Local Obituaries for Families in Idaho County
James Crawford
Feb 26, 2019
James Allen Crawford 85, of Kooskia, Idaho, passed away in his home on February 26, 2019. Jim was born January 13, 1934 in America, Oklahoma to DeWitt and Minnie Crocker Crawford. His family moved to California, like many other families during the Dustbowl era. The Crawford family picked cotton in the fields to make ends meet. With the population growth,...
Robert Hutchins
Feb 24, 2019
Robert Lee Hutchins of Kamiah, Idaho, joined the angels in Heaven on Sunday, February 24, 2019. Bob was born May 5, 1944, in Sonora, California, to Wilger and Vera Adams Hutchins. He attended school in Sonora and later joined the U.S. Navy. Bob was married to Sandra Williams and they had four children, Sandra Lee, Christine Louise, Lucille Marjory, and...
Roy Gustavson
Feb 21, 2019
Roy Doane Gustavson was born February 16, 1953 at the Cottonwood Hospital and lived the beginning of his life at Camp 58 in Harpster, Idaho, moving with his family to Kooskia shortly after. He loved the outdoors, especially fishing. He worked for the Moose Creek Forest District in the summers- after he graduated from Kooskia - Clearwater Valley High School....
Theresa Derr
Feb 10, 2019
A spark that was an imp named Theresa A. Shells Derr left this physical plane on Sunday, February 10, 2019. She was reunited with her parents and beloved brothers who proceeded her to the journey beyond. She was born November 30,1951 in Ashtubula, Ohio. Theresa moved to Idaho in 1970 where she met her two best friends for life-Karen Cox...
Doyle Pfefferkorn
Feb 2, 2019
Our Father, Grandpa, Friend and "Governor of Kidder Ridge" passed away February 2, 2019. He was 94. Doyle was born in Woodland, Idaho to Gustel and Verla Pfefferkorn on January 29, 1925. He attended school in Kooskia. After leaving in his junior year, he joined the Army and served in World War II. Returning from the war, he worked at...
Thomas Bytheway
Jan 31, 2019
Thomas Jackson Bytheway, 12, of Woodland near Kamiah, passed away January 31, 2019 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington. Thomas was born in Woodland, Idaho near Kamiah to Shane Bytheway and Angela Whitehead Bytheway. He grew up in the Woodland area on the family ranch, where he could run and explore the outdoors. Living on a ranch requires you...
Frances Pfefferkorn
Jan 20, 2019
Frances Marion Pfefferkorn was born on March 29, 1931 in White Butte South Dakota to Charles and Mable Weisbeck. She passed away on January 20, 2019 in Lewiston, Idaho. She was 87.Frances was a lifelong resident of the Kooskia/Stites area. She married Gerald Dean Pfefferkorn on February 17, 1949. They had three children, Allen Pfefferkorn, Eunice Snyder and Julie Pfefferkorn.Frances...
Charles Daeges
Jan 19, 2019
Charles "Chuck" Daeges, 87Charles Francis Daeges was born May 9, 1931, in Portsmouth, Iowa to William and Catherine Riley Daeges. His wife, brother John and his wife Jean, were with him when he passed to his next life on January 19, 2019 from pancreatic cancer. He moved to Washington State in his early years and then moved to Sheridan, Ore....
Grayce Brannan
Jan 18, 2019
Grayce Brannan was born, in Nacogdoches, Texas on May 9, 1922. She died on January 18, 2019 at Clearwater Health and Rehab in Orofino following a brief stay at Clearwater Valley Hospital.She married Leslie Brannan on August 9, 1942, in Santa Monica, California. Grace had one daughter, Linda.Grayce and her husband bought a ranch on Battle Ridge, outside of Stites,...
Katherine Goss
Jan 10, 2019
Katherine (Kitty) Goss (Julian), was born August 20, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. She died January 10, 2019 at Brookside Landing in Orofino, Idaho. Kitty married the love of her life Harold Goss on January 5, 1947. They raised six children together Harold Jr. (Butch), Lois, Gary, Paul, Kurt and Kathy. Kitty enjoyed traveling and seeing new sights. She was...
Bertha Hager
Jan 5, 2019
Bertha Mae Hager passed away at home on January 5, 2019. She was surrounded with both her children, her first grandchild and friends who all love her dearly. Bertha was born on December 9, 1942 in Bremerton, WA to her parents, Burr and Oma Abell of Kooskia, Idaho. After the war her family bought a ranch in Clearwater where Bertha...
Nadine Finney
Dec 24, 2018
Nadine T. Finney, 92, died December 24, 2018, at St Mary's Hospital, Cottonwood. She was born February 20, 1926, Adair County, Iowa, the second child of Eva (Culver) Thomsen. Nadine married Charles E. Finney at St James Chapel in New London, Connecticut in 1944; they were married 74 years. Following the war, Nadine and Charles moved to Fenn, Idaho, where...
Mick Landmark
Dec 21, 2018
Mick Landmark, 75, of Kamiah, passed away Friday, December 21, 2018, at University Hospital in Seattle. Services are pending with Trenary Funeral Home in Kooskia.
Alan Landmark
Dec 21, 2018
Alan Michael (Mick) Landmark, age 75, passed peacefully on December 21, 2018, following a courageous battle with a brain tumor. Mickey was born the second of three sons to Chris and Jessie Landmark on the family ranch in Glenwood, Idaho, on September 21, 1943. Mick's childhood was filled with hunting and fishing with family and friends, logging with his father,...
Richard Needham
Dec 15, 2018
There will be a Celebration of Life & Potluck for Richard "Dick" Needham on Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 2:00 P.M., at the Kooskia Community Center in Kooskia, Idaho.
Shirley Shown
Dec 12, 2018
Shirley J. Shown, of Stites, Idaho went to heaven on December 12, 2018. She had her family by her side. Shirley was born in January 1933 in Gooding, Idaho to the late Star and Sybil Umphenour. The second youngest of eight, she spent her childhood on the family farm, milking cows and working in the fields. She met the love...
Alyce Murphy
Dec 12, 2018
Alyce Mae Murphy of Kooskia passed away Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 of cardiopulmonary arrest. She was 77.She was born Feb. 5, 1941 in Bowbells, N.D., to Richard Finley Dodge and Edith Augusta Rogers.Alyce attended school in Great Falls, Mont. She married Robert Reginald Murphy and worked at many jobs as they traveled to different states, though the job she liked...
Bill Dillon
Dec 12, 2018
Bill Dillon Celebration of Life10:00 A.M., Wednesday, December 12, 2018Hearthstone Bakery Banquet Room, Kamiah, Idaho
Charles Finney
Dec 8, 2018
Charles E (Chuck or Everett) Finney, 94, died December 8, 2018, at St Mary's Hospital, Cottonwood. He was born January 3, 1924, at Kamiah, Idaho, the youngest child of Frank and Mabel (George) Finney. Charles served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, as a submariner aboard the USS Seacat, one of the subs that accompanied the USS Missouri...
Helen Woods
Dec 6, 2018
Helen Josephine Woods, 93, of Grangeville, passed away December 6, 2018 at her daughter and son in laws home. Helen was born April 6, 1925 to Patrick and Louise (Compton) Savage in Big Timber, Montana, Sweet Grass County. At the age of three her family moved to Rapid City, South Dakota and they lived there until she was 15 years...
