Sharon Lee Girtman, 87

Sharon Lee Girtman, 87, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Interment will take place in Pinecrest Memorial Park.

Sharon was born July 2, 1937, in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of William and Lucille Kannady. She grew up l happily with dozens of cousins, aunts and uncles near her grandparent’s homestead on Baldy Mountain. Sharon attended local schools, graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1955. 

She married George Girtman on Nov. 21, 1956, in Sandpoint. Sharon and George made their home on Baldy Mountain Road where they raised their two daughters.

She worked for the Bonner County Clerk’s Office and Idaho First National Bank until they started their family. 

Sharon and George opened Girtman Office Equipment in the 1960s and sold it in 1978. After the sale of the business, she and George purchased a small logging truck to make cedar shake blocks. They used the truck to get firewood and logs to make the lumber to build the cedar fence around the property. They loved traveling in their fifth wheel in the summers. 

Sharon loved to pick huckleberries and did that until she was 83 years old. She kept an immaculate house and yard. She liked gardening and tending to her flowers. She loved traveling to Hawaii, Mexico and the Caribbean with family. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were the highlight of her life. 

Sharon is survived by her two daughters, Debbie (Terry) Allen of Sandpoint and Kim (Duane) Fleming of Post Falls, Idaho; her sister, Clarie Wallace of Careywood, Idaho; four grandchildren, Brett (Athena) Allen of Cheney, Wash., Heather (Justine) Arts of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Matt Fleming of Post Falls, Katie Fleming of Seattle; four great-grandchildren, Kylie, Emma, Maddie and Khloe; along with numerous nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husband, George; her parents, William and Lucille; her sister, Virginia Buck; and her brother-in-law, John Wallace.

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

Arrangements are under the care of Coffelt Funeral Service.