Wilma Lucille Berry passed from this life Saturday, May 22, 2010, surrounded by her family. Wilma was born in Columbus, Ind., to Eugene and Viola Heinecke Stickens, Jan. 11, 1941. The family lived in Colorado, Arizona, and Idaho while she was growing up.
She attended school in all three states, graduating in 1959 from South Mountain High School in Phoenix. She worked as a home nursing aid in Phoenix and as a telephone operator in Orofino.
After marrying, Wilma became a mother and homemaker to three sons. She was a loving mother, sister, and grandma. She took great joy in supporting her sons in their sports and other activities as they grew up. She lived her adult life around Orofino.
Wilma grew a beautiful flower and vegetable garden at the family home on Huckleberry Butte. She enjoyed camping, fishing, huckleberry picking, barbecues, bowling, pinochle, bingo, visits over coffee with her mother and sisters, gardening with her father and the company of her large and lively family. She enjoyed, greatly, the time with her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sisters, brothers and their families. In her later years, she enjoyed meeting and making new friends, traveling to the coast and to Nevada.
Wilma is survived by her sons, Don and his wife Rosie, and Chris, all of Orofino grandchildren Hugh and wife Billie, Heather and husband Tyler, Amy and husband Brian, Dustin, and Joe and girlfriend Katie great-grandchildren Adrian, Austin, Carter, Jackson, Noah and Riley sisters, Donna Roy and husband Larry, Edna Summers and Dorothy Young, all of Orofino, and Charlotte Heatherly of Phoenix brother Kenneth Stickens of Dallas and many wonderful nieces and nephews, and their families.
She was preceded in death by her parents a sister, Patricia Heinecke brothers-in-law Cal Summers and Scott Young and nephew Johnny Heinecke.
Mom was loved by many and she will be missed.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at Pine Hills Funeral Chapel in Orofino, with burial to follow at the Weseman Cemetery.
Pine Hills Funeral Chapel is handling arrangements.
Wilma Lucille Berry passed from this life Saturday, May 22, 2010, surrounded by her family. Wilma was born in Columbus, Ind., to Eugene and Viola Heinecke Stickens, Jan. 11, 1941. The family lived in Colorado, Arizona, and Idaho while she was growing up.
She attended school in all three states, graduating in 1959 from South Mountain High School in Phoenix. She worked as a home nursing aid in Phoenix and as a telephone operator in Orofino.
After marrying, Wilma became a mother and homemaker to three sons. She was a loving mother, sister, and grandma. She took great joy in supporting her sons in their sports and other activities as they grew up. She lived her adult life around Orofino.
Wilma grew a beautiful flower and vegetable garden at the family home on Huckleberry Butte. She enjoyed camping, fishing, huckleberry picking, barbecues, bowling, pinochle, bingo, visits over coffee with her mother and sisters, gardening with her father and the company of her large and lively family. She enjoyed, greatly, the time with her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sisters, brothers and their families. In her later years, she enjoyed meeting and making new friends, traveling to the coast and to Nevada.
Wilma is survived by her sons, Don and his wife Rosie, and Chris, all of Orofino grandchildren Hugh and wife Billie, Heather and husband Tyler, Amy and husband Brian, Dustin, and Joe and girlfriend Katie great-grandchildren Adrian, Austin, Carter, Jackson, Noah and Riley sisters, Donna Roy and husband Larry, Edna Summers and Dorothy Young, all of Orofino, and Charlotte Heatherly of Phoenix brother Kenneth Stickens of Dallas and many wonderful nieces and nephews, and their families.
She was preceded in death by her parents a sister, Patricia Heinecke brothers-in-law Cal Summers and Scott Young and nephew Johnny Heinecke.
Mom was loved by many and she will be missed.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at Pine Hills Funeral Chapel in Orofino, with burial to follow at the Weseman Cemetery.
Pine Hills Funeral Chapel is handling arrangements.
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