Gaye Lvette LeGresley

1/1/1957 — 1/27/2014

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Gaye Yvette LeGresley, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, teacher and friend, passed away due to breast cancer on Jan. 27, 2014. A gathering to celebrate her life will be held in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley during the summer months. She is survived by her devoted daughters, Jessie Maucione and Katie Maucione; her loving husband, Nigel; and her five cherished brothers: Steve, Kris, Jason, Dan and Nate Jones and their families. She is also survived by her sons-in-law, Brandon West and Kyle West; and her grandchildren, Remi, Isa, and Adelle West and Enzo West; as well as her stepchildren, grandchildren, and great-grandchild, Tara LeGresley, Kirk and Traci LeGresley, Alissa, Brian, and Braden Wolff, and Treighton and Breanna LeGresley. She will be missed by numerous nieces, nephews, friends and former students as well.

Gaye was born in 1957 in Newport, Wash., to Jay Roy and Jean Butler Jones - the only daughter of six children. She loved music, to dance, ski and watch out for her little brothers. Gaye graduated from Clarkston High School, where her class voted her "Best Dressed" - impressive in part because she had a talent for sewing and made all of her own clothes. She then went on to college at Eastern Washington University. She completed a master's degree through the University of Idaho. Gaye was trilingual and taught French, Spanish and English for 19 years at Orofino High School. She worked rigorously to perfect her craft of foreign language instruction, often attending weeklong conferences on current best practices. She greatly expanded the worlds and minds of her students. Not to be slowed down by cancer, Gaye continued teaching for seven years after receiving her diagnosis. Cosmopolitan, ever-curious and open-minded, she loved to travel and learn new things, and was a voracious reader in three languages. She liked to ask her daughters as they grew up whether they wanted to be doctors or lawyers. Her oldest is a university professor and her youngest is a public defender - in her recent words, "it worked."

Of the many roles Gaye played in so many lives, perhaps her most joyous was grandmotherhood. She was beside herself with love for her grandchildren from the moments of their births. She was happiest in the company of children and had a special way with them. She loved spending time with her grandchildren who lived close by and spent her last year of life traveling to Spokane weekly, to assist with raising little Remi and even littler Enzo.

She will be missed and remembered by so many for her unending energy, strength, wit and generosity.

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