Kristie Bailey

KRISTIE MAE BAILEY (Age 42), daughter of Wes and Ardella Shafer Bailey of Newport, WA, passed away December 9, 2011 at her residence in Safford, Arizona. Born October 20, 1969 in Bellevue, WA, she lived in Issaquah, WA, for the first six years of her life. Then her family moved to Granger, WA, on a small farm. Kristie attended Roosevelt Elementary School and Granger Jr. High. Moving with her family again, she attended high school in Prosser, WA, where she excelled in her classes, played flute in the high school band, and enjoyed marching in the Spokane Lilac Festival. After graduating from Prosser High with honors, she attended college at BYU in Provo, Utah where she joined the marching band and did custodial work on campus. After a medical setback she graduated from BYU with a degree in General Studies and served a mission in Japan for her church (where she learned to make yummy potstickers). She was an avid reader, loved music, history and the outdoors, followed college football and basketball and had a great sense of humor Kristie pursued further education in Denver, CO, to become a paralegal. When the company she worked for closed, she decided to go to college in Denver, CO to become an elementary school teacher. She earned a BA in Education there. Her first job was on the Apache Indian reservation in White River, AZ, teaching second grade. After another medical setback, she moved to Safford, AZ, and accepted a job to teach kindergarten in nearby Ft. Thomas, AZ. Teaching became her passion. Kristie Bailey is survived by her parents in Newport, WA, her three brothers and their spouses, Kerry and Laura Bailey of North Bend, WA, Karl and Kristy Bailey of Dallas, TX, Kurt and Karen Bailey of Lewiston, ID, her sister and husband, Katrina and Trent Listello of RAF, Brandon, Suffolk (England), sixteen nieces and seventeen nephews, aunts Lyla (Charles) Bailey Hoisington of Usk, WA, Milly (James) Bailey Brewer of Riverton, WY, Edith (Clifford) Bailey Brewer of Mountain View, WY and uncles, Loren (Mary) Shafer, Eugene (Billie) Bailey and numerous cousins. A Funeral Service will be held Saturday, December 17, 2011, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Priest River, ID, at 11AM with interment to follow at the Newport Cemetery in Newport, WA.