Sandra Louise Irving-Alamillo

Sandra Louise Irving-Alamillo lost a three-year battle with cancer on March 18, 2017. She died at her home where her daughter Michelle Alamillo and her husband Joseph Alamillo had been caring for her.

Memorial services will be conducted at 11 a.m., Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church with Father Dennis C. Day officiating.

Sandra was born on Sept. 29, 1946 in Richmond, Calif., to Dixie Nadine Osborne and Marvin Thomas Irving.

She grew up in the Oakland, Calif., where she attended and graduated from St. Elizabeth High School. She attended Marritt College in Oakland where she graduated as an x-ray technologist and began working at Valley Memorial Hospital in Livermoor, Calif.

On June 1, 1968, Sandy was married to Joseph P. Alamillo. They purchased a home in San Larenzo, Calif., where they started their family. They have three children.

In 1988, they family moved to Sagle, Idaho, where Sandy designed their house she and Joe had built. They would say that it was city close and country quiet. She went to work at Bonner General Hospital in her chosen field of X-ray tech until she retired in 2006. Her patients knew her as a kind, caring and gentle person. To everyone else she was known for her sunny smile and direct, no -onsense attitude. If you asked for her advice, be ready for the truth.

Sandy had many interests and hobbies. She loved to bake cookies for the tea parties she had with her grandchildren and nieces. It will teach them manners, she would say, and that is important.

In the spring, she would plant many flowers around her patio. She hand- quilted beautiful panels and then blinged them out as she would call it. She taught herself Swedish weaving.

The beautiful items she made were treasures and keepsakes given to family and friends.

She enjoyed traveling and had been to Scotland, where she pursued her interest in genealogy. Her most recent trip, to everyone’s amazement, was just a few weeks ago. She went on a cruise with her husband and one of her sons and his family to the Caribbean.

Above all else, family was the number one priority in Sandy’s life. This included cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, brothers and all of their families. She hosted a family reunion several times with up to 100 people or more attending. Her grandchildren were her joy.

Sandy is survived her husband, Joseph Peter Alamillo; her daughter, Shannon Marie (Duane) Werner; sons Joseph and Nickolas, Patrick (Laura) Alamillo and their children Nikole and Zachery, Shane’s son Shane and wife Michelle and their children Hailey, Hunter, Hope, Honor and Hagen; and brothers, Timothy Irving, Tony Machado and Alfred Machado.

She is preceded in death by her mother, Dixie Nadine Machado; father Marvin T. Irving; and brothers Daniel Irving and John Irving.

Family and friends are invited to sign Sandy’s online guest book at coffeltfuneral.com.

Arrangements are under the care of Coffelt Funeral Service.