Thelma Herrmann

Thelma Herrmann, 98, longtime Sagle area resident, passed away Friday, July 12, 2013 at Life Care of Sandpoint. Funeral services will be conducted 10:00AM, Friday, July 19, 2013 in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Burial will be next to her husband Leslie Joseph Herrmann in the Seneacquoteen Cemetery. She is predeceased by her parents Otto V. Jayne and Martha Naomi Jayne, her husband Leslie Joseph Herrmann, her siblings Ralph Jayne, Ell Homer, and Leo Jayne as well as her grandson Michael Kevin Hintz. She is survived by her daughter Betty Hintz, her grandchildren Brian Hintz and Kathleen Ryken; her great grandchildren Mark Hintz, Robert Hintz, Cole Ryken and Ashley Ryken, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and the most wonderful friends and neighbors you could imagine who showed her in every way what a special women she was . Thelma was born on April 15, 1915 in Prairie, Arkansas the fourth born of two boys and two girls. Her family moved to Wichita Kansas when she was little where she was raised. She was a journalist for the school paper in High School and was a straight A student. She met Leslie Joseph Herrmann in High School and fell in love and married him on June 15, 1932. They had a daughter, Betty Joan in 1933 and a baby boy three years later that was stillborn. After living in Wichita Kansas for four years her husband was having trouble finding work and decided to move to Los Angeles California where she was a homemaker. After living in California for eleven years she and her husband wanted a quieter lifestyle so they moved to Hope, Idaho. They lived there one year and her husband was unable to find steady work so they moved back to California vowing to return to Idaho when they retired. Thelma enjoyed living in California another sixteen years then retired and moved to Sagle Idaho where they purchased a 180 acre ranch so they could live the quieter more peaceful lifestyle as farmers in retirement. It was here Thelma enjoyed fishing, hunting gardening, camping, sewing, berry picking, canning, farming, etc. She was actively involved in the Westmond Grange and the Triangle United women’s club where she was president of both organizations at one point. She was married for 55 years before her beloved husband passed. She continued to live in the state she loved the most, beautiful Idaho.