Thelma Lucile Nauditt

Thelma Lucile Nauditt, age 95, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Holy Family Hospital in Spokane.

She was the daughter of Samuel J. and Anna Alma Doerschlag Potter, born April 15, 1916, in Buhl, Idaho. Her family moved to Danner, Ore., when she was four years old, where her dad drove a stage (bus) between Jordan Valley, Ore., and Caldwell, Idaho.

She and her mother moved to Caldwell where she started school and her mother ran a boarding house. It has been said she loved her dad very much and she was his little “Chick,” a name that stuck with her. Her parents divorced and her father passed away a...