Patricia Timblin Evans

Patricia Timblin Evans was born on March 7, 1928, in the home of her parents, Rex Timblin and Mahala Nettleingham in Colburn Idaho where she grew up. She had two older brothers, Melvin (Viola Montgomery) (Pat Wills) and Jim (Lucille Miller). She also had an older half-sister, Lucille (Max Cunningham); an older sister Mabel Anna, who died before she was 3; and two younger sisters, Mary Ellen (Harry Roberts) and Carol (Lloyd Peiffer). All of her siblings and their spouses have passed away except for Lloyd.

Pat graduated a year early in May 1945 from Sandpoint High School. After graduation she and her good friend Opal Oliver worked in Spokane and stayed with Pat's aunt, Esther Helgeson, but Pat returned home by August 1946.

Pat met Lyle Evans on a blind date and they were married on Nov. 30, 1946, in Thompson Falls Montana. Lyle shot a deer and dressed it out on the way home from Thompson Falls.

After the marriage, Pat and Lyle initially lived in Sandpoint and Farragut, and in Ephrata, Wash.

Pat and Lyle had two boys, Daniel Lyle on May 17, 1949, and David Patrick on July 11, 1950, both born in Sandpoint, Dan in the old Page Hospital and David in the new Bonner General Hospital.

Lyle, with the help of his brothers, in 1951 built their house at 1004 N. Ruth in Sandpoint from lumber from the old Community Grange Hall in Colburn. They lived there until the mid-1970s when they moved to a house on Colburn-Culver Road in Colburn.

Pat helped her husband Lyle in the smoked fish and huckleberry business on Pine Street, worked as a telephone operator in Sandpoint, Newport, Coeur d’Alene, a real estate agent, worked at the Pastime, and worked and retired as an office manager at Penney’s in Sandpoint and Ponderay.

In 1997 and 1998, Lyle and Pat spent a year on a farm in Chasley, North Dakota, where they were snowed in for 10 days in an ice-and-snow storm.

They returned to Colburn in late 1998, and in 2004 Lyle and Pat moved to the Lake Stevens rural area to live with their son Dan and his wife, and when Dan retired, Pat and Lyle moved with Dan and Janet to a home on Lakeshore Drive in Sagle.

Pat died at home on Aug. 9, 2022, with part of her family around her.

She loved making quilts, reading, sewing, gardening, crossword and jigsaw puzzles, making pies and cinnamon rolls, playing games and enjoyed having her grandchildren and great-grandchildren around her. Pat's family was her life's focus.

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

Arrangements are under the care of Coffelt Funeral Service.