Andrea Grace Call, 52

Andrea Grace Call, 52, completed her lifespan at her Kalispell home in Ponderosa Estates surrounded by her family on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016. For the preceding four years she had undergone rigorous chemotherapy and other aggressive treatments for the brain tumor which ended her life.

She was born in San Jose, California on March 21, 1963 to Rudolph and Muriel Grace (Kappeler) Lorenz Jr., their second daughter and third child. She attended schools in San Jose and Eugene, Oregon where she complete her BA degree magna cum laude from the University of Oregon as an advertising/journalism major. She complete a year of post-baccalaureate studies in advertising design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, were she met her future husband, Gregory C. Call. They were married in Eugene on Sept. 5, 1987.

The couple remained in Pasadena for several years where Greg began his career as a commercial illustrator and Andrea took a position as a director in the marketing department of US Sales, a catalog sales company. When they moved to Kalispell in 1997, Greg continued his successful commercial illustration work represented by agents in California and New York City while Andrea accepted a post as an advertising director for three years at The Daily Inter Lake. She resigned her post there to care for their two children.

In the spring of 2012, Andrea completed her studies to become a real estate representative and join Keller Williams under the mentorship of Angie Friedner. This new venture was cut short the following November when she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Funeral services celebrating her life were held Feb. 25, 2016 at Johnson-Gloschat Funeral Home followed by a reception in the Alpine Lighting Reception Hall on Main Street. Friends and relatives remembered her sharp wit, sparkling sense of humor and warm outgoing personality.

Andrea was predeceased by her father, Rudolph Lorenz Jr. and her step-father, Ross Jackson.

She is survived by her husband, Greg and their children Ryan Alexander and Avery Grace; her mother, Muriel Jackson of New Braunfels, Texas; her brother John Lorenz and his wife, Rhonda of Valencia of Pennsylvania; her sister, Tracy L. Sheffield and husband Mike Sheffield of Wimberly, Texas; maternal uncle, Warren Kappeler and wife Elke of Andover of Massachusetts; paternal uncle Victor J. Lorenz and wife Beverly of Endwill, New York; Greg’s parent’s Ken and Carol Call of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, his brother Brad Call and wife Sharon of Glenwood Springs, Colorado; nieces, nephews, and numerous cousins.