- Date Of Birth: December 9, 1929
- Date Of Death: August 15, 2022
- State: Idaho
On Monday evening, August 15th, 2022, Rachel (Cockerham) Knapp slipped peacefully into heaven surrounded by her family after 92 years in this world. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother who will be dearly missed by everyone who knew her. She loved people, art and entertaining and was a supportive, loving friend to many. She especially loved young people who seemed to sense her caring interest in them and their lives. Rachel loved to laugh and share stories with her family and friends. She remained curious and interested in everyone and everything to the end.
Although Rachel mainly grew up in Nampa, Idaho, she was born in Corning, California. Her parents moved to Nampa when she was a toddler. She attended the NNC teacher training grade school, the college junior high, the college high school and then also graduated from Northwest Nazarene College (now Northwest Nazarene University). Her mother, Ursula Cockerham, worked at NNC and her father, Clyde Cockerham, was a residential building contractor. He built many homes throughout the Nampa area. Rachel worked in NNC’s Registrar’s office while in college as an Art major and met her husband, Glenn Knapp, while attending NNC.
The family moved back to Nampa in 1972 when Rachel was hired as the Assistant Registrar at NNC where she worked for several years. In 1981, Rachel fulfilled a life-long dream of having her own business when she opened her Victorian gift shop, The House of Now & Then on 12th Avenue South in Nampa. After several years, she moved the business to Boise and renamed her shop Everything Nice. When her commercial space was no longer available in Boise, Rachel moved her shop back to Nampa and renamed her business The Victorian Shoppe.
Rachel would have said her most important accomplishment was being a prayer warrior.
It is important to note that Rachel and Glenn also have a son and daughter-in-law of the heart, Jerry and Eileen Shaffer and grandsons of the heart, Luke Shaffer and Jon Shaffer and his wife, Lisa and their family. They attended Jon and Lisa’s wedding in Charleston as Jon’s paternal grandparents of the heart and always viewed Jon and Lisa’s children as bonus great grandchildren. They often said they wanted a son. God gave them one in Jerry along with the blessing of his wonderful family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Clyde and Ursula Cockerham, her sisters, Esther Muffett, and Lois Anderson, her brother, Clyde Cockerham, Jr. and her daughter, Kay Knapp. She is survived by her husband, Glenn Knapp and her daughters, Vicki Knapp, of Nampa, Idaho and Raynette Gunning and son-in-law Miles Gunning of Meridian, Idaho and her youngest sister, Grace Peirson of Port Townsend, Washington as well as her grandchildren, great grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
