A memorial service for Reho V. Wolfe, a longtime resident of the Salmon River area, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Lewiston. Burial will be at her cabin at Rhett Creek along the Salmon River.
Wolfe, a pioneer of the home school movement, died of causes related to age Thursday at her Rhett Creek cabin. She was 82.
She was born April 18, 1916, to John and Anna Fredlund Bergman at Denio, Ore.
She came to the Salmon River in 1945 with her husband, George. They spent their first winter at Crowfoot, north of Whitewater Ranch.
The following spring their cabin at Allison burned and they built a new cabin. Later they moved to Lewiston following the drowning of their son on Mallard Creek.
The marriage ended in divorce.
She returned to the Salmon River in 1957 in search of Morrow Hancock, who had advised her to file a claim on an abandoned mine at Gains Bar.
In 1958 she removed her seven children from the Lewiston public schools, taking them to a remote cabin. While the school district filed truancy charges, the Forest Service claimed she had no rights to the cabin. She fought both cases in court and the charges were dismissed.
She spent every possible moment at her wilderness home.
Her survivors include two sons, David Wolfe of Deer Park, Wash., and John Wolfe of Viola; four daughters, Carol Reid of Riggins, Sharon Wolfe of Clarkston, Marjorie Wolfe of Lewiston and Linda Karki of Renton, Wash.; a brother, Burton Bergman of California; a sister, Alga Longwith of Sheridan, Wyo.; 17 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two sons, Norman Wolfe and Bill Wolfe.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Noland-Blackmer Funeral Home at Grangeville.
