Aileen Holm

    A funeral service for Aileen Holm will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Tuesday,
    June 2, 2009 at Reserve Lutheran Church in Reserve, Montana.  Pastor Johnette Grefe will
    officiate and burial will be in Eden Valley Cemetery near Reserve.  A luncheon will be served
    at the Reserve Fire Hall following interment.

    Aileen (age 92) passed away at the Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home in Plentywood,
    Montana early Monday, May 25th.  She was the oldest of six children born to Jean and Jack
    Rindy in Arnegard, North Dakota entering the world on February 4, 1917.  She must have
    looked a lot like her Dad, as she got the nickname Jackie.

    After graduating from Arnegard High School in 1935, she moved to Watford City, North
    Dakota and worked for the Fox family.  She met Peder Holm there, but WWII delayed their
    romance.  He went off to the Navy and she went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she
    worked in an ammunition factory making bullets.



Aileen and Pete were eventually married December 23, 1946 in Wolf Point, Montana.  Pete had already moved to Reserve, Montana and
began working at the First National Bank of Reserve.  Aileen followed later, and they lived there together until Pete passed away July 14,
2003.  Aileen moved to the Pioneer Manor in Plentywood in December 2004, then to LaCasa and eventually to the Nursing Home.

Aileen was always community minded.  She participated in and belonged to many activities and organizations over the years - Ladies Aid
and other Lutheran Church activities, Reserve's 50th Jubilee in 1961, plays at the Reserve Hall, being one of the original members of the
Reserve Bridge Club, and her beloved Learn-A-Bit 4-H Club, of which she was a leader for over 40 years.    The 4-H Club served lunches
at many baseball games, attended 4-H Congress in Bozeman, participated in 4-H Camps at Brush Lake and on and on.

Many young girls from the Reserve area back in the 1950-1980's learned to cook, bake, and can from Aileen.  Unfortunately her expertise
in these areas did not rub off on her daughter, and it appears as though that is the same case with her granddaughter.  (Lynelle said to
add in her defense that she did learn to sew.)   Aileen did get a daughter-in-law who is handy in the kitchen when she wants to be.

When Aileen moved to the Pioneer Manor, she said she would never cook again.  She had had enough.  And true to her word, she never
cooked again - not even microwave popcorn!  You could always put a smile on Aileen's face by suggesting a trip for soft ice cream and
coffee at the Dairy Queen, popping  some popcorn, having  a hamburger and fries or a pizza and beer.
Aileen loved socializing.  Coffee and cookies (homemade) with friends and neighbors morning and afternoon were the norm in
Reserve.  In later years, that morphed into coffee at the Reserve Bar and then the Post Office.  In her younger days, Aileen loved to dress
up, wearing high pointed heels and bright red lipstick.  (That part of Aileen did rub off on her daughter.)

Aileen bowled for many years and even tried golfing for awhile.  She liked to watch football on TV, but if a football game was not on,
baseball, basketball or golf would do.
Aileen attended many funerals in her life.  Her family kidded her about them being her social life.  But she was never afraid of death -
never afraid of dying.  And perhaps this passage that she had highlighted in her Bible is why:   1Thessalonians 4:13-18

One thing the Holm household never lacked was pets.  There were always one or two dogs and the occasional cat who arrived on the
doorstep.

She is survived by daughter Lynelle of Federal Way, Washington; son Brad, his wife Carol and their daughter Lindsey, as well as her
honorary granddaugher, Connie Anderson all of Reserve; brother Duane Rindy of Olympia, Washington; and several nieces and
nephews.

Aileen was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Peder; her son, Keith; her sisters, Lois and Cleo; and her brothers, Dupont
and John.

Fulkerson Funeral of Plentywood is in charge of arrangements.
. . . . in Memory of . . . .
1917 - 2009
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Lynelle and family,
Your mom was the best!  The best dill pickles in the world - Ida Nielsen came in second.  I learned so much from your mom - she will be
missed.  When I think of her I can't help but smile...

Myrna Aasheim
Boise, Idaho
grammamyrnie@yahoo.com
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