Wilma Louise Owen

Wilma Louise Owen of Paradise Valley in Bonners Ferry, Idaho passed away peacefully in her home on June 4, 2011 at the age of 89. Services will be held on Monday, June 13, 2011 at 3:00pm in the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home, with private inurnment in the Grandview Cemetery. Wilma was born on January 30, 1922. She lived in Oklahoma, California and Idaho. During WWII she worked in the shipyards of Richmond, CA s a welder and eventually become the manager of the Welders Supply Shack where she met and married her husband of 68 years Max L. Owen. Both Wilma and Max worked as telegraph operators for the Southern Pacific Railroad. She attended Pacific Union College and Humboldt State College where she graduated. Teaching became Wilma’s passion and she was a dedicated teacher to all her students. She taught in Crescent City, Lodi, Eureka and Redding California. In 1971 she and her husband moved to Bonners Ferry where Wilma taught in the Public Schools. She was an active member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for many years. She is preceded in death by her parents Bennie and Ila Dillbeck, sisters Polly Johnson and Neva Lomax. Wilma is survived by her husband Max L. Owen nieces Lynda Blumberg of Spokane, WA; Mary Medeiros of Huston, TX and Sherlyn Jacobs of Sacramento, CA as well as several great nieces and nephews. She will be missed by all. Family and friends are invited to sign Wilma’s book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.