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MILDRED MONSON, Obituary

CHINOOK Mildred Monson, 85, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2002, of natural causes at a Bozeman rest home.

Vigil services will be 7 p.m. Tuesday in St. Gabriel's Catholic Church. Funeral Mass will be recited at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the church with burial fol-

lowing in Kuper Memorial Cemetery.

Mildred was born Dec. 29, 1916, at Chinook to Robert and Margaret Spencer. She was the granddaughter of Bear Paw Jack Griffin. The family lived southeast of Cleveland. When she was 3, they moved to a ranch in the Clear Creek area of the Bear Paw Mountains. Mildred attended the Diamond Bar School, which was a summer school that started in March. Some years, there were just three, five or seven months of school. It wasn't until she reached her upper grades that Mildred attended school for nine-month terms. Mildred spent her first two years of high school at Saint Matthews, a boarding school in Kalispell, and her last years at Chinook. She graduated from Chinook High School in 1935. She attended and graduated from Northern Montana College in 1937. After teaching three years in rural schools, she earned her Montana Life Certificate from the Montana State University in Missoula.

Mildred married Melvin Monson in 1941. They had three children.

Mildred returned to teaching at the Boldt School and remained there for 14 years. She was instrumental in starting the North Chinook Booster 4-H Club and was a leader for 30 years. After the Boldt School burned down, she took a position as supervising teacher at the Zurich School. She was there for eight years. She retired from teaching in 1976 and in 1978 became Blaine County superintendent of schools. She also served two terms as trustee of School District #10 in Chinook.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Melvin Monson; daughter, Marjorie; and sister, Sybil Corrigan.

Survivors include her sons, Victor (Tammi) Monson of Omaha, Neb., and Eugene (Linda) Monson of Bozeman; sister, Roberta Fastje of Wilsall; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be sent to Northern Montana Care Center in Havre or to a donor's choice.

Arrangements are by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook.

 

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