Hallie Lace Olson, 36

Hallie Lace Olson, 36, passed away on Sept. 14, 2014.

She was born in Bonners Ferry, Idaho on Sept. 16, 1977 to Roger and Peggy Myers, a beautiful baby girl.

Hallie attended Mt Hall Elementary School and graduated from Bonners Ferry High School in 1995. During the summer 1993, she met her future husband, Erik Olson, and they were inseparable from that moment on. Upon graduation, she moved to Spokane, Washington and attended Phillip’s Jr College.

She moved back to Bonners Ferry and she and Erik were married on June 20, 1998, at Twin Rivers Canyon Resort.

She went to work for the city of Sandpoint and continued there, taking a leave of absence to welcome their first daughter, Kylee Elizabeth, in 2001. Upon the arrival of their second daughter, Makenna Julietta, in 2005, she left her employment and became a stay-at-home mom. Her girls were her world and she enjoyed them to the fullest, camping, sports, plays, and fishing, always making sure the girls had everything they needed and lots more.

When both girls started school, she helped in their classrooms and arranged many of their class parties. She loved making ‘designer’ cakes for school functions. People loved getting one of her cakes, or cupcakes. She had many hobbies and always seemed to be busy with one of them.

She enjoyed camping and all that goes with it. When she moved in to a camp site… she REALLY moved in. Trying to anticipate everything the girls, as well as the others camping with her, would need for a great weekend.

She loved taking her girls, and nieces and nephews, fishing. Of course always the friendly competition of who catches the first and biggest.

She especially enjoyed knitting and crocheting, making everything from socks to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, to stocking hats and beautiful scarves for everyone she thought needed one or just that she wanted to make something and always somebody wanting them.

As well as knitting and crocheting, Hallie was an accomplished seamstress, making their family Halloween costumes every year, even making them for nieces. She would get so excited when she thought of a new project, and the christening gown she made for a niece was one of those special projects.

All during Hallie’s growing up years, she loved playing games and she taught Kylee and Makenna all the ones she knew, maybe even making up a few. She loved music and loved to sing along.

Sometimes she didn’t quite know the words, but that didn’t matter, she just sang the words she thought were in the song, she would get laughed at and teased, mostly by Erik, but she didn’t care, she was just happy singing.

Hallie went to work for Wells Fargo bank in 2008. She quickly received promotions as she was so good at what she did. She became assistant manager and was awarded Top Banker in Idaho in 2013, going to Boise to receive this award.

Although she worked outside the home, she still took on bookwork for other people, and always made time to load up her girls, kayaks, dogs, fishing gear, her mom, and anyone else who wanted to go, and head to one of the local lakes for an afternoon of fishing and swimming.

Hallie leaves behind, husband Erik; two daughters, Kylee and Makenna; parents, Roger and Peggy Myers; brother Dustin Myers and his wife Amanda; niece Bailey; and nephew Trenton; sister Brandi Bower and husband Brian; and niece Brynlee; extended family, Steve and Nancy Hill and Bob nd Lynda Olson; plus many cousins, nieces and nephews whom she loved so much and loved spending time with.

Services for Hallie were held on Sept. 20, 2014, and she was laid to rest at Grandview Cemetery in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.