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Gladys Boe
Funeral services for Gladys Morvik Boe will be held at 2:00 PM Thursday, January 22, 2009. Pastor
Ron Martin-Dent will officiate at the service at Plentywood Lutheran church; interment will be in
Plentywood Memorial Cemetery. Gladys died at Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home in Plentywood
Sunday evening, January 18, the day after her 94th birthday.
Gladys was born January 17, 1915 in Homestead, Montana; the 5th of 8 children of George and
Maria Waller. She grew up in the Homestead community and attended Medicine Lake High School
before she and her sister went to Mahnomen, Minnesota, where she graduated from high school.
As a girl, Gladys discovered music: she played the piano “by ear” before she was able to take 10
piano lessons, where she learned to play “by note!” She played for the First Lutheran Church in
Homestead and for school activities in grade and high school.
A musician all her life, she also sang in church choirs and for weddings, funerals, and other
functions, especially in vocal duet with Tom Darland. Even in recent years, she often found herself
humming familiar tunes to herself . . . often the 12th Street Rag! After high school, Gladys worked
briefly in California before returning to northeastern Montana.
She did office work in Plentywood for a number of years, then in Glasgow, at Johnson Plumbing and the Valley County Courthouse. She
married Emil Morvik at the Plentywood Lutheran Church August 22, 1954; they made their home in Plentywood, where Gladys worked at
Nelson Accounting until she retired – and then went back to work for a while longer, before “really” retiring! She and Emil enjoyed
traveling; favored summer destinations were Medora, North Dakota and the Kalispell/Glacier Park areas of Western Montana. Emil died
February 10, 1988, and July 12, 1991 Gladys married Arnold Boe. Their travels were limited by declining health, but they cared for each
other until their marriage ended. Gladys recently related that she “had a good life” with fond memories of growing up in her large family
and of activities in the Lutheran Church, especially music and teaching 3rd-grade Sunday School. Her nieces and nephews fondly
remember her home-baked cookies (chocolate chip!) and have always been “her kids, ” too.
nephews, nieces, and cousins. Her parents, husband, Emil Morvik; ex-husband, Arnold Boe, brothers Willard, Clifford, and Howard, and
sisters Berniece Schleper and Esther Brekke preceded her in death.
Fulkerson Funeral Home of Plentywood has charge of arrangements.
| 1915 - 2009 |
Remembering Gladys
Gladys is also survived by 17 nieces and nephews from her marriage to Emil Morvik. Emils sister Ethel (Morvik) Goulet was married to
Alfred Goulet of Scobey. They had 21 children, 4 have died.
Gerry
Scappoose, Oregon
richardmares@centurytel.net
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Alfred Goulet of Scobey. They had 21 children, 4 have died.
Gerry
Scappoose, Oregon
richardmares@centurytel.net
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