Wilma Louise Owen
Wilma
Louise Owen of Paradise Valley in Bonners Ferry
passed away peacefully in her home on June 4,
2011, at the age of 89. Services will be held on
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 3 p..m in the Bonners
Ferry Funeral Home, with private inurnment in
the Grandview Cemetery.Wilma was born on January 30, 1922. She lived in Oklahoma, California and Idaho.
During WWII she worked in the shipyards of Richmond, California, as a welder, and eventually became the manager of the Welders Supply Shack, where she met and married her husband of 68 years, Max L. Owen.
Both Wilma and Max worked as telegraph operators for the Southern Pacific Railroad. She attended Pacific Union College and Humboldt State College, where she graduated. Teaching became Wilma’s passion and she was a dedicated teacher to all her students. She taught in Crescent City, Lodi, Eureka and Redding, California. In 1971 she and her husband moved to Bonners Ferry where Wilma taught in the public schools.
She was an active member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for many years.
She is preceded in death by her parents Bennie and Ila Dillbeck, sisters Polly Johnson and Neva Lomax.