Helen Elizabeth Ramsay

Helen Elizabeth Ramsay, 93, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Sunday, May 31, 2009. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00 pm, Saturday, June 6th, in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Interment will be in Pinecrest Memorial Park. Visitation for family, and friends, will be on Friday, June 5th, from 12:00 noon until 6:00 PM, at the Coffelt Funeral Chapel. Helen was born in LaSalle, Colorado on October 4, 1915, the daughter of Walter and Emma Kimzey. The first grade of school was in Evans, Colorado in a schoolhouse her dad had just built. She finished high school in Torrington, Wyoming and moved to Wrencoe in 1935. She worked in Spokane, WA for Paul Kemp and his wife, returning to Wrencoe and going to work for the Ramsay’s. On November 13, 1939 she married James Warren Ramsay in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. She worked on the family farm in Laclede. Following the death of Warren, in 1981, she moved to Sandpoint and shared a home with her son Robert. In 2007 she returned to Laclede and lived with her daughter, Catherine. Helen was a member of the First Christian Church and enjoyed needlework. She was a 4-H leader, in sewing, for Wrencoe and Dover. She is survived by her children James Warren, Jr “Butch” (and Pat) Ramsay; Catherine J. Rembowski, Richard J (and Maria) Ramsay; and Robert A Ramsay; 12 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren. Also surviving are special friends Vi Torpen, Glenda Winters, and Cherryl Ramsay. She was also preceded in death by her parents, a grandson Max, 6 brothers, one sister, and her son in law Leon Rembowski.