Obituaries
Local Obituaries for North Idaho and Western Montana
Wade Gary Brown
Jul 19, 2013
Former Sandpoint fire chief, Wade G. Brown, 72, passed away Friday, July 19, 2013 at his home. Memorial services will be conducted 10:00AM, Monday, July 29, 2013 at the First Lutheran Church. Wade was born on April 27, 1941 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho the son of Wade and Marie Brown. He was raised in Sandpoint, attending local schools and graduating...
Mrs Lance Kimberly Anne Marley
Jul 18, 2013
Mrs. Lance, Kimberly Anne Marley, 36 of Sandpoint passed away suddenly in Spokane on Thursday, July 18, 2013. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00am, Friday, July 26th, in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Pastor Steve Nickodemus, Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, will be officiating. Kimberly was born on July 20, 1976 in Nebraska, the daughter of Robert and Patricia Siegel. She...
Jeffrey George Meredith Sr.
Jul 14, 2013
Jeffrey George Meredith Sr., 57, passed away on Sunday, July 14, 2013 in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. A complete obituary will be posted later.
Thelma Herrmann
Jul 12, 2013
Thelma Herrmann, 98, longtime Sagle area resident, passed away Friday, July 12, 2013 at Life Care of Sandpoint. Funeral services will be conducted 10:00AM, Friday, July 19, 2013 in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Burial will be next to her husband Leslie Joseph Herrmann in the Seneacquoteen Cemetery. She is predeceased by her parents Otto V. Jayne and Martha Naomi Jayne, her...
William James Hefner
Jul 10, 2013
William James Hefner, 88, passed away, at his home in Clagstone, on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. He was a long haul truck driver and a veteran of WW II.
Norman Ellsworth Skabo
Jul 8, 2013
Norman Ellsworth Skabo died at his home in Hope, Idaho, on July 8, 2013 at age 101. Norman Ellsworth Skabo was born April 15, 1912 at Manitou, North Dakota, a village that today exists mostly in name only. It is located in Mountrail County, about 18 miles west of Stanley, the County seat. His fathers name was Nels Skabo and...
John M "Mike" Craven
Jul 1, 2013
John Michael “Mike” Craven, 73, passed away, at his home, in Dover on Monday, July 1, 2013. I was born in St. Louis Missouri, on May 21st, 1940. My folks, Florence and Roy Craven, hailed from the small farming communities of Mt. Vernon and Odell Illinois respectively. There were five of us, and my beloved siblings, brother Fran and sisters...
Linda Darlene Myhre
Jun 30, 2013
Linda Darlene (Wilson) Myhre, 71, passed away in Spokane, Washington on Sunday, June 30, 2013. Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00am, Friday, July 5th, in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Dale Coffelt will be officiating with interment in Pinecrest Memorial Park. Linda was born in Caldwell, Idaho on January 15, 1942, the daughter of John G and Mary J Wilson. She...
Mary Noble Bachowsky
Jun 28, 2013
Mary Noble Bachowsky, 78, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Friday, June 28, 2013. Graveside funeral services will be conducted on Friday, 11:00am, July 5, 2013 in the Rupert Cemetery, Rupert, Idaho.
Walter "Dutch" Hamann
Jun 25, 2013
Walter “Dutch” Hamann, 85, passed away in Kootenai, Idaho on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Services will be conducted at 11:00am, on Saturday, June 29th, in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Dale Coffelt will be officiating. Dutch was born in Mills, NE on April 29, 1928, the son of Donald and Ella Hamann. The family moved to the Sandpoint area in 1931 where...
Robert D "Bob" Bollacker
Jun 25, 2013
Robert “Bob” Dale Bollacker, 89, of Sagle, ID decided to continue his soul’s journey on June 25, 2013. Son to Newton Alles and Pearl Mae Ray Bollacker, he was born on January 9, 1924 in Ordway, CO. He graduated from high school in Denver, CO then served as an Army-Air Force pilot in New Guinea. After discharge, he returned to...
Lillian Anna Nickodemus
Jun 23, 2013
Lillian Anna (Hoffman) Nickodemus, 85, passed away in Mount Angel, Oregon on Sunday June 23, 2013. Funeral services will be conducted at 2pm, Saturday, June 29, 2013 in the Trinity Lutheran Church, Mount Angel, Oregon. She is survived locally by Pastor Steve Nickodemus and Margaret Bowden and Dave and Beth Nickodemus.
Charles E. "Chuck" Holt
Jun 18, 2013
Charles ‘Chuck’ Everett Holt, 68, of Rathdrum and Sandpoint, passed away in Boise on June 18th, 2013. Graveside services are being coordinated through Coffelt Funeral Service of Sandpoint, and will be held at Pinecrest Cemetery in Sandpoint on Monday, June 24th, at 11:00 AM. Son to Kenneth and Lucille Holt, Chuck was born in Salem, Oregon on December 27th, 1944....
Blanche N Roos
Jun 14, 2013
Blanche N. Roos, 96, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Friday, June 14, 2013. Blanche Nebeker Roos arrived as the seventh child of Aaron and Elizabeth Nebeker on the 17th day of March 1917 at Fairview, Wyoming. She married the love of her life, Walt Roos, in Salt lake City, Utah in 1933. Times were really hard for them during...
Larry Givliano Marchetti
Jun 12, 2013
Larry G. Marchetti, 63, passed away at his home in Ponderay, Idaho. Larry had moved to Ponderay from California in 2006 to be near his daughter, Natalie.
William Curt Harvard
Jun 12, 2013
William Curt Harvard, 87, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on June 12, 2013. Private graveside services will be in Pinecrest Memorial Park. Curt was born in Corsicana, Texas on June 26, 1925 the son of Frank and Mary Harvard. He was a retired forest ranger from the forest service. He moved to Sandpoint in 1980 and was preceded in death...
Loretta May Haarsma
Jun 10, 2013
Loretta May Haarsma, 95, passed away on Monday, June 10, 2013 in Sandpoint, Idaho. Private family service will be held at a later date.
Genevieve "Jenny" Behmerwohld
Jun 8, 2013
Jenny Behmerwohld, 80, died June 8, 2013 at her home in Heron, Montana. Jenny was born September 29, 1932 in Bristol, TN to her parents Bonnie Wood and Waymon McKinney. Jenny married Harry J Behmerwohld June 10, 1950 in Coeur d’ Alene, ID. They make their home in Heron, MT for 63 years. They raised four children; Vernon, Harry Jr,...
Barney Blasko
Jun 6, 2013
Barney T. Blasko (Bernard T Blaschko) Barney, a longtime Bonner County resident, passed away June 6 in Sandpoint, ID. He was 95 years and 11 months old. Services will be held at Coffelt Funeral Home on Friday, June 14 at 2 p.m. with Pastor Barry Johnson of New Song Bible Church officiating. Refreshments will be served at the VFW hall...
Robert "Bob" Knowles
Jun 6, 2013
Robert (Bob) Allen Knowles passed away due to heart complications on Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 11:53PM in the care of Kootenai Medical Center at the age of 67. Bob was placed into the arms of Cecil and Peggy Knowles on January 3, 1946 in Santa Ana, California where he spent his early childhood years. In 1961, the family moved...