Boundary County ID Archives Obituaries.....Winjum, Joan Marie May 14, 2007
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Bonners Ferry Herald, Thursday, May 17, 2007
   Joan Marie Winjum, 73, passed away unexpectedly at her home in Bonners Ferry,
Idaho on May 14, 2007.
   Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 11 a.m. in the
United Methodist Church in Bonners Ferry, Idaho with burial following in the
Grandview Cemetery.
   Joan was born on Oct. 3, 1933 in Spokane, Wash., to Victor F. and Marie
(Fish) Rae.  She attended schools in Spokane, Wash., before moving to Bonners
Ferry with her family where she graduated from Bonners Ferry High School.
   Joan was a cheerleader, and named Coast Guard Queen at the Lilac Festival and
May Day Queen.
   She then attended Kinman Business College in Spokane where she received a
business degree and went to work for Baird Norndorph Lumber in Spokane.
   While in Spokane, she met William (Bill) Winjum, and they later married on
April 3, 1955 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho where they lived for a year until they
were flooded out in the Flood of 1956 and moved to Spokane, where Joan worked
for E. L. McDonald, Inc. as the president’s personal secretary from 1956 to
1965.  Joan and Bill then moved to Portland, Ore., until 1969, when they
returned to Bonners Ferry, where she went to work for 1st Security Bank for
several years.
   Joan then went to work for General Feed and Grain, a business that her father
began, she worked as a secretary there until her retirment.
   Throughout her life she loved horses and over the years they owned several
thoroughbred race horses.  She enjoyed traveling, playing slot machines and all
kinds of animals.
   Joan believed that appearance and neatness was important, and she lived her
life and instilled in her family its importance.
   Survivors include her husband Bill Winjum, Bonners Ferry, Idaho; daughter,
Sheryl Rae (Kevin) Dirks, Bonners Ferry, Idaho and Steven Craig Winjum of
Helena, Mont.; grandchildren Matthew Ryan Winjum, Michael James Winjum, Casey
Ryan Dirks, Kyle Christopher Dirks and Michaela Michelle Dirks; brother Don
(Dawn) Rae, Richland, Wash.; sister-in-law Evelyn Rae, Bonners Ferry, Idaho;
sister-in-law Laurel Winjum, Redfield, South Dakota; and numerous nieces and
nephews.



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