OBITUARIES
Gary Layton Ganske
Aug 4, 2017
Gary Layton Ganske, 74 of Nampa, passed away on Friday, August 4, 2017 at Saint Alphonsus Medical Center in Nampa, Idaho. A Memorial Service to honor and celebrate his life will be held at 11 AM on Friday, August 18, 2017 at the College Church of the Nazarene, 504 E. Dewey Ave, Nampa, ID. Services are under the direction of...
Clare June Lockton
Aug 4, 2017
Clare June Lockton, 90, passed away Friday, August 4th, peacefully in her Nampa home. Born in Nottingham England she had quite an interesting life; she was a beautiful pianist and would have gone to the Royal music academy if not for the war, they had to resort to hiding in sandstone caves for the remainder of her education due to...
May Irene Bunts
Jul 28, 2017
May Irene (Cornell) Bunts, 91, of Nampa, passed away at a local care facility on Friday, July 28, 2017 following a series of strokes over four months. A Memorial Service to honor and celebrate her life will be held at 12 Noon on Friday, August 4, 2017 at the College Church of the Nazarene, 504 E. Dewey Ave. in Nampa....
Marie Magdeline Marostica
Jul 28, 2017
Marie Magdeline (Mari) Marostica passed July 28, 2017. Marie was born in Sterling, Colorado, March 25, 1925, to immigrant parents Clarence and Catherine Mari. Marie was the oldest daughter of twelve children. She attended Iliff, Colorado schools until the 6th grade when she had to leave and help her mother with the raising of her siblings. While home, she was...
Leota Faye Stokesberry
Jul 27, 2017
Leota Faye Stokesberry Born March 22, 1940 in Berry County Missouri, Died July 21, 2017, Nampa Idaho Leota was born to Charles & Arvella Hilton. She was the oldest of 4 children - Charles, Harold & Carold. They moved from Missouri when she was 3-4 years old. She went to school in Buhl Idaho until the 11th grade. She quit...
Lavonna B Hughes
Jul 24, 2017
Lavonna B Hughes, 83, of Nampa, passed away on Monday, July 24, 2017 at the home of her daughter with her family by her side after an extended illness. Lavonna was born November 12, 1933 in Arkansas City, Kansas to Raymond and Carmine Lawson. She spent her early years in Walnut Grove, Missouri graduating from Walnut Grove High School in...
Helen Ilene Reed
Jul 20, 2017
Helen Ilene Reed passed peacefully from this life on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Helen Ilene (Dickson) Reed was born September 2, 1929 to Gordon and Pearl Dickson at the home of her grandparents in Nyssa, Oregon. Helen was raised on a large, working ranch in Ironside, Oregon. She attended grades 1 through 8 in a one room school house in...
Lorraine Carson Gundersen
Jul 15, 2017
Maude Lorraine Carson Mosley Gundersen, 94, a long-time resident of Nampa, Idaho, died July 15, 2017 at her daughters home in Nampa. The oldest child of Claude Loran Carson and Mary Siddy Rutherford, Lorraine was born December 2, 1922, in Ontario, Oregon, at the home of her grandmother, Nancy Elms Rutherford. She attended the White Settlement School near Vale, Oregon,...
Ida Lucille Hardy
Jul 15, 2017
Ida Lucille Trussell Hardy of Eagle was born on August 7, 1932 in Clearwater, Nebraska. She was the fifth of six children born to Moses and Alice (Philippi) Trussell. The family moved to Homedale, Idaho in 1936 where they farmed until 1946 when they relocated to Dallas, Oregon. Ida attended high school in Dallas and then returned to Homedale. On...
Wanda Bartlett
Jul 12, 2017
Wanda Bartlett, 92, of Nampa, died Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at her home. A graveside service will be held at 10:00 A.M. Thursday, July 20, 2017 at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery, Boise. Military honors will be offered for Wanda's husband, Ralph who died in 1998. Services are under the direction of the Nampa Funeral Home, Yraguen Chapel where an...
