Boundary County ID Archives Obituaries.....Teer, Josephine "Billie" July 21, 2006
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Bonners Ferry Herald, July 27, 2006
   Longtime Moyie Springs resident Billie Teer passed away at the Boundary
County Hospital Friday morning, July 21, 2006.
   She was born in Athus, Belgium to Edmund and Katherine Brockley on June 17,
1909.  She joined two sisters and two brothers.  Her father was in Missouri
working as a bricklayer with his brother saving money so the family could come
to the United States.  In 1912 Billie, with her mother, sisters and brothers,
boarded a ship and set sail for America.  Shortly after joining her father, the
family moved to Chicago.  In 1926 the family, with a new brother Louie who was
born in America, came to Boundary County.
   In 1929 she married Milton Love and a son was born: Robert Milton Love.
   In 1938 she married Benton "Benny" Teer.  They met at a dance in the Sherdian
school. Billie and Benny owned and operated the Moyie Store.  They also owned
the Moyie Dance Club, which later became the Moyie Club.  In 1939 she got her
citizenship papers.  The store was also the Moyie Post Office.  She picked up
mail at the depot in Moyie Springs on mail delivery days.
   In 1955 they moved the post office to the new building across from the store.
 She was always a hard and efficient worker.  She enjoyed traveling, gardening,
fishing, entertaining, and huckleberry picking.  Many happy hours were spent
with her two granddaughters and her two sisters fishing and huckleberry picking.
   She was a loving mother and grandmother.  She was a life time member of the
Eastern Star and the Daughters of the Nile.  She is survived by her son Robert
Love, and his wife, Drexel in Moyie Springs; granddaughter Roxanne Adams of
ortland, Ore., granddaughter Deborah Biehl and husband Loren of Phoenix,
Arizona; three great-grandchildren, Robert K. Schneider, Darby Biehl and Bradley
Biehl; three nephews, Edmund Justus (Bonners Ferry, Idaho)and Robert Brockley
(California); several nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews and
great-great-nieces and nephews.
   She was preceded in death by her husband Benton "benny" Teer of 50-plus
years; her mother and father, Edmund and Katherine Brockley; brothers, Edmund
Brockley, Louie Brockley, and Joe Brockley; sisters, Eugene "Jean" Justus and
Leona Mossman.
   Services will be held at the Bonners Ferry Funeral home on Saturday July 29,
2006 at 2 p.m.
  

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