Suzi
Guy, 50, left this world October 30, 2016, in
Shafter, California, after a life-long battle
with heart and lung complications she endured
since birth. A wake will be held in Suzi's honor
at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at the Eagles
Lodge in Bonners Ferry.It has been requested that if anyone has pictures of her, they please bring them for display at her memorial. Donations are also welcome to help with her final arrangements.
Suzi entered this world on February 16, 1966, to Donald Guy and Kathy Guy in Edmonton, Washington. She had two main loves in life; music, anything from rhythm and blues to rock, and motorcycles. She loved the wind in her hair and always said she never felt more free than she did when she was on the back of a bike.
Anyone she met became her friend and many of her friends became family to her. Suzi had a unique and deep appreciation for her life.
She knew that she was living on borrowed time and she didn't let a moment go to waste. She also greatly enjoyed serving her community when her health allowed her to do so.
After graduating Bonners Ferry High School in 1985, Suzi began bartending all over Kootenai and Boundary Counties. She continued being an outstanding bartender until 2008.
In 2004, she decided to provide a different service to not only her community, but to people in general. She completed her CNA course and began working at Boundary Community Hospital until her illness became too much for her and she received a diagnosis of congestive heart failure.
From then on, she chose to love her life and do what needed to be done. Suzi always had a positive attitude no matter what was happening.
Although she struggled with health issues, she was still driven to "feel useful." She was an active member of Bonners Ferry Eagles Auxiliary 3522 since 1993. She was social room server as well as Madame Secretary for a number of years.
It was through the Eagles that she felt the most useful, and she always had laughs and hugs for everyone who walked through those doors.
When someone was experiencing a crisis, Suzi always had words of logic and reassurance to soften the heart of those in need. She was famous for saying "toodles" rather than goodbye. When asked why she did this, she would smile and say that good-bye was forever, and because she was unwilling to part ways with anyone forever, she always said "toodles."
Suzi is survived by her brother, Frank, sister-in-law Monica, nieces and nephews Felicia, Sammy and Victoria, great niece and nephew Nelly and Bruce, her sister Theresa Guy, niece Rachel, great nephews Zachary and Trevor and nephew Donnie Fallis of Rathdrum.
Suzi now has her arms around her son, Joshua Allen, who she never got to hold because he died prematurely. She is also welcomed by her parents as well as many others who have taken this eternal walk before her.
So even though many of us here are suffering from the loss in our hearts and lives, the heavenly realms have acquired a mother, a daughter and an angel.
Suzi will truly be missed, but we can rest assured that she is free without the burden of heart complications and that she is more "useful" now than she got the chance to be while here on Earth.