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Luella Steiner Smith passed away November 25, 2023 just eight shy of her 98th birthday. Luella was born on December 3, 1925 in Declo, Idaho to Grandin Amnor Steiner and Emma Bunn. She had five sisters?Ila, Donna, Viola, Jannet and Collean and one brother, Grandin Lavon. Following her mother's death her father married Ruth Figen and added more sisters-- Lis, Merete and Karin and the following year Loretta. Luella grew up in Burley and graduated from Burley High School. Following high school she moved to Pocatello to work and found employment as a secretary of a trucking firm. She met and married Harold Robert Smith in the Idaho Falls Temple in 1947. They adopted two children, Robert and...

James (Jim) Lind Phillips, age 92, passed away October 27, 2023, in Pocatello, Idaho after spending his first night ever in a hospital. Jim was born February 12, 1931, the second and last child, to George Melvin and Jennie Victoria (Lind) Phillips at Polk County Nebraska in the same farmhouse where his father was born. Being born during the depression to a religious mother and witty father shaped Jim's formative years and resulted in a lifetime of frugality, God fearing honesty and daily laughter. Dad loved his early years on the farm in Nebraska and had happy times spent with extended family including plenty of cousins, as his parents came from large families. However, two years of meager...

Catherine (Cathy) Lucille Critchfield Conley, 89 of Pocatello, Idaho passed away peacefully on October 20, 2023 after a life well lived. Cathy was born in Ogden, Utah on September 16, 1934 to Leo Clifton Critchfield and Frances Withrow Critchfield. She attended St. Joseph Catholic School through the 8th grade and graduated from Ogden High School in 1952. Later that year she married Boyd J. Conley and had six children before she was 30. They divorced in 1972. In 1981, she met her husband Geoff Ranere and they enjoyed 42 wonderful years together. Returning to school, she earned her Bachelor Degree in 1981 and continued with a Master's Degree from Idaho State University. She worked as...