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February 24th, 2011
Rita Marie Snipe Wettenbone, 67,of Fort Hall passed away Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011.
Funeral arrangements are pending under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home.
Vonda Mae Bohney O’Shea, 65, of Blackfoot passed away Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, at her home.
A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, at Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Ave., Blackfoot.
The family will meet with friends for one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
Interment will be in the Fielding Memorial Park Cemetery in Idaho Falls.Â
Condolences may be sent to the family at condolences@hawkerfuneralhome.com.
Dean R. Hill, 66, of Blackfoot passed away Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, at Bingham Memorial Hospital.
No further services are planned at this time.
Family is under the care of Hawker Funeral Home.
Kenneth E. Douglass, 85, of Pocatello passed away Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, at Portneuf Medical Center.
According to his wishes direct cremation services will take place under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home.
A celebration of his life will be held at a later date and a full obituary will be published in Friday’s paper.
Betty Jean Nussbaum Burback, 81, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, in Pocatello.
She was born on Aug. 29, 1929, in Montpelier. She was the youngest of six children born to John Jacob and Emilie Anderegg Nussbaum.
When Betty was eight months old, her family moved to Pocatello. She attended Pocatello High School, graduating in 1946.
She married George Charles “Charlie” Burback, her childhood friend, on Dec. 1, 1947, upon his return from military service. They had two children: David (Linda) of Corvallis, Ore., and Sandra (Kim) Rogers of Blackfoot.
BLACKFOOT — The juvenile defendant facing charges relating to incidents that occurred during the basketball season last year at Blackfoot High School appeared in court Wednesday for an evidentiary hearing before Magistrate Judge Charles Roos.
February 23rd
ST. ANTHONY — With three minutes remaining in the 2A Nuclear Conference boys basketball championship game, Butte County emptied their bench in a sign of defeat. Moments later the four time defending champion Firth Cougars did the same and after a few scruffy moments, the buzzer sounded on a 56-29 Cougar victory as Firth celebrated their fifth straight district title.
February 22nd
POCATELLO - It is often said that offense is for the highlight reels and defense wins games. The Snake River Panthers turned on the defense Tuesday night as they completely dominated the American Falls Beavers in District 5 basketball tournament action 57-38.
REXBURG — The Shelley Russets held a 9-point lead heading to the tail end of the third quarter at Madison High School on Tuesday night. Call it the Madison mystique or the Hawkins magic, whatever the case was, Shelley got caught up in a late wave of a Madison run and when that wave came crashing down, Madison had prevailed in the High Country Conference title game by the final tally of 63-54.
Kenneth W. Ditto, 72, of Blackfoot passed away Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, at his home.
Funeral arrangements are pending under the direction of the Hawker Funeral Home.
