Stories from Monday, July 15, 2013

Surrounded by his family, Jack Edward Sellman, 87, quietly passed on July 14, 2013, at St. Luke's Elmore hospital in Mountain Home. Jack, the youngest of three sons, was born in 1925 in Colton, Calif., to Harry and Celia Cunningham Sellman. In 1936, the family moved to Victorville, Calif...

Bruce E. Bedell, 59, of Glenns Ferry, passed away at his home in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

It's fair time, and things were hopping down at the swine barn at the Elmore County Fairgrounds on Monday morning as 4-H club members prepared their pig projects for weigh-in. , Diego Bustamante, 10, of Mountain Home, and his pig, "Porky" were waiting their turn at the scales. "It's been great," said Diego of his first year as a 4-H member. He decided on a pig project because of the species' reputation for intelligence...

Steven J. Roberts, 35, of Mountain Home, passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2013. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

Marvin L. Wilder, born June 19, 1920, in Norfolk, Neb., to Lloyd S. and Grace Wilder, passed away July 6, 2013, in Chico Calif. He departed Nebraska in November 1938 on his Harley motorcycle. Due to the highways being iced over, he rode with ice skates on his feet towards California...

Betty D. Varady, 81, of Mountain Home, passed away on Sunday, July 14, 2013, at a local care center. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.