of nine children. Russell married Bula May Reed on May 9, 1953 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They had 5 children. They made their home in Samaria in 1997. He...
Joann Archibald Williams
Jan 29, 2015
JoAnn Archibald Williams, 79, passed away Thursday, January 29, 2015. Graveside services will be held on Monday, February 9 at 8:00 a.m. in the Malad City Cemetery. Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, February 7 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the Horsley Funeral Home, 132 W. 300 N. in Malad.
Eugene Thorpe
Jan 28, 2015
Eugene W. Thorpe, 94, was reunited with his sweetheart, Helen, on January 28, 2015. He was born March 16, 1920, in Pleasant View, Idaho, to Thomas and Lucy Walker Thorpe. Eugene married Helen Hansen in 1942. They celebrated 68 years together, before Helen's passing in 2011. Eugene graduated from Malad High School in 1938 and then worked on the family...
Emma Louise Davis Chambers
Jan 27, 2015
A blue-eyed bundle of spunk, Emma Louise Carter was the caboose born to Laurence G. and Emma Carter in Ogden, Utah on April 23rd 1933. Emma Louise passed her childhood in the wide open space of Park Valley, Utah. She graduated from Box Elder High School and cooked and sewed her way to a Home Economics degree at Utah Agricultural...
Donald Hughes
Jan 26, 2015
Donald Hughes, 80, of Malad, passed away Monday, January 26, 2015 at home, peacefully with his wife, daughter and son-in-law at his side. He was born December 5, 1934 to Chester Rawland Hughes and Phoebe Ann Thomas. Don loved to farm, hunt, fish and raise miniature ponies. He always loved selling his wifeÕs favorite horse. He also loved herding sheep...
William Colton
Jan 24, 2015
William (Bill) Colton Jr. returned to his Heavenly Father and was reunited with his beloved wife Joyce Saturday January 25, 2015. Bill was born on April 4th 1930to William Colton Sr. and Victoria Williams of Malad Idaho where he lived most of his life. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the...
Ellis Ervin Gilbert
Jan 23, 2015
Ellis Ervin Gilbert was born July 8, 1952 in Downey, Idaho to Ervin and Colette Gilbert. He was raised on a farm with his three brothers Doug, Kent and Scott and one sister, Carol. Although he disliked milking cows, he loved the other aspects of farming and developed a work ethic that served him well all his life. He attended...
Linda Kay Williams
Jan 22, 2015
Linda Kay Williams 1951-2015 Linda Kay Gleed Williams passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, January 22, 2015 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born to Wilford Ralph Gleed and Gloria Rees Gleed on April 17, 1951 in Malad, Idaho. She graduated from Malad High School where she was a student body officer and was chosen as royalty...
Eldon L. John
Jan 22, 2015
Eldon Lloyd John, 87, passed away Thursday, January 22, 2015 at his home in Malad, Idaho. Eldon was born on May 16, 1927 in Samaria, Idaho to David Edwards John and Mattie Williams John. He spent his childhood years on the family ranch in Samaria. He married Merle Colton of Malad, Idaho on August 17, 1951. On March 24, 1966...
Diane Pierce Bowen
Jan 20, 2015
Diane Lee Pierce Bowen, 72, passed away Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at her home in Bear Lake surrounded by her husband and family. She was born on January 25, 1942 in Malad, Idaho to James D. and Marguerite Pierce. Diane married her high school sweetheart, George R. Bowen on July 29, 1958 and they later solemnized their marriage in the...
Theodore Lindsey
Jan 18, 2015
Theodore Price Lindsey died peacefully at home January 18, 2015, following an extended illness. He was born April 12, 1929, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Theodore Lloyd and Edith (Price) Lindsey. Teddy attended Grammar School in Salt Lake City, where as a youngster a local artist took interest in him and taught him to paint. Later the family relocated...
Lena Packer Christiansen
Jan 18, 2015
Lena Smith Packer Christiansen was born April 4, 1918 in the farming community of Riverdale, Idaho, to Louis and Clotilda Packer. She passed from this life peacefully on Sunday, January 18, 2015, in Downey Idaho, at the age of 96. Lena loved being outdoors, whether it was to work in her flower gardens, collect rocks, picnic with her family, play...
Kathleen Fullmer Tubbs
Jan 13, 2015
Kathleen Elizabeth Fullmer Tubbs, 68, passed away at home January 13, 2015 due to complications of Parkinson's disease. Kathleen was born October 30, 1946 to Elise Malin Fullmer and Arnold Glen Fullmer in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the first of three girls born to the Fullmer's and ushered in the baby boom era that is still prevalent today....
Miriam Shiiley Ricks
Jan 11, 2015
Miriam Shirley Ricks, daughter of Arthur and Wenonah Miller Shirley, passed away Sunday, January 11, 2015 at Orchard Park Care Center in Orem, Utah. Miriam was born September 25, 1934 in Provo, Utah. She spent her early life in Fish Haven, Idaho and attended elementary school there. She was a 1952 graduate of Fielding High School in Paris, Idaho and...
Bernice Horsley Hicks
Jan 9, 2015
Bernice Horsley Hicks, our beloved mother, sister, grandmother and wife passed away peacefully on January 9, 2015. She was 97 years old. The angels in heaven were truly blessed to welcome her home. Bernice was born February 7, 1917, in Salt Lake City, Utah to Ernest and Agnes Horsley. She spent her younger years in Malad, Idaho, where she graduated...
Ruth Chugg
Jan 3, 2015
Ruth Chugg, 94, passed away on January 3, 2015 at a local care center. Graveside services will be held on Thursday January 8, 2015 at 11:00 am at the Samaria Cemetery. Friends may visit with the family on Thursday from 10:00-10:45 am at the Horsley Funeral Home 132 W. 300 N. Malad.
Mary Joann Higgins
Dec 28, 2014
Jo Ann Nesser Higgins Jo Ann, 79, was surrounded by her family as she passed from this world on Dec. 28, 2014 to be with her loved ones who moved on before her. She was born Jan. 18, 1935 to Jane Rowe Nesser and Joe Nesser in Lava Hot Springs then grew up in McCammon where she attended school. She...
Robert & Darline Richards
Dec 27, 2014
Robert F. (Bob) and Darline (Gabby) Richards Malad, Idaho… Bob (79) and Darline (75) Richards are now together with each other and their family in heaven. Bob was born on October 31, 1936 in Ely, Nevada and Darline was born March 22, 1939 in Downey, Idaho. They started their lives together getting married in a mortuary and now are ending...
Janiel Blowers
Dec 24, 2014
Janiel Blowers, 74, passed away Thursday, December 24, 2014. Graveside services will be held on Saturday, December 27 at 1:00 p.m. in the Downey City Cemetery. Friends may visit with the family from 12:00-12:45 p.m. at the Downey LDS Church prior to the service.
Clara Jensen
Dec 23, 2014
Clara Church Jensen, 78 passed away Dec 23rd after a courageous battle with cancer while surrounded by family. Clara was a kind and generous spirit who touched everyone she met, a champion to her family, loyal to friends and kind to all. Clara arrived in the home of Herman R Church and Daisy Opal Seamons on Oct 5, 1936 in...
