Sharon Lee Girtman

Sharon Lee Girtman, 87, passed away on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 am, Saturday, December 21, 2024 in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Interment will take place in Pinecrest Memorial Park.

Sharon was born on July 2, 1937 in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of William and Lucille Kannady. She grew up l happily with dozens of cousins, aunts and uncles near her grandparent’s homestead on Baldy Mountain. Sharon attended local schools graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1955. She married George Girtman on November 21, 1956 in Sandpoint. Sharon and George made their home on Baldy Mtn Rd. where they raised their two daughters.

She worked for the Bonner County Clerk’s Office and Idaho First National Bank until they started their family.

Sharon and George opened Girtman Office Equipment in the 1960’s and sold it in 1978. After the sale of the business, she and George purchased a small logging truck to make cedar shake blocks. They used the truck to get firewood and logs to make the lumber to build the cedar fence around the property. They loved traveling in their fifth wheel in the summers.

Sharon loved to pick huckleberries and did that until she was 83 years old. She kept an immaculate house and yard. She liked gardening and tending to her flowers. She loved traveling to Hawaii, Mexico and the Caribbean with family. Her grandchildren and great grandchildren were the highlight of her life.

Sharon is survived by her two daughters; Debbie (Terry) Allen of Sandpoint and Kim (Duane) Fleming of Post Falls, ID; her sister Clarie Wallace of Careywood, ID; four grandchildren Brett (Athena) Allen of Cheney, WA, Heather (Justine) Arts of Coeur d’ Alene, ID, Matt Fleming of Post Falls, Katie Fleming of Seattle; four great grandchildren Kylie, Emma, Maddie and Khloe, along with numerous nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husband George, her parents William and Lucille, her sister Virginia Buck and her brother-in-law John Wallace.