Janis Osborn Kramer

Janis Osborn Kramer Favorel, passed away from lung cancer at her home in Spokane on March 12, 2012; she had just celebrated her 75th birthday. Janis was born in Kellogg on February 10, 1937, the daughter of Ken and Josephine Graves Osborn. She attended local schools, worked at the Panida Theatre and graduated from SSH in1955. Janis married Russ Kramer in 1956 and they lived in Priest Lake, Laclede and Sandpoint for many years. Three children were born to them: Jana Gay, Brian and Kurt. Russ worked as a sawyer for the lumber mills and later, after the kids were older, Janis worked for Kramer’s TV and Radio Repair until the family moved to Anchorage. Later she was able to move onto a farm in Parma, Idaho where she began to raise calves and lambs, including “Lamb Chop” who was so premature no one thought he would live. Janis took him home when his hooves were still soft. She bought Pampers, altered them for his tail, and kept him in the house where he could be nursed through the winter. She worked long hard hours taking care of kids, home and garden and new calves. Even when everything went right it was a hard job, but she had the patience to help those new ones that were weak or had scours and had to be treated medically or didn’t want to nurse. She wanted to make sure they had a fighting chance. She was tender-hearted and a natural animal lover. When Janis and Russ divorced she went to work for J.C. Watson, a world-wide shipper of fruits and vegetables. She married Jim Favorel in Parma. She lived many years in Portland with her son Brian and grandson Samuel. They moved back to Spokane in 2004 to be near family and friends. When Janis was diagnosed with cancer, her one desire was to see her grandson Samuel graduate from high school, which he did in 2010. Janis was preceded in death by her parents Kenneth and (Marie) Osborn and Josephine and (Al) Peterson and daughter Jana Kreuiter. She is survived by her sons Brian Kramer of Spokane, Kurt (and Liz) Kramer of Parma, Idaho, and grandchildren Samuel, Jena and Julia, her sister Andrea Peterson James of Helena, her step-kids Judy, Jeanie, Doug, Brad, her step-siblings Wade, Doug, Judy, Diane and many, many cousins, 2nd cousins and kissin’-cousins who will miss her very much. Memorial service will be at Coffelt's Funeral Chapel on Friday, May 25 at 1:00 PM. Private family interment services will be held in Pinecrest Memorial Park in Sandpoint, Idaho