Solveig Alyssa Ensign, 32

Solveig Alyssa Ensign trusted Jesus as her savior.

On Jan. 21, 2011, at 12.15 a.m., “the uncreated life of God who indwelled her carried her home to be with him.”

Solveig was born July 22, 1978, at her parents’ home in the Swan Valley. She attended the one-room country school at Salmon Prairie and then moved to Bigfork when she was in the fourth grade. She graduated from Flathead High School and went to one year at Flathead Valley Community College.

She married Joseph Swenson. They had a beautiful baby girl named Nilla. Joe and Solveig parted ways soon after.

Solveig was an excellent jeweler, watercolorist and potter. She had a successful jewelry business called “way of the sun,” which was inspired by her Norwegian name, Solveig.

Solveig loved any outdoor sport. She was physically gifted and very graceful. She was a great skier, swimmer, and paddled with the Bigfork Outrigger team. She loved being at any lake in the summertime to bask in the sun.

Dancing and music were her passions, and she found enormous comfort in spending time with people of any sort. She loved to laugh. Her laugh was contagious to all who were around her.  Solveig had a strong will, courage and unconditional love for all.

Solveig made her home in Whitefish with her daughter and her partner, Tocatta. Solveig was a breath of fresh air and a ray of sunshine to everyone she met.

Solveig is survived by her parents, Dave and Linda Ensign of Ferndale; her sisters, Signe Ensign of Bigfork, Astrid Ensign of Portland and Liv Ensign of Kalispell; her brother, Haakon Ensign of Ferndale; her daughter, Nilla Swenson; her loving partner, Tocatta Spearman of Whitefish; and her grandpa, Eugene Nilsen of Henderson, Nev.

Memorials for Solveig may be given in the name of the Nilla Swenson college fund at Glacier Bank.

This is a great sorrow for Solveig’s family and friends, but it is also a day of rejoicing.  Solveig “is absent from the body and present with the Lord Jesus” (2 Corinthians 5:1-8).

There will be a graveside farewell at the Bigfork Community Cemetery at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, and a memorial gathering at 2:30 p.m. the same day at Buffalo Hill Funeral Home.