David Frank Lindsay, 77

David Frank Lindsay left this realm to join his loved ones and meet his father at 7:45 p.m. Feb. 15, 2016. He was born on Jan. 4, 1939, to John Ray Lindsay and Mary Emily Martin in Chilco, Idaho. His father had passed away a couple of months before David’s birth. He was the 10th child born to the couple. His siblings were William John, Sufferonia (Sally), Gordon Ray (Pete), Lenor, Mary Helen, Dolly Dot (Dorothy), Virginia Ruth, Esther Pearl and Margaret. The older five children left home in their teens to get jobs and help the family.

David was shot through the legs in an accident and wasn’t expected to walk again before he entered school. Nothing could keep him down and he learned to walk again, though he limped for years. The family moved to Coeur d’Alene in 1951 and David attended Coeur d’Alene High School. David loved Tubbs Hill and spent all the time allowed on it or swimming in the cove, one year as early as February. He delivered The Press as a teenager and he worked at the old bowling alley, setting pins, during high school in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

He entered the military and as a soldier served his time hauling fuel across the border from the ‘Soo’ a strip of land and locks that connect Canada and the United States at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. He married an Indian girl there and brought her back to Idaho, but the marriage didn’t last. He worked the pipeline that brought fuel through the area and back across the plains. He ended up in Kansas. He lost a girlfriend through an accident in his car he had left with her. He remarried another girl from Kansas, Janet, and adopted her daughter, Tammy. They had a daughter, Candy. Candy had a daughter, Christy Lynn. Janet would not allow David to have the son, born to him from his dead girlfriend. The boy had been raised by her parents.

David drove an 18-wheeler over the road for many years and was able to come this way a few times. He eventually left the road and worked at a factory that made Sheetrock out of minerals. David worked the pot lines and it caused him to develop plaque in the brain which led to dementia. David was always a mild mannered person who left memories to early friends of a caring, gentleman. He never stood up for himself and would choose to walk away, so he was never compensated for the damage from his employment or the cruelty that sometimes was visited on him. Valley Vista in Sandpoint has taken good care of David for a number of years.

He has lost to death both of his brothers, Bill and Pete; and his sisters, Sally, Mary, Dorothy, Ginny and Marge. His parents and stepfather, Bernard Louis Vedder have passed as well. He has lost a niece, Kristine Webb; a grand nephew, David Stalker and a nephew, Jerry Lindsay. His brother’s wives, Virginia and Benna (Imbler) Lindsay have passed as has his wife, Janet. Their children are alive and well: Tammy Grimme in Nebraska, his son lives there as well; Candy (Mike) Neal in Texas; and Christy Lynne Lindsay, and his granddaughter in Missouri. His sisters, Lenor Self of Caldwell, Idaho, and Esther Webb of Coeur d’Alene survive him as do a great number of nieces and nephews as well as their children.

Coffelt Funeral Service in Sandpoint, Idaho, is in charge of David’s cremation. His remembrance ceremony as well as those of his siblings that preceded him in death will be held in Coeur d’Alene later in the summer.