HUCKLEBERRIES: Remembering 'a loyal friend and a fine sportswoman'
Virginia Panabaker and a tandem partner water surf for a 1941 Fourth of July crowd on the Coeur d’Alene waterfront.
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Virginia Panabaker
Virginia Panabaker (fifth from the left, front row) with advisers and other members of the Expatrialogos Club.
Nancy Hadley of Sandpoint after a successful hunt.
Employee Minnie McDonald served St. Vincent de Paul for 50 years.
Former Harding principal Duane Harrison, his granddaughter, Jessica, then 7, and his winterized bicycle.
George Emmett of Coeur d’Alene, then 13, right, waits to get an autograph from New York Yankee great Joe DiMaggio.
Miss Idaho Linda Moulton at the “Beauty and the Beasts” booth.
Car dealers, from left, Wayne Knudtsen, Tom Addis and Doug Parker promote the car choices for the second prize winner in the 1994 North Idaho College Foundation Really Big Raffle. Addis is holding Parker’s prized bull terrier, Yota.
A fatal misstep on a diving board 81 years ago claimed one of Coeur d’Alene’s great female athletes.
Virginia “Ginny” Panabaker was only 19 when she fell off a 10-foot platform during a “fancy diving” exhibition for officers at the Farragut Naval Training Station on Feb. 24, 1943.
The Pacific Northwest diving champion struck the concrete edge of the pool headfirst and rolled into the water, never to regain consciousness. She suffered fractures to her skull and shoulder. Fatally injured, she died in the Farragut base hospital the next morning.
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