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5200 W Wellesley Ave
Spokane, w 99205
Luiella Pedersen
March 5, 1934 — July 4, 2018
Luiella Pedersen
Luiella "Lue" Christina Kascak Pedersen was born in Springfield, Colorado, on March 5, 1934. On July 4, 2018, Lue passed away, being liberated from her earthly pain and restraints. She is now free to tend her heavenly gardens filled with her favorite flowers, irises, roses, and hens and chicks.
Lue was the third of fourteen children born to Margaret Anna Wakefield and Stephen Oscar Kascak. She and her family left Colorado during the dust bowl. Moving to Idaho, they permanently settled in Hauser Lake. She graduated from Rathdrum High School in 1954 and was looking forward to attending the class reunion this July.
Lue was good at mathematics and was architecturally and mechanically inclined, and after high school, she wanted to attend architectural college. She was unable to pursue that course of education, because her father thought that was not women’s work. Instead, she attended Kinman Business College, in Spokane, completing a bookkeeping course.
On August 6, 1955, she married Gerald Gene "Jerry" Pedersen. Lue lived in Massachusetts, North Dakota, Washington, and Idaho, while her husband served in the United States Air Force. Lue had six children with Jerry, two boys and four girls.
After settling in Spokane, Washington, around 1968, she worked at a sewing factory for a while, then she was a Sears employee at Northtown Mall for about fourteen years before retiring. She was proud to have volunteered with COPS Northeast in Hillyard.
In 1999, Lue and her husband moved to Spirit Lake, Idaho. It had become difficult for her to go up and down the stairs in her Spokane home, and Jerry wanted to live in Idaho. Her husband passed away on January 27, 2009. Lue remained in Spirit Lake, but she was not alone, her daughters were there for her supporting her until she passed away.
Lue was an organic gardener, a skill she learned from her mother and father. She dug gardens the old fashioned way, digging deep, turning the soil, pulling out all the rocks, weeds and roots by hand. But when it was available, someone might rototill it for her. Tomatoes, zucchini, rhubarb, and raspberries were some of her favorites. Tomatoes off the vine--yum! She loved and cherished the cutting from her mother’s roses. She was happy in her garden!
Lue learned to bake bread from scratch from her mother and passed that knowledge on to her children and grandchildren who were able to have that time with her. She made the best rhubarb pie using the recipe from her favorite recipe book that is held together with tape and rubber bands.
Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas were special times at Lue’s house. The holidays were filled with traditional meals, with cookies and pies, and at Christmas, homemade old-fashioned fudge and divinity. Orders for fudge and divinity for Christmas continued for years. She and her sister, Mary, made peanut brittle together and shared that as well.
Lue liked to knit and sew, especially for special events for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She fostered and encouraged making things by hand and designing things. She learned to paint while living in Spokane, and painted a few paintings. Tremors made it hard for her to continue with her painting hobby.
Lue always loved doing number puzzles like sudoku, even after she lost some of her mathematical abilities after the stroke she had in 2004. She was a whiz at putting together jigsaw puzzles, and continued that hobby, preferring Jigsaw World on Facebook in her later years. She liked playing cards with family and friends, canasta, cribbage, pinochle, rummy, kings corners. More recently, she liked playing Yahtzee, Farkle, and balloon toss.
Lue was a giver. If someone needed something, she gave with love, sometimes to her own detriment. She had little material items, but she had people in her life who cherished her, family, friends, and acquaintances. She had a compassionate heart and has earned all the blessings she will receive in heaven. It would not be surprising for her to give robes off her back to other angels in need. Lue will be missed, but she planted many seeds of love that will continue for a long time through others.
Lue was preceded in death by her husband, her sons, Gerald Matthew and James Christian, her granddaughter, Deana Marie, her parents, three of her brothers, Leo Benedict, Stephen John, and Adrian Michael, and four of her sisters, Mary Margaret, Theresa Frances, Agnes Catherine, and Rose Marie.
Lue is survived by her four daughters, Margaret Pazar, Betty Oakley, Patricia Oakley, and Rose Sevier, all of Idaho; her eight grandchildren, Galen Pazar, Alaska, Lucelia Pazar, Minnesota, Samuel Oakley, Idaho, Holly Oakley, Idaho, Alicia Smith, Washington, Tiffany Pedersen, Washington, Rosalie Armendariz, Hawaii, and Elizabeth Oakley, Idaho; and her seven great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her brothers, Mathew Kascak, Washington, and Paul Kascak, Idaho, and her sisters, Helen Strand, Sylvia Hay, Cecelia Kascak, and Zita Hagen, all of Minnesota.
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