Obituaries

Apr 12, 2024

Peggy (Althauser) Weyer passed away on April 12, 2024 surrounded by the love of her family. She was born April 6, 1949 in Centralia, WA to Donald and Frances (Anderson) Althauser. She later married Norman Weyer and lived in Port Orchard. Peggy enjoyed spending time with her family, quilting, crocheting, gardening, baking, playing cribbage and pinochle, and traveling. She...

Apr 10, 2024

On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 Vickie Ellis Forell a.k.a “nana” passed away peacefully at her home in Naples with her loving husband by her side.

Nana loved traveling and going on adventures. Her greatest joys in life were her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She is proceeded in death by her parents, Audrey Mader and Frank...

Apr 7, 2024

Carl Joseph Vinton, age 76, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, passed away on April 7, 2024 after a long battle with Diabetes. He was born on February 18, 1948, the 3rd of 14 children. As a child he grew up migrant farming, traveling from state-to-state harvesting fruits and vegetables. He had many great stories to tell of his childhood adventures....

Apr 5, 2024

Larry Ray Wycoff passed away Friday, April 5, 2024. Larry was born July 14, 1962 in Moscow, Idaho. He spent is youth in the Moscow/Pullman area, moving to Big Lake, Alaska in 1976. Returning to Idaho in the early 80’s where he attended classes at the University of Idaho. Larry loved the outdoors, fishing, hunting, target shooting as well...

Mar 29, 2024

Larry Dean Hall, 82, passed away at home Friday, March 29, 2024 in Bonners Ferry. Larry was born in Dunseith, North Dakota on February 20, 1942. He lived there until he was 14 and moved to Bonners Ferry where he graduated high school. He married Marilyn Behrman and had two children Mike and Robin. They later divorced. Larry met Shelby...

Mar 20, 2024

Jaylyn was born March 26, 1943 to Louise Ann Vrska Burns and W.J. Burns at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At the beginning of the BIG War, WWII, W.J. was stationed in the Army Air Corps in Oklahoma City. As the war raged on, Jaylyn and her mother Louise moved to Marshal Oklahoma to the Vrska Farm...

Mar 18, 2024

Gary Lewis Meddock, age 75 of Bonners Ferry, ID passed away on March 18, 2024 at the home he shared with his sister Judy Everhart.

Gary was the middle of five children born to Bessie and Fred Meddock in Bonners on February 9, 1949. Bonners Ferry was Gary’s home his entire life, except for a brief move...

Mar 12, 2024

Melody Rae Benefiel was born November 16, 1953, in Spokane, WA to her loving parents William and Hazel Bolding. She had a wonderful life and had her two children who she loved very dearly.

Melody passed away on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in Post Falls, ID. She was surrounded by her family. She survives by her two...

Mar 12, 2024

Charlene Kalb of Bonners Ferry, Idaho passed away on 12 March 2024 at the age of 87.  She was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota on 23 December 1936.  She attended all 12 years of school in the same building in Lakota, North Dakota. After graduating from high school, she attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.  She received her...

Mar 11, 2024

Sandra Lynn Haag was born and raised in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. She was born December 3, 1941 in Boundary County Community Hospital where she also passed away peacefully in the company of loved ones March 11, 2024.

After graduating from Bonners Ferry High School, Sandy moved to Rupert, Idaho where she met her first husband, Larry Kowalski....

Mar 2, 2024

Nita died March 2, 2024, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, at Boundary Community Hospital Extended Care Facility. Nita was born on October 11, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York the daughter of Charles and Lillian Shirley Moskowitz Cole. Nita is survived by her daughter, Randi Gedeon.

Graveside Services will be held on Friday, March 8, 2024 at Grandview Cemetery...

Mar 2, 2024

On Saturday, March 2, 2024, a talented, loved-by-all gentleman passed away in the presence of his immediate family, Laurel, Crystal, Lyric, Ammie and Johnny.

Robert (Bob) Martin was 96 years old and led a very exciting, productive and happy life. He loved Jesus with all of his being and made sure that he witnessed in some way...

Feb 14, 2024

Patricia Marie Olson, born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Charles and Mary Bilek, navigated her happy early years as an only child surrounded by love. She married Loren Olson in 1952, embarking on a journey that blessed them with four children and a lifetime of adventures, from road trips and camping to dirt bike races.

In 1984,...

Feb 6, 2024

Virginia died February 6, 2024, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, at the Community Restorium. Virginia was born on May 18, 1931 in Dearborn, Michigan the daughter of Antonio and Conchetta Trotta.

Graveside Services will be held on Monday, February 12, 2024 at Grandview Cemetery at 12:00 pm.

Jan 28, 2024

William “Bill” Lewis, 78, passed away peacefully on January 28, 2024 at Valley Vista Memory Care in Sandpoint, Idaho. Bill was born on July 28,1945 in Schenectady, New York, the son of Edward O. Lewis and Mildred Hildebrand Lewis. He is survived by his wife Mary Poole Lewis, daughter Jennifer Lewis Westervelt, her husband Brian Westervelt, and granddaughter Maddie...

Jan 19, 2024

Bob Neumeyer, 93, passed away on January 19, 2024, in Eagle, Idaho. Bob was born on March 27, 1930, in Denison, Iowa, to Viola and Rudy Neumeyer. The oldest of five boys, they all helped with the farm and were active in 4-H and FFA. Bob attended grade school in a one room schoolhouse, riding the family horse, Babe,...

Jan 14, 2024

Marian Rosco passed away peacefully on January 14, 2024 at her residence in Sandpoint, Idaho.

She was born November 26, 1935 to Harold and Emma Martin in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where she joined her older siblings, brother Art and sister Claudia.

Marian attended school in Bonners Ferry, Idaho where she met the love of her...

Jan 12, 2024

Ruth Eileen (Merritt) Cooper (better known as Eileen Cooper) passed away peacefully at home on January 12, 2024. Born in Bonners Ferry, Idaho on May 7, 1929 the daughter of Robert Franklin and Edith Irene (Clark) Merritt. She attended the first five school years at the Pine Grove School (now and bed and breakfast) on the Northside. The family...

Jan 8, 2024

Mary Susan Taft of Moyie Springs, ID

June 13, 1940- January 8, 2024

Mary Susan was born June 13, 1940, in New Borough, New York to Fannie Bell and James Bishop. She was the first child born to the happy couple. Her parents moved back to Mississippi to be near family, and within two and...

Jan 2, 2024

His wife Tammi by his side, Brian Thomas Kincaid, 63, of Bonners Ferry, passed away peacefully Tuesday, January 2nd after a long battle with cancer. Brian was born and raised in the hills of Goshen, Connecticut, the fourth son to Donald Garfield Kincaid and Concetta Louise Kincaid. He is pre-deceased by his parents and his eldest brother, Donald.