Wilma Hendrickson

12/12/1925 — 6/30/2025

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Wilma Hendrickson, 99, a longtime resident of the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, passed away at TriState Health, June 30, 2025. Her battle with dementia was not easy but she tried to keep up her loving spirit, feistiness and humor. Mom, being so well organized, wrote her own obituary – the following is her own words.

Wilma went to her heavenly home Monday, June 30, 2025, to be with her Lord and loved ones who had gone on before. She often wrote poems of her thoughts and life, and among her things was found the following message to family and friends.

Dear ones, when I am gone

And my face no longer you can see

Recall happy times when you think of me.

We traveled many roads together

But this path I must take alone

I know my Lord will meet me

To take me to my new home.

It will be a beautiful happy place

Filled with loved ones gone on before

There we’ll all be waiting for you

On that golden shore.

There will be peace and joy

Our robes will be free of stain

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There’ll be no more tears or sorrows

And our bodies will be free from pain.

So spend the time from now ’til then

Knowing we’ll never be far apart

’Cause I will always be with you

In a wee small corner of your heart.

Wilma was born Dec. 12, 1925, to Newton and Ina Taylor Adamson on a farm near Midvale, Idaho. They moved from the farm to Cambridge, Idaho, where they lived until she finished first and second grade. Her father passed away in 1933. With her mother and brother, she moved to Nampa, where they lived until she finished 10th grade. In 1940, they moved to Boise when her mother took a job at Gowen Airfield Post Exchange. Wilma finished her schooling at Boise High School.

In 1942 Wilma married Irvin Isble Jr., a boy she had met the summer of 1939 when he was in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp at Lake Lowell near Nampa. He joined the U.S. Navy and they were “pen pals” for three years. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor and on the USS Yorktown Aircraft Carrier when the Japanese attacked. Two children were born to them, a daughter Paula Marie and a son Darrell Dwayne. They divorced in 1946.

At that time, Wilma went to work in the office of the Amalgamated Sugar Company in Nampa where she worked until she met E. Marvin Twogood, a recently discharged U.S. Army Airman, who had completed 37 bombing missions over Germany. They married later that summer and moved to Kansas City, Kansas, where he enrolled in a vocational trade school. While there, a daughter Cheryl Jeannine was born. In 1950 they moved to the Lapwai area. Marvin worked at several different jobs until they bought a small farm on Webb Creek where they lived until they divorced in 1957.

At that time, she and the children moved to Lewiston. She worked for a time at Newberry’s store. In 1958 she enrolled in the LPN nursing school at St. Joseph Hospital. Upon graduation in 1959, she was employed at St. Joseph. She did floor duty for two years until she asked for a transfer to surgery where she was an assistant nurse to the doctors for 23 years. In 1987 she took time off to care for her mother, who was terminally ill. Her mother passed away in 1989. At that time, she was asked to come back to work. She was having trouble with numbness in her hands so she agreed to go back as surgery secretary.

In 1963 she met, and after two years, married Fred Hendrickson in 1965 and they spent the next 34 years happily camping and traveling some. They were members of the Valley Christian Center where they were jokingly referred to as “The Flintstones,” Fred and Wilma. Wilma loved to travel and made many trips to Texas to visit her daughter Cheryl and grandkids and great-grandkids. Paula and Darrell remained in this area so she enjoyed many happy times them. She loved to sew and do crafts and, with her daughter Paula, did many craft shows through the years. She started a quilting group at church, where she and four friends made quilts and baby things for missionaries and the local pregnancy center. She loved animals of all kinds. One of her doctor friends told her one time he wished he could buy her an island so she could take all the little strays there for her to care for.

Preceding her in death were her father Newton Adamson, brother Marvin C. Adamson, mother Ina Gregory, stepfather Chester L. Gregory, husband Fred W. Hendrickson, son Darrell, and daughter Paula (Isble) Light.

She is survived by her daughter Cheryl Bohnsack (Gary); daughter-in-law Marli (Hendrickson) Isble; grandchildren: Shelia, Dave Williams, Loni Joy (Tim), Gary Bohnsack Jr. (Melissa), Brent Bohnsack (Shana) and Sara Isble; great-grandchildren — all living in Texas: Kara Joy, Christopher Joy (Ashley), Hannah Yeager (Madison), Emily Bohnsack, Jack Bohnsack, Ashlynn Bohnsack and Luke Bohnsack; great-great-grandchildren: Aeryn, Christain, Ryan, Khloe Joy.

It was not her wish to have any fuss made when she passed but left it up to the family how they wanted to handle it. Her wish was to be cremated. As my last request of family and friends, rather than flowers, donations are requested to the animal shelters or the Northwest Children’s Home.

“Goodbye y’all. I’ll be waiting for you at the Eastern Gate.”

On behalf of the family: “Thank you,” to the nurses and caregivers at Orchard View Post Acute for all the love and care they gave Mom over the past three years. You are truly appreciated. Thank you to all our family and friends for the love and support during this difficult time.

“Mom, you are loved and missed.”

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