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Debbie Hammett, 74

Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 3 months, 3 weeks AGO
| December 17, 2025 1:00 AM

Like all gardens, even the most beautiful flowers eventually fade and pass away. Debbie (Debra Dorman Hammett) was like that flower and brought pleasure, beauty and grace to the world simply by being. Great Spirit gifted her to us on Sept. 9, 1951, and allowed us to enjoy her presence until she decided her own garden needed sprucing up. So, on Dec. 1, 2025, Great Spirit brought her home to add her to her own garden.   

Her favorite adage was "less is more," and she lived by that code, even now.  She was a nurse by trade, but if you knew her, she was considerably more. Treating the body, mind, spirit and heart of all she met, and she did it with such an unbelievable tenderness and grace that all she met and knew thought more of her as family than friend or nurse.

So, she leaves behind a family of many; some biological, others not, some having preceded her, while others remain. But atop all others, she leaves behind her daughter, Tiffany, her grandson, Eli, and, of course, Eddie. They will always hold a place in her heart that no others will ever reach.

She leaves you with this: "When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."

There will be no services (less is more, remember), but a memorial will be held when the flowers next bloom.