Yvonne V. Hamilton, 82

Yvonne V. Hamilton, 82
Yvonne
V
Hamilton,
long-time
C olfax
a r e a
resident,
passed
a w a y
Thursday
afternoon,
Oct. 13, at Whitman Hospital
following a valiant battle with
cancer and surrounded by her
loving family. She was 68.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday, Oct. 22, at 11 a.m. at
the Endicott School. Burial will
follow at the Endicott Cemetery
with a potluck back at the school.
Viewing will be held Thursday
and Friday from 5-7:30 p.m. at ing their family. She kept busjf
as a homemaker and mother
Bruning Funeral Home.
Yvonne was born Aug. 31, and in 1969 they opened "The
1937 at Spokane, Wash., to Merle Stitching Shoppe" on Main
and Ilean Strommen Nelson. She Street in Colfax.
They operated the fabric store;,
was raised in Bonners Ferry
and graduated from high school for many years and later opened,
there. She attended Deaconess a branch store in Pullman. They,
School of Nursing in Spokane sold the shoppe in 1980. Yvonne
and completed her RN degree. worked as a nurse at Whitman
Following graduation, she and Health and Rehab Center in
two classmates worked for a Colfax from 1985-1995.
short time in Hawaii.
She was a devout Christian,
She married
Clarence and devoted wife, mother and
Hamilton, whom she'd met sev- grandmother. She loved flower
eral years earlier, on Aug. 26, gardening and her grandchik
1960 in Bonners Ferry. They've dren.
made their home on their farm
She and Clarence loved to*,
near Diamond since. Yvonne travel and she enjoyed sewing
worked for a few years at the St. and camping.
Ignatius Hospital before startShe is survived by her hus-r
band Clarence, of Colfax; three*
children, Jodie (Larry) Young ,
Steve (Margie) Hamilton both,
of Colfax and Daaron (Melinda)'
Hamilton of Yakima; six grand-7
children, Ryan, Derek, Andra,'
Chase, Carson and Morgan; and;
a brother, Buck (Dwyla) Nelson,'
of Post Falls, Idaho. She was_
preceded in death by her par-,Q
ents and 2 brothers, Jack and*
Bill Nelson.
On-line guest book is at^,
www.bruningfuneralb.ome..:
com. Yvonne was so apprecia^.;
tive of the care she received"
at Whitman Hospital and didn't:
know how to ever thank them!!
enough. Remembrances are sug-"
gested to the Whitman Hospital"
Foundation or your choice.