Colleen Lartz:  

Life I cannot believe I got older...I still feel 26 inside...I cannot believe I got older....Oh well. Hi everyone. I was born in the Newport hospital and we lived on Hoodoo Loop Road. I attended kindergarten and I rode the bus to town with the big kids. Then my parents bought a new home one block from the old elementary school and down the road I went. I went to elementary school in Priest River, all except for a partial year in Superior, Mont. My father was a superintendent of a mill there. Then we moved back to Idaho all along keeping our home on Jackson St. They still live there. My parents have been married 57 years. They have done well. I am divorced now and live in Spokane, WA. I love doing what I want to do. After graduation in '67' I attended Lewis Clark Normal School and graduated from their nursing program in '70'. I had a blast and met many wonderful people. I still keep in touch with my buddie Tammy Parkins from Nezperce. They are wonderful people from the prairie. Hard workers. I then started my nursing career at Deaconess and then moved to St. Lukes Memorial Hospital. I worked very hard at learning ALL areas and then married my school pal George Hoiland and had a wonderful daughter, Heather Lyn. I divorced George in 80 and then remarried a local man then divorced and raised Heather alone from 85 to 97. I spent my professional time in management...i.e. head nurse of surgical orthopoedics, shift supervisor, charge nurse of surgical floor, staff development coord., Assistant Director Nursing Services and then Director. I finalized my career by teaching nursing. I even had a lengthy stint as an RN Consultant Councilor at a local private Psych/CD hos...Expand for more