Elizabeth H. Genoff

Elizabeth (Betty) Genoff left this earth for a better place on November 14, 2013. Services will be conducted 9:00AM, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013 at Coffelt Funeral Chapel in Sandpoint, Idaho with Father Dennis C. Day, officiating. She was born Elizabeth Katheryne Herrmann on July 17th, 1925 to August and Elizabeth Herrmann, both immigrants from Germany. She was only 4 years old at the beginning of the great depression October 29, 1929. Needless to say, she did not grow up indulged. She attended grade school in Etiwanda, California, high school at Chaffey Union High School in Ontario, California and Jr. College at Chaffey Jr. College also in Ontario, California. She worked as a bookkeeper after college. She married Christo Genoff, himself an immigrant from Bulgaria on May 31st 1961, and together they raise her only child, Michael. When her husband became incapacitated by glaucoma, she was his constant caretaker until his death in August of 2003. She then lived alone with occasional visits from her family until September of 2011 when she moved in with her son and daughter-in-law in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, where she lived until they moved as a family to Sandpoint, Idaho in February of 2013. Her life can be summed up, less by a series of highlights, than by the steady forward progress of someone who is doggedly determined to make the best of whatever she had been given. She loved to read and would always include a newspaper or magazine clipping in her letters on a subject she thought you might be interested in. She always would call the day or so before daylight savings time and remind you to reset your clock. Like her mother before her she was heavily invested in traditions especially around the holidays. Advent calendars and Christmas cookies, Easter Baskets and chocolate bunnies always arrived in a timely fashion. She never forgot a birthday with cards (and money if you were young or needed it) arriving well before the calendar date. She loved rotkraut, its pungent smell often scented her house. She enjoyed watching nature, CNN and Fox news, especially Bill O’Reilly. She loved driving her full sized Ford Thunderbird and a good meal especially if it had bread with plenty of butter. She is survived by her sister Martha Trollman; her son Michael (Paula), two grandchildren and one great-grandchild and a world that will now have one less devout, kind Christian soul. May she rest in peace, forevermore, with her departed family and our lord, Jesus Christ. In addition to her husband she was preceded in death by 2 brothers: George and Hans, and 1 sister: Ruth.