Danielle Calypso

Monday, October 20, 2014

Danielle Hope Calypso, 25, of Mountain Home, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014.

A celebration of Danielle's life will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Richard Aguirre Park in Mountain Home. Cremation was under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel.

Danielle grew up in Tularosa, N.M. She looked forward to spending summers in Mountain Home with her family. Danielle graduated from Tularosa High School in 2007.

Danielle attended the University of New Mexico, Alamogordo Campus, studying photography in an exclusive program. She moved to Idaho in 2011 and started working at Walmart in July of 2011 as a sales associate.

Danielle had a passion for photography. She liked art, paintings and making jewelry and she loved mythology.

She always joked that everyone celebrated her birthday on July 4th.

Danielle collected flashlights as she was afraid of the dark.

She had a heart of gold and will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

Danielle is survived by: her mother, Vivian May Smith, of Mountain Home; her father, Erwin Chatfield, of Tularosa, N.M.; her sisters, Millicent Marie Smith of Mountain Home and Amber Dawn Callentine of Panama City, Fla.; her brothers, James Daniels of Idaho Falls, Adam Troy Smith of Tucson, Ariz., formerly of Mountain Home, Marcus William Chatfield of Albany, Ore., and Kyle James Smith of Mountain Home; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her stepfather, Thomas Smith, a sister, April Gifford, and both her paternal and maternal grandfathers.

The family requests that donations be sent to Rost Funeral Home, 500 N. 18th East St., in Mountain Home, to assist with funeral expenses or in Danielle's memory to Suicide Awareness/Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline, 1607 W. Jefferson St., Boise ID 83702.