Family/Spouse: Margarethe Schimpf. Margarethe 1835 Germany; 1922Avon, MT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DOB: 1900 Montana Census has May 1864

On his daughter Marguerite's birth certificate his middle name was typed Cronk then crossed out and written in was Conrad. Same document gave his birth place as Adelaide, Australia

Was a Sheriff


Description: James Conrad Barden's father was James Henry Barnden b. 1833. I believe he died in a mining accident in Australia in 1864. JCB's mother was Margarethe Schimpf b. 1835 in Germany d. 1922 in Avon MT. She remarried a man named Trottmann and that is the name on her grave in Avon MT. JCB was in infant when James Henry died. Margarethe took the baby from Australia back to Germany and then at some point moved to Montana. I also saw a note re: JCB's daughter Mabel (my grandmother) She was indeed the county clerk for many years. However, her husband Edmond worked for the railroad and was not the sheriff. Mabel's father JCB was the one who was the sheriff.

James Violette

Family/Spouse: Bertha Sherman Alexander. Bertha Sep 1869 Bath, NJ; 1959Missoula, MT. [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.

Mabel Edmond Joseph Violette, I 17 Sep 1910Missoula, MT. Edmond (son of John Florent Violette and Anna (Annie) Beranek) 25 Jan 1886 Ladysmith, WI; 3 Jun 1945Polson, MT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DOB: Montana Birth Certificate
DOD: California Death Index

Marguerite Samuel Holben 20 Jan 1915Deer Lodge, MT. Samuel 25 May 1890 MI; 24 Feb 1971Santa Cruz, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DOB: Montana Birth Certificate
DOD: California Death Index

The 1940 Los Angeles Census has Carrie's last name as Jungers and she is listed as the head of the household

Carrie Arthur Joseph Beaubien 26 Jan 1914Missoula, MT. Arthur 17 Sep 1894 MT; 30 Nov 1972Los Angeles, CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carrie Louis Barker Utterback 8 Aug 1916Deer Lodge, MT. Louis 19 Jan 1889 Chico, CA; 15 Apr 1962Tacoma, WA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carrie Chester Lawrence Eare 4 Mar 1921Deer Lodge, MT. Chester 1898 Marquette, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Jungers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lippe pg 156

Sherman Josephine Dorothy Arpan [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DOB: Montana Birth Record, Lippe pg 156 has 1914
DOM: Montana Marriage Certificate
DOD: Find a Grave

James Joseph Violette
ST. IGNATIUS - James Joseph Violette, 91, of St. Ignatius, passed away Thursday, March 10, 2005, of natural causes at Millpond Assisted Living in St. Ignatius.

Jim was born July 23, 1913, in Deer Lodge, the son of Edmond and Mabel (Barnden) Violette. He grew up and attended school in Deer Lodge. After he graduated from high school, the family moved to St. Ignatius and he worked on the family ranch.

He met Gladys English, who lived on a neighboring farm, and they were married in November 1937. For 68 years they never left each other's side and had a love affair that never dimmed.

Jim's first job was in the Flathead Mine outside of Niarada. There he built their first house from railroad ties, roofed with sod, and handcrafted their furniture. After the nine years, they returned to the ranch on Post Creek and moved into a former stage stop that they remodeled and lived in for the rest of their lives.

During World War II, Jim worked in Oregon at the shipyards as a welder. In 1962 he began work for the University of Montana as night watchman. He moved to mechanic in the motor pool and ran that until he retired in 1975. Jim's legacy set the bar to live a deliberate, simple, self-sufficient life. Jim and Gladys proudly maintained and shared the bounty of their renowned, perfect, weedless garden with family and friends. A 60-pound hubbard squash was not uncommon. Jim was a talented, celebrated mechanic who was seldom paid, but always appreciated for his generosity. When machine parts were unavailable, he would manufacture what was needed. Jim was on a competition sharpshooter team. Additionally, as an avid hunter, he fed his family from hunting trips into the Bob Marshall Wilderness as well as his favorite hunting areas in the Little Thompson. He belonged to a flying club and enjoyed flying a Piper Cub into Schaefer Meadows to fish. Committed to his community, he helped organize a Civil Air Patrol and participated as a ham radio operator, taught hunter safety and was a rural volunteer firefighter. Finally, Jim and Gladys' kitchen was the centerpiece for their weekend pinochle gathering, where they warmly welcomed their dear friends. For all of these memories, Jim's smile and creativity will be missed.

