Idaho County Free Press Grangeville, Idaho Submitted by: Kristy Taylor [muddypaw@onemain.com] Thelma Mae Fortin, 80 Thelma Mae Fortin, 80, of Escondido, Calif., died Aug. 31, 2004. She was born in Grangeville on Oct. 17, 1923, to Ahira and Iris Manring. She was raised and educated through high school at Grangeville. She completed her fist year of college at Northwest Nazarene College before marrying Vern Fortin, a career Navy serviceman, June 1, 1943.