From the community blog.
Photographs residents posted on the ArbonValley.com community blog, 2010 to 2018: school and community days, neighbors remembered in obituaries and tributes, and the forgotten cemetery. Each is credited to the post it came with. 23 photographs.
Valley days
A Tribute to a Great Teacher 1
View photograph ↗A class outdoors with Cindy Pierce
From the tribute to Cindy Pierce on her retirement after 22 years of teaching at Arbon Elementary School.
From: A Tribute to a Great Teacher ↗Scratch for Schools 1
View photograph ↗Scratch for Schools
Teachers Robin Claunch and Debbie Curry and school board clerk Cheri Evans won $529 for Arbon Elementary at Scratch for Schools, Idaho State University.
From: Scratch for Schools ↗Students do Service 2
View photograph ↗Students do service
Arbon Valley students cleaned up the litter along the Arbon Valley Highway between the school and the post office.
From: Students do Service ↗
View photograph ↗Students do service
The students who cleaned up along the highway, with their teachers.
From: Students do Service ↗Neighbors
Portraits posted with obituaries, tributes and news of neighbors, newest first. Those the valley map documents are in their family’s album too.
View photograph ↗Jannajoe Jenson McKee
Jannajoe Jenson McKee (1959–2018), daughter of Joseph and Ann Eddy Jenson, who grew up in their Arbon Valley home.
From: Jannajoe Jenson McKee Obituary ↗
View photograph ↗Dale Purdy
Dale Purdy, remembered at a celebration of his life in 2017.
From: Dale Purdy – Celebration of Life ↗
View photograph ↗David Andersen
David Revell Andersen (1937–2017), son of Willard and Mamie Andersen, who loved to work on the farm in Arbon.
From: David Andersen – Obituary ↗
View photograph ↗Neil Dean Andersen
Neil Dean Andersen (born 1994), son of Ardean and Melissa Andersen.
From: Neil Dean Andersen – Celebration of Life ↗
View photograph ↗Dale Bolingbroke
Dale Alan Bolingbroke (1944–2017), son of Ephraim T. and Zella Daniels Bolingbroke, raised in Arbon Valley.
From: Obituary – Dale Bolingbroke ↗
View photograph ↗Jessie Olsen Hubbard
Jessie Olsen Hubbard (1937–2016).
From: Jessie Hubbard – Obituary ↗
View photograph ↗Lois Anne Stewart
Lois Anne Cox Stewart (1940–2016), young and later in life.
From: Lois Anne Stewart – Obituary ↗
View photograph ↗Lisa Pavek Jorgensen
Lisa Marie Pavek Jorgensen (1962–2014), who died at home in Arbon Valley.
From: Lisa Jorgensen Memorial ↗
View photograph ↗Linda Lee Munn Elgan
Linda Lee Munn Elgan (1948–2013).
From: Linda Lee Munn Elgan ↗
View photograph ↗Eileen Ward Estep
Eileen Ward Estep (1928–2013), daughter of Elmer Mosiah and Susan Irene Thomas Ward.
From: Eileen Ward Estep ↗
View photograph ↗Louie and Eileen Estep's 50th anniversary
Louie and Eileen Ward Estep on their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
From: Eileen Ward Estep ↗
View photograph ↗Christine Kemp Wright
Christine Kemp Wright (1949–2011).
From: Funeral for Christine Wright ↗
View photograph ↗Ken Estep
Ken Estep, Power County commissioner, at the close of his years representing Arbon Valley and Power County, 2010.
From: Ken Estep – Appreciation Dinner ↗
View photograph ↗Cindy Pierce
Cindy Pierce, who came to Arbon as Cindy Bradley in 1974 and retired in 2010 after 22 years of teaching at Arbon Elementary School.
From: A Tribute to a Great Teacher ↗
View photograph ↗Monte and Cheri Evans
Monte and Cheri Evans before their church mission to Jinja, Uganda.
From: Monte and Cheri Evans Head Church Mission to Africa ↗Around the valley
View photograph ↗An iris in the forgotten cemetery
The purple iris on the grave of Lucille Danken Fredrickson, laid to rest November 19, 1914, in the small cemetery about a mile west of the Arbon School.
From: The Forgotten Cemetery ↗
View photograph ↗A wooden grave marker in the forgotten cemetery
One of the cemetery's wooden grave markers, washed clean by sun and weather. The last burial there was in 1939.
From: The Forgotten Cemetery ↗
View photograph ↗The forgotten cemetery's hill
The lonely hill, surrounded by fields, where 24 known people are buried.
From: The Forgotten Cemetery ↗
View photograph ↗A 1928 combine at harvest
Posted by the Power County Historical Preservation Committee, gathering family stories and pictures for a book on the county.
From: Historical Preservation ↗Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.