2 J The Lovell Chronicle I November 17, 2011
Louise
McArthur
Feb. 13, 1915-
Nov. 9, 2011
Louise Welling McAr-
thur, 96, died Wednesday,
Nov. 9, at the New Hori-
zons Care Center in Lovell.
She was born Feb. 13, 1915,
in Cowley. She was born to
Alice Lyman Welling, who
was 35 years old, and Wil-
ford Woodruff Welling, 38.
Louise was the seventh of
14 children. She was edu-
cated in Cowley schools.
Louise was married
in 1935 to Robert Andrew
Crow. They moved to Deav-
er in 1936. She later mar-
ried Willie Hyman Edgar in
1950, and after his death,
was married to Kenneth
Grant McArthur in 1985.
They resided in Meetee-
tse for 13 years, and after
his death, she moved back
to Deaver to live the rest
of her life. Her husbands
were oil field workers who
took her into Canada and
the western states.
She loved living; the
changing of the seasons
gave her much happiness.
The rain, wind, and sun
challenged her to do bet-
ter. She loved flowers of
all colors, and she especial-
ly loved bold ones. Louise
loved gardening; she found
joy in watching tender
plants, peppers, cabbage
and tomatoes struggle in
the south window to grow.
She looked forward to fall
when she could pick vege-
tables and flowers to share
with neighbors and friends.
She loved to sew and make
things to wear. Her home
was made pleasant with the
rugs and things she could
make. Embroidery she did,
pictures of flowers and wild
life. She loved her home,
a place of refuge where
she could incorporate col-
or and her originality. She
enjoyed solitude. When
her husband was away at
work she hoed, mowed and
raked as if she could make
heaven on earth.
Louise loved the teach-
ings of the church. She
knew the gospel to be true.
Many were her experienc-
es to prove the efficacy of
prayer. She thought the
gift of the Holy Ghost, the
greatest gift that could be
given to mankind, a per-
sonage of spirit who could
guide, direct aright, re-
ward for obedience, bring
forgotten things to remem-
brance, find things, pro-
tect from danger, reward
for obedience and to pun-
ish for disobedience. Lou-
ise wasn't always obedi-
ent.
All in all she had a
happy life. She liked her
neighbors and loved her
husbands three, because
they were what they were.
She had friends and they
were wonderful.
She was rewarded
to have Kenneth Grant
McArthur take her to
Meeteetse to live for 13
years. He protected her,
encouraged her and un-
derstood her peculiar per-
sonality. He served her
in every way a man could
serve a woman.
Louise died with love
for her family and friends.
She looked with mixed
feelings toward meeting
those who had gone ahead,
for she of all people knew
she could have done more
in this life to receive the
reward she might get in
heaven.
She served as a Relief
Society president in Deav-
er and Meeteetse. She also
drove the school bus for 22
years, 18 of those years in
Deaver, four in Big Piney.
Funeral services were
held on Monday, Nov.14 at
2 p.m. at the LDS Church
in Cowley. Viewing and
visitation were held one
...... hour prior to services at
the church. Burial was in
the Deaver-Frannie Cem-
etery. Haskell Funer-
al Home in Lovell was in
charge of arrangements.
Online condolences can be
sent to the family at www.
haskellfuneralhome.com.
John Clark
Meek
March 31, 1938-
Nov. 10, 2011
John Clark Meek was
born March 31, 1938, to
Edmund "Tufty" Meek and
Wilma Marguerite Prescott
in Longview, Wash. He died
at North Big Horn Hospital
on Thursday, Nov. 10, with
his wife Drue, his son John,
his daughter Becky and
granddaughter Danelle by
his side in vigil. He was 73.
John had many nick-
names including "Doc,"
"The Good Doctor," "Big
Guy" and "Doctor, Doctor."
He has two brothers, Ed-
mund Clay Meek and Mi-
chael Meek.
