Mrs. Gilmer was my 4th grade teacher. She always recognized her former students no matter how many years it had been since she'd last seen them or how much they'd changed.
One special memory I have of her class is when she read us the Little House on the Prairie series. The TV show was in it's earlier stages, so it made the books extra fun for us.
Obituary from The Independent Record 2/05/2010:
Jean (Curtiss) Gilmer, a lifetime resident of Basin and Boulder, passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 2, 2010, at the age of 81 at the hospital in Butte with her loving family by her side.
Funeral services wil be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 8, at the K and L Funeral Home in Boulder. Following interment, friends will gather at the Boulder Catholic Community Center. The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
Jean was born Jean May Curtiss on Nov. 1, 1928, in Thief River Falls, Minn., to James Kenneth "Ken" Curtiss and Maud (Evernham) Curtiss. They lived on Cataract Creek near Basin until Jean was 7, when, as she fondly remembered, "Mom said ‘Ken, we've got to move to town and get Jean in school or the law will be after us.' " Jean and her younger sister, Margy Belle, attended the two-room grade school in Basin and graduated from Jefferson County High School in Boulder.
Jean attended college in Dillon — she always wanted to be a teacher like her mother — but marriage and children interrupted her dream. She married Boulder-native Milton Oscar "Bud" Gilmer on Nov. 7, 1948, in Boulder, and had three children over the next four years: Milton Bruce "Bruce," Brenda Jean and Barbara Lee.
The family moved from Basin to Boulder in 1960. Jean was able to teach under a provisional license, first at the Boulder River School and Hospital and then kindergarten at the Boulder Grade School.
A second son, Steven Carroll, was born in 1961. She went back to school and graduated from Carroll College in Helena in 1974, the same year her daughter Barbara graduated from the University of Montana. She happily taught fourth grade in Boulder until her retirement in 1993.
She hosted many family holiday gatherings her family will always remember. Remembrances from her past were preserved as part of the Boulder Heritage Center oral history project.
She was preceded in death by her husband, sister and parents.She is survived by her son, Bruce and wife, Donna, of Boulder; daughter, Brenda of Helena; daughter, Barbara and husband, Stephen Shink, of Mead, Wash.; son, Steve and wife, Flora, of Soda Springs, Idaho; grandchildren, Ken, Sam and Ryan Gilmer (Bruce), Katie Shink (Barbara), and Chantelle, Lacey, and Brad (Steve); and great-grandchildren, Benjamin (Sam) and Mira (Ken).
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to the Boulder Methodist Church, P.O. Box 389, Boulder, MT 59632; the Boulder Basin Seniors Citizen Center, P.O. Box 669, Boulder, MT 59632, or a charity of the donor's choice.
One special memory I have of her class is when she read us the Little House on the Prairie series. The TV show was in it's earlier stages, so it made the books extra fun for us.
Obituary from The Independent Record 2/05/2010:
Jean (Curtiss) Gilmer, a lifetime resident of Basin and Boulder, passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 2, 2010, at the age of 81 at the hospital in Butte with her loving family by her side.
Funeral services wil be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 8, at the K and L Funeral Home in Boulder. Following interment, friends will gather at the Boulder Catholic Community Center. The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
Jean was born Jean May Curtiss on Nov. 1, 1928, in Thief River Falls, Minn., to James Kenneth "Ken" Curtiss and Maud (Evernham) Curtiss. They lived on Cataract Creek near Basin until Jean was 7, when, as she fondly remembered, "Mom said ‘Ken, we've got to move to town and get Jean in school or the law will be after us.' " Jean and her younger sister, Margy Belle, attended the two-room grade school in Basin and graduated from Jefferson County High School in Boulder.
Jean attended college in Dillon — she always wanted to be a teacher like her mother — but marriage and children interrupted her dream. She married Boulder-native Milton Oscar "Bud" Gilmer on Nov. 7, 1948, in Boulder, and had three children over the next four years: Milton Bruce "Bruce," Brenda Jean and Barbara Lee.
The family moved from Basin to Boulder in 1960. Jean was able to teach under a provisional license, first at the Boulder River School and Hospital and then kindergarten at the Boulder Grade School.
A second son, Steven Carroll, was born in 1961. She went back to school and graduated from Carroll College in Helena in 1974, the same year her daughter Barbara graduated from the University of Montana. She happily taught fourth grade in Boulder until her retirement in 1993.
She hosted many family holiday gatherings her family will always remember. Remembrances from her past were preserved as part of the Boulder Heritage Center oral history project.
She was preceded in death by her husband, sister and parents.She is survived by her son, Bruce and wife, Donna, of Boulder; daughter, Brenda of Helena; daughter, Barbara and husband, Stephen Shink, of Mead, Wash.; son, Steve and wife, Flora, of Soda Springs, Idaho; grandchildren, Ken, Sam and Ryan Gilmer (Bruce), Katie Shink (Barbara), and Chantelle, Lacey, and Brad (Steve); and great-grandchildren, Benjamin (Sam) and Mira (Ken).
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to the Boulder Methodist Church, P.O. Box 389, Boulder, MT 59632; the Boulder Basin Seniors Citizen Center, P.O. Box 669, Boulder, MT 59632, or a charity of the donor's choice.
