Suzi Guy

Suzi Guy entered this world on Feb. 16, 1966 to Donald Guy and Kathy Guy in Edmonton, Wash. She left this world on Oct. 30, 2016 in Shafter, Calif. after a life-long battle with heart and lung complications she endured since birth.

Suzi is survived by her brother Frank; her sister in law Monica; nieces and nephews Felicia, Sammy and Victoria; great niece and nephew Nelly and Bruce. Suzi also has her sister Theresea Guy, niece Rachel. as well as two great nephews Zachery and Trevor. She has another nephew, Donnie Fallis, who lives in Rathdrum.

Suzi also had a very extended family. The many friends who were part of Suzi’s life were not just friends but were her family as well and she always made certain to let this be known.

Suze had two main loves in life: music, anything from rhythm and bulues to rock, and motorcyles. She loved the wind in her hair and she always said she never felt more free than she did when she was on the back of a bike.

Anyone that she met became her friend and many of her friends became family to her. Suzi had a unique and deep appreciation for her life. She knew that she was living on borrowed time and she didn’t let a moment go to waste. She also greatly enjoyed serving her community when her health allowed her to do so.

After graduating high school, Suzi began bartending in 1985 all over Kootenai and Boundary counties. She continued to be an outstanding bartender until 2008. In 2004, Suzi decided to provide a different type of service to not only her community but to people in general. She completed her Can course and began working at Boundary Community Hospital until her illness became too much for her and she received the diagnosis of congestive heart failure. From then on she chose to love her life and do what needed to be done. She always had a positive attitude no matter what was happening.

Although Suzi struggled with health issues continually she sill was driven to “feel useful”. She was an active member of the Bonners Ferry Eagles Auxiliary No. 3522 since 1993. The Eagles was truly a home for Suzi. She was Social Room Server as well as Madame Secretary for a number of years. It was through the Eagles that Suzi felt the “most useful”. She always had laughs and hugs for everyone who walked through those doors.

When someone was experiencing a crisis, Suzi always had words of logic and reassurance to soften the heart of those in need. She was famous for saying “toodles” rather than good-bye. When asked why she did this, she would smile and say that “good-bye” was forever, and because she was unwilling to part ways with anyone forever, she always said “toodles”.

Suzi now has her arms around her son Joshua Allen who she never got to hold because he died prematurely. She is also welcomed by her parents, as well as many others who have taken this eternal walk before her.

So even though many of us here are suffering from the loss in our hearts and lives, the heavenly realms have acquired a mother, a daughter and an angel. Suzi will truly be missed, but we can rest assured that she is free without the burdens of health complicatios and she is more “useful” now than she got the chance to be while here on Earth.

A wake will be held in Suzi’s honor on Nov. 19, 2016, beginning at 1:00 p.m. at the Idaho Eagles Lodge in Bonners Ferry. It has been requested that if anyone has pictures of Suzi they please bring them for display at her memorial. Donations are welcome in order to help with her cremation and other expenses.