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In Loving Memory
Lawanda Lou Kingery, 71
May 8, 1946 – Oct. 2, 2017
Lawanda Lou Kingery, passed away at the Schneidmiller Hospice of North Idaho after losing her battle with cancer at 71, and went to be with our Lord on Oct. 2, 2017.
Lawanda was born in central Kansas to Leonard and Betty Woelk. They moved to northeastern Washington state when Lawanda was 1. She came to Ione, Wash., in the fifth grade where her husband to be was in the same class. They would graduate high school together.
Lawanda had plans to be an airline stewardess and worked in high school baby-sitting and delivering newspapers to help pay for her correspondence course for stewardess. She went to Kansas City after high school to finish her training only to find out she was a half inch too tall.
The next year she entered Washington State University and graduated in home economics education.
She taught at Bonners Ferry for five years and influenced many future households.
She married Les Barcklay who had an air freight business and they had a daughter, Michelle. Les died in a plane crash and she raised Michelle in Dalton Gardens.
She remarried Wally Kingery in 1994 and lived in Kansas City for 11 years before he retired and they returned to Dalton Gardens.
Her interests were her family, helping others where she could, and sewing and quilting. She loved to make and give her quilts as gifts. She made many baby quilts for expecting mothers and worked with her quilting group to make quilts for our military veterans.
She was active in the church her whole life, and has an eternal love of Jesus Christ. She lived her life with grace and an inspiration for so many. She and her smile will be greatly missed.
Lawanda is survived by her husband, Wally; her daughter, Michelle (Jonathan) Brandel; stepson Michael (Tonya) Kingery; sister Sandy (Gerry) Breckenridge; brothers Jerry (Penny) Woelk and Darroll (Cindy) Woelk; and many grandchildren, nephews, nieces and cousins.
Your thoughts of her are all she would ask, so instead of flowers, please donate to a charity of your choice and remember her as she would remember each of you.
A memorial will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, at Real Life Ministries, 1860 N. Cecil Road, Post Falls, Idaho.