Bessie Margaret Sanner

Bessie Margaret Callen Sanner passed from this world October 26, 2011 in Sandpoint, Idaho. Funeral services will be conducted 10:00AM, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 at Coffelt Funeral Chapel, with Pastor Paul Graves, officiating. Private interment will take place in Westmond Cemetery. Friends may call at Coffelt Funeral Service on Friday from 2:00-5:00PM. She was born in Trail, Oklahoma on June 9, 1912, the eldest child of John and Nina McNeely Davis Callen. In 1914 she moved with her family to Westmond, Idaho, where they bought 40 acres from Humbird Lumber Company. Bessie attended school through the eighth grade in Westmond, did her ninth grade year at Sagle, and attended two years at Sandpoint High School. In 1933 Bessie married Clyde Lewis Sanner. They lived many years in Oregon, and although they never had children of their own, Bessie cared for many of her neighbors’ children as “the neighborhood baby sitter.” Bessie enjoyed watching birds and traveling with her husband. They visited each of the lower 48 states, except five, and Alaska. In 1972 they put a house on the family land in Westmond, which was their last home. Clyde died in 1991, after almost 58 years of marriage. Bessie is survived by three nephews: John (and Sue) Callen of Las Vegas, Clyde (and Karen) Callen of Sagle, and Bill (and Louise) Callen of Sagle, and many grand and great-grand nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her brothers George, Frank, and Tom Callen, one nephew, Martin Callen, and one niece, Marjorie (“Midge”) Orsburn.