Don Jenson, who farmed Arbon Valley from boyhood, dies at 65
Don Jenson came to Arbon Valley as a boy, farmed there until his death in 1968 though he lived in Pocatello from 1940, and served in two Arbon ward bishoprics.
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Obituaries, funerals, memorials, and tributes to the people of the valley.
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Maurice Poppie, who came to Arbon Valley as a boy in 1909, dies at 71
Maurice Poppie, who followed his mother's brothers from Kansas to Arbon Valley in 1909 and farmed there for most of his life, died in Pocatello in November 1965.
Luther M. Estep, a Kentucky farmer who stayed fifty years, dies at 72
Luther M. Estep came from Kentucky to Pauline in 1915, buried a baby son that first autumn, lost another son in the war, and farmed in Arbon Valley until his sudden death in 1965.
Lorenzo M. Evans, eldest son of an Arbon pioneer, dies at 67
Lorenzo M. Evans, the eldest child of the Arbon pioneer Ren Evans, farmed the valley for most of his 67 years, also ran a potato warehouse, and died after a long illness on June 24, 1965.
Newell Lishman, who carried Arbon's first rural mail, dies at 73
Newell Lishman, who homesteaded under Bowen's Peak and carried the mail on Arbon's first rural route, died in 1964, and his obituary said a canyon near Arbon had been named Newell Canyon for him.
Otto Andersen, early Arbon homesteader, dies at 85
Otto Andersen's death in 1960, between John's golden wedding in 1956 and Ezra's death in 1964, closed the story of the Mendon brothers who settled at the head of Bannock Creek.
John C. Andersen, who homesteaded at the head of Bannock Creek, dies at 82
John C. Andersen, who came to the head of Bannock Creek as a boy in the 1890s and later served his ward, a school board and a highway board, died at Clifton on August 1, 1959, three months after his wife.
Bannock Creek buries two of its older men in one week
In one week of July 1959 the Bannock Creek district lost Frank Bell, found in the creek below his footbridge, and William Lipps, 88, a former president of its cattlemen's association.
D. J. Bowen, Arbon's first presiding elder, dies at 93
D. J. Bowen, who crossed into Arbon Valley in 1892, kept its first post office and led its first congregation, died in Pocatello on September 24, 1955, at 93.
Roy Lindley, Arbon settler of 1911, killed hunting bobcats on Bannock Creek
Roy D. Lindley, who came to Arbon Valley in 1911 and long sat on the Power County board, was killed hunting bobcats on Bannock Creek in December 1954.
Liza Infanger, who came to Arbon Valley as a girl and married there in 1914, dies on her 56th birthday
Liza Iversen followed her brothers to their Arbon Valley homesteads, married the neighboring homesteader John J. Infanger at sixteen in 1914, and died in Pocatello on her 56th birthday.
John H. Meyers, Crystal rancher and stockman, dies at 63
John H. Meyers, a rancher and stockman who came to Arbon Valley in 1900 and raised his family on the Crystal side, died at his valley home on October 9, 1953, at 63.
Cy Smith and Frank Turner, homestead partners for forty-three years
Two Oregon men who came to Arbon Valley together in 1910, Paul A. "Cy" Smith and Frank Turner, kept company through homesteads, war, flu and old age, and died three months apart in 1953.
Stake president Twayne Austin dies on the road home from Arbon Valley
Twayne Austin, Pocatello's Continental Oil agent and the stake president over Arbon's congregation, died in November 1952 when his tank truck rolled off Highway 37 as he drove home from the valley.
Carl Axel Johnson, Swedish hand on a Crystal ranch for 34 years, dies at 70
Carl Axel Johnson, a bachelor from Sweden who tended stock and land on the Wright ranch at Crystal from about 1914 until 1948, died in Pocatello in February 1952.
Charles E. Norton, a settler of the Crystal country, dies at 73
Charles Ethen Norton, who came to Idaho as a boy of eleven and had a homestead on the Crystal side of Arbon Valley by 1917, died at home on August 5, 1949, at 73.
Bill Mathews, who homesteaded toward Summit, dies on Christmas Day
William Henry Mathews, who raised much of a family of thirteen on a homestead at the Summit end of Arbon Valley, died in his Pocatello home on Christmas Day, 1946.
Jewell Horton, Pauline homesteader and Arbon's justice of the peace, dies at 66
When Jewell Horton died at Pocatello in 1946, his obituary gave his Arbon Valley years one date, though the old papers show a Pauline homesteader who clerked a valley vote, judged its small cases and took in its wheat.
Ed Davis, Arbon storekeeper and bishop, dies at 72; his son Orval follows in 1971
Ed Davis, who kept Arbon's general store and once served as its bishop, died in Pocatello in 1945, and his Arbon-born son Orval, a cattleman and dry farmer in the valley, died there in 1971.
Louise Benson, bishop's wife and ward clerk at Summit, is buried in Logan
When Louise Benson was buried in Logan in January 1944, her obituary recalled the years she and her husband Joseph, bishop of the Summit Ward from 1915 to 1924, spent dry-farming at the high south end of Arbon Valley.
Joseph N. Williams, who grew peanuts on the Crystal divide, dies at 69
A Pennsylvania-born farmer who came to Crystal about 1914, raised peanuts in a mountain garden and left the valley around 1940 died in Pocatello in May 1943.
Jerry Baker, Arbon rancher turned Pocatello hotel keeper, dies at the Carlyle
Jerry Baker came from Mendon to ranch at Arbon around 1900, married George Arbon's daughter Mayme in 1918, and died in January 1940 at the Pocatello hotel he and she ran, still holding his valley ranches.
Augusta Kulock, widow of the blizzard, dies after 28 years in Arbon Valley
Sixteen years after a blizzard took her husband within sight of their house west of Pauline, Augusta Kulock died at Pocatello in August 1938 and was buried after a requiem mass.
Ren Evans, Arbon booster, mail carrier and bishop, dies at 65
When Ren Evans of Arbon died in 1934 his obituary ran only a few paragraphs, but the papers had followed him for a quarter century through a road campaign, a judgeship he never took up, a snowbound mail route, oil stock and a cheese factory.
Arbon boy, 17, a junior at Pocatello High, dies in hospital
William Eugene Allard, 17, an Arbon boy in his junior year at Pocatello High and a son of the valley's first legislator, died in a Pocatello hospital in November 1933.
Hannah Poppie, who followed her brothers to Arbon, dies in West Pocatello
Hannah Poppie came west from Kansas behind her Abter brothers, raised a farm family at Arbon and saw two sons off to the First World War before her death in West Pocatello in May 1933.
Ed Keeler, Arbon homesteader and road chairman, dies at 62
J. E. "Ed" Keeler, who homesteaded at Arbon in 1909 and grew some of the valley's best grain, took his own life at his farm in October 1932 after writing of money troubles.
George Stahl Butler, who homesteaded on upper Bannock Creek, dies at American Falls
George Stahl Butler, a Kansas homesteader whose Bannock Creek house held Arbon Valley's first Protestant Sunday school, died at American Falls in October 1931, leaving a widow, eight children, three brothers and three sisters.
Pneumonia takes Joe Evans, Arbon farmer and son of the T. B. Evanses
Joe Evans, an Arbon farmer and the son of T. B. and Susannah Evans, died of pneumonia in Pocatello on March 19, 1931, and Bishop Joseph Arbon led his funeral two days later.
Rosa Bishoff, who came from Switzerland to Pauline, dies at 59
Rosa Bishoff, a Swiss immigrant of 1893 who raised her family at Pauline, died in Pocatello on December 6, 1928, at 59.