June P. Edwards, 82

June P. Edwards, 82, of Bonners Ferry died Friday, Sept. 18, in the Life Care Center in Sandpoint after a brief illness.

The funeral will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Paradise Valley Cemetery.

June was born in 1927 Lewiston to Carl and Helen Peterson of Ferdinand — an oil distributor and a music teacher. June’s mother died when she was 4 and she was cared for by her father, grandmother Peterson who had immigrated from Sweden, and by her aunt and uncle.

June graduated high school in Coeur d’Alene in 1945 and Washington State College in 1949 with a bachelor’s in nursing education. She did her hospital training at St. Luke’s Hospital in Spokane, Wash.

June worked as a visiting nurse in Spokane, married Phillip Miller and worked at the Wallace Hospital in Idaho.

June had two children, Peter and Judith. She and Phillip later divorced and June married Dr. Clifford J. Edwards in 1960.

They moved to Bonners Ferry, where June worked in the local hospital as a surgical nurse and giving anesthesia while raising Judy and Peter, Mike Edwards and Karen Edwards Liebler.

June tended her large flower gardens, enjoyed her cats and dogs, played piano and organ at the Naples Church and South Hill Bible churches, and taught Bible study for years.

In later years June served on the Restorium Advisory Board and the selection committee for Habitat for Humanity.

Widowed in 1996, she kept up her house and gardens for many years, enjoying reading and discussing gardening, politics, world events and religion.

During June’s last two years she was homebound and cared for by her daughter, Judy, and several loving home health workers.

June is survived by her Judy in Bonners Ferry, Peter in Duluth, Minn., and Peter’s daughters Amber and Dena; Mike Edwards of Bellingham, Wash.; Karen in Nashville and her sons, Andrew Liebler and Tegner Weiseth, and his children Brinna and Jackson, and Karen’s daughter, Bergen Dachs, and her daughter, Faye Lee.