Dorothy Alice Lamson

Dorothy Alice Lamson went to her heavenly home on July 19. 2014, in the ECF wing of Boundary Community Hospital.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 26, 2014, at 2 p.m. in the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home with interment in the Copeland Cemetery, Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

Dorothy was born in La Porte, Colo., on March 20,1924, to Ernest and Gladys (Clark) Strohmeyer.

She had two sisters and five brothers Franklin. Paul, Carl, Edna, Lois, Phillip, and Ray Her father worked for the railroad in Colorado and Wyoming, so the family moved around following his job. She graduated High School at age 16 in Garo, Colo.

Dorothy married Hugh Lamson on Dec. 29, 1946. They met while both were working at the Gates Rubber Company in Denver, Colo. They had four children; Linda Lee, Lois Lynn, Laurie Lenee and Larry Hugh.

Linda was born in Denver in 1948. They worked on a ranch in the Rifle, Colo., area until they moved to North Idaho in 1951 just before Lois was born. They traded their home north of the Mt Hall Elementary School to Hugh’s parents for their farm in the Copeland area. They farmed the family ranch with Hugh working other jobs. Laune and Larry were also born in Bonners Ferry. Dorothy always had a big garden, raised chickens for eggs and meat. She churned her own butter, made her own homemade cheese and don’t forget the bread, cinnamon rolls and homemade noodles. She was the local neighborhood barber cutting all of her grandsons, son-in-laws and several neighbor boys’ hair.

Dorothy was a local babysitter for many of the area children for several years.

For a surprise Dorothy made a cassette tape of her harmonica playing on her young granddaughter’s Fisher-Price tape player for a family trip. But a much bigger surprise came for the family when in her 75th year she contacted a local recording studio and recorded “Grandma Makin’ Music” on CD and cassette. Dorothy was a self-taught harmonica player who played for her church, family friends and talent shows over the years.

Dorothy moved from her home m Copeland to the Oak Street Apartments in 1996 where she lived until moving into the Community Restorium In 2011. She resided in the Restorium until July 15, 2014, when she became ill and was admitted to the ECF wing of the hospital.

Dorothy leaves behind Linda (Bob) Anderson, Gig Harbor, Wash.; Lois (Bob) Weakly, Bonners Ferry; Laurie (Brad) Lowther, Bonners Ferry and Larry Lamson, Portland, Ore. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren. 14 great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, one sister and her husband of 42 years, Hugh.

She was a special part of all of her family members’ lives and will be missed by them all.

Family and friends are invited to sign Dorothy’s book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.