Constance Hamblin, 75, a lifelong Lewiston resident, died Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, at Lewiston's Life Care Center.

She was a granddaughter of the late Eugene L. Alford and great-niece of the late Albert H. Alford, two Texas brothers who founded the Lewiston Tribune in 1892.

Hamblin was a Life Care patient for the past three years. She had been in ill health, having suffered a stroke when she entered the University of Idaho in 1957 and never fully recovered.

She was born June 19, 1939, in Lewiston, the daughter of Eugenia Alford Hamblin and Homer W. Hamblin.

Hamblin graduated with academic honors from Lewiston High School in 1957. She was an accomplished musician and competitive swimmer. In later years, she had a passion for bowling.

For five decades, she was a summer resident at Gearhart, Ore., having a family condominium near the ocean. She sold the condominium a few years ago when failing health made travel too difficult.

She was the last surviving member of Lewiston's Hamblin family. She was preceded in death by a brother, Eugene A. Hamblin, co-founder and president of Lewiston's 4-K Radio Inc., at age 57 in 1990; a sister, Anne Hamblin Brunsell of San Francisco, owner of a retail travel accessory store, at age 58 in 1994; her mother, who died at age 90 in 1994; and her father, a Boise commercial photographer, in 1952.

A burial service was held at Lewiston's Normal Hill Cemetery. The Rev. Gretchen Rehberg, rector of Lewiston's Church of the Nativity (Episcopal), officiating.

Vassar-Rawls Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.