Myrna Margaret Helms Amoth

Myrna Margaret Helms Amoth was born to Carl and Amanda Helms on Feb. 5, 1934, at Prineville, Ore.

While her grandchildren were singing to her, she peacefully passed away on July 14, 2015, at the Restorium in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Her family is very grateful for the loving care that she received there.

Funeral services were be held on Monday, July 20, at 11 a.m. in the Mountain View Mennonite Church at Bonners Ferry, Idaho, with interment in the Mountain View Mennonite Cemetery.

She was married Donald Amoth on March 20, 1953. The first years of their marriage they lived in Oregon, later moving to Bonners Ferry.

Their home was blessed with three sons and two daughters. Myrna always enjoyed our children, grandchildren, and foster children. She was happiest with a baby on her lap.

She had a new birth experience and was baptized into the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite at the Mountain View congregation. Although she experienced struggles in her Christian life, she always wanted her children to be Christians. She came back to the Lord five years before her death.

They spent many winters in Arizona, especially enjoying the Sun Valley congregation at El Mirage, who were instrumental in her finding her way back to the Lord. Myrna enjoyed special friendships with her neighbors both in Bonners Ferry and in Phoenix.

Those who preceded her in death were her son Randy, parents, brothers Wayne and Raymond, sister Crystal, one granddaughter Andrea, and one great-grandson Randy.

he leaves behind her husband Don; sons Anthony and wife Darla of Grafton, North Dakota; Delton and wife Anna daughters Carla Ratzloff and Karen Sue and husband Troy Harms, all of Bonners Ferry; daughter-in-law Gail and husband Paul Hughes of Hazelton, Idaho; and one sister, Donnabelle Jones of Glide, Ore.

There are 14 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and many relatives and friends who will miss her.