Paul Bennett Armstrong

Paul B, Armstrong, 84, passed away in Post Falls, ID on Tuesday, November 9, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am, Saturday, Nov. 13th in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Ed Dittmar, Post Falls, will be conducting with inurnment in Pinecrest Memorial Park. Paul was born in Dodge City, Kansas on March 30, 1926 the son of Francis and Ruth Armstrong. He graduated from high school in Vale, Oregon in 1944. Following high school he joined the US Army, serving with the US Army Air Corp. In 1949 he started his career with the Union pacific Railroad as a section hand. He followed his work with Union Pacific living in Southern Idaho and Utah. He was promoted to different positions, with UP, and lived in Spokane, WA from 1960 until 1968. He married Veldonna Osborn on June 22, 1975 in Sandpoint, ID and retired, from the railroad, in 1986 as Engineer of Track. He moved to Sandpoint to become a farmer, raising hay and feeding horses. He later became a snowbird, spending winters in Yuma, AZ, moving to Post Falls, ID in 2002. Paul loved hunting, fishing, haying on his farm, reloading ammunition, and target shooting. He was a member of the NRA and the Sandpoint Saddle Club. He is survived by his wife Veldonna in Post Falls; 3 children Paula Laws in Rathdrum, ID; Glen Armstrong in Post Falls, ID; and Neil Armstrong in Ontario, Canada.; numerous grandchildren and great grand children; 3 sisters Ruth Ardis Gudischinki in Alaska; Carol Westfall in Homedale, ID; and Joan Whitlow in Yuma, AZ.