Obituaries
Jimmy Glen Fairchild
Oct 21, 2025
Jimmy Glen Fairchild lost his battle with Alzheimer’s and passed away on Tuesday, October 21, 2025. Jim is survived by his wife of 53 years Juanita Fairchild and sons; Troy, Clark and Glen. His sisters Pennie Frame, Cindy Atkins and brother Scott. He leaves behind many grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces & nephews. Jim is preceded in death by his youngest...
Louis William Michalk
Oct 17, 2025
Louis William Michalk, III passed away Friday night, October 17, from lung cancer. Louie’s favorite pastime was wearing the “I Love Jesus” shirts and hats that he designed and talking to everyone he could about his love of Jesus.
Louie is described by all who knew him as one of the kindest, gentlest souls who would give anyone the shirt off...
Teresa Lyn Jones
Oct 3, 2025
Teresa Lynn Jones, 69, a resident of Moyie Springs Idaho died Friday, October 3, 2025 in Bonners Ferry. Teresa was born on October 7, 1955 the daughter of Verne K Jones and Rhea Jean Bullock in Torrance California. She grew up in Ogden Utah with 6 brothers and 2 sisters. She had traveled to many places and had many adventures...
Michael Frank Hanson
Sep 28, 2025
Mike Hanson, 70, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, passed away peacefully on September 28, 2025, surrounded by family and friends.
Mike was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on February 11, 1955 to Carl and Shirley Hanson. He remained in the area where most all of his siblings were born until he graduated high school. In his youth, Mike enjoyed canoeing in the...
Helen A. Hill
Sep 28, 2025
Helen Hill, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great grandmother, and cherished friend, entered into eternal rest on September 28, 2025, at the age of 89. She was born on January 27, 1936, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, to Dina and Roy Seaman, and lived her entire life rooted in the love of family, faith, and community.
Helen’s love story with her husband,...
Danny Kaye Lockman
Sep 27, 2025
Danny Kaye Lockman, 78, left for Elk Camp on September 27th, 2025, after a 56-year-long battle with Agent Orange. He was surrounded by peace, family, and more love than the room could hold.
Danny was born in Bonners Ferry on December 5th, 1946, to Lester Ernest & Hilma Anna Ida (Berg) Lockman, the 10th of 12 children. He joined the Army...
Charles "Chuck" Raymond Stockdale
Sep 25, 2025
Charles Raymond Stockdale was born on July 25, 1037, in Sandpoint, Idaho, to Lila and Raymond Stockdale. As the eldest of seven siblings – including two brothers, two sisters, a half-brother, and a stepsister – he grew up with a strong sense of responsibility and care for others.
Charles – known affectionately as Chuck – served our country in the U.S....
Barbara Kaye Gravelle
Sep 19, 2025
Barbara Kaye Gravelle of Bonners Ferry Idaho, being comforted by her family passed away on Friday September 19, 2025 at the age of 86. She was born September 26, 1938 in Bonners Ferry Idaho by parents Red and Bid Welch, and raised with her sister Mary Welch. Kaye met and soon married her one true love James Gravelle on September...
Evelyn Darlene Zeltner
Sep 17, 2025
Evelyn died September 17, 2025, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, at Sunset Home Assisted Living with her family by her side. Evelyn was born on September 12, 1937 in Bellingham, Washington the daughter of Harvey and Evelyn Osborn Locke. Viewing will be held on Friday, September 26, 2025 from 9:00 - 11:00 am with Funeral Services beginning at 11:00 am both...
Eric Paul Thaxton
Sep 2, 2025
Eric Paul Thaxton was born on February 13, 1955 to Donald and Sydney Thaxton at the US Army Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany and grew up in the military. His favorite youth memories were his teens spent in Hanau, Germany and he often talked fondly and shared stories about those years. The family settled in Yakima after leaving Europe. He was...
Jerry Linden Roop
Aug 30, 2025
Jerry Linden Roop returned home on August 30, 2025 at Boundary Community Hospital in Bonners Ferry, Idaho surrounded by family.
Jerry was born January 16, 1945 in Hanford, CA to Ermer (Tex) and Hazel Roop. He was their third son. They moved to the Cocolalla area in 1962. He was very much a real-life mountain man. He married his Eternal Sweetheart...
Keely Anne Nielsen
Aug 29, 2025
Keely Anne Nielsen, 53, passed away peacefully on August 29, 2025 at Boundary Community Hospital with her family at her side. Keely was born on August 2, 1972 in Portland, Oregon the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Driscoll Egner the youngest of three girls. She lived her youth in Gresham, Oregon and graduated from Gresham High School in 1990. She...
Carl Henning Dahlberg
Aug 23, 2025
Carl Henning Dahlberg was born in 1929 to Olaf and Delphine Dahlberg. During his childhood, Carl’s family lived in Portland, Oregon, and Richland, then Kennewick, Washington.
When he was 19, he joined the US Navy. He served in San Diego, at Pearl Harbor, on Midway Island, and as a radioman on the USS Iowa, before and during the Korean War.
After his...
Ruby Amoth Seaman
Aug 21, 2025
My dear wife, and our cherished mother and “Granny,” Ruby Amoth Seaman was born in Langdon, North Dakota, to Albert and Margaret Toews Amoth, on June 20, 1940, the youngest of five children.
In November of 1941, the family moved to beautiful Bonners Ferry, Idaho. They soon settled near Copeland in an old log house accessed by ferry or, in winter,...
Joseph Figgins
Aug 20, 2025
Joseph Fletcher Figgins passed away peacefully at his home on Wednesday August 20, 2025 surrounded by his family. He was born in Walla Walla, Washington on June 25, 1953, to Joe and Lilly Figgins, the oldest of five children.
Joe attended Bonners Ferry High school and continued his education in agriculture at Green River College. After college, he partnered with Brad...
Roger Eugene Plato
Aug 8, 2025
Roger Eugene Plato (67) passed away on August 8, 2025 in Apache Junction, Arizona.
He was born on March 18, 1958 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho and lived there until he graduated from high school After graduation - he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp where he served for 9 years.
After military service - he lived most of his adult life in...
Evan Jon Koehn
Jul 31, 2025
Evan Jon Koehn
My dear husband and our beloved father was born on August 13, 1980 to Russell and Nancy Koehn in Merced, California and departed this Earth on July 31, 2025 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington at the age of 44, after complications of a surgery relating to his cancer battle.
Evan completed his schooling at Longview Mennonite School...
Robert Omer Nelson
Jul 16, 2025
Robert O. Nelson ended his journey on July 16th, 2025, at Sunset Home surrounded by family. Robert O. Nelson was born November 4, 1929, in Homer, Nebraska to Bertel L. Nelson and Geneva Goldie Swain Nelson. During the Dust Bowl in Nebraska, they left and moved to Troy, Montana in 1933 and then settled in Bonners Ferry, Idaho in 1934...
Edward Paul Gould
Jul 15, 2025
Our world became much smaller when Edward “Ed” Paul Gould (born August 22, 1938) peacefully passed away on July 15. Ed studied Literature at both Graceland College and the University of Iowa, before enlisting in the US Navy. His early history was defined by distinguished service reaching the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG). After both sea duty and shore...
Senaida Acuna
Jun 27, 2025
Sadie Acuna was born on January 29, 1943 and went to sleep one final time, surrounded by those who loved her, on June 27, 2025 at her home for 18 wonderful years. Sadie was born in Cleveland, New Mexico, the second of six children born to Luis and Adela Fernandez. Her father moved the family to Barstow, California for work...
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