Sharron Lynn Rogers (Kunz) (Eastman), 74

Sharron Lynn Rogers (Kunz) (Eastman), 74, passed away in the early morning hours of Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, at Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, from cancer. She was born the eldest daughter to John and Verna Kunz on Sept. 26, 1941, in Kellogg, Idaho.

Sharron graduated from Coeur d’Alene High School in 1959. She then attended college at Cheney College in eastern Washington. In October 1960, she married Chub Eastman and they had two daughters, Kelly and Darsi. As a family, they lived in California, Idaho and Montana. From Montana, she returned with her daughters to Coeur d’Alene where she worked in banking and in the early 1970s met and married Tom Rogers. In 1979, she took an accounting management position in Reno, Nev., that eventually landed her in Oakland, Calif., where she lived for 19 years with her friend, Ben, before returning to Coeur d’Alene in 1999.

By nature a happy, humorous and witty extrovert, she was adventurous with a passion for arts and culture. Opinionated and political, she was the utmost free spirit with a thirst for knowledge, conversation and debate. Though she never sugar coated a thing, she was loving and accepting, valuing her family and friends above all. She loved exploration, bourbon and cigarettes, watching tennis, coffee, sweet rolls, music, reading and her book club, swimming and her pool community, and walking dogs, Dodger and Kerby.

Sharron is survived by her daughters, Kelly (Rob) Wirth and Darsi Eastman; siblings Diane Kiebert and Charles (Kathy) Kunz; granddaughters Alia (Matt) Deffer and Jesse Wirth, Nicole (Will) Carter, Haley Perry and Taylor Perry; three great-grandchildren Greison, Vera Lynn and Robert Cash; cousins Rick Appleberg and Mary Eastman, Brian and Russel Giles, Jocelyn McCollum and Claudia Ritcher; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Bradley Kunz and the father of her children, Charles (Chub) Eastman.

“What the caterpillar thinks is the end of the world, the butterfly knows is just the beginning.” — derived from a Richard Bach quote.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, at English Funeral Chapel in Coeur d’Alene. A reception at the funeral chapel will immediately follow.

Please sign Sharron’s guest registry and view her online memorial at www.englishfuneralchapel.com.