Jade Helen Ulrich, 12

Jade passed away suddenly on Saturday, March 6, 2010, near Libby. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday March 13, in the Commercial Building at the Flathead County Fairgrounds. Jade was born Aug. 10, 1997, in Whitefish to Lisa Ulrich-Ayidomihou (Bauer) and Justin Ulrich. She was a seventh grade student at Columbia Falls Junior High School. She had a great passion for horses. She loved riding her horse Babe and had been hoping to start learning barrel racing soon. She loved animals. She had planned to raise sheep this spring for 4-H. She enjoyed writing poetry, singing and being with her friends. She loved going camping with her family up at Spotted Bear. She was planning on taking hunter safety this year, so that she could also enjoy hunting with her family. Jade loved her family very much. She looked up to her big sister, Katie, and wanted to be just like her. She loved being with her Grampa Dan and her Grama Ramona. She loved her mother, Lisa, so very much. She loved her dear friends and neighbors, Julius, Jolene and Colby Sundheim, of Columbia Falls. She considered them her family. She was loved by so many. She was a sweet, vibrant, silly, lovable, young lady, who had so much ahead of her. Her family and friends will miss hearing her laugh and watching her dance, her cute, silly dances. We will all miss her so very much. Jade is survived by her parents, Lisa and Charly Ayidomihou of Columbia Falls, and Justin Ulrich of Issaquah, Wash.; big sister, Katie Ulrich; grandfather, Dan Bauer, of Columbia Falls; uncle, Chad, and aunt, Joanna Bauer, and their two children of Kalispell; aunt, Danielle, and uncle, Jeff Sanders, of Kalispell, and their three children; great-grandfather, Roy Bauer, and wife, Flossie, of Columbia Falls; great-grandmother, Lucile Shepherd; grandfather, Scott, and Debbie, Ulrich, of Palmer, Alaska; grandmother, Sandy, and Roger, Goodwin, of Kalispell; as well as special cousins and other relatives and friends. A fund has been established at the Whitefish Credit Union for donations.