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Betty Bernice Bell

October 22, 1929 ~ November 4, 2011
November 5, 2011
Betty Bernice Bell, 82, of Bonners Ferry, passed away November 4, 2011.

Funeral Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 12, at the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home, with interment in the Grandview Cemetery.

Betty was born in Monarch, Wyoming, October 28, 1929, the second of six children born to Albina Legerski and George Jensik, Sr. She attended schools in Monarch and Sheridan, Wyoming.

Betty and her family lived in Wyoming and Montana before settling in Bonners Ferry. She enjoyed traveling to see family, cooking, and gardening -- she loved flowers.

Betty was preceded in death by husbands, Paul Zowada and Bill L. Bell; daughter Judy Zowada; sisters Mary Sweem and Rose Mary Legerski, and an older brother, George Jensik, Jr.

She is survived by sisters Wilma Meryhew, Casper, Wyoming, and Margaret Boaz, Portland, Oregon; sons Larry Zowad, Ashland, Oregon, Gary Zowada, San Francisco, and Bill D. Bell, Winnemucca, Nevada; daughters Carol Lane and Donna Bell, both of Bonners Ferry; five grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Memorials can be made to the Boundary Community Hospital Extended Care Facility.

Family and friends are invited to sign Betty’s book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.