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William 'Bill' Delwin Frans
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August 4, 1929 ~ March 2, 2014 |
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March 18, 2014 |
 William
"Bill" Delwin Frans passed away on Sunday, March
2, 2014, at Kootenai Medical Center. He was 84
years old. His request was that there be no
service.
Bill was born on August 4, 1929, in Kettle
Falls, Washington, to Leslie and Elva Hodgson
Frans. He moved with his family to the Naples
area in 1935. He attended Naples and Highland
Flats grade schools and Bonners Ferry High
School. He moved to Kettle Falls for his senior
year and graduated in 1948. Following graduation
he joined the Army.
He married Grace Schuon Gillespie in 1956 and
adopted her two daughters, Deborah and Maryann.
They had three more children, Edith, David and
Billie Jean. They separated in 1965.
After 20 years of service Bill retired from the
Army in 1968. He had reached the rank of Staff
Sergeant. In that same year he married the love
of his life, Jackie, and together they managed
motels in the state of Washington. After her
death in 1980 he settled in Seattle.
He had several different occupations until his
final retirement.
In December of 2001 he moved back to Bonners
Ferry to be near family. He was known to tell a
good story and entertained the nursing staff of
Boundary Community Hospital and Kootenai Medical
Center. He passed on with many stories untold.
He was preceded in death by his father, mother,
his wife Jackie, his sisters Geraldine Frans,
Joyce McCalmant and Glenda McCalmant and his
youngest daughter, Billie Jean Hubbell.
Bill is survived by his children Deborah
(Melvin) Wood and Edith (Ronald) Erickson, both
of Bonners Ferry, Maryann Frans of Spokane and
David Frans of Coeur d'Alene, nine grandchildren
and 10 great grandchildren with one more on the
way. He is also survived by his brothers Wayne
Frans of Hayward, California, and Floyd Frans of
Darley, North Yorkshire, England; and sisters
Lynda Cossairt of Spokane and Carole Dinning of
Bonners Ferry.
Because of the loss of his wife, daughter, two
sisters, a dear sister-in-law and friends to
cancer we ask that any memorials be made to the
American Cancer Society. |
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