Frances Carlene Vetter
Frances Carlene
Vetter, 93, passed away Thursday, August 4,
2011, in Bonners Ferry. Services will be held at
1 p.m. Friday, August 12 at Bonners Ferry
Funeral Home, with interment following in
Grandview Cemetery.Carlene was born June 24, 1918, in Kansas to Will and Myrtle Caughey. The family moved to Twin Falls, Idaho, when Carlene was a toddler, then to Boundary County at age eleven. She graduated from Bonners Ferry High School in 1937.
She met Vernon Vetter at a community dance in the spring of 1938, and they married that September. They continued to dance and were active in the local square dance club for many years. Together they raised four children Sharon (Rod) McNair, Bill (Valeria) Vetter, Vivian (Vern) Doll and Lynnel (Steve) Wassmuth.
Carlene was a 4-H leader for approximately twenty years. She was a charter member of the Busy Bee Club. She volunteered for the school lunch program at Mt. Hall School. She loved gardening both vegetable and flower. She was an accomplished seamstress, making most of the clothes for her family. Family, friends, the Community Restorium and the ECF wing were recipients of the many afghans and lap robes that Carlene knitted or crocheted.
Carlene was preceded in death by Vern, her husband of fifty-seven years, her parents, two sisters, one brother and one grandson. Survivors include her children and their spouses, one sister, eleven grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren, and eight great, great grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the Idaho Community Foundation for the Boundary County 4-H Program.
Family and friends are invited to sign Carlene’s book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.