Obituary: Meadows, Amanda Fabricius
Age 105
Her passing was just 24 days short of her 105th birthday.
She was born February 8, 1910 in Harrison, ID.
Amanda was the youngest of nine children born to Hans and Ellen Fabricius who had immigrated to the US from Denmark.
She was very proud of her Danish heritage.
Her family ran a dairy farm on Coeur D’Alene Lake and she learned to work hard at an early age, delivering milk from a milk wagon before school every day.
Amanda attended school at East Point and Harrison, ID, graduating at 16.
Following graduation she drove a Model T Ford alone to Iowa where she obtained her Normal School Teaching Degree.
She taught all grades in a one room schoolhouse during the depression.
Amanda later earned her Beautician’s Degree and moved to Spokane where she opened a beauty shop in the Ridpath Hotel called the Mirror.
Amanda married the love of her life, Clark “Buck” Meadows in 1938.
They had known each other since the 5th grade.
They were married for 63 years, until his passing in 2001.
She became a stay at home mom when they had their two daughters.
Kathryn Ann was born in 1943 and Susan Lynn in 1947.
Amanda was a devoted wife and mother.
She loved to cook, garden and help care for others.
She has been an active member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church since 1950 and has belonged to the Jane Jefferson Democratic Woman’s group for many years.
She was proceeded in death by her husband Buck, daughter Sue Ellen, her parents and all her siblings.
Amanda is survived by her daughters Kathy (Larry) Quaintance and Susan (Ned) Fox of Spokane and three grandsons, Michael (Carrie) Fox of Oakland, CA, and Shawn Quaintance and Travis Fox, both of Spokane.
The family would like to express a heartfelt thanks to the staff of Touchmark and Hospice House South.
Memorial services will be held at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church - 316 E. 24th Ave Spokane, WA (24th and Grand) - on Thursday, January 29 at 1:00 pm.
The service will be followed by refreshments and a Celebration of her Life.
Donations in her memory may be made to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church.