Mabel Evelina Barnden

1891 - 1980  (88 years)

• Name	Mabel Evelina Barnden
  Birth	30 May 1891	Avon, MT
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 Apr 1980	Boulder, CO
  Person ID	P3428	Violette Family
  Last Modified	3 May 2023

  
  

  Father	James Conrad (Cronk) Barnden,   b. 19 May 1864, Adelaide, Australia d. 1938, Deer Lodge, MT (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Bertha Sherman Alexander,   b. Sep 1869, Bath, NJ d. 1959, Missoula, MT (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F2572	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edmond Joseph Violette, I,   b. 25 Jan 1886, Ladysmith, WI d. 3 Jun 1945, Polson, MT (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	17 Sep 1910	Missoula, MT
  Children	1. Sherman Edmond Violette,   b. 10 Apr 1911, Lamont, WA d. 10 Jun 1948, Missoula, MT (Age 37 years)   2. James Joseph Violette,   b. 23 Jul 1913, Deer Lodge, MT d. 10 May 2005, St. Ignatius, MT (Age 91 years)   3. Iris Rose (Mary) Violette,   b. 13 Mar 1916, Deer Lodge, MT d. 2 May 1978, Polson, MT (Age 62 years)   4. LCDR Glenn Mark Violette, I,   b. 25 Apr 1918, Deer Lodge, MT d. 23 Aug 1996, Easton, NY (Age 78 years)   5. Edmond Joseph Violette, II,   b. 25 Sep 1930, Deer Lodge, MT d. 12 Aug 2021, Missoula, MT (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F1977	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.