All Obituaries

Helen Ruth Taylor, age 90, resident of Post Falls, Idaho, passed away September 5th, 2019 at home under Hospice care.   Helen was born March 23, 1929 in Wessington Springs, South Dakota to Tillman and Jennie Victoria (Easton) Walker.   At approximately 8 years of age, she moved with her family to the Caldwell, Idaho area.  She attended the one room school in Lake Lowell, west of Caldwell and graduated Caldwell High School in 1947.   Helen married Jerry...

Angela Nicole Lander, born Angela Nicole Johnson, 46, from Hayden, went to rejoin her loved ones and Jesus in Heaven on Sunday morning, Oct. 6, 2019, at Deaconess Hospital, in Spokane, Wash. She passed in the loving company of her oldest daughter, Ara Miracle. Angela was born in Spokane on May 24, 1973. She was a masterful artist with expansive knowledge in a great variety of art forms and geology. Angela had a love for gardening with a remarkable green thumb. She had a beautiful way of...

  Gerald Lynn Whitney passed away on October 3rd, 2019 in Worley, Idaho. “Gary” was born in 1946 to Ina Mae Whitney Callahan in Marshalltown, Iowa and is survived by his brothers Mike, Bob, Dave and John, sister Cat, daughter Angie, and “Dixie”, his beloved doe that frequented his property with her fawns year after year. Gary was a U.S. Air Force Veteran and National Guardsman, and enjoyed employment in several trades including auto-mechanic at Robideaux Motors...

Judith was born in Ritzville, Washington at the Ritzville Hospital, her parents were Darrell Mayfield and Emma Engelhardt. Judith attended Moses Lake, Washington schools. Her parents were members of the Moses Lake, Washington Assembly of God church for over forty years. Darrell was a carpenter and he helped build the Grand Coulee Dam in 1930’s. Judy, as she was known, was a member of the DAR and had a total of seven Revolutionary Soldiers in her family. She was a devoted religious...

Fran Allison of Coeur d’Alene passed away Sept. 30th at The Village at Orchard Ridge. She was born to LT.CMR Frank O’Neil and Elsie Fitz in 1937 in Alhambra, California. Her father being in the navy, caused her to move around a lot and she had the opportunity to live in 43 different states. Unfortunately, she lost her father during The D-day Invasion. She resided with her mother and sister in San Gabriel, CA where they attended The Roosevelt Grammar School. She then went on to...

Dorothy Arlene Nickel, 75, passed away on September 29, 2019 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She was born on August 21, 1944 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. A Celebration of Life will be held  on Tuesday, October 8th at 11 am at the Hayden Lake Adventist Church 12940 N Government Way, Hayden, ID 83835.   

Janice (Jan) Johnson, age 74, died on Saturday, September 28th, 2019 in the city of her birth, Coeur d’Alene, ID. Jan was born April 10, 1945 to Ted and Mabel Foss and was the youngest of two children. She studied various instruments, including the piano, violin, and clarinet. After graduating from Coeur d’Alene High School in 1963, she attended Idaho State University and later North Idaho College as a nursing student. Jan married James (Jim) Johnson in 1971 and had a daughter,...

Bernadine was born in a little log cabin in Ford, Kootenai County, Idaho to Antoine “Anthony” Jean Bucher and Grace Marie Allman Bucher on March 22, 1924. She passed away Friday, September 27, 2019 at the Schneidmiller House in Coeur d’Alene surrounded by her family. In the fall of 1940, Bernadine met the love of her life, Elmer Albert Currie, in the back yard of her parents’ home on 7th street in Coeur d’Alene.  In May of 1941 they were married in...

Jim was born on April 17, 1931, in Devil’s Lake, ND. On September 26, 2019, Jim died peacefully at home after a battle with bladder cancer that went into overdrive. Jim grew up on a dairy farm in northern Minnesota without electricity or plumbing. After graduating from Fosston High School, he spent four years in the Air Force before graduating from the University of Minnesota. He began working for Caterpillar in 1957 and climbed the ladder to Vice Chairman. His career at Caterpillar...

Glenn Harold Robbins passed away on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho at the age of 82.  Glenn was born in Tenino, Washington on July 30, 1937, graduated from Fife High School in 1955 and served in the United States Army as a medic from 1960-1962 before beginning his career in construction as a union laborer on large projects such as Grand Coulee and Mossy Rock Dams. He married Lucille Rose Fredrick on June 27, 1964 in Milton, Washington and settled in...