Obituaries

Juanita Mattson (05/14/08)
Juanita Williams Smith Mattson, 63, formerly of Mountain Home, died May 10, 2008 at home, after a battle with cancer. Friends may call to visit with the family from 10-10:45 a.m., Thursday, May 15, 2008, at the Curtis Rd. LDS Chapel, 701 S. Curtis Rd., Boise. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at the Meridian Cemetery. Bishop Terry Carney will officiate. Services are under the direction of Relyea Funeral Chapel...

Brad Funk (05/14/08)
Brad Funk, 38, formerly stationed at Mountain Home AFB, died May 1, 2008, when his T-38 jet crashed at Sheppard AFB, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Funeral services were held Saturday, May 10, at the Roy North Park Ward Chapel in Roy, Utah. Internment was at the Warren, Utah, Cemetery, where Military Honors were accorded...

Mary Shaw (05/14/08)
Mary G. Shaw, 91, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday, May 13, at a local hospital. A memorial service will be held Saturday, May 17, at 11 a.m. at Knight Community Church in Grand View. Arrangements are under the direction Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home...

Harry Hannig (05/07/08)
Harry Max Hannig, 93, of Mountain Home, died May 2, 2008, with his family by his side, at the home of his daughter, Erika, and son-in-law, Edger Junger. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, May 12, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Dick Groefsema (05/07/08)
Dick L. Groefsema, 83, formerly of Mountain Home, died suddenly yet peacefully at his home in Gustine, Calif., on Friday, May 2, 2008. Memorial services will be held today, Wednesday, May 7, at 10 a.m. at the Hillview Funeral Chapel, 515 1st Street in Gustine...

Bill James (05/07/08)
Billy "Bill" D. James, 71, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at a local care center. He had fought a six-month-long battle after having a stroke in October 2007. A graveside inurnment will be held on Saturday, May 24, at 10:30 a.m. at Mountain View Cemetery. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

David Sherman (05/07/08)
David Walter Sherman, 69, of Mountain Home, died Friday, May 2, 2008, at his home. Friends and family are invited to attend the memorial service at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home on Friday, May 9, at 10:30 a.m. Dave will be placed to rest at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise...

Jerry Gyllenskog (05/07/08)
Jerry Michael Gyllenskog, 52, of Mountain Home died peacefully at home in the arms of his wife after a battle with cancer. A viewing will be held on Wednesday, May 7, from 4-7 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, May 8, at 1 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery. A reception will follow at the LDS Church...

Doris Davis (04/30/08)
Doris D. Davis, 93, of Hammett, died Friday, April 25, 2008, at a local care facility. A viewing was held on Tuesday, April 29, from 5-7 p.m. at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Services will be held on Wednesday, April 30, with a viewing from 10-10:45 a.m. and funeral services beginning at 11 a.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Glenns Ferry. Burial will follow at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry...

Donna Kundsen (04/30/08)
Donna V. Kundsen, 76, of Mountain Home, died Monday, April 21, 2008, at a Boise hospital. No services are planned at this time. Donna was born on April 9, 1932, in Idaho Falls, the daughter of Samuel and Bertha Waddell. She married Ray Knudsen in 1957 in Elko, Nev. They moved to Mountain Home in 1966...

Leonard Bledsoe (04/30/08)
Leonard Wayne Bledsoe, 87, of Hammett, died Saturday, April 26, 2008, at a local hospital. A viewing will be held on Friday, May 2, from 4-6 p.m., at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey chapel. The graveside service will be held Saturday, May 3, at 11 a.m. at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home in Mountain Home...

Evelyn Barnett (04/30/08)
Evelyn M. Barnett, 80, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at a local care center. A graveside service was held Friday, April 25, at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Melvin Freeman (04/30/08)
Melvin Patrick Freeman, 78, of Mountain Home, died on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at a local hospital. No services are planned at this time. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Litton Dennis Thomas (04/23/08)
Litton Dennis Thomas, 89, died April 20, 2008, in his home. A graveside memorial service will be held on Friday, April 25, at Mountain View Cemetery at 2:30 p.m. Known later in life as "Papa" or "Tommy," he was born on Feb. 20, 1919, in the Tennesse farmhouse of his parents, Sadie Hyder and Samuel Thomas...

Grover Sibley (04/23/08)
Grover "Sib" C. Sibley, 99, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, April 20, 2008 at a local hospital. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, April 25, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Sib retired as a Chief Master Sergeant from the US Air Force in August of 1967 after serving in World War II and Vietnam. He later also retired from Civil Service at Mountain Home Air Force Base...

Maxine Van Tassel (04/23/08)
Maxine M. Van Tassel, 75, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, April 17, 2008, at a Boise care center. A memorial service was held Tuesday, April 22, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Maxine was born on Feb. 18, 1933, in Campbell, Minn., the daughter of Edward and Blanche Rossow. She was raised and schooled in Minnesota. The family later moved to Illinois...

David 'Spud' Cox (04/23/08)
David Clyde Cox, 58 of Hammett, died Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at his home, following an illness. In celebration and memory of his life there will be a potluck lunch/dinner and music (bring your own instruments) for everyone at the family home in Indian Cove on Saturday, April 26, at noon (follow Highway 78 from Hammett to Indian Cove, between milepost 94 and 93, turn onto Browns Creek Road, first farm on the left)...

Beulah Leonard (04/23/08)
Beulah V. Leonard, 98, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, April 12, 2008, at a local care center. A memorial service will be held on Friday, April 25, at The Cottages of Mountain Home at 2 p.m. Burial was held on April 22 in Farmington, Wash. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, and Kramer Funeral Home in Tekoa, Wash...

Ida Everett (04/23/08)
Ida F. Everett, 95, of Mountain Home, died Thursday, April 17, 2008, at a local care center. A memorial service was held Monday, April 21, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. A private family inurnment will be held at Mountain View Cemetery at a later date...

Donna Knudsen (04/23/08)
Donna V. Knudsen, 76, of Mountain Home, died Monday, April 21, 2008, at a Boise hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

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