obituary The Mountain Mail, Salida, Colorado, about 8-14-2001
Bunny Heister Muir died Sunday, Aug 12 at Columbine Manor.
She was born Marcy 15, 1913, in a log cabin built by her father, Gil Heister, who settled in Colorado in 1881. He was a rancher, railroader, and cement contractor and was said to have an uncanny ability to hunt and track game.
Mrs Muir was raised in Salida. She lost her mother at the age of 7, but her father devoted himself to raising his seven children after Lena's death and as Mrs Muir grew up, she spent a lot of time with her father, much of it on horseback in the hills around Salida and at their homestead east of Salida.
She rode in rodeos beginning at age 17. A family story is of Bunny riding her horse into a local saloon one afternoon in 1930. The tavern-keeper, a lady name Nellie, smiled and said, "Come on in bunny, and I'll pour you a double shot.".
The 1930s brought graduation from high school, the depression, work at the hospital, marriage to Fritz Owen, and her first daughter Jackie.
During the early 1950s Bunny divorced, and moved to Longview, Wash, for two years where she married Bob Muir Whom she met at a rodeo dance. Her second daughter, Buffy, was born.
Bob was a cowboy with genuine charm, although he had horrible war experiences during World War II including many landings on Pacific Islands under heavy fire, which took their toll on him.
They returned to Salida in 1954. Bob died in 1969 and Mrs Muir worked at the hospital in Salida until she retired in 1978.
She continued to live in the house in which she was born and took daily 3 1/2 mile walks, snappily dress, dispensing- as she ran into friends and acquaintances- her favorite jokes of the day.
She was well-known for her storytelling and she enjoyed the people in Salida, as they did her.
Mrs Muir was young at heart. At age 82, she walked about 8 miles from the family homestead at 8,600 feet to her home in Salida. At 83, she fractured a rib snowmobiling outside of Leadville. At 84, she went river rafting down Brown's Canyon, and won her age group award for th 5 K walk at Howard.
She is survived by two daughter, Jackie Gann of Salida and Buffy of Costa Mes, Calif; four grandchildren including Rick Gann of Salida and eleven great grandchildren.
Services will be Friday at 10 am at her home, 331 Oak Street, Salida. In lieu of flowers, people are asked to make contributions to the Disabled American Veterans.
Bunny Heister Muir died Sunday, Aug 12 at Columbine Manor.
She was born Marcy 15, 1913, in a log cabin built by her father, Gil Heister, who settled in Colorado in 1881. He was a rancher, railroader, and cement contractor and was said to have an uncanny ability to hunt and track game.
Mrs Muir was raised in Salida. She lost her mother at the age of 7, but her father devoted himself to raising his seven children after Lena's death and as Mrs Muir grew up, she spent a lot of time with her father, much of it on horseback in the hills around Salida and at their homestead east of Salida.
She rode in rodeos beginning at age 17. A family story is of Bunny riding her horse into a local saloon one afternoon in 1930. The tavern-keeper, a lady name Nellie, smiled and said, "Come on in bunny, and I'll pour you a double shot.".
The 1930s brought graduation from high school, the depression, work at the hospital, marriage to Fritz Owen, and her first daughter Jackie.
During the early 1950s Bunny divorced, and moved to Longview, Wash, for two years where she married Bob Muir Whom she met at a rodeo dance. Her second daughter, Buffy, was born.
Bob was a cowboy with genuine charm, although he had horrible war experiences during World War II including many landings on Pacific Islands under heavy fire, which took their toll on him.
They returned to Salida in 1954. Bob died in 1969 and Mrs Muir worked at the hospital in Salida until she retired in 1978.
She continued to live in the house in which she was born and took daily 3 1/2 mile walks, snappily dress, dispensing- as she ran into friends and acquaintances- her favorite jokes of the day.
She was well-known for her storytelling and she enjoyed the people in Salida, as they did her.
Mrs Muir was young at heart. At age 82, she walked about 8 miles from the family homestead at 8,600 feet to her home in Salida. At 83, she fractured a rib snowmobiling outside of Leadville. At 84, she went river rafting down Brown's Canyon, and won her age group award for th 5 K walk at Howard.
She is survived by two daughter, Jackie Gann of Salida and Buffy of Costa Mes, Calif; four grandchildren including Rick Gann of Salida and eleven great grandchildren.
