Marilyn Elizabeth Felten

Marilyn Elizabeth Felten, 85 passed away on Sept 16 in 2014 The Mass of Christian Burial will be on Monday Sept 22 2014 at 11 AM in St Joseph’s Catholic Church. Father Dennis C Day will be officiating and burial will follow in Pinecrest Memorial Park. There will be a dinner served at the church following the burial. The vigil/rosary service will be on Sunday Sept 21 at 7:00pm in St Joseph’s Catholic Church. Marilyn was born of George & Elizabeth Kalmon on a small farm in Medford WI on April 2 1929. The oldest of two girls and a boy, Marilyn grew up playing the piano, dancing and singing for fun. She especially delighted in accompanying her dad at the logging camps where he was camp cook. After graduation from Lady of Holy Cross High School in 1946, she enjoyed working with the local children. In 1952, Marilyn married Harvey Felten of Indiana, an avid outdoorsman, on October 18th, coincidentally the opening day of Elk season out West. The newlyweds toured the southwest then settled in Denver where they raised their 5 kids. Marilyn also loved the outdoors and the family enjoyed picnicking, camping, fishing, traveling, boating and especially water-skiing at which Marilyn was an expert and skied well into her 60’s. While Harvey built houses, Marilyn worked at Ft Logan Hospital, a job she enjoyed for years. After the kids were raised, Marilyn and Harvey moved to North Idaho where they built a home on Lake Pend Oreille. Marilyn enjoyed her travels to Hawaii, Alaska, the Holy Land in Israel, and especially the African safari camping adventure she and Harvey shared. Still enjoying work, she found employment at Albany Falls, Panhandle Health Department, North Idaho College, and the job she liked most was working for the USFS in the “old people’s program”. She was a member of St Joseph’s Catholic Church where she loved singing in the choir as she had with the Pend Oreille Chorale group and her church choir in Denver. In more recent years, Marilyn found her love of playing the piano again. She enjoyed playing at her lake home and Hearthstone, her assisted living home, and even while she was convalescing at Life Care. Marilyn was the kind of soul that always made lemon-aid out of life’s lemons, and her beautiful smile and bright eyes will be sorely missed. Surviving are her children Bill Felten, Diana Felten, Linda Loeffler, Maureen Shaffer, and Dean Felten; 14 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Her brother Gene Kalmon; her sister Jane Egle She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband Harvey.