Mrs. Gilmer was my 4th grade teacher. She always recognized her former students no matter how many years it had been since she'd last seen them or how much they'd changed.
One special memory I have of her class is when she read us the Little House on the Prairie series. The TV show was in it's earlier stages, so it made the books extra fun for us.
Obituary from The Independent Record 2/05/2010:
Jean (Curtiss) Gilmer, a lifetime resident of Basin and Boulder, passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 2, 2010, at the age of 81 at the hospital in Butte with her loving family by her side.
Funeral services wil be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 8, at the K and L Funeral Home in Boulder. Following interment, friends will gather at the Boulder Catholic Community Center. The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
Jean was born Jean May Curtiss on Nov. 1, 1928, in Thief River Falls, Minn., to James Kenneth "Ken" Curtiss and Maud (Evernham) Curtiss. They lived on Cataract Creek near Basin until Jean was 7, when, as she fondly remembered, "Mom said ‘Ken, we've got to move to town and get Jean in school or the law will be after us.' " Jean and her younger sister, Margy Belle, attended the two-room grade school in Basin and graduated from Jefferson County High School in Boulder.
Jean attended college in Dillon — she always wanted to be a teacher like her mother — but marriage and children interrupted her dream. She married Boulder-native Milton Oscar "Bud" Gilmer on Nov. 7, 1948, in Boulder, and had three children over the next four years: Milton Bruce "Bruce," Brenda Jean and Barbara Lee.
The family moved from Basin to Boulder in 1960. Jean was able to teach under a provisional license, first at the Boulder River School and Hospital and then kindergarten at the Boulder Grade School.
A second son, Steven Carroll, was born in 1961. She went back to school and graduated from Carroll College in Helena in 1974, the same year her daughter Barbara graduated from the University of Montana. She happily taught fourth grade in Boulder until her retirement in 1993.
She hosted many family holiday gatherings her family will always remember. Remembrances from her past were preserved as part of the Boulder Heritage Center oral history project.
She was preceded in death by her husband, sister and parents.She is survived by her son, Bruce and wife, Donna, of Boulder; daughter, Brenda of Helena; daughter, Barbara and husband, Stephen Shink, of Mead, Wash.; son, Steve and wife, Flora, of Soda Springs, Idaho; grandchildren, Ken, Sam and Ryan Gilmer (Bruce), Katie Shink (Barbara), and Chantelle, Lacey, and Brad (Steve); and great-grandchildren, Benjamin (Sam) and Mira (Ken).
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to the Boulder Methodist Church, P.O. Box 389, Boulder, MT 59632; the Boulder Basin Seniors Citizen Center, P.O. Box 669, Boulder, MT 59632, or a charity of the donor's choice.
One special memory I have of her class is when she read us the Little House on the Prairie series. The TV show was in it's earlier stages, so it made the books extra fun for us.
Obituary from The Independent Record 2/05/2010:
Jean (Curtiss) Gilmer, a lifetime resident of Basin and Boulder, passed away unexpectedly on Feb. 2, 2010, at the age of 81 at the hospital in Butte with her loving family by her side.
Funeral services wil be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 8, at the K and L Funeral Home in Boulder. Following interment, friends will gather at the Boulder Catholic Community Center. The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
Jean was born Jean May Curtiss on Nov. 1, 1928, in Thief River Falls, Minn., to James Kenneth "Ken" Curtiss and Maud (Evernham) Curtiss. They lived on Cataract Creek near Basin until Jean was 7, when, as she fondly remembered, "Mom said ‘Ken, we've got to move to town and get Jean in school or the law will be after us.' " Jean and her younger sister, Margy Belle, attended the two-room grade school in Basin and graduated from Jefferson County High School in Boulder.
Jean attended college in Dillon — she always wanted to be a teacher like her mother — but marriage and children interrupted her dream. She married Boulder-native Milton Oscar "Bud" Gilmer on Nov. 7, 1948, in Boulder, and had three children over the next four years: Milton Bruce "Bruce," Brenda Jean and Barbara Lee.
The family moved from Basin to Boulder in 1960. Jean was able to teach under a provisional license, first at the Boulder River School and Hospital and then kindergarten at the Boulder Grade School.
A second son, Steven Carroll, was born in 1961. She went back to school and graduated from Carroll College in Helena in 1974, the same year her daughter Barbara graduated from the University of Montana. She happily taught fourth grade in Boulder until her retirement in 1993.
She hosted many family holiday gatherings her family will always remember. Remembrances from her past were preserved as part of the Boulder Heritage Center oral history project.
She was preceded in death by her husband, sister and parents.She is survived by her son, Bruce and wife, Donna, of Boulder; daughter, Brenda of Helena; daughter, Barbara and husband, Stephen Shink, of Mead, Wash.; son, Steve and wife, Flora, of Soda Springs, Idaho; grandchildren, Ken, Sam and Ryan Gilmer (Bruce), Katie Shink (Barbara), and Chantelle, Lacey, and Brad (Steve); and great-grandchildren, Benjamin (Sam) and Mira (Ken).
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to the Boulder Methodist Church, P.O. Box 389, Boulder, MT 59632; the Boulder Basin Seniors Citizen Center, P.O. Box 669, Boulder, MT 59632, or a charity of the donor's choice.
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