Laurel Lee Lyle

Laurel Lee Lyle (68) went to be with the lord after her four year courageous and stubborn battle with cancer on January 19, 2010. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, January 23, 2009 at 1:00pm in the Trinity Lutheran Church in Bonners Ferry, Idaho with private interment in the Grandview Cemetery. Laurel was born February 22, 1941 at Cheyenne Wells, Colorado to Clifford C. and Mable M. Lyle. In 1951 the family moved to Bonners Ferry, ID. Laurel attended Mt Hall and Valley View elementary schools and graduated from Bonners Ferry High School in 1959. She was always active in multiple school activities in elementary school and throughout her high school years. She participated in the school plays and performed in talent shows. She was the leader of the High School drill team. She was active in 4-H and she played the piano. She worked as a waitress at the Deep Creek Inn to earn money so she could attend Idaho State College in Pocatello, ID where she was among 14 coeds to pledge the college chapter of Sigma Kappa, a social sorority. She met and married Jerry Kittell in 1961. They had five children, four sons Everet, Gregory, Gerald, and Lyle and one daughter Beth. They were divorced in 1984. Laurel owned and operated L's Casual Corner and Clogs and Togs and had several rental properties. Laurel worked as a dispatcher for the Boundary County Sheriff and as a book keeper at general Feed & Grain and was employed at the Kootenai River Inn. She enjoyed square dancing, snowmobiling, crocheting, painting, reading, listening to her old time radio and her cats. She loved her family and especially spending time with her grandchildren. She loved to travel and took numerous trips to Nevada, Hawaii, Costa Rica, Bahamas, and Mexico with her friend and companion. Laurel spent her last days in Boundary Community Hospital crocheting hats for anyone who wanted one. Laurel was preceded in death by her father and mother Clifford and Mable Lyle and two brothers Ewing and Lowell Lyle. She is survived by five children, Everet Kittell, Bonners Ferry, ID, Gregory Kittell, Boise, ID, Gerald Kittell, Boise, ID, Lyle Kittell, Bonners Ferry, ID, and Beth Fraser, Bonners Ferry, ID, nine grandchildren and twelve great grand children and one brother, Garvin Lyle and wife and family, Bonners Ferry, ID sister-in-law Carol Lyle and family, Ulysses, KS and numerous nieces and nephews. Donations May be made in her honor to the Local Woman's Cancer Support Group, Breast Cancer Research Susan B. Komen and Hospice. Family and friends are invited to sign Laurel’s online guest book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.