Lorain Elizabeth Niemiec

On March 7, 2014 beloved mother Lorain Elizabeth Niemiec went peacefully to be with her Lord and Savior. Graveside services were held on Friday, March 14, 2014 at the Grandview Cemetery in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

She was born Lorain Elizabeth Sedina on October 25, 1926, in Windsor Heights, West Virginia to Joseph and Elma Sedina. Lorain was the youngest of three girls. While she enjoyed helping around the farm, Lorain liked nothing more than getting all dressed up, putting on a pair of high heels and going to a dance. Getting a job at the Biltmore as a hostess was the perfect job for her as she enjoyed meeting people and also loved dancing. It was at the Biltmore where she met the young man who would soon become her husband, Alexander Niemiec. The two were dating when Al and his family decided to move to California where jobs in the shipyard were plentiful. At that time, the two of them knew they were in love.

 As she climbed onto the bus she felt sorrow for leaving her parents and home but was excited to start her new life. Lorain’s parents said she must be at least 18 years old in order to be married. She celebrated her 18th birthday in Texas with a cupcake and a single candle along with the other folks on the bus.

Al and Lorain were married November 9, 1944. They soon decided to relocate to Highland, Calif., where they had three daughters. Al worked as a mechanic also starting a gunsmith business on the side, which would later bring them to Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

 Lorain was very busy being a mother and wife while enjoying gardening and growing beautiful roses and other flowering plants. While in beautiful Bonners Ferry, Lorain joined the Country Women’s Club and the Ladies Hospital Auxiliary, where she spent hours selling raffle tickets and baking pies. With the Country Women’s Club she helped make bibs and lap robes for the ECF while continuing to garden and grow lovely flowers.

 She is survived by three daughters: Linda Riekena and husband Kim, Judy Dinning and husband Phil, Alisa Yount and husband Ken all of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, seven grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren and two nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Al, her parents Joseph and Elma Sedina and sisters Eileen and Viola.

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