Janeane (Lucas) Blimka
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Janeane Louise Ann (Lucas) Blimka (1934 - 2015)

Janeane Louise Ann Blimka formerly Lucas
Born in Spokane, Washington, United Statesmap
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[children unknown]
Died at age 80 in Lewiston, Idaho, United Statesmap
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Biography

Obituary

Janeane Blimka passed away Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. She was 80 years old.

Janeane was born Sept. 1, 1934, to Albert Gilbert and Sarah Ruth (Bacon) Lucas in Spokane. She was the ninth of 10 children born to the couple. She grew up in Spokane and graduated from Marycliff Catholic Girls School. She met Gerald William Blimka in Spokane, where he proposed. The couple moved to Clarkston and were married at Holy Family Catholic Church in Clarkston on July 3, 1954.

She worked as a cook at Holy Family Catholic School from 1962 to 1973 before working for Safeway as a meat wrapper for about 10 years. After that, Janeane stayed at home caring for her children.

She was a member of the Holy Family Catholic Parish, a lifetime member of the Eagles Auxiliary and the Hells Canyon Gem and Mineral Club. She took great pleasure in bowling with her friends and was in a bowling league most of her life. Janeane enjoyed the outdoors, especially spending time at the gold mine picking huckleberries, seeing bears and enjoying her children and grandchildren. She was a rock hound and also loved going to Coos Bay, Ore., to fish and spend time with her sister. Her favorite time of the year was the holidays, particularly Christmas. Mom would start setting up her Christmas village and decorations in October. The village Heritage collection took up the entire formal living room, and one year the Lewiston Tribune took pictures of it for the paper. It was beautiful. She loved to bake and make all sorts of candies and treats for her children and grandchildren at Christmas and enjoyed listening to Elvis Christmas albums.

She is survived by her husband of 60 years, Gerald Blimka; sons Jerome, Tom (Julia) and Brett Blimka of Lewiston and Clarkston; daughters Vanice (Thomas) Roof and Michelle Blimka of Clarkston; 17 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and two sisters.

She was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers and two sisters.

The rosary will be recited at 11 a.m. March 28, followed by funeral Mass at Holy Family Catholic Church in Clarkston.

Please sign the online guest book and leave memories, comments and make any memorial donations at www.merchantfuneralhome.com.

My wife, our mom and grandmother was a beautiful woman and touched our lives in a special way. She had a heart of gold and we will cherish our memories of her in our hearts forever. [1]

Sources

  1. http://lmtribune.com/obituaries/janeane-louise-ann-lucas-blimka/article_40bca21d-fa79-5056-a7ba-19aabf94fc92.html
  • "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K93V-Q59 : accessed 20 March 2015), Janeane Lucas in household of Albert Lucas, Area D, Spokane, Spokane City, Spokane, Washington, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 41-41, sheet 9A, family 256, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 4385.




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