Darby Pozenel

With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Darby Lee Pozenel who crossed over on March 29, 2025 after a long courageous battle with cancer, leaving behind a legacy of love, light and unwavering strength. She never gave up and fought hard until the end. Throughout her life she always put others before herself and was a beacon of light for all that knew her. To know Darby was to love Darby.

Darby was 44 years old at the time of her passing and she was survived by her husband Tony Pozenel, their son Braxton Pozenel, (Oakley Pozenel), son Tayte Pozenel and granddaughter Bexley Pozenel. She was greeted on the other side by her father Dean A Zollinger, her mother in-law Gigi Masters, grandparents, uncles and friends who awaited her with open arms.

Darby loved her job and took it very serious, she worked at Madison County Solid Waste where she always put a smile on the face of everyone she interacted with. She put all her energy into helping set up the new Eastern Idaho Regional Landfill, working tirelessly to minimize environmental impacts and ensure all was handled the right way. The people she worked with were like family to her. Darby also did massage therapy, specializing in lymphatic drainage inspired by her first battle with cancer. She wanted to help others. She gave all she had to help anyone in need, it didn’t matter whether it was family or a stranger, it didn’t matter if she didn’t feel well, it didn’t matter the cost, she helped. She touched many lives in her short time on this earth.

Family was very important to Darby, she always worked to bring everyone together. She loved her children and was able to raise them to adult hood and even welcomed a new grandbaby into the world. Little Bexley brought hope and happiness to Darby. She and her husband Tony raised two wonderful sons who will carry on her traditions of kindness, unconditional love and service to others.

We would like to thank all the friends and family that have reached out with kind words, food and flowers, Madison Memorial hospital staff, Madison ambulance and Rexburg Home Health and Hospice. Thank you all for your love and tender support in this difficult time.

As a final thought by Stuart Scott – “You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live”. If that’s true, Darby won the battle, indeed a warrior til the very end.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at the Egin Bench LDS Chapel. The family will receive friends on Friday from 6:00 until 7:30 p.m. and again on Saturday from 10:00 until 10:45 a.m. both times at the Egin church. Burial will be in the Rexburg Cemetery under the direction of Bert Flamm Mortuary.