Obituaries

Homer Kress
Jun 10, 2015
Lester Homer Kress, 97. Passed away June 10, 2015 at Edgewood in American Falls, Idaho where he had resided for the last 2 years 11 months. Homer was born May 19, 1918 in Rockland, Idaho to Adam and May Kress. He attended school at Mountain View. He married Betty Reed on November 4, 1939. They settled on a dry farm in...
Fischer Michael
Jun 5, 2015
CALDWELL - Michael Fischer returned to the loving arms of his Savior while surrounded by his family after a valiant fight from cancer on June 5, 2014.
Mike was born in South Heart, ND on May 13, 1936, to Sebastian and Helen (Wetzstein) Fischer. He was born on the family farm and went to a one room country school...
Bobbie Charles Simms
Jun 3, 2015
Bobbie Charles Simms passed away on Wednesday June 3, 2015 at Power County Hospital District in American Falls. He was 95 years old. Bobbie was born in Roy, Idaho on February 9, 1920 to Charlie and Ethel Simms. He was the oldest of 5 children. He attended school in Roy and American Falls. While attending high school in American Falls...
Yuvonne Edmonds
May 18, 2015
Yuvonne Leyshon Edmonds, passed away at home on Monday, May 18, 2015. She was born in Aberdeen, Idaho on October 27th, 1934 to Jennie Mae Warner Leyshon and Lorenzo Leyshon. She was the third of five children. She grew up on the family farm with fond memories of "playing school teacher" to the barn animals, running through the fields, and...
Linda Bartel
May 8, 2015
Linda Ruth Friesen Bartel passed away May 8, 2015. Linda was born on February 12, 1915 in Hillsboro, Kansas to Abraham and Susanna Penner Friesen. On December 1, 1964 she married Milton Bartel of Aberdeen, Idaho. He died in 1989. Linda and Milton spent some of their life together farming and later living in town and doing custodial work at...
Helen Mae Tiede
May 8, 2015
Helen Mae Deeg Tiede was born May 19, 1933 to Fred and Lea Permann Deeg. She died on May 8, 2015; six days after Otto, her husband of 63 years. Helen grew up on the Deeg family farm in the Rockland Valley. As a âfarm girlâ she could be heard singing on horseback as she herded the cows. Her father often said she...
Douglas D Glascock
May 7, 2015
Douglas Delane Glascock April 14, 1949-May 7, 2015 Douglas Delane Glascock passed away on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at his home in American Falls surrounded by his loved ones. He was 66 years old. Douglas was born in Pocatello, Idaho on April 14, 1949 to Robah Glascock and Marjorie England Glascock. He was the 2nd of six children, and Robah and Marjorieâs...
Otto Leonard Tiede
May 2, 2015
Otto Leonard Tiede passed peacefully on Saturday, May 2, 2015. He was born May 28, 1925 on the Circle âTâ homestead in Pleasant Valley to John and Emma Rast Tiede. He spoke German until he started school and attended German confirmation classes at Martin Luther Church in Pleasant Valley. He attended country school and graduated from American Falls High School....
Carol Taylor Spillett
Apr 22, 2015
Carol Taylor Spillett passed away on April 22, 2015 at Bee Hive Homes in Perry, UT. She was born in Ogden, UT on Dec. 25 1939, being a âChristmas Carol!â She was the eldest of eight children born to Lawrence Chester and Frieda Schmidt Taylor and was raised on the Taylor Family Farm in Farr West, UT. She married James...

Lois Marie Wedel
Apr 15, 2015
Passed away Wednesday, April 15th, 2015. Services will be held at the Aberdeen Mennonite Church. Additional information will be posted as soon as it is made available.

Joseph Corsen
Apr 14, 2015
Joseph Corsen, 63, of Aberdeen, passed away. Service information is pending.
Mark Edward Miser
Mar 26, 2015
Mark Edward Miser, âLittle Redâ, 51, of American Falls, Idaho, passed away March 26, 2015. Mark was born and raised in Pocatello, Idaho. He attended Pocatello Senior High School. As a young man Mark enjoyed hunting, fishing and camping. He also enjoyed spending time with his family. The past few years Mark worked at AF Auto Sales in American Falls, Idaho. He enjoyed going to...
Esther Mehloff Ziebach
Mar 22, 2015
Esther Mehlhoff Ziebach, 102 , of American Falls died March 22, 2015 at Spring Creek Assisted Living in American Falls, Idaho.
She was born November 8, 1912 on a homestead in Perkins County near Faith, South Dakota to Richard and Malvina Krueger Mehlhoff. She was reared and educated in the Midwest. She married Miles Stanley Ziebach May 24, 1937 in...
Carolee Funk
Mar 19, 2015
Carolee J. Funk passed away peacefully on March 19, 2015, at St. Luke’s Regional Hospital in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Carolee was born on August 7, 1943, in American Falls, Idaho to Otto and Edna Funk. She attended and graduated from American Falls High School and at age 18, moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho to enroll in a secretarial studies...
Ruth Lois Echevarria
Mar 16, 2015
Ruth passed away March 16, 2015 at the age of 92 years in American Falls, Idaho. She was born on May 22, 1922 in Aberdeen, Idaho, the daughter of Alma Lester Jackman and Florence Amber Hofhine Jackman. She married John J. Echevarria April 19, 1939 in American Falls, Idaho. She was employed as a waitress, a dental assistant for Dr....
Ellis Kay Stanger
Mar 12, 2015
Ellis Kay Stanger, 70, of American Falls, Idaho died Thursday, March 12, 2015, at his home, following a brief battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
Kay was born June 5, 1944, the 10th of 15 children born to Edward Marion and Mary Ethel Adkins Stanger, in American Falls, Idaho. He was a lifetime resident of American Falls, where he grew...

Ellis Kay Stanger
Mar 12, 2015
Kay passed away March 12, 2015 with his family by his side. The funeral will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 21, 2015 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, 111 Church Place, American Falls 1st Ward. The visitation will be at the church from, 6-8 p.m. Friday, March 20,2015 & 9:30-10-30 a.m. Saturday before the funeral. Condolences...