Richard Mary Lee Fryberger. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John Iris Rose (Mary) Violette 24 Dec 1936Kalispell, MT. Iris (daughter of Edmond Joseph Violette, I and Mabel Evelina Barnden) 13 Mar 1916 Deer Lodge, MT; 2 May 1978Polson, MT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lippe pg 156
DOD: Montana Death Certificate

James Maude Bertha Casey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DOB: Lippe pg 86 & Wisconsin Birth Index
DOM: Lippe pg 86 & Marriage License
DOD: Lippe pg 86 & Montana Death Certificate

Farmer & Railroad Worker
His death certificate listed occupation as Railroad Employee.
His WWI Draft card listed Farmer as his occupation.

Mrs. John [Virginia Violette] Duax, city, received a telegram that her brother, Ed. Violette, had passed away Sunday, June 3, at Polson, Montana, where he had made his home for the past 38 years. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning. Deceased was born in Flambeau on Jan. 25, 1886. He worked for Chas. Berthiaume at one time, was well known to old-timers here.

Edmond Mabel Evelina Barnden 17 Sep 1910Missoula, MT. Mabel (daughter of James Conrad (Cronk) Barnden and Bertha Sherman Alexander) 30 May 1891 Avon, MT; 4 Apr 1980Boulder, CO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edmond J. Violette was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, in 1885. His parents were John Violette and Anna Berenek. He was the youngest of three children. His brother died when he was six years old and his father when he was fifteen. His two sisters, Virginia Duax and Melvina Hall, lived in Wisconsin and both are dead.
Ed Violette came to Deer Lodge in 1909 when the Milwaukee Railroad was being built, and he worked for the railroad for many years. We met in Deer Lodge when I lived with my family in the McBurney Hotel. We were married in Missoula, Montana in 1910.
I, Mabel E. Barnden, was born in Avon, Montana in 1891, and lived there until 1902, when the family moved to Deer Lodge. I went to schools in Avon and in Deer Lodge, and went to the College of Montana for two years. The College of Montana was one of the early day colleges and was closed down when State Colleges were established. It opened again, as a private school in early 1900. It was the oldest college in Montana and was located in Deer Lodge.
After our marriage we lived for short times in Ponderay, Idaho, Spokane and Lamont Washington. Sherman was born in Lamont in 1911. We moved back to Deer Lodge in 1912, and James, Iris, Glenn and Eddie were born there. All of them went to the Deer Lodge schools, and Sherman and James Graduated from the Deer Lodge High School.
In 1929, the family moved to St. Ignatius and lived on a ranch there. Glenn and Iris graduated from the St. Ignatius High School. Eddie graduated from Polson High School, after our move there in 1940.
Ed died in Polson in 1945. After his death I worked at the Court House, and in 1952, after James Harbert's retirement, I was elected Clerk of the District Court for two terms. I retired in 1959. James Harbert had been Clerk of the Court from the time Lake County was formed.
Our house in Polson was sold in 1959, and I went to California, and lived in Santa Cruz for six years. On a visit with Eddie and family in 1966, in Boulder, Colorado, we looked over the Golden West Manor, apartments for senior citizens, and have lived there ever since, July 1st, 1966.