M. Lucille Childress Owen-Huston

M. Lucille (Childress) Owen-Huston passed away at 10:30 P.M. on July 31, 2013 at the Boundary Community Hospital in Bonners Ferry, Idaho where she had been fighting a losing battle with congestive heart failure. Funeral Services will be held on Monday, August 5, 2013 at 2:00pm at the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home in Bonners Ferry, Idaho with Interment at 11:00am Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at the Riverview Cemetery, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Lucille was born on November 9, 1931 in Shawnee, OK to Charles William and Flora Bell (Durham) Childress. Lucille graduated from Shawnee, OK High School where she was always active in women’s basketball and other sports. She then located to live with an aunt and uncle in California, where she met her first husband, Joseph Michael Owen, Jr. and was married on May 7, 1950 in Quartsite, AZ. The family lived for some time in Compton, CA after which they relocated to the Corvallis, OR area, where Lucille became employed in the city finance and accounting department. Being responsible for all city employees’ payroll and outstanding city invoices. After the death of her husband on March 8 1990, she moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho to be nearer to her son Rande. There she met and married her present husband William (Bill) Huston on March 13, 1992. She was an active artist and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Lucille was preceded in death by her parents, husband Joseph Owen, brothers: John Lewis Childress, Loren Dale Childress, son: Ronald Kelly Owen and daughter: Sheree Lynn Owen. She is survived by brother Edward Franklin Childress, sisters; Rose May Austin and Dorothy Mae Magnuson; sons: Joseph Michael Owen; Rande Curtis Owen; Daughter Cynthia Lynn Owen Wood; and husband William R. Huston and her grandchildren; great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Family and friends are invited to sign Lucille’s book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.