Inductees

2023 Inductees

Long-time leaders in Idaho’s agriculture industry have been selected to be inducted into the Class of 2023 Eastern Idaho Agriculture Hall of Fame during the annual recognition dinner March 17.

This year’s inductees are Val Schwendiman, Newdale; Christopher (Chris) Wride, American Falls; W. Brock Driscoll, Aberdeen; Sarah Henson Skaar, Hagerman, and Chester Adams, Firth.

Also being honored is Paige Nelson, Rigby, as the Duren Memorial Young Producer Award winner.

The recognition awards will be presented at the Shoshone-Bannock Hotel and Events Center, Fort Hall. A no-host social hour begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.  The event is open to all interested persons. 

The EIAHF was formed in 1972 to honor men and women who have made extraordinary contributions to agriculture and Eastern Idaho, a region that remains a significant center for agricultural production in the state of Idaho.

Click the images below to view each inductee’s biography.

2022 Inductees

2020 Inductees

2019 Inductees

2018 Inductees

2017 Inductees

2016 Inductees

* Deceased

2015 Inductees

2014 Inductees

* Deceased

2013 Inductees

* Deceased

2012 Inductees

* Deceased

2011 Inductees

Jim Skinner
Garth Fullmer*
Neil Miller
Gary Ingram
Gordon Gallup

2010 Inductees

Edith Stanger*
Clair E. Blaser*
H.J. “Jim” Christiansen
Louis Thiel
Evan Hayes

2009 Inductees

Robert Cecil Alldaffer*
Don C. Clark*
Jack F. Ellis
James K. Guthrie, Sr.
E. Bud Johnson*

2008 Inductees

Keith S. Cornelison
Cliff Hansen
Gordon L. Moir
Bruce Leytner Mulkey
Charles LeRoy Reed

2007 Inductees

Robert C. Geddes
Robert A. “Bob” Hoff
Jack W. McKinney*
Raymond G. Parks*
Darrell M. Wesenberg

2006 Inductees

Ken Andrus
Dan M. Hammond
Don Isham
Ezra C. Lakey*
DuWayne T. Skaar

2005 Inductees

Blaine Ramey
William “Bill” Schroeder
Boyd Schwieder
Karl William ”Bill” Snyder
Floyd James Whittaker

2004 Inductees

Kester “LaMar” Cockrell
J. Morgan Evans
Gale William Harding
Louis H. Merrill
Roger Whitnah*

2003 Inductees

Jerry Bush
Jim Hagenbarth
Charles Dean Shiner*
Elton Sorensen*
John P. Taberna

2002 Inductees

Harvey H. Field*
Dale Lee Breckenridge
Delbert F. Winterfeld
Max Eldon Rigby*
Robert R. Loucks

2001 Inductees

Don Burtenshaw
Dr. John D. Walker
George M. Hulme*
Farrell Thain Daniels*
Clyde S. Nelson

2000 Inductees

Donald E. “Don” Dixon
Gene Hussey*
Earl Wortley*
Dale D. Stukenholtz*
Blaine Larsen

1999 Inductees

Vincent R. Benson
Edward P. Duren*
David Nelson*
Kurt Kandler*
Robert J. Burtenshaw

1998 Inductees

George M. Crapo
Ralph J. Steele*
Lyle D. Taylor*
Gerald Johnson
James Rex Tolman*

1997 Inductees

Delmo Smith*
William “Bill” Brown*
Garth B. Thompson*
Frank H. Stoddard*
William T. Simmons*

1996 Inductees

Norris Fullmer*
Jack Hamilton*
John B. McNabb
Robert “Bob” Jahn*
Quinton Snook*

1995 Inductees

Eldred Lee*
L. Lynn Loosli*
Leland “Lee” Small*
Wallace W. Driscoll
Theodore “Ted” Roth*

1994 Inductees

Kenneth Anderson*
Sud Morishita*
Franklin J. Powers*
Ray W. Rigby
Walter V. Speelmon*

1993 Inductees

Golden C. Linford*
Mildred Staley*
Merle G. Kunz*
John B. Gellings*
George D. Whitworth*

1992 Inductees

Joseph R. Torgesen*
Will Ingram
Ken W. Huskinson*
Victor Johnson*
Warren J. Walters

1991 Inductees

W. Dale Rockwood
Leslie Pratt
Clyde A. Burtenshaw*
Marvin K. Goddard*
T. Ross Clement*

1990 Inductees

Rex L. Furness*
Ronald J. Ball*
Vearl C. Crystal*
Don M. O’Neal*
Dell H. Raybould

1989 Inductees

Howard G. Kelly*
George L. Lovell*
Mark G. Ricks*
Quentin C. Murdock
Horton J. Kienlen*

1988 Inductees

Joe F. Allen*
Earl Hunter*
Arvil Millar*
Ray Skinner*
George E. Stolworthy*

1987 Inductees

Charles S. Reed*
Bill Clark*
Preston Atchley*
Wilbur R. Krein*
Clyde McAffee*

1986 Inductees

J. Marsden Williams*
Maurice Evan Crapo*
Joe Hartwell*
Lloyd Mickelsen*
Frank H. Jacobs*

1985 Inductees

Artell Suitter*
Peter Ricks, Jr.*
Albert Daw*
Floyd Whittaker*
Roy Corbett*

1984 Inductees

James Siddoway*
Allan F. Larsen*
Thomas Chivers*
Arvel Fielding*
James “Cy” Young*

1983 Inductees

Gale W. Clement*
O. W. Robison*
Charles G. Thomason*
Arvey Weeks*
Walter C. Sparks

1982 Inductees

Robert Adams*
Vernon E. Bitter*
Dexter David*
Elmer Funk, Sr.*
Sterling Magleby*

1981 Inductees

O. I. Blain*
Chester Hansen*
James Kunz*
Albert Laird*
Roy Stroschein*

1980 Inductees

George D. Hansen*
Emlen G. Mays*
Ernest H. Petersen*
William H. Shuldberg*
Louis Skaar*

1979 Inductees

Jim Breckenridge*
W. J. “Jack” O’Bryant*
W. P. Hobbs*
Wayne Tibbets*
Ray H. Wood*

1978 Inductees

L. N. “Mick” Gwartney*
Claude G. Johnson*
Berkeley Larsen*
Harold Peterson*
Harold Smith*

1977 Inductees

Russell D. Holm*
Phyllis Laird*
H. J. Scheid*
Jack Wursten*
Armin Schroeder*

1976 Inductees

James Ellsworth*
Rulon H. Jones*
Jack Moir*
Arthur W. Schwieder*
Clifford N. Scoresby*

1975 Inductees

Louis B. Bitton*
Carlyle Chaffin*
John Earl Garner*
S. Albert Johnson*
R. K. “Bill” Siddoway*

1974 Inductees

Richard Egbert*
Vard Meadows
Sam P. McKinney*
John T. Poole*
J. Wendell Stucki*

1973 Inductees

John R. Burtenshaw*
Tom Weeks*
Preston Ellsworth*
Paul C. Holm*
Leo Murdock*

* Deceased