Obituaries
Amos Woodrow Morgan
Jan 26, 2018
Amos Woodrow Morgan, 78 passed away in his home on January 26 after an extended battle with cancer. Amos grew up doing many things, descended from farmers he learned what hard work meant at an early age, he worked for a farmer and helped his family make a living while farming and traveling back and forth from Arkansas to California...
Mary Catherine Mesenbrink
Jan 22, 2018
Mary Mesenbrink (98) passed away at the Boundary County Hospital ECF on January 22, 2018. There will be a funeral mass and celebration of Mary’s life on February 5th at 1:00 at St Ann’s Catholic Church. Mary was born in Sheridan Wyoming to Suzie and Paul Yarco, on February 18, 1919 . She had three brothers. She was married to...
Gladys Edith Crumley Minden Davey Burton
Jan 20, 2018
Gladys Edith Crumley (Minden-Davey-Burton) October 6, 1923 – January 20, 2018, passed away at the age of 94. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 am in the Woodland Mennonite Church in Bonners ferry, with interment in the Woodland Mennonite Cemetery. Born October 6, 1923 in Rainier, Washington to Charles Crumley and Mary Esther Midkiff Crumley, the youngest of 6...
Judy James
Jan 17, 2018
Walk in the forest Listen – her footsteps follow The trees breathe...she’s there. Judy James finished her walk in the woods on January 17, 2018, a journey that lasted almost 80 years and touched the souls of all those who walked with her. She walked into the arms of God quietly with her loving husband Don at her side. But...
Norman Lewis Ferber
Jan 14, 2018
Norman L Ferber, 93, passed away January 14th at the Boundary County Extended Care Facility in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Norm was born December 13th, 1924 to Adolph and Daisy Ferber in Ringgold County, Iowa. He grew up in rural southern Iowa and graduated from Tingley High School before enlisting in the US Navy in June of 1943. He and his...
Thomas Allen Stahl
Jan 9, 2018
Thomas Allen Stahl, 55, passed away in Moyie Springs, Idaho January 9, 2018. Born in Carrington, North Dakota, January 17, 1962 to Joseph and Mary Stahl, Tom was the youngest of seven children. He grew up in Sykeston, ND, enjoying basketball, cross-country track, and drumming in the school band. Living next to Lake Hiawatha started a life-long passion for fishing....
Eddie Dwayne Leach
Jan 2, 2018
Eddie Dwayne Leach, age 61, passed away on January 2, 2018 in his home in Bonners Ferry, ID while sleeping. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife two weeks prior on December 19th, 2017. Eddie was born in Anchorage, Alaska on December 28, 1956. He was the son of Donald M. Leach and Nancy Shelton. Eddie attended high...
Barton Lee (Bart) Dinning
Dec 23, 2017
Barton Lee (Bart) Dinning passed away on December 23, 2017 at the Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Bart was born November 9, 1943 in Bonners Ferry Idaho. He hit the ground running. Playing in the mountains and fields with his many cousins. In High School he met Sharon the love of his life. Married for 55 years they...
Jessica Noel (Barton) Soule
Dec 23, 2017
Jessica Noel (Barton)Soule (34) passed away on December 23, 2017 as a result of an auto accident in Spokane WA. Services will be held at Bridgeway Assembly of God Church in Bonners Ferry on January 5th at 1:00 interment will be in the Grandview Cemetery in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Jessica Noel was born on December 5th, 1983 to Jamie and...
Douglas Allen Flory
Dec 22, 2017
Doug Allen Flory (78)was Born November 13, 1939 in Kellogg Idaho to Addie Bell and Edwin Flory. He entered into heaven on December 22, 2017 from his home near Bonners Ferry surrounded by his family. He moved with his parents and brother Larry to Copeland Idaho in 1953, where he attended Mount Hall School and Bonners Ferry High School, Graduating...
Mary Kopas
Dec 20, 2017
This is written with a heavy heart. Mary Kopas passed away at her home in Moyie Springs Idaho on the night of Wednesday, December 20, 2017. She was 64 years old. Mary was born in 1953 in rural Wisconsin and was raised with five older brothers and younger sister. In 1990, Mary relocated with her family to put down roots...
Leslie Ann Leach
Dec 19, 2017
Leslie Ann Leach, age 61, passed away on December 19th 2017 in Sandpoint Idaho after suffering a heart attack. Leslie was born on April 8,1956 in Kokomo, Indiana. She was the daughter of Rex A. Hill and Edith A. Morgan. Leslie graduated in 1974 from Bellevue High School, Nebraska and attended Stephan F. Austin State University. In 1978, Leslie married...
Russell Murrell (Doc) Docherty
Dec 19, 2017
Russell “Doc” Murrell Docherty, on the morning of December 19, 2017, Doc passed away peacefully of natural causes at the Boundary County Community Restorium, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Doc was 85 years old. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday January 13th, 2018 at 12:00pm at the Kootenai River Inn. Doc was born April 14th, 1932 in Mercer County,...
Cedella Veratrice Richards
Dec 15, 2017
Cedella V. Richards passed away on December 15, 2017 and will be gratefully missed. She was born in Melrose, Montana to Gilbert and Maud Quilici. She married john (Jacob) Richards February 22, 1942. She had one daughter Elaine Hodgson they lived in Twin Bridges, Montana. She was a telephone operator and they worked in the Blue Anchor Café’ later she...
Christopher Haworth
Dec 12, 2017
It is with great sadness that the family of Christopher Haworth announces his passing from this world on December 12, 2017. Chris lived in many beautiful places in his life, always with profound reverence for the natural world. He spent the last 18 years on his beloved land in the mountains outside of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. He was at home...
James (Jim) Raymond Hill, Md
Dec 11, 2017
Jim R. Hill M.D. of Bonners Ferry, ID passed away quietly on Monday December 11, 2017 at his home. He was born on October 17th 1935 in Salt Lake City, UT. Jim was a veteran of the United States Air Force and worked as a nuclear weapons engineer. While in the Air Force, Jim found inspiration to pursue medicine as...
Claire Orlean Cossairt Godwin
Nov 25, 2017
Claire Orlean Cossairt Godwin passed away peacefully on Saturday November 25, 2017 at Hearthstone Village in Kootenai, Idaho surrounded by the caring people of the facility and Hospice. Claire was born on October 9, 1925, the first of 8 children born to Cecil and Carol Aldridge Cossairt, Naples, Idaho. She attended the local schools and graduated from Bonners Ferry High...
Glenn Verson Belden
Nov 23, 2017
Glenn Vernon Belden (75) passed away on November 23, 2017 in Quartzsite, Arizona. There will be a remembrance gathering and Potluck at the Church of the Nazarene Fellowship Room in Bonners Ferry, Idaho on July 25, 2018 at 12:00 noon. Private interment will be in the Grandview Cemetery, Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Glenn was born on June 25, 1942 in Bonners...
Jay Holton Jeppesen
Nov 19, 2017
Jay Holton Jeppesen left this earth to return home Sunday November 19, 2017. Funeral Services will be held on Friday, December 1, 2017 at 11:00am in the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. Interment will follow in the McArthur Cemetery near Naples, Idaho. He was born November 16, 1933 in Sandpoint, Idaho to George and Georgia M. Holton...
George Prentice Kalb
Nov 17, 2017
George Prentice Kalb passed away on November 17, 2017 at Boundary Community Hospital. He was 85 years old. George was born February 11, 1932 in Sandpoint, ID, to Wm. Slater Kalb and L. Margaret Kalb. His early education was in Bonner County. He attended first grade at a school in Priest Lake because his mother was able to get a...