Robert Templin, a Post Falls developer, U.S. Army veteran and pioneer of North Idaho’s resort and tourism economy, died Tuesday morning at age 93.

The hotelier, economic development booster and vigorous promoter of Post Falls was known as a shrewd businessman, devout Christian and genuinely nice guy.

His daughter, Blythe Templin, shared the news on her Facebook page.

“My sweet dad passed away this morning at 1:37. He was an amazing person that can never be replaced,” she wrote. “I feel so lucky to have had him as my dad. He was kind, loving, gentle and a man of God. I have never met anyone who didn’t know him who didn’t love him.”

Templin opened the North Shore Resort Hotel on downtown Coeur d’Alene’s lakefront in 1965 and completed a seven-story tower in 1973. But in 1983 he lost control of the hotel, as well as 17 other hospitality operations he owned or managed as part of his Western Frontier hospitality company, in a hostile corporate takeover orchestrated by businessman Duane Hagadone. Hagadone later rebuilt the North Shore into the Coeur d’Alene Resort/Scott Maben, SR. More here.