Sandra Louise Irving-Alamillo

Sandra Louise Irving-Alamillo lost a three year battle with cancer on March 18, 2017. She died at her home where her daughter Michelle Alamillo and her husband Joseph Alamillo had been caring for her. Memorial services will be conducted at 11:00 am, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church with Father Dennis C. Day officiating. Sandra was born on September 29, 1946 in Richmond, California to Dixie Nadine Osborne and Marvin Thomas Irving. She grew up in the Oakland, California where she attended and graduated from St. Elizabeth High School. She attended Marritt College in Oakland where she graduated as an x-ray technologist and began working at Valley Memorial Hospital in Livermoor, California. On June 1, 1968 Sandy was married to Joseph P. Alamillo. They purchased a home in San Larenzo, California where they started their family. They have three children. In 1988, they family moved to Sagle, Idaho where Sandy designed their house she and Joe had built. They would say that it was city close and country quiet. She went to work at Bonner General Hospital in her chosen field of x-ray tech until she retired in 2006. Her patients knew her as a kind, caring and gentle person. To everyone else she was known for her sunny smile and direct no nonsense attitude. If you asked for her advice be ready for the truth. Sandy had many interests and hobbies. She loved to bake cookies for the tea parties she had with her grandchildren and nieces. It will teach them manners, she would say, and that is important. In spring she would plant many flowers around her patio. She hand quilted beautiful panels and then blinged them out as she would call it. She taught herself Swedish weaving. The beautiful items she made were treasures and keepsakes given to family and friends. She enjoyed traveling and had been to Scotland where she pursued her interest in genealogy. Her most recent trips to everyone’s amazement was just a few weeks ago. She went on a cruise with her husband and one of her sons and his family to the Caribbean. Above all else, family was the number one priority in Sandy’s life. This included cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, brothers and all of their families. She hosted a family reunion several times with up to 100 people or more attending. Her grandchildren were her joy. Sandy is survived her husband Joseph Peter Alamillo; her daughter Shannon Marie (Duane) Werner; sons Joseph and Nickolas, Patrick (Laura) Alamillo and their children Nikole and Zachery, Shane son Shane and wife Michelle and their children Hailey, Hunter, Hope, Honor and Hagen; brothers Timothy Irving, Tony Machado and Alfred Machado. She is preceded in death by her mother Dixie Nadine Machado, Father Marvin T Irving, Brother Daniel Irving and Brother John Irving.