Natalie Grant, 93

It is with deep sadness that we share that Natalie Grant, 93, of Pinehurst, Idaho, passed away Aug. 10, 2024, while residing at Mountain Valley of Cascadia Health and Rehabilitation, Kellogg, Idaho. (Our mother provided her own obituary for the family as she was a very detailed and organized lady in her time. It is included below, along with some editing.)

Natalie was born Nov. 30, 1930, in Somers, Mont., to Ralph and Clarabelle Burrell. She lived her first five years on a farm in Moiese, Mont., and then the family moved to Smelterville, Idaho, when she was 5 years old. She had three sisters, including Betty Burrell Baker and twins Eva Burrell Dennis and Evalyn Burrell Adams. She attended Silver King grade school and Kellogg High School, graduating in 1948. She married Bob Thomas in 1949. She worked at H.F. Magnuson and Co. in Kellogg for 27 years. Bob and Natalie had three children: Pat, Rand and Connie. Bob died in an accident in 1974 and soon after his death, Natalie retired from H.F. Magnuson’s and she then worked as the Pinehurst City Clerk for three years. 

Natalie remarried in 1978 to David Grant and they bought and managed the Tall Pine Drive-In for four years in Pinehurst, Idaho, where Dave cooked and Natalie waitressed and managed the bookkeeping. After selling the Tall Pine, they started “snow-birding” south to Mexico for 17 years and then going every year after Mexico to Casa Grande, Ariz. They both enjoyed the social life of the RV parks where they lived in Mexico and Casa Grande and made numerous friends. Natalie and Dave came home early from Casa Grande this year for the first time in all their years of traveling south due to her illness at the ages of 91 and 93. 

Natalie was an avid and amazing artist and enjoyed oil painting, watercolors, pastels and sketching. She showed and sold her amazing artwork at art galleries, Art on the Green in Coeur d’Alene, and other locations. She also had an amazing math mind and certainly enjoyed her bookkeeping and card games, including pinochle, cribbage, a dice game, Pokeno, Texas Hold 'em, and Skip-Bo. We all played lots of card games with her! She loved her family and friends immensely, and the family will miss her sweetness, humor and the twinkle in her eyes. 

Natalie is preceded in death by her first husband, Bob; her sister, Eva Burrell Dennis; stepsons Jim Grand and Robert Grant; grandson Bryce Boltjes; and step-grandson Christopher Partridge. 

Survivors include her loving husband of nearly 46 years, David Grant; her three children, Pat (DeAnn) Thomas, Randy (Jane) Thomas, and Connie (Greg) Boltjes; two step-daughters, Linda (Davin) Grant-Herting and Denisa Dietzen; and two sisters, Evalyn Adams and Betty Baker. She is also survived by nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. 

A memorial service will be held Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at 11 a.m. at the chapel of Shoshone Funeral Services, 106 S. Main St., Kellogg, Idaho. There will be a private family inurnment following the memorial service in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. 

Memories of Natalie and messages of condolence may be shared with her family online at www.shoshonefuneralservice.com. Shoshone Funeral Services, Kellogg, is assisting the family with arrangements.