Heidi S. (Giles) Clawson was born at the Wallace Hospital (on the bottom of Cedar Street) on April 19, 1962 and passed away March 21, 2026 at the Shoshone Medical Center in Kellogg.
She was born with a dislocated hip and, as a toddler, wore a brace to fix it, but it never kept her from running around with the King Street gang of kids.
Heidi loved people and different cultures. She spent some time in Japan after being invited there by one of the Japanese exchange students she got to know when they came to the Silver Valley.

As a family we spent many happy hours on the Oregon coast, we played board games, walked on the beach collecting shells and held hands jumping waves, these are the memories of her I cherish most.
Heidi loved children and worked in a day care in Coeur d’Alene, called Noah’s Ark and then later as a nanny.
She had an LPN degree from the North Idaho Community College and worked for a while in Home Health, caring for the elderly. She had a lot of compassion.

She also loved animals, especially dogs, if she were out in a park or walking somewhere she would always stop to talk to people with dogs, and oftentimes would take photographs of the dogs, which she would later enlarge, have laminated and made into perpetual calendars to give to the owners.
She loved talking to people and made a lot of friends wherever she went.

Being born into an artistic family, Heidi was blessed with an eye for composition and took beautiful nature photographs.
She appreciated, and collected artwork. She especially loved Native American art.
She was creative, loved to paint and make things from found objects, like driftwood.
She had a nice voice and loved to sing .She sang in the choir at church as a young person and later as an adult, led the choir for a while, She was in the Sweet Adelines for a while, after that she was quite taken by, and never passed up an opportunity to do Karaoke.
She loved to cook and try fancy recipes—she always had to get the exact ingredients the recipes called for, much to the chagrin of her sister who tried to tell her there were more accessible and less expensive, perfectly good substitutions.

Heidi was married to Brian Clawson (December 31,1993), until he passed away —coincidentally—on the same day (March 21st), only in 2014.
While Heidi never had children, she was very fond of her niece Romy Ehrsam and lavished her with attention & brought her special gifts from her travels abroad.

She had sparkling eyes and a beautiful smile.

In her last years she made some bad decisions and took some wrong & troubling detours, we are grateful she is now in a safe and peaceful place.

The family would like to thank PK Stremic who helped her through the troubled times, the kind staff at Shoshone Medical center who took good care of her in her last days. And also her life long King Street friend Kristi Gnaedinger & her friends from the Silver Hills Apartments who came and sat with her in the hospital so she wasn’t alone. Cancer is an ugly disease, but at the end she slipped away very peacefully surrounded by her family.
She is survived by her sister & brother in law Gretchen & Rick Ehrsam, her beloved niece Romy Ehrsam, her cousins and her many friends.
There will be a memorial service later in the summer. If you are inclined, please make donations to the Wallace Food Bank.