Lee Remsburg

Born Edgar Daniel Lee Remsburg on Feb. 11, 1930, in Charbonneau, N.D., to Margaret May (Davis) and George Edgar Remsburg. Lee (as he was known by his family and friends) spent most of his growing years with his grandparents, Daniel Davis and Pearl Delight Davis.Lee passed away on Sept. 1, 2007, while doing what he loved so much in life — roaming around the mountains of northern Idaho in search of wildlife to photograph and reveling in Nature's majesty.Lee loved the outdoors with a passion unparalleled. He spent a career in the outdoors working briefly with the logging industry and then as an employee with the Forest Service where he retired as the roads and trails maintenance manager for the Couer d'Alene National Forest. He also worked earlier in life as a cab driver, a creamery worker, and as a driver for fuel oil deliveries in the Sandpoint area.Lee was always in the outdoors where he loved to fish and hunt. He loved to photograph nature in all its glory, particularly animals and scenery. While living in Sagle, he even developed his own film in his darkroom for pictures he took at weddings, reunions, and such. He briefly took footage for the news services in Spokane and many of his photographs that he took while on the job were used by the Forest Service.His desire was to have his ashes divided among his children to be spread by each in a place of shared happiness where the elk roam.He was preceded in life by his longtime companion, Bobbi Burnside of Post Falls, Idaho, in the fall of 2005.He is survived by the mother of his children, Edna Lindstrom of Lewiston, Idaho, and seven children, Leanna Goodrow of Bovill, Idaho, Daniel Remsburg of Woodland Park, Colo., Dale Remsburg of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, David Remsburg of Culdesac, Idaho, Donald Remsburg of Spirit Lake, Idaho, Dana Remsburg of Moscow, and Leona Blaker of Lewiston. He is also survived by three sisters, Ida Jansen in Washington, Betty McCarville in Wisconsin and Angie Bartlett in Idaho; and sister in-law Anna Remsburg in North Dakota along with 39 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the English Funeral Chapel in Couer d'Alene, 1133 North Fourth St.