Sindy May Bouwhuis Tenbrink
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 5 years, 8 months AGO
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On March 25, 1922, Sindy was born to Christian and Mary Hart Bouwhuis. She was the second of five children and with her passing she has outlived all of her siblings and their spouses. Foremost in her mind these last six months has been a great desire and determination to return to her roots and memories.
Sindy married Albert Tenbrink on June 20, 1940, in Salt Lake City. Their son, Ralph, was born in 1941 and Albert Ted in 1943, on Father's Day and his parent's anniversary.
Sindy's main career was in raising two sons and keeping a clean home. She made their clothes and knew about doing laundry by hand and hanging it out to dry. As a family, they raised their own chickens and beef and processed it themselves.
At age 42 she had her first “money paying” job when she went to work at I.R.S. as a key-punch operator. Sindy had many good friends in her life with whom she enjoyed socializing as family, friends and neighbors.
After Albert died in 2002, Sindy eventually went to Idaho to live closer to her boys. When Ralph resettled to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho she did, too. She lived in assisted living the last four years, but fell and broke her hip on Dec. 1, 2020 and didn't recover.
She is survived by her sons and their families: Ralph (Cheryl) of Hayden, Idaho, and Ted (Robyn) of North Fork, Idaho. She has five grandchildren: Chris (Heather) Tenbrink of Coeur d'Alene, Carin (Barry) Christensen of Edmond, Okla., Joel (Robin) Tenbrink of South Jordan, Utah; Paige (Mike) Elwood of Ogden; and Seth Tenbrink, now of Malad, Idaho. She has 14 great-grandchildren.
The family is happy to take her home to be buried next to her husband. Abiding by Covid restrictions, a viewing will be held on Jan. 4, 2021, from 11 a.m. to noon, at Myers Mortuary of Ogden, Utah, on Washington Boulevard, followed by a short program and sharing of memories before heading to Washington Heights Memorial Gardens to dedicate the grave.
To have you share a memory of her will be more valuable to us than flowers due to the cold weather and Covid. Please go to myers-mortuary.com to post on her page.