Esther Kuther, age 90, of Ferdinand, died Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, at the Grangeville Health and Rehab Center.
Esther Louise Kinzer was born Dec. 15, 1923, at Uniontown, the sixth child of Michael and Gertrude (Wittman) Greif Kinzer.
A few days later, her mother died, and Esther was taken in by her aunt and uncle, Mary and Henry Bosse, who lived near Keuterville.
After her dad married Katherine (Hanses) Madden, Esther came to live with them in Ferdinand.
After graduating from the eighth grade at St. Maurus Catholic School in Ferdinand, Esther worked at her father's farm west of town until the beginning of World War II, when she moved first to Spokane to work and then to Vancouver, Wash., where she lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Ed Mason. She got a job in the shipyards as a welder for several years.
After the war ended, she returned to Ferdinand and started working for a farmer in Fenn.
Cletus Kuther had a car and was also working in Fenn, so she rode back and forth with him, and this was the beginning of their courtship. That fall he said to her, "Well, we just as well get married." She was in favor, so they got married the morning of Dec. 10, 1947.
They didn't want a big wedding, so they chose the chapel in the grade school. There was a Mass there every morning at 8 a.m. for the school children. Besides the wedding party, there were just a few friends at the wedding, plus a whole bunch of the grade school kids.
Cletus and Esther settled in Ferdinand, where they raised their five children. At one time, she had four kids under the age of four, so she was a stay-at-home mom.
In 1969, Esther started working as a cook at St. Gertrude's Academy, which later became Prairie High School, a job she held until retiring in January, 1994.
After retirement, Esther enjoyed visiting, playing cards, bowling, and volunteering at St. Mary's Hospital, Second Hand Rose and Tiny Tots Learning Center, all in Cottonwood. She always enjoyed cooking, especially for family gatherings.
Esther was a member of the Assumption Catholic Church, the Christian Mothers, and the Get Together Club in Ferdinand, and the American Legion Auxiliary in Craigmont.
Survivors names omitted per findagrave policy.
Esther was preceded in death by a son, Ron, who drowned in 1980; brothers Don Kinzer and Ambrose (Shrimp) Kinzer; sisters Marie Frei, Carmelita Heitman, and Eugenia Mason; well as half-brothers Ben Kinzer, Al and Irvin Greif; and half-sisters Hilda Druffel and Henrietta Goeckner.
Lewiston Tribune March 2, 2014
Esther Louise Kinzer was born Dec. 15, 1923, at Uniontown, the sixth child of Michael and Gertrude (Wittman) Greif Kinzer.
A few days later, her mother died, and Esther was taken in by her aunt and uncle, Mary and Henry Bosse, who lived near Keuterville.
After her dad married Katherine (Hanses) Madden, Esther came to live with them in Ferdinand.
After graduating from the eighth grade at St. Maurus Catholic School in Ferdinand, Esther worked at her father's farm west of town until the beginning of World War II, when she moved first to Spokane to work and then to Vancouver, Wash., where she lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Ed Mason. She got a job in the shipyards as a welder for several years.
After the war ended, she returned to Ferdinand and started working for a farmer in Fenn.
Cletus Kuther had a car and was also working in Fenn, so she rode back and forth with him, and this was the beginning of their courtship. That fall he said to her, "Well, we just as well get married." She was in favor, so they got married the morning of Dec. 10, 1947.
They didn't want a big wedding, so they chose the chapel in the grade school. There was a Mass there every morning at 8 a.m. for the school children. Besides the wedding party, there were just a few friends at the wedding, plus a whole bunch of the grade school kids.
Cletus and Esther settled in Ferdinand, where they raised their five children. At one time, she had four kids under the age of four, so she was a stay-at-home mom.
In 1969, Esther started working as a cook at St. Gertrude's Academy, which later became Prairie High School, a job she held until retiring in January, 1994.
After retirement, Esther enjoyed visiting, playing cards, bowling, and volunteering at St. Mary's Hospital, Second Hand Rose and Tiny Tots Learning Center, all in Cottonwood. She always enjoyed cooking, especially for family gatherings.
Esther was a member of the Assumption Catholic Church, the Christian Mothers, and the Get Together Club in Ferdinand, and the American Legion Auxiliary in Craigmont.
Survivors names omitted per findagrave policy.
Esther was preceded in death by a son, Ron, who drowned in 1980; brothers Don Kinzer and Ambrose (Shrimp) Kinzer; sisters Marie Frei, Carmelita Heitman, and Eugenia Mason; well as half-brothers Ben Kinzer, Al and Irvin Greif; and half-sisters Hilda Druffel and Henrietta Goeckner.