Survivors include Jim's loving wife Gladys; brother Edmond Violette and wife Gloria of Boulder, Colo.; two sons, Bill and wife Jenny of Missoula, and Glenn and wife Patricia McLaughlin of Whitefish; daughter Betty of Bigfork; grandchildren, Mike and wife Cheryl and their children Max and Emily, Kris Violette of Missoula, Porter Dassenko and wife Anita of Belgrade and great-granddaughters Bridget and Natasha Dassenko; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Cremation has taken place.

Eratta: 291d) correct date of birth to 23-7-1913 Deer Lodge, Montana; correct date of marriage to 5-11-1937

James Gladys Pearl English [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lippe pg 156
DOD: Montana Death Certificate

Iris John Richard Borden 24 Dec 1936Kalispell, MT. John (son of James Lucky Borden, Borden and Maude Bertha Casey) 8 Dec 1916 Nirada, MT; 4 May 2003Missoula, MT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DOB, DOD: Social Security Index
DOM: Lippe pg 156 has 1953 Jacksonville, Florida; Florida marriage index has 1952, Escambia

WWII Muster Rolls has on 25 May 1943 Glenn as a Lieut. (jg) as a passenger on the USS Long Island.
LCDR Glenn Violette US Navy served in WWII and Korea.

Via email: My parents Glenn Mark and Mildred were married in Pensacola Fl on November 29, 1952. They were both in the Navy stationed there. Both veterans of WWII. Dad was a pilot and flew bombers out of Attu in the 1943 campaign. My mother was a flight nurse. Dad highest rank Commander. Mom's Lieutenant.

James Violette

Errata: 291c) correct date of marriage to 29-11-1952 Pensacola, Florida

Glenn (Frances) Mildred Walsh, Twin 29 Nov 1952Pensacola, FL. (Frances) (daughter of Thomas Francis Walsh and Philamone Young) 4 Mar 1921 Easton, NY; 15 Nov 2002Schuylerville, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DOB: Montana Birth Certificate
DOM: Lippe pg 156 & Montana Marriage Records
Electrical engineer who built radars around the world

Edmond Joseph Violette's (Ed) memorial service will take place on September 25, 2021 outdoors at Greenwood & Myers Mortuary in Boulder. He passed away on August 12, 2021 at the age of 90 in Missoula, Montana. He was the youngest of five children. He had three brothers Sherman, Glenn and Jim and his sister Iris. He married Gloria Johnson in Polson in 1950 starting a 66-year adventure. He moved to Boulder, CO in 1955 and was one of the first engineers hired into the newly built laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST). Ed was born in Deer Lodge on September 25, 1930. He spent his youngest years in Deer Lodge and Post Creek, Montana eventually ending up in Polson where he attended high school. He was a dedicated athlete playing football, basketball, track and golf. The rumor was that he never let classes get in the way of a pickup basketball game or an afternoon of golf. When his children got a look at his High School Yearbook, his Senior Picture was accompanied by the notation - "He was rarely found in study hall, but often located in the gym or on the field." He went on to participate in Football and Track at Montana State University and, despite his attention to sports, he graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering. He served in the Air Force where he applied his degree to research on high-frequency radio communications and the new field of computer-to-computer data transfer. After the Air Force, he applied these skills at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST). He finished his career with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) overseeing the installation of communications equipment at research stations around the Pacific. He would let his wife (Gloria) and children (Susan, Lynee, Dan and Joseph) know that he was off to some exotic location to help build a NOAA weather station. It might be Peru, Chile, Guam, Fiji, Samoa, the Marshall Islands, or the Aleutians - he was a million-mile frequent flier before that was a thing. After the children had grown, his wife Gloria would often accompany him on these months-long work trips to the far reaches of the Pacific - occasionally living in tents or in the village closest to the research site. He was a lifelong participant in sports - a fast-pitch softball pitcher on a Colorado State Champion team, and he helped organize teams to play football, basketball and softball in city leagues. He started playing tennis in his thirties, and went on to earn top 5 state rankings in the senior divisions. He supported tennis in Boulder serving on the Board of the Boulder Tennis Association, and he was a member of the Rocky Mountain Tennis Center for over 30 years. Upon retirement, he built a summer house on Flathead Lake just outside of Polson, MT doing most of the construction himself. He and Gloria used this house as a base of operations for adventures on the lake and in the mountains with their children and grandchildren. He is survived by daughters Susan and Lynee, and his son Daniel who are grateful for his gracious spirit and his example of a life lived in full.

Edmond Gloria Marie Johnson 7 Oct 1950Polson, MT. Gloria (daughter of Carl Magnuson Johnson and Maria Zinina) 20 Jan 1930 Polson, MT; Feb 2017Boulder, CO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]