BILLINGS-Former
Saco resident Mollie Emmons, age 91, died May 18, 2011, at Aspen
Meadows retirement home in Billings, MT of natural causes.Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M., Tuesday, May 24 at the Kirkwood Memorial Chapel. Interment will be in the Grandview Cemetery in Saco. Condolences for the family may be left at www.kirkwoodfuneralhome.com. Kirkwood Funeral Home of Malta is in charge of arrangements.
Mollie was born north of Saco, in a region known as Corral Coulee, to Pedar and Anne Bakke, who had homesteaded there from Norway. After graduating high school, Mollie found work around the Saco area. She eventually moved to Seattle where she was employed by Wells Fargo as a payroll clerk. While there in Seattle, she met her future husband, Harold, who was a hospitalized Marine, after being wounded in the South Pacific, during WW II. After their marriage, the couple moved back to Saco in 1952. There, they worked on what was now more than the family homestead with Mollie's brother, Helmer Bakke. It was during the 50's that Mollie and Harold moved into the town of Saco and Harold became the town's sole electrician and plumber while Mollie worked at being a house wife and mother to her only child, Phillip.
Mollie enjoyed attending to her flowers and garden in the summer time and sewing and crocheting during the long winter months. Later in life, she discovered she had a bit of a talent for painting artwork and painted a number of attractive pictures over the years. On her 90th Birthday, a fall broke her hip and took away her Independence she had held since Harold's passing in 1982.
Mollie was preceded in death by her sister Mildred, her parents Pedar and Anne, her brother Helmer, and her husband Harold. She is survived by her son Phillip and Brenda.
Phillip and Brenda would like to extend a special thanks to the staff of Aspen Meadows for the excellent care and compassion given Mollie during her stay there.
Guest Book
From: Mona Grue Maelen
Our condolences to Phillip and Brenda.
R.I.P Mollie
From: Steven DePuydt
Phil: I'm so sorry. Though this was inevitable, it doesn't make things any easier. You have friends who care and love you. Friends who are here for you when family can't be. Your Mom and Dad are proud of you and your accomplishments. May this knowledge lift you when you feel alone. I have fond memories of your parents and reflect upon them often. You know, they are never far away.
From: From Marit and Jarle.
Dear Brenda and Phillip.
Please receive our condolences from The Brennbakken and Kindølshaug families in Norway.
We are sorry that none of us are able to be present in Malta to morrow to take farwell with Mollie.Rest in peace Mollie.
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