Nellie May Larson, 86

Nellie May Larson, 86, former Sagle, Idaho, resident passed away in Bonners Ferry on Sunday, March 27, 2005.

Memorial services will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 16, 2005, in Coffelt's Moon Chapel. Dale Coffelt will officiate at the service.

Nellie was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, on Aug. 24, 1918, the daughter of Michael and Mollie Coleman. She grew up in Sandpoint, attending local schools.

For many years, she lived in the Portland, Ore., area and worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a purchasing agent. She returned to Sandpoint and retired from the U.S. Forest Service in 1973.

She was a member of the Christian Church in Newberg, Ore., and was a Past Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, Martha Chapter No. 34, in Sandpoint. She enjoyed making candles and working in her rock garden.

She is survived by her husband, Roy E. Larson of Moyies Springs, and other relatives and friends.

Final arrangements are entrusted to the care of Coffelt Funeral Service of Sandpoint.Christine Ruth Seashore, 56Christine Ruth Seashore, 56, died in California's Sierra Mountains on Easter Saturday, when she should have been at Little Mountain rolling pink and turquoise eggs down the grassy slope … when she should have been continuing her exquisite line of curving powder turns down a 13,000-foot glacier. Instead, a massive avalanche snatched her away from us. A memorial for Christine will be held at her South Fork cabin in Montana on the afternoon of May 1. Wildflowers and backyard daffodils were her style. Please send your love by doing a kindness or encouraging a laugh in a friend, rather than sending bouquets.Christine was born March 4, 1949, in Brigham City, Utah, to Eric and Connie (Caldwell) Seashore. She grew up in Brigham, riding Walt Mann's pony cart around the Sixth East neighborhood, sharing birthday parties with Susan Reese, being her inimitable self always: kind, adventuresome, busy, and wryly witty to the extreme. She graduated from BEHS, went off to college at University of Utah, spent 1979-'80 studying in Norway where she picked up the art of weaving, the Norwegian language, and the grace of telemark turns on cross country skis. This last art she brought back to the Wasatch and shared with fellow skiers. Christine began skiing in sixth grade when she signed up for Brigham's youth program and traveled up to Snow Basin on winter Saturdays. Nick Topik was the brave man who chaperoned Seashore and her cronies on the ski bus.Skiing was her greatest passion, along with family, friendship, and pranks. She graduated with a BS in soil science from Montana State University. In 1984 she married Jon Turk and began to help raise and love his three children, Nathan, Noey and Reeva. Christine adored their five grandchildren — Cleo, Dimitri, Aiden, Jaimon, Julian. She divided her year by seasons, spending winters in Fernie, British Columbia, and summers in Darby, Mont. This was possible since both she and her husband were writers. Christine published stories and photographs in Sea Kayaker Magazine and other publications. Jon and Christine were adventurers, paddling kayaks between icebergs, training a dogsled team in Alaska, bicycling across Mongolia, and, of course, skiing, skiing, skiing. She once softly but firmly persuaded an Ellesmere Island polar bear to divert his ambling path toward them.She had courage, daring, and physical strength but she also enjoyed the gentler side of life, like knitting, baking almond biscotti, drying box after box of Sandpoint's plums, and picking British Columbian huckleberries. She avidly read books and her weekly New Yorkers. Christine lived in Sandpoint and worked as an licensed practical nurse at Bonner General Hospital in the 1970s. She loved our town and spent lots of time here with her sister Karen's family.She lived big. She lived small, noticing the tiny details of beauty. She lived her life as though she had more hours than normal mortals. Her sister and brother, Karen and Karl, lucky to have had such an impish love sandwiched in the middle of their family, miss her immeasurably. Her husband Jon sorrowfully continues a life without her in Montana and Canada. She also leaves her Aunt Betty, her niece Arnica and nephew Per, her brother-in-law Tom who has loved her since she escorted him and Karen on their South American honeymoon, her sister-in-law Peggy, her sweet parents-in-law Amos and Pearl, her cousins Tony, Greg, and MayLe, and constellations of friends to remember her. Oh we are all so sad.