Obituaries
Local Obituaries for North Idaho and Western Montana
Shirley Aileen Gregory
Aug 4, 2014
Shirley Aileen Gregory, 87, passed away on Monday, August 4, 2014 at her home in Hope, Idaho. Shirley will be interred next to her late husband in Inglewood Park Cemetery in California.
Edward Gene Kaiser
Aug 3, 2014
Edward Gene Kaiser, 89, passed away on Sunday, August 3, 2014 in Sandpoint, Idaho. A complete obituary will be posted later.
Erna Louise Britton
Aug 1, 2014
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ERNA LOUISE BRITTON AUGUST 1941 - AUGUST 2014 Erna was born in 1941 in Seattle, Washington the first child of Walter and Eleanor Stredicke. Erna was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy early on and not expected to survive through her teen years. Proving the doctors wrong, she graduated fron Kent Meridian High School in 1960 and went...
Nina Maxine Conn
Aug 1, 2014
COEUR D’ALENE – Nina Maxine Conn, beloved wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother, passed away peacefully August 1, 2014. Nina was born February 12, 1924 in Plummer, Idaho to Samuel and Edith (Wiltse) Pierce. During her childhood she grew up on the family’s “80 acres” in Hope, Idaho. She rode a horse-drawn school bus to school. The family pet...
Milaine Jones McGoldrick
Jul 31, 2014
Milaine Jones Mc Goldrick, 94, passed away on Thursday, July 31, 2014 in Sandpoint, Idaho. Born and raised in Spokane Washington, Milaine Jones Mc Goldrick was a person of many accomplishments. Blessed with a spirited and independent nature she was in many ways a woman ahead of her time. From navigating the skies as a private pilot to parenting and...
Roger Guy Conant
Jul 30, 2014
Roger Guy Conant, 76 a beloved member of the Priest River Community passed away Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at Hospice House in Hayden, Idaho. Family and friends are invited to sign Roger’s online guest book at www.coffeltfuneral.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Coffelt Funeral Service.
Constance "Connie" Wells
Jul 30, 2014
Constance Delia “Connie” Hoskins Wells, 90, of Ponderay passed into the arms of Jesus on July 30, 2014 at home with her family and precious pets Charlie and Lucy at her side. Graveside services will be held at a later date at the Evergreen Cemetery in Priest River, Idaho. She was born on Aug. 14, 1923 in Leslie County, Kentucky...
Patrick J. "Pat" Peters
Jul 29, 2014
Patrick “Pat” Joseph Peters, 65, of Sagle passed away suddenly at his home on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Memorial services will be conducted 10:00am Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at Coffelt Funeral Service with Father Dennis C. Day, officiating. Inurnment will take place later in the Washington State Veterans Cemetery. He was born March 17, 1949 in Buffalo, NY the son...
James "Jim" Harrison McCall
Jul 26, 2014
James (Jim) Harrison McCall, 83, of Sandpoint, formerly of Orofino, passed away on Saturday, July 26, 2014. Memorial services will be conducted on Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 10:00 am in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel with Colin Moody officiating. Private family inurnment will take place in the Craigmont Cemetery. Jim was born March 26, 1931, to Roger and Rachel McCall in...
Pearl Howard
Jul 23, 2014
Pearl Howard, 83, of Cocolalla passed away on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at her home. Graveside funeral services will be conducted at 2:00pm, Thursday, July 31, 2014 in Westmond Cemetery. Memorial services will be held at 2:00pm, Saturday, Saturday, August 2, 2014 in the Southside Community Church. Pastor Rick McLeod, Southside Community Church, will be officiating at both services. Pearl...
Marlene Faye Mosher
Jul 23, 2014
Marlene Faye Mosher, 76, passed away on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at her home in Kootenai, Idaho after a valiant nine-year battle with cancer. Private family services will be held at a later date. Marlene was born on June 5, 1938 in Buffalo, South Dakota, the daughter of Henry and Aldene Cornella. The family moved to Sandpoint and Kootenai where...
Valerie Diane Vierstra
Jul 20, 2014
Valerie Diane Vierstra, 55 of Sagle passed away on Sunday, July 20, 2014 at her home in the loving care of her husband. Services will be conducted 1:00PM, Saturday, July 26, 2014 at Gamlin Lake Cemetery located behind the Church in the Wildwood. A potluck will follow at Garfield Bay. If you have questions regarding the potluck please call Kevin...
Kathleen Joan Farmin
Jul 18, 2014
Kathleen Joan Sullivan Farmin, 83, passed away July 18, 2014 in Sandpoint, Idaho. She was born in Butte, Montana on December 1, 1930. She was preceded in death by her parents, James Roy Sullivan and Margaret O’Meara Sullivan, her sister Sheila Sullivan and her daughter, Patricia Ann Farmin. She is survived by her children: Sheila Farmin-Aumick (Rodney) of Sandpoint, Idaho;...
David Robert Contreras
Jul 18, 2014
David Robert Contreras, 54, passed away in Hayden, Idaho on Friday, July 18, 2014. He was born in LA Mesa, California on June 13, 1960, the son of David and MaryLou Contreras. He grew up, and attended schools in El Cajon, California and served with the US Navy from 1980 until 1985. Following his military service he worked as an...
Larry Lewis DeLuna
Jul 17, 2014
Larry Lewis DeLune, 72, passed away in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on July 17, 2014. He was a former resident of Oldtown, Idaho. Private family services have been held.
Jack Irwin Turner
Jul 17, 2014
Jack Turner, loving husband, Dad, Grand-dad, and Great Grand-dad, was born July 29, 1934. He went home to be with his Lord on Thursday morning, July 17, 2014 at his home in Naples with his beloved wife, Martha by his side. He was proceeded in death by his mother, Lucille Brown of Torrance, CA, and son Steven Turner of Porterville,...
Emma Louise Hawkins
Jul 17, 2014
Emma L. Hawkins, 87, passed away Wednesday, April 2, 2014 in an assisted living home in Manteca, California.She was born February 10, 1927 in Romulus, New York to Cora Ethal (Clark) Troutman and Harry William Troutman. When attending high school as a junior, she met, fell in love with and married Robert Noel Hawkins on March 26, 1946. They moved...
Robert Blettenberg
Jul 14, 2014
Robert Blettenberg, 71, of Sagle passed away on Monday, July 14, 2014 at Kootenai Health in Coeur d’ Alene. Services will be held 11:00am, Saturday, July 19, 2014 at the Westmond Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints, located at 331 Westmond Rd., Westmond, ID. Friends may call at Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel in Sandpoint on Friday, July 18,...
Archie E. Jones
Jul 13, 2014
Archie E. Jones, 75, of Laclede passed away on Sunday, July 13, 2014 at his home. Archie was born in Lake Park, Iowa on Nov. 3, 1938. He graduated from high school in Vista, California in 1956. On September 13, 1958 he married Jean Britton in Brainerd, MN. He worked construction in Brainerd, MN. He moved to Idaho in 1983...
Jake Leedy
Jul 13, 2014
John "Jake" Wyatt Leedy, 63, of Sandpoint, Idaho, passed away Sunday, July 13, 2014, at Bonner General Hospital. Born May 1, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, to Daniel Cassius Leedy and Lorna Mae Leedy, John was the second of their four children. John grew up in the small town of Encinitas in coastal Southern California. He spent summers on the...