Drexel Lorraine Turner went to work at the Moyie Store in 1964 for owner Robert “Bob” Milton Love and they fell in love, marrying April 14, 1965, having a daughter, Deborah, August 8, 1966, a beautiful beginning to a lifetime together, ending when Bob passed away on Christmas Eve, 2020. Drexel passed away on November 18, 2023. Memorial service for Bob and Drexel Love will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 31, at Grandview Cemetery, where they will lie together for eternity.
Bob was born September 3, 1930, Layton, Utah, the son of Josephine Billie (Brockley) Love and Milton Love. He moved with his mother to Chicago, and she married Benton Reed Teer when Bob was five and the family moved to Moyie Springs, where Benton owned the Moyie Store.
Bob attended Boundary County schools, graduating from Bonners Ferry High School in 1948. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in Juneau, Alaska, for four years before taking an honorable discharge and returned to Idaho, where he attended the University of Idaho on the GI Bill, studying accounting and business.
After graduating, he worked for the Dole Corporation in San Francisco. In 1958, his father put the Moyie Store up for sale, and Bob, never liking the big city, returned home to Moyie Springs in 1958 and bought the store, happy to be home.
Drexel was born in Bonners Ferry May 11, 1946, to Lawrence Drexel Pete Turner and Eileen Miller. The family lived on the Yaak and moved to Moyie Springs when Drexel was a young girl, attending Bonners Ferry schools, graduating Bonners Ferry High School in 1964 and going to work at the Moyie Store.
Bob owned the Moyie Store for 22 years, and the family made their home on the property until 1980, when he sold the store and retired, though he continued to do people’s taxes until 2015 from the home they moved to on the hill across Highway 95 overlooking the Moyie River Bridge.
In 1978, when Debbie was in the seventh grade, Drexel took a photography class and it wasn’t long before she turned pro, becoming the de facto photographer of Boundary County, shooting weddings, graduations, reunions, visits by state dignitaries and countless bouncing Boundary County babies in the beautiful baby contest that ran annually in the Bonners Ferry Herald for years. No one could elicit a more beautiful smile, young or old, than Drexel.
She and Bob loved to travel, taking cruises to Alaska and the Caribbean, visiting the White House and traveling the Great Northwest in their RV. Drexel loved to sew and keep her home while Bob was an outdoorsman, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling and pining to be outside anytime he was stuck indoors.
Bob and Drexel are survived by their daughter, Debbie, Glendale, Arizona, husband Loren and grandchildren Robert Schneider, Coeur d’Alene, Darby Biehl, Prescott, Arizona, and Bradley Biehl, Glendale, and Bob’s daughter Roxanne Hunter and husband Nyle, Portland, Oregon.
In July, Darby will be married, and soon after, Debbie will be moving home, she and Loren moving into the home overlooking the Moyie River Bridge, where they’ll spend their retirement years.
A luncheon will follow the Memorial Service at Bonners Ferry Eagle’s Aerie 3522, 7159 Second St., Bonners Ferry, where Bob and Drexel were long-time members. Debbie, Loren and the kids will be making pulled pork sandwiches, coleslaw, baked beans and potato salad and the ladies of the Eagle’s Auxiliary will make desserts. All are welcome.