Lewiston Tribune March 2, 2014
Esther Kuther, age 90, of Ferdinand, died Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, at the Grangeville Health and Rehab Center.
Esther Louise Kinzer was born Dec. 15, 1923, at Uniontown, the sixth child of Michael and Gertrude (Wittman) Greif Kinzer.
A few days later, her mother died, and Esther was taken in by her aunt and uncle, Mary and Henry Bosse, who lived near Keuterville.
After her dad married Katherine (Hanses) Madden, Esther came to live with them in Ferdinand.
After graduating from the eighth grade at St. Maurus Catholic School in Ferdinand, Esther worked at her father's farm west of town until the beginning of World War II, when she moved first to Spokane to work and then to Vancouver, Wash., where she lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Ed Mason. She got a job in the shipyards as a welder for several years.
After the war ended, she returned to Ferdinand and started working for a farmer in Fenn.
Cletus Kuther had a car and was also working in Fenn, so she rode back and forth with him, and this was the beginning of their courtship. That fall he said to her, "Well, we just as well get married." She was in favor, so they got married the morning of Dec. 10, 1947.
They didn't want a big wedding, so they chose the chapel in the grade school. There was a Mass there every morning at 8 a.m. for the school children. Besides the wedding party, there were just a few friends at the wedding, plus a whole bunch of the grade school kids.
Cletus and Esther settled in Ferdinand, where they raised their five children. At one time, she had four kids under the age of four, so she was a stay-at-home mom.
In 1969, Esther started working as a cook at St. Gertrude's Academy, which later became Prairie High School, a job she held until retiring in January, 1994.
After retirement, Esther enjoyed visiting, playing cards, bowling, and volunteering at St. Mary's Hospital, Second Hand Rose and Tiny Tots Learning Center, all in Cottonwood. She always enjoyed cooking, especially for family gatherings.
Esther was a member of the Assumption Catholic Church, the Christian Mothers, and the Get Together Club in Ferdinand, and the American Legion Auxiliary in Craigmont.
Survivors names omitted per findagrave policy.
Esther was preceded in death by a son, Ron, who drowned in 1980; brothers Don Kinzer and Ambrose (Shrimp) Kinzer; sisters Marie Frei, Carmelita Heitman, and Eugenia Mason; well as half-brothers Ben Kinzer, Al and Irvin Greif; and half-sisters Hilda Druffel and Henrietta Goeckner.
Lewiston Tribune March 2, 2014
Esther Louise Kinzer was born Dec. 15, 1923, at Uniontown, the sixth child of Michael and Gertrude (Wittman) Greif Kinzer.
A few days later, her mother died, and Esther was taken in by her aunt and uncle, Mary and Henry Bosse, who lived near Keuterville.
After her dad married Katherine (Hanses) Madden, Esther came to live with them in Ferdinand.
After graduating from the eighth grade at St. Maurus Catholic School in Ferdinand, Esther worked at her father's farm west of town until the beginning of World War II, when she moved first to Spokane to work and then to Vancouver, Wash., where she lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Ed Mason. She got a job in the shipyards as a welder for several years.
After the war ended, she returned to Ferdinand and started working for a farmer in Fenn.
Cletus Kuther had a car and was also working in Fenn, so she rode back and forth with him, and this was the beginning of their courtship. That fall he said to her, "Well, we just as well get married." She was in favor, so they got married the morning of Dec. 10, 1947.
They didn't want a big wedding, so they chose the chapel in the grade school. There was a Mass there every morning at 8 a.m. for the school children. Besides the wedding party, there were just a few friends at the wedding, plus a whole bunch of the grade school kids.
Cletus and Esther settled in Ferdinand, where they raised their five children. At one time, she had four kids under the age of four, so she was a stay-at-home mom.
In 1969, Esther started working as a cook at St. Gertrude's Academy, which later became Prairie High School, a job she held until retiring in January, 1994.
After retirement, Esther enjoyed visiting, playing cards, bowling, and volunteering at St. Mary's Hospital, Second Hand Rose and Tiny Tots Learning Center, all in Cottonwood. She always enjoyed cooking, especially for family gatherings.
Esther was a member of the Assumption Catholic Church, the Christian Mothers, and the Get Together Club in Ferdinand, and the American Legion Auxiliary in Craigmont.
Survivors names omitted per findagrave policy.
Esther was preceded in death by a son, Ron, who drowned in 1980; brothers Don Kinzer and Ambrose (Shrimp) Kinzer; sisters Marie Frei, Carmelita Heitman, and Eugenia Mason; well as half-brothers Ben Kinzer, Al and Irvin Greif; and half-sisters Hilda Druffel and Henrietta Goeckner.
Lewiston Tribune March 2, 2014
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