Obituaries

Ashley Beth Tendoy
FORT HALL — Ashley Beth Tendoy, 38, passed away Monday, March 10, 2025 at Bingham Memorial Hospital in Blackfoot.

Ashley was a Christmas baby, born December 19, 1986 in Pocatello, Idaho, the daughter of Virgil Seth Tendoy and Bobleen Burns Nappo.  

Ashley graduated from Blackfoot High School. She worked as a firefighter and EMT. She also worked at Fort Hall Casino as a machine technician.

Ashley has three handsome boys, one with Karl Mosho and two with Jason Brunette. She loved being with her boys and supporting them in sports. She enjoyed collecting rocks, gardening and Zumba. She loved to watch Joe Rogan and listening to music. She also loved animals, her dogs Pretty, Peanut and her cat Bossy.

Ashley is survived by her three sons, Dosa Nappo, Jailyn Brunette and Beau Mosho; her mother Bobleen (Eldon) Nappo and father Virgil (Wyoma) Tendoy; her siblings Adam Broncho, Kody (Simien) Yokoyama, Nummie Tendoy, Jackie (Jshon Shaw) Yokoyama and Cheryl (Cody Anderson) Yokoyama; relatives on her maternal side: aunts, Velma (Dan) Arriwite, Elmarie Snipe, uncles, Robert (Valerie) Burns, Rodney Burns, Lagrand Coby, grandfather Floyvon (Renee) Coby. Paternal relatives: aunts, Trina, Gail, Becky Martin, Lois Anderson, uncle Julius (Rebecca) Martin, grandmother Roserine Martin and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather Franklin Tendoy, great grandmother Esther Testivo, and grandson Zach Tendoy. Maternal grandfather Robert “Pudgy” Burns, grandmother Mildred Coby, grandmother Judith Still Burns, niece Yukee Yokoyama and uncle Jimmy Burns, Charles Easley “Grizz” Coby, uncle Wayland Coby, sister Yolanda Means, niece Shaynelle G. Lee, and grandson Malcolm Eagle Speaker.

A prayer service was at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at the Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Avenue in Blackfoot. She will then be taken out to Eldon and Bobleen Nappo’s residence at 432 Ariwite Road at the Fort Hall Bottoms until burial. Traditional burial is at 1 p.m. Friday, March 14, 2025 at the Mission Cemetery.