Genevieve "Jenny" Levon Thurlow

Genevieve Levon “Jenny” Thurlow, 83, passed away at Valley Vista, where she was receiving Hospice Care on December 3, 2016. Graveside services will be conducted at 10:00 am, December 10, 2016 at Pinecrest Memorial Park with a reception to follow at the VFW Hall. Genevieve was born February 19, 1933 in Ray, North Dakota, the daughter of Earnest John and Lillian Berger. Genevieve graduated from high school here is Sandpoint in 1951. She went to work in Spokane, Washington where she worked as a nurse’s aide. She later moved back to Sandpoint, where she married her husband Hugh Eugene Thurlow on October 18, 1958. They raised six boys; Kevin, Ken, Greg, Rich, Roger and Terry. Jenny worked in the Bonner County School District where she drove bus for 30 years before retiring. Jenny always had something good cooking in the kitchen, whether it was cookies and brownies or canning produce from her husband’s garden. She enjoyed crocheting and finished many afghans before losing her sight for her kids and grandchildren. Wednesday afternoons you could find her with friends playing cards at Connie’s and one Saturday a month with her pinochle club. Her most favorite times were spent with her children, grandchildren and great grandchild. Jenny is survived by her five sons; Ken, Greg, Rich, Roger and Terry; 11 grandchildren, one great grandson; four sisters Melba Aune, Bernita Williams, Rose Halverson, Lois Drake and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents; Sister Mae Knudtsen; three brothers Robert, Author and Ralph Berger; her husband Hugh Eugene Thurlow; one son Kevin Thurlow and a daughter-in-law Heidi Thurlow.