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Derrelie Adams Cottrell passed away under hospice care on March 3, 2022 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She was born November 13, 1932 in Lewisville, Idaho to Faye Walker Poulson and Vance Poulson. She grew up in Idaho Falls attending O.E. Bell Jr. High and Idaho Falls Central High School. She married Ralph Adams in the early 1950's but they later divorced. She raised three children in Idaho Falls working as a bookkeeper at The Post Register and later for Gate City Steel, where she became the first woman to be promoted to the sales team. Derrelie loved hard work whether it be in the yard, roofing the house, or building her own fireplace. She was a terrific seamstress and taught herself...