Norman 'Norm' Frank Linscott, 96

Norman Frank Linscott passed away on March 2, 2008, in Sandpoint, Idaho. He was 96 years old.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, 2008, at Coffelt's Funeral Chapel. Pastor Jon Pomeroy officiating with interment to be in Pinecrest Memorial Park. Visitation will be on Wednesday from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. at Coffelt Funeral Service.

Norman was born in Terry, S.D. on Dec. 6, 1911, to Clarence Linscott and Emma LaFavor Linscott. His father worked for the city of Terry on the horse-drawn fire engines and funeral hearse. At age six, the family moved to Summit, S.D., where he attended school until the eighth grade.

In 1928, the Linscott family moved to Sandpoint and purchased 40 acres on North Boyer from Humbird Lumber Company.

At the age of 17, Norman got a job working for the Elks Golf Course. His early career in the gravel business began in the 1930s at the Bonner County Airport with a borrowed horse and rented wagon. With the money he saved, he purchased his first dump truck.

In 1936, He married Pauline Adell Fankhouser in Wallace, Idaho. They had a son, Frank, in 1943 and a daughter, Lauralie Adell, in 1947.

During the 1940s he owned and operated a wooden box factory and spent two years working on the Alcan Highway.

Upon returning from Alaska, he spent two years in the U.S. Navy at Farragut, Idaho. After his discharge, he continued in the gravel business purchasing Sindler's 80-acre gravel pit south of Sandpoint.

In the early 1950s, he branched into the excavating business purchasing the first backhoe in Bonner and Boundary counties.

In 1966, his wife Pauline passed away. In January 1970, he married Lillian Reynolds Linscott. In 1980, he sold the gravel pit to his son Frank and began a semi-retirement, spending winters in Arizona and delivering gravel in the summer.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Pauline, daughter Lauralie, brothers Muriel, Beldon and sisters Blanche, Ella Ruth, Charlotte and Caroline.

He is survived by his wife, Lillian; son Frank and wife Carol of Sagle; four step-children, Belva Pierce of Sandpoint, Betty and husband Del Stansell of Hayden, Idaho, and Yvonne and husband Marvin Farley of Hansville, Wash., and Robert and wife Elaine Linscott of Sagle, Idaho; and 18 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews too numerous to mention.

Norman was a well-respected businessman and was loved by all who knew him.

Norman Frank Linscott husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend will be greatly missed.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Bonner County Historical Society.

Funeral arrangements are under the care of Coffelt Funeral Service.