Derell Arlene McCormick

Derell Arlene McCormick, 66, lost her courageous battle with pancreatic cancer on Jan. 13, 2006.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 17 in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stake center on Schweitzer Cutoff Road in Sandpoint, Idaho. The services will be under the direction of Bishop Howell.

Friends may call, at the stake center, prior to the service, from 9:30 a.m. until service time.

Derell was born in Boise, Idaho on June 4, 1939, the daughter of French Harold Winans and Mae Louise (Leslie) Winans. She was raised in Ketchum, Idaho, where she attended elementary school, and then Hailey High School where she met the love of her life, Larry McCormick, in 1955 in Ketchum.

Larry and Derell traveled the Northwest following construction jobs and had four children along the way. They settled in Sandpoint in 1964. She worked at Kootenai and Northside schools and was a sales clerk at J.C. Penney.

Derell was involved in the Miss Sandpoint Pageant in the early 1970s. She had ongoing Bunco parties for a number of years that she enjoyed.

Derell spent her free time doing things she loved — crocheting, knitting, sewing, and teaching her children to ski and to jitterbug. She loved gardening, fishing, camping, sledding in the winter and dancing with Larry at the Elks Club. She was always the first to start a water fight and everyone had to get wet.

She had great faith in Jesus Christ and believed in her genealogy (family history) work at the LDS Church and requested her children to continue her work. She devoted her life, and love, to her husband, children, and grandchildren. She had amazing strength of spirit and is dearly loved.

She is survived by her husband, Larry McCormick of Sandpoint; four children, Ronald McCormick of Salt Lake City, Michael McCormick of Portland, Ore., Shawna (and David) Hines of Snohomish, Wash. and Aaron McCormick of Scottsdale, Ariz.; 19 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a brother, Dennis Ray Winans of Pocatello, Idaho; a sister, Joetta Marguerite (and Seth) Batt of Hayden, Idaho; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her step-father, Ellis "Brownie" Gold.

Funeral arrangements are under the care of Coffelt Funeral Service.