Obituaries
Local Obituaries for North Idaho and Western Montana
Harold E Ulen
Apr 25, 2008
Harold E. Ulen, 80, passed away in Sandpoint, ID on Friday, April 25, 2008. Private Graveside services will be conducted at a later date He was born March 10, 1928 in North Dakota. He moved with his family to the Coeur d Alene area as a child where he grew up and attended schools. He later attended North Idaho College...
Janice Carolyn Sweeney
Apr 23, 2008
Janice Carolyn Sweeney, 74, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on April 23, 2008. Graveside Services will be conducted at 11:00 AM, Tuesday, April 29th, at Pinecrest Memorial Park. Pastor Barry Johnson will officiate. She graduated from high school in Long Beach, CA in 1951. She attended college in Palomar, CA until her first marriage in 1952 to Alton Gaddis. In...
Winfield (Winnie) West, Jr.
Apr 23, 2008
Winfield “Winnie” Charles West, Jr. died April 23, 2008 Sandpoint, ID. Winnie was born February 17, 1945 in Sandpoint, Idaho. Graveside services will be 9:30 A.M. Friday, May 2 at Pinecrest Memorial Park. Winnie graduated from Sandpoint High School and attended the University of Idaho where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Winnie enjoyed playing all sports...
John Quincy Graham
Apr 21, 2008
John Quincy Adams Graham, long time Bonner County resident has died at the age of 84. Born August 8th 1923 to Irene Adams and George S. Graham in Globe, Arizona. John’s mother was a direct descendant of John Adams and John Quincy Adams the 2nd and 6th Presidents of the United States. John attended grade school in Globe, Arizona until...
Flora Bertha Nolen
Apr 18, 2008
Flora Bertha Nolen, 89 passed away Friday, April 18, 2008, in Sandpoint, Idaho. Funeral Services will be held on Monday, April 28, 2008 at Coffelt Funeral Home in Sandpoint at 10:00 a.m. with burial to follow at Pinecrest Memorial Park. Reverend Dave of the First Lutheran Church will conduct the services. Family and friends may attend the viewing at the...
Betty Jo Wood
Apr 16, 2008
Betty Jo Wood was born June 30, 1925 in Kankakee, Illinois and passed away peacefully in her sleep and on to the spiritual world on April 16, 2008. She was raised in the central Illinois town of Colfax, by her mother Kathleen, with her younger sister June. She married Charlie Hall Wood of St. Charles, Illinois in 1947. They had...
Elinor Adeline Engle
Apr 10, 2008
Elinor Adeline Engle, 86, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Thursday, April 10, 2008. Private family services will be held with inurnment in the Gamlin Lake Cemetery. Elinor was born on March 28, 1922 in Denver, Colorado. She later moved to Spokane, Washington and graduated from Rogers High School. On May 13, 1946 she married Don Engle in Spokane, WA....
Margaret Lea
Apr 7, 2008
Margaret Lea, 85, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Monday, April 07, 2008. Memorial services will be conducted at 11:00 AM, Friday, April 11th in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Pastor Bob Nale, Clark Fork Lutheran Church, will officiate. Margaret was born in Pontefract, England on September 30, 1922. She attended schools in England and during WW II worked in a factory...
Raymond W. Opatz
Apr 6, 2008
Raymond W. Opatz passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Sunday, April 6, 2008. A complete obituary will be posted later.
Bobby Jean Wales
Apr 6, 2008
Bobby Jean Wales, 62, passed away at her home in Clark Fork, ID on Sunday, April 6, 2008. Private family services will be held later. Bobby was born in Milton, Florida on May 30, 1945. She grew up in Milton, FL, and attended local schools. She worked as a C.N.A. for several years and then cooked in restaurants in the...
William Bill Duryea
Apr 3, 2008
William E. “Bill” Duryea, 91, passed away at his home in Careywood on Thursday, April 3, 2008. The vigil rosary service will be held at 7:00 PM, Sunday, April 6th, in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. The Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11:00 AM, Monday, April 7th, in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at 6th and Oak, Sandpoint, ID. Father Dennis...
John Wesley Rivers
Mar 29, 2008
John Wesley Rivers, 77, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Saturday, March 29, 2008. Private family services will be held at a later date.
Robert Gene Cloud
Mar 25, 2008
Robert Gene Cloud, 72, passed away at his home on March 25, 2008. Family memorial services will be held later in Mount Vernon, Oregon.
Joe Hunter Creighton
Mar 23, 2008
Joe Hunter Creighton, 86, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on March 23, 2008. Joe was born in Grand Haven, Michigan on January 16, 1922, the son of John and Clara Creighton. He served, as a PFC, with the US Army, in the European Theatre during WW II. On Nov. 23, 1944 he married Sandra Lorraine Oleson in Sioux Falls, SD....
Robert Louis (Bob) Linsday
Mar 21, 2008
Linsday, Robert Louis "Bob". Bob passed away peacefully on March 21, 2008 at the age of 94, in Spokane, WA. Memorial services will be conducted at 11:00 AM, Thursday, March 27th in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel; 109 N. Division, Sandpoint, Idaho. Pastor Gary Fox, New Life Community Church, will officiate. Inurnment will be in Pinecrest Memorial Park. He is survived by...
David R Miller
Mar 18, 2008
David Miller, 82, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Tuesday. Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in Coffelt's Funeral Chapel in Sandpoint, Idaho. Pastor Jon Pomeroy, First Church of God, will officiate. Although welcomed into the world on a blustery day on January 26, 1926, David Roswell Miller was escorted away by the...
Lucille Lorraine Thompson
Mar 16, 2008
Lucille Lorraine Bricker Thompson, 92, passed away in Puyallup, WA on March 16, 2008 Private family interment will be in Pinecrest Memorial Park. .Lucille Loraine Bricker Thompson was born to Ernest and Bessie (Civis) Bricker August 8, 1915 in Belle Plain, Iowa. Lucille moved to Sandpoint, ID in 1942 with her daughter Ruth Forrester. In 1954 she moved to Tacoma,...
Frank Dennis Montgomery
Mar 15, 2008
Dennis Montgomery, 63, of Coeur d Alene, former Sandpoint resident died at Kootenai Medical Center on Saturday, March 15, 2008. Dennis was born November 3, 1944 in Millville, NJ, the son of Frank and Florence Montgomery. He was raised and educated in Vineland, NJ and later received his AA in accounting in Philadelphia. On December 22, 1970 he married Lauraine...
Josephine M Vriale
Mar 12, 2008
Josephine M Vriale, 96, passed away on Wednesday, March 12th, in Sandpoint, Idaho. Private family services will be held at a later date.
Glenn Ernest Johnson
Mar 11, 2008
Glenn Ernest Johnson, 88, of Sandpoint, died Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at Life Care Center. He was born May 29, 1919 in Stacy, MN, the son of John Ernest and Olive Campbell Johnson. He attended schools in Cameron, WI, and joined the National Guard in Richmond, CA. He married Evelyn Marie Nissen Pearce on Feb. 10, 1950, and she preceded...