Cascade County

Great Falls Tribune (MT) - July 27, 1999 - From a Friend of Free Genealogy

Elizabeth L. "Betty" (DeRooy) Maurer, 70, of 1104 19th Ave. S.W., died Sunday of cancer in a local hospital.  Visitation is from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday in O'Connor Memorial Chapel, with a vigil service at 7 p.m. Her funeral Mass is 11 a.m. Friday in Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, with burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Clinical Breast Cancer Research Department at Great Falls Clinic and to Camp Mak-A-Dream, P.O. Box 1450, Missoula, MT 59806. O'Connor Funeral Home is handling arrangements. She was born Nov. 13, 1928, in Great Falls. She attended Montana State University in Bozeman, the Colorado College of Education and the University of Great Falls. In 1950, she married Eden rancher Joseph "Bud" Maurer, and they lived on the family ranch in the Eden community until 1988, when they moved to Great Falls.  She was "Mrs. Homemaker" of the Montana State Fair in 1963. She was the first president of the Cascade County Cowbelles and in 1962 became president of the state Cowbelles organization, now known as the Montana Cattlewomen. In 1982, she was honored by the Sioux City Stockyards at the annual Montana Stockgrowers Association convention, for her contributions to the cattle industry. She served on the Great Falls International Airport Authority, the state fair board, the Extension Homemakers Council, Cascade County Historical Society board of directors and in many other civic and hobby groups. She was co-chairwoman of the Eden Historical Society, which published a community history, "A Century in the Foothills."
Survivors include her husband a son, David Maurer of Lakeside and a brother, Felix DeRooy of Julian, Calif.  She was preceded in death by a daughter, Wendy Maurer, in 1977.

Name of Deceased: Jascena Seggerman Stimpert

County Name: Cascade

State: MT

Newspaper: Woodford County Journal

Submitters Name: Amy Robbins-Tjaden

Obit: Mrs. Adam Stimpert died in Great Falls, Mont., on Monday [25 May 1959]

 

Mrs. Adam Stimpert, 86, died at Great Falls, Mont., on Monday morning and the remains will be brought to the Wilcox Funeral Home where short services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. J. R. Dirksen, and burial will be in the Minonk [Illinois] cemetery.  Visitation will be after 7 p.m. Saturday.

Jascena Stimpert was born on a farm near Dana, a daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Henry Seggerman on Nov. 23, 1872.  She was married to Adam Stimpert and they first resided at Benson and then moved to Minonk.  In 1912, they moved to Great Falls, Mont.  Mr. Stimpert passed away in 1941.

She is survived by two sons, Walter of Spokane, Wash., and Dr. Fred Stimpert of Detroit, Mich., and five grandchildren.  Mrs. Cecyl Prunty of Minonk, and Mrs. Newton Stauss of Fairbury, Nebr., are nieces.  She was a member of the Christian Church.
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