Services will be Friday at 10 am at her home, 331 Oak Street, Salida. In lieu of flowers, people are asked to make contributions to the Disabled American Veterans.
obituary The Mountain Mail, Salida, Colorado, about 8-14-2001
Bunny Heister Muir died Sunday, Aug 12 at Columbine Manor.
She was born Marcy 15, 1913, in a log cabin built by her father, Gil Heister, who settled in Colorado in 1881. He was a rancher, railroader, and cement contractor and was said to have an uncanny ability to hunt and track game.
Mrs Muir was raised in Salida. She lost her mother at the age of 7, but her father devoted himself to raising his seven children after Lena's death and as Mrs Muir grew up, she spent a lot of time with her father, much of it on horseback in the hills around Salida and at their homestead east of Salida.
She rode in rodeos beginning at age 17. A family story is of Bunny riding her horse into a local saloon one afternoon in 1930. The tavern-keeper, a lady name Nellie, smiled and said, "Come on in bunny, and I'll pour you a double shot.".
The 1930s brought graduation from high school, the depression, work at the hospital, marriage to Fritz Owen, and her first daughter Jackie.
During the early 1950s Bunny divorced, and moved to Longview, Wash, for two years where she married Bob Muir Whom she met at a rodeo dance. Her second daughter, Buffy, was born.
Bob was a cowboy with genuine charm, although he had horrible war experiences during World War II including many landings on Pacific Islands under heavy fire, which took their toll on him.
They returned to Salida in 1954. Bob died in 1969 and Mrs Muir worked at the hospital in Salida until she retired in 1978.
She continued to live in the house in which she was born and took daily 3 1/2 mile walks, snappily dress, dispensing- as she ran into friends and acquaintances- her favorite jokes of the day.
She was well-known for her storytelling and she enjoyed the people in Salida, as they did her.
Mrs Muir was young at heart. At age 82, she walked about 8 miles from the family homestead at 8,600 feet to her home in Salida. At 83, she fractured a rib snowmobiling outside of Leadville. At 84, she went river rafting down Brown's Canyon, and won her age group award for th 5 K walk at Howard.
She is survived by two daughter, Jackie Gann of Salida and Buffy of Costa Mes, Calif; four grandchildren including Rick Gann of Salida and eleven great grandchildren.
Services will be Friday at 10 am at her home, 331 Oak Street, Salida. In lieu of flowers, people are asked to make contributions to the Disabled American Veterans.
Bunny Heister Muir died Sunday, Aug 12 at Columbine Manor.
She was born Marcy 15, 1913, in a log cabin built by her father, Gil Heister, who settled in Colorado in 1881. He was a rancher, railroader, and cement contractor and was said to have an uncanny ability to hunt and track game.
Mrs Muir was raised in Salida. She lost her mother at the age of 7, but her father devoted himself to raising his seven children after Lena's death and as Mrs Muir grew up, she spent a lot of time with her father, much of it on horseback in the hills around Salida and at their homestead east of Salida.
She rode in rodeos beginning at age 17. A family story is of Bunny riding her horse into a local saloon one afternoon in 1930. The tavern-keeper, a lady name Nellie, smiled and said, "Come on in bunny, and I'll pour you a double shot.".
The 1930s brought graduation from high school, the depression, work at the hospital, marriage to Fritz Owen, and her first daughter Jackie.
During the early 1950s Bunny divorced, and moved to Longview, Wash, for two years where she married Bob Muir Whom she met at a rodeo dance. Her second daughter, Buffy, was born.
Bob was a cowboy with genuine charm, although he had horrible war experiences during World War II including many landings on Pacific Islands under heavy fire, which took their toll on him.
They returned to Salida in 1954. Bob died in 1969 and Mrs Muir worked at the hospital in Salida until she retired in 1978.
She continued to live in the house in which she was born and took daily 3 1/2 mile walks, snappily dress, dispensing- as she ran into friends and acquaintances- her favorite jokes of the day.
She was well-known for her storytelling and she enjoyed the people in Salida, as they did her.
Mrs Muir was young at heart. At age 82, she walked about 8 miles from the family homestead at 8,600 feet to her home in Salida. At 83, she fractured a rib snowmobiling outside of Leadville. At 84, she went river rafting down Brown's Canyon, and won her age group award for th 5 K walk at Howard.
She is survived by two daughter, Jackie Gann of Salida and Buffy of Costa Mes, Calif; four grandchildren including Rick Gann of Salida and eleven great grandchildren.
Services will be Friday at 10 am at her home, 331 Oak Street, Salida. In lieu of flowers, people are asked to make contributions to the Disabled American Veterans.
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