Faye Vinion Hummel Pinson, 81

Faye Vinion Hummel Pinson, 81,passed quietly on Thursday, June 6, 2013 after many years of suffering with severe dementia. Faye was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister and loved by her extended family.

A memorial service will be held in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, at the Parker Family Cemetery on Cow Creek Road at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 15. A potluck will follow at the Ervin Madson farm on Madson Road in Paradise Valley, all encouraged to attend. Memorials may be made to Danekas Funeral Home, 207 E Main, Ritzville, WA. 99169. For directions call 208-553-3717.

Faye was born to F. E. and Florence Parker Vinion on June 12, 1931, in Davenport, Wash. She lost her mother at age 4 to rheumatic fever. She then was cared for by her grandparents Sam and Emma Vinion and Mary and Ed Vold, her mother’s sister until she was 8 years old when F. E. married Lucille. She resided in Bonners Ferry, Idaho the majority of her life. She graduated in 1949 as valedictorian from Bonners Ferry High School. While in high school she became Mr. Harold McNalley’s executive secretary at First National Bank.

She married the love of her life Jack Hummel in January 1954. They moved to Minneapolis until Jack was honorably discharged from the Air Force. While in Minneapolis she worked at the Metropolitan Art Museum. They returned to Bonners Ferry in 1955 where they both worked at the First National Bank until they purchased Southside Tractor, the Case Implement Dealership. They built the new location for the business on the South Hill in the early 1960s. Faye also purchased the Boundary County Credit Bureau around the same time and operated it from the same location. Faye was very active in the community being a member of the Bonners Ferry Chamber of Commerce, community choir and active with church friends.

In 1970 she lost Jack in a truck accident. She continued to operate the businesses on her own for a few years. In 1973 she married Fred Pinson. Shortly thereafter they sold the businesses and moved to Porthill, Idaho. She enjoyed taking care of the farm animals and raising a large garden.

In 1988 they moved to Sequim, Wash. She worked in the trucking business - Model T Express with Fred. She loved living on the Washington coast and treasured the daily trips to the beach with her father who she cared for at the time. She loved to take her grandchildren when they visited to pick up sea shells.

In 1998 she moved back to Rathdrum, Idaho, to be closer to family. By this time dementia started to take her away. She still was able to enjoy family events and camp outs. She continued to live in the Rathdrum/Post Falls area until 2011 when she moved to Lifecare Center of Lewiston to be closer to her son, Gary. One week ago she had moved to Lifecare Center of Ritzville to be close to her son, Duane.

Faye is survived by her children: Debra Gordon and husband Ernie, Apollo Beach, Florida; Gary Hummel and wife Darcia, Bonners Ferry, Idaho; and Duane Hummel, Ritville, Wash.; grandchildren Cassandra Gordon, Shaun Reiner, Kyle Hummel, Travis Hummel, Brandi Hummel Crabtree, Ashlee Hummel; great-grandchildren Taylor, Avery, Kennedy and Tenley Reiner and Sierra and Blake Crabtree.

She is also survived by her sister Betty Challinor of Whitefish, Mont., and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death be her father, F.E. Vinion; mothers Florence and Lucille, brother Tom Vinion and sister Karen Olson and husband Jack Hummel.

Faye loved to do ceramics, crocheting doilies and table clothes, gardening with vegetables and beautiful flowers, and sharing these with family and friends. She also enjoyed going for drives in the mountains especially in the fall, camping with her children and grandchildren and extended family. Her eyes always lit up for her grandchildren, even at the last.

Mom and grandma will be sorely missed but we know she is in God’s care and at peace now.