Marie Weamer, obit. BIG HORN COUNTY

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Marie Weamer
 FORSYTH - Marie Weamer, 89, of Forsyth died Tuesday, May 5,
 1998, at her home.

 Marie was horn Sept. 18, 1908 in Baird, Wash., the daughter of Walter
 and Virgie Rice Bechtol. She spent her youth and attended schools in
 Washington and Oregon before coming to Big Timber with her family.
 She graduated from Sweet Grass County High School in 1926 and
 attended Billings Business College.

 On Dec. 17, 1929, she married Edward Weamer in Bozeman, they
 lived on a ranch 12 miles east of Big Timber, and they moved to Big
 Timber in 1937, coming to Forsyth in 1944, where she and her husband
 worked in Gambles Store. They opened Weamers Jewelry in 1947. She
 retired in 1981, and has lived in Forsyth since.

 Marie was a member of the Forsyth Federated Church in Forsyth, the
 Order of Eastern Star Bethlehem Chapter 27, serving as Past Worthy
 Matron, Forsyth Homemakers Club, and was active in the
 Democratic Party.

 She is survived by his son, Budd and his wife Karen Weamer of
 Forsyth; daughter-in-law, Cheryl Weamer of Billings; one brother,
 Walter Bechtol of Elmira, Ore.; one sister Virginia Pearson of Salem,
 Ore.; four grandchildren: Kim Morton and Kane Weamer both of
 Martinez, Calif., Karla Mahan of Santiago, Chile, and Rick Weamer
 of Billings; and five great-grandchildren; she was preceded in death
 by her husband, Ed in 1972; and a son, Don in 1981.

 Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 9, at the
 Forsyth Federated Church. Interment will be at 2 p.m. at the
 Mountainview Cemetery in Big Timber. Memorials may be made to
 the Federated Church or to the charity of ones choice. Beals Mortuary
 of Forsyth is in charge of the arrangements.