Mary Katherine 'Kandy' Winters
Jul 11, 2017
Mary Katherine "Kandy" Winters
1952 to 2017 She looked like a little angel with reddish-gold curls and a smile that brought joy to anyone who saw her and she was a gift from God placed in my arms. She was the answer to many prayers, given to us at the Boise Children's Home....
Helen Cleo Mattox
Jul 11, 2017
Helen Cleo Mattox, 93, of Nampa, died Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at a Nampa care facility. Helen was born on April 2, 1924 in Parma, Idaho to Herbert and Letha Farley. She spent her early years in Parma and attended Ten Davis School. When the family moved to Caldwell, Idaho she continued her education at Washington Elementary and Caldwell High...
Raymond H. Spurlock
Jul 9, 2017
Raymond H Spurlock passed away gently in the arms of the one soul he loved most on this earth on July 9, 2017 of natural causes after a long battle with IPF at St Alphonsus in Nampa, Idaho. He was 74 years old. Raymond was born in Ketchum, Ok on March 26, 1943 to Clyde P. and Ruby E. Spurlock...
Larie Ratcliff
Jul 6, 2017
Harriett Larie Ratcliff, 96, of Nampa, passed away on Thursday, July 6, 2017 at her retirement home in Nampa. She was born on September 23, 1920 in Greeley, Colorado to Albert and Elizabeth Swearingen. "Larie" was raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where she met and married her husband of 77 years, Earl Ratcliff. They relocated to Nampa where they raised four...
Thomas J. 'Tom' Doherty
Jul 4, 2017
Thomas J. 'Tom' Doherty, 75, of Melba, died Tuesday July 4, 2017 at a Meridian Hospital. Tom was born on July 6, 1941 to Joseph and Kathryn (Kit) Molony Doherty. He was raised in Clontarf, Minnesota and graduated from Benson, Minnesota high school. He became an electrician and traveled around the Eastern United States working and seeing the country. He...
Melvin Dean Alsager
Jul 4, 2017
Melvin Dean Alsager, 86, of Nampa, passed away at his home on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. A Funeral Service to honor his life will be held at 10 AM July 10, 2017 at the Nampa Church of the Brethren, 11030 Orchard Ave. with military honors by personnel from the US Air Force Base in Mt. Home, ID. Burial will follow...
Danny Lee 'Dan' Gasper
Jul 4, 2017
Danny Lee Gasper husband, father, grandfather passed away on one of the most celebrated days in America, the 4th of July 2017. Dan was born November 6, 1946 to Frederick Gasper and Doris Faye Reasoner in Twin Falls, Idaho. He graduated from Filer High School in 1965. He attended Links Business School. He worked for many years as a Produce...
Wesley 'Wes' Roger Schober
Jul 2, 2017
Wesley (Wes) Roger Schober was born on November 26, 1925, in Long Beach, CA and passed away on July 2, 2017. Wes father worked for the railroad bringing them to Nampa, Idaho in 1941. He attended Nampa High School and graduated in 1943. After high school, Wes joined the U.S. Navy and spent two years stationed in the Aleutian Islands...
Ida Jean Crandall
Jul 2, 2017
Ida Jean Crandall, 86, of Nampa, passed away Sunday, July 2 surrounded by loving family. Funeral services will be conducted at 10am on Saturday, July 8, 2017, at Nampa Funeral Home, Yraguen Chapel, 415 12th Ave South, Nampa. Burial will follow at the Kohlerlawn Cemetery, Nampa. An online guest book is available at www.nampafuneralhome.com Ida J. Crandall was born on...
Norma Marion Mangum
Jul 1, 2017
Norma Marion (Fischer) Mangum, 104, wife of the late Dr. Thomas Mangum, Jr., went to be with her Lord on July 1, 2017 in Boise, Idaho. Born on April 17, 1913 to Jesse and Jean Fischer in Lougheed, Alberta, Canada, Norma was the third daughter of six sisters. Her parents and grandparents had gone to Canada to take homesteads and...
