James "Jim" Reed

James G. (Jim) Reed passed away peacefully on August 12, 2010 at his home in Sagle with his family at his side. Funeral services will be conducted at 11;00 AM Wednesday, August 18th, in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Dale Coffelt will be officiating with interment following in Pinecrest Memorial Park. Jim was born September 11, 1927 to Glenn and Edna Brown Reed at Sagle and lived his entire life in the Sagle area. Jim attended the Sagle Grade School and graduated from Sandpoint High School at Pine and Euclid with the class of 1946. During his senior year at high school he drove the high school bus from Sagle to Sandpoint. Jim worked for Cox Implement Company in Sandpoint before enlisting in the United States Army in 1946 and serving nearly two years with the post WWII occupation army in Germany. Jim married Frances Boothe Hawkins in October of 1956 and they had two sons, Alan Edward Reed and Dale James Reed. Jim worked for the Co-Op Gas & Supply Company as a petroleum salesman and as an independent delivery contractor for a total of 13 ½ years. In September 1963 Jim started an insurance agency in Sandpoint for State Farm Insurance Companies and worked 25 ½ years before retiring at the end of 1988. Jim and Frances spent 20 winters in Arizona following retirement, square and round dancing with new friends from all over the United States, Canada, and various foreign countries. . Jim gave many years of community service in Sagle and Sandpoint – he coached baseball 12 years in the Sandpoint Youth Baseball program while his two sons were playing baseball; he served on the Bonner County Planning Commission; was on the board of Bonner County Sportsman Association; and served as President of the Sandpoint Kiwanis Club and received a “Distinguished Service Award” for his services. He worked many hours on the Kiwanis Club projects including Camp Stidwell to provide a place for youth activities. Jim had a great love for his family and enjoyed camping, hunting, dirt bike riding with sons and friends, berry picking, time spent in the mountains and working on the tree farm. He loved the home he built for his family and wanted to spend the rest of his life there. Jim is survived by his wife, Frances Reed of Sagle, his son, Dale (Melanie) Reed of Sagle, one granddaughter, Jennifer Lynn Reed, one grandson, Curtis Alan Reed, and a step- granddaughter, Molly Ann Givens and her boyfriend Kasey DaVault, and his sister, Myrna May Murray of Mesa, AZ. He is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends. Jim was preceded in death by his parents, his son, Alan, and two brothers, Eugene Reed and Clarence Reed. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations be made to Bonner Community Hospice, PO Box 1448, Sandpoint, ID 83864; Sagle Senior Center, 650 Monarch Rd., Sagle, ID 83860; or Sandpoint Area Seniors, 820 Main St., Sandpoint, ID 83864.