Harold Fairchild
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| September 12, 1926 ~
December 29, 2011 |
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January 2, 2012 |
 Born
September 12, 1926, in Bonners Ferry to Glen
Elmer Fairchild and Dora Ruth Gingles Fairchild.
They were living at Eastport, Idaho, at the time
he was born.
In 1928 the family moved into town. In 1936 they
moved on the North Bench west of the Three Mile.
His dad worked for the Border Patrol and farmed.
Harold graduated from Bonners Ferry High School
in 1947 after serving two years in the Navy
during World War II.
He married Lorreta Faye Watson on June 14, 1947,
in Bonners Ferry.
For the first year of marriage Harold logged
with his brother Glen. Then they moved to Tulsa,
Oklahoma, so Harold could go to the Spartan
School of Aeronautics. Their son, Jimmy Glen,
was born there in 1949. Then he went to work at
Felts Field in Spokane, Washington. as an
airplane mechanic.
In 1950, they moved to Coulee Dam, Washington,
to work on a Seaplane base as a mechanic. While
there, he got his pilot license and also became
a flight instructor. In 1951 their son Harold
Lee was born while living there.
The family moved to Moses Lake, Washington, in
1952 to continue as a mechanic and flight
instructor until 1955, when he went to work for
Boeing.
In 1955 Pennie Lynn and in 1957 Cindy Rae were
born while living in Moses Lake. Between
1962-1969 they lived in Slidell, Louisiana, and
Titusville, Florida, to work on Nasa'a
Apollo/Saturn V that was launched in 1969. While
living in Slidell, their son Scott Allen was
born in 1965.
They moved to Auburn, Washington, in 1969 to
continue working for Boeing. Harold found it
hard to be so close to home and not to be there.
So he bought some land from his brother Glen in
1970 and started building their new home west of
the Three Mile Junction. After returning to
Bonners Ferry, he first worked for the Kootenai
National Wildlife Refuge for a while before
going to work for Lakeshore Motors, now known as
Riverside Auto Center.
Harold was briefly in partnership in the "Lucky
Three Used Autosales & Repair" with Chet Glauner
and Leon Anderson before starting his own shop
in 1974 at his home. Through "Hal's Repair"
Harold and Lorreta enjoyed meeting and serving
many of the people in the area until he had to
close his shop due to his Parkinson's disease.
He enjoyed camping, hunting, fishing, hiking,
and huckleberry picking. He was preceded in
death by his wife Loretta in 2008 and son Hal in
2009 as well as his brothers.
He is survived by his children, Jim (Juanita)
Fairchild of Bonners Ferry; Pennie (Charles)
Frame of Sumner, Washington; Cindy (Milton)
Atkins of Bonners Ferry; and Scott (Amanda)
Fairchild of Bonners Ferry; a sister, Dorothy
(Ralph) Chicks of Sandpoint. Also surviving are
grandchildren Troy, Clark, Robbie, Glen, Gus,
Keith, Jessica, Daniel, Julia, Andrew, Allyson,
Douglas, Travis, Kody, Ashley and Russell; and
13 great-grandchildren as well as several nieces
and nephews.
Private interment will be in Grandview Cemetery.
Family and friends are invited to sign Harold’s
online guest book at
www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com.
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