Carrolee Yalch, 60

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Carrollee J. Yalch, 60, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, July 23, at a Boise Hospital with her family by her side.

Funeral Services will be held Thursday, July 28, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church. Private family inurnment will follow at the Idaho Veterans Cemetery in Boise.

Carrollee was born on June 17, 1945, to Robert and Maria Hall in Santa Ana, Calif. She attended different schools throughout the world while following her father's military career. She met Bob Yalch and they were married in Izmir, Turkey on Jan. 25, 1963. Bob was in the Air Force and they traveled many places around the world before he was stationed in Mountain Home in 1976.

Carrollee worked at Buy Wise Drug and later at K-Mart as a pharmacy tech. She also worked at the Mountain Home Library where she made great friends.

Carrollee enjoyed doing crafts, sewing, gardening and traveling. She loved going for weekly coffee with the ladies from the library affectionately know as the ' library hens'. Her greatest joy in life was time spent with her family and grandchildren.

Carrollee is survived by her husband of 43 years, Bob, of Mountain Home; three daughters, Angela ( Shawn) Condley of Florence, Ore., Margaret (Kelly) Oliver of Boise, and Mary Yalch (George) of Boise; her father, Robert S. Hall (Audrey) of California, five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her mother Maria Hall.

Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of your choice.

Arrangements under the direction of Rost Funeral Home.