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Walter Richard Worley
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February 20, 1929 ~ March 14, 2014 |
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March 18, 2014 |
 Walter
Richard Worley, 85, Bonners Ferry, passed away
peacefully on March 14, 2014, at the Extended
Care Facility, Boundary County Community
Hospital. There will be a funeral service held
at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at Trinity
Lutheran Church with a gravesite service to
follow.
Walter was born on February 20, 1929, in Wolf
Point, Montana. He will forever be missed and
remembered by his family, friends, co-workers
and the many students that he taught during his
tenure at Bonners Ferry High School.
Walter was born to Haskel and Maud Worley and
moved with his family to Bonners Ferry in 1932.
He graduated from Bonners Ferry High School and
attended Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma,
Washington, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s
degree in English.
Upon graduating from PLU, he returned to Bonners
Ferry, where he married Dona Schenck in May
1959.
Walter began his teaching career by teaching
English, speech and drama with a passion for the
importance of teaching the language correctly
and a love of English history and drama.
Many a student will remember diagramming
sentences on the chalk board and Mr. Worley’s
dramatic renditions of Macbeth.
He left teaching for a period of time to pursue
his entrepreneurial spirit of opening a small
grocery store and custom meat-cutting business,
the Farmer’s Market, at the Three Mile Corner.
Walt and Dona operated Farmer’s Market for well
over ten years while he also served as a
Boundary County Commissioner and a member of the
School Board.
Following the sale of the Farmer’s Market in
1979, he returned to teaching at the high school
and became a seasonal employee for the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service as a
Customs Officer at Eastport and Porthill, Idaho.
He continued as a full-time Custom’s Officer
with the federal government after his retirement
from the Boundary County School District. He
officially retired from all of his public
service duties on March 5, 1994.
Walter enjoyed many activities and hobbies
during his lifetime, but none more than
gardening. He was dedicated to his plants and
trees and you could find him every spring or
summer in his garden working on some new
invention to make gardening more efficient and
productive. He truly loved watching his garden
grow and sharing the bounty with family, friends
and neighbors.
He is preceded into heaven by his parents; his
wife; his brothers Howard, Fred, Andrew, and
Charles; his sisters Dorothy, Virginia, Dolly,
and Joyce; his grandson, Brent, and many
cousins, brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws, and
friends.
Walter is survived by his brother Dale; his
children Teri (Peter) Barnett, Gary (Monique)
Worley, Brian (Lyla) Worley, Dawn (Mark) Barnard
and Jeff Worley; his 14 grandchildren Sarah,
Andrew, Michael, Carrie, Allison, Jennifer,
Laura, Matthew, Michaela, Kathryn, Rachel,
Cheyenne, Morgan and Victoria; and his 11
great-grandchildren. He is also survived by many
nieces, nephews and extended family.
Family and friends are invited to sign Walts’s
book at
www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are entrusted to the care of
Bonners Ferry Funeral Home |
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