Flora Bertha Nolen

Flora Bertha Nolen, 89 passed away Friday, April 18, 2008, in Sandpoint, Idaho. Funeral Services will be held on Monday, April 28, 2008 at Coffelt Funeral Home in Sandpoint at 10:00 a.m. with burial to follow at Pinecrest Memorial Park. Reverend Dave of the First Lutheran Church will conduct the services. Family and friends may attend the viewing at the chapel from 3-6p.m. on the 27th of April. Flora was born on Feb 13, 1919, in Battle Creek, NE, the daughter of Charles and Lillian Fister. She grew up in Battle Creek, NE and moved to the Sandpoint area in the early 1940’s. Flora worked for the Safeway bakery in Sandpoint and while doing so went to the local bus station and transported 13 U.S. servicemen from the bus station to the Fister homestead on Rapid Lightning Road for dinner. On September 1953 she married John Nolen in Coeur d’ Alene, ID. They shared a house in Sandpoint, ID until moving to their ranch on Talache Road in Sagle, ID in the early 1950’s where they lived until John passed away in July of 1979. She continued living on the ranch until she moved to The Bridge Assisted Living in Sandpoint where she remained for her final days. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church in Sandpoint. She enjoyed working in her garden on the ranch, hunting, crocheting. They also owned the Algoma Merchantile, sold Mason Shoes, a distributor for the Amway Company, and worked for the Jim Brown family of Sandpoint where she was a housekeeper and nanny for 38 years where she retired. Upon her retirement she was a homemaker at the ranch. At the ranch they raised a multitude of ranch animals including sheep that she and John sheared by hand. She is survived by one sister, Irene Trosky of Ellensburg, WA, and numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces, nephews and great-great nieces and nephews and a sister-in-law. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, six brothers and three sisters. Memorials may be made to the First Lutheran Church of Sandpoint. Family and friends are invited to attend a celebration of her life to follow the internment at the First Lutheran Church on 526 S. Olive Ave, Sandpoint, ID.