John was always an en-
ergetic person with a "Type
A" personality. He never
stopped. He just kept go-
ing. He slept perhaps four
hours a night, worked two
or three jobs at all times,
had curiosity and joy of
with his aunts and grand-
mas and was raised in the
Assembly of God Church,
which was also called Holy
Rollers. He went to church
faithfully and watched their
process. One day he was out
working on his old car and a
Fuller Brush man stopped
to sell his mother supplies
and later came out to the
house to talk to John. The
man was Andrew H. Hiney,
a stake missionary for the
LDS Church and John be-
came interested and prom-
ised to go to church the fol-
lowing Sunday. This act
changed the course of ac-
tion in his life, his lifestyle
and his friends. He was 14
when he was baptized by
David Smith.
He loved his church
and held many positions
during his lifetime. He
was a Boy Scout leader for
16 years and his other po-
sitions have been Sunday
school president, Sunday
school teacher, elder quo-
rums president and high
priest group leader for the
Big Horn Stake. He was in
the bishopric as first and
second counselor. He had a
strong testimony of the gos-
pel.
John served a mission
for the church in the North
Central States, which in-
cluded Minnesota, Eastern
Dakota, Manitoba and On-
tario, Canada. After his
mission he returned to BYU
to finish his education and
there he met a lovely young
red-headed woman named
Donna Renquist and they
married in 1960. Donna
taught elementary school
so John could finish his de-
gree, which was sociology,
with a major in criminal
science and a minor in psy-
chology. During this time,
he went to school, then
worked cleaning cupo-
los, furnace chimneys and
boilers in Provo. He also
worked at a gas station and
got up at 3 a.m. to milk 78
cows, which paid the rent,
and the family always had
life. His personality w.as++, plenty of milk, cream and
boisterous, his body was
large and strong, he talk-
ed fast, was a brilliant man
and was fast and quick.
When John was 16, his
family moved to Othello,
Wash., where he was very
popular, played football,
became the class president
during his senior year and
graduated from Othello
btter. John also helped
Donna collect bottles to sell,
but made her go in the store
to cash them in for a bit of
money.
During their marriage
the couple had seven chil-
dren: Becky, Margie, John,
Tom, Ted, Michael and
Lori Jo. During that time
John was earning his de-
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Marjorie
Louise
'Cookie'
Henson
July 15, 1944-
Nov. 14, 2011
A memorial service for
Marjorie Louise "Cookie"
Henson will be held at 10
a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at
the First Baptist Church
in Basin. Cookie, 67, died
Monday, Nov. 14, at South
Big Horn County Criti-
cal Access Hospital after
a courageous battle with
cancer.
She was born July 15,
1944, in Huntington Park,
Calif., the daughter of
James William and Mar-
jorie Louise Schroer Wag-
goner. She grew up in Cali-
fornia and graduated from
Granite Hills High School
at E1 Cajon. She furthered
her education by taking
classes at Grossmont Col-
lege, Cuyamaca College
and the University of Wyo-
ming.
Cookie married Jay
Henson Feb. 17, 1980, in
Spring Valley, Cal. They
moved to Basin in May
1992 and made their home
on Orchard Bench Road.
Cookie was a nurse's
assistant and obtained her
paraprofessional certifica-
tion. She worked for School
Dist. No. 4.
She loved her family
and enjoyed spending time
with her grandchildren.
She loved animals.
Cookie was a member
of the First Baptist Church
in Basin; was a volunteer
in the Big Brothers/Big
Sisters program and was
involved with the Body
and Spirit therapeutic rid-
ing program.
Her parents, her broth-
er Tom and her grandson,
Bobby Yuen, preceded her
in death.
She is survived by her
husband Jay Henson of Ba-
sin; her daughter, Donna
Koering of Greybull; two
sons, Michael Koering of
Oregon and Clayton Hen-
son of Lovell; three broth-
ers and sisters-in-law,
Jim and Linda Waggoner
of Temecula, Calif., Tim
and Wanda Waggoner of
Brunswick, Ga., and Mark
and Eliana Waggoner of
Bogota, Columbia; her sis-
ter, Julie Birchfield of Ba-
sin; nine grandchildren
and one great-grandson.
A luncheon for family
and friends will be held at
the First Baptist Church
gymnasium immediate-
ly following the memorial
service.
love of photography was in-
stilled in him when he was
in high school, and all his
life he took pictures, had a
dark room and spent many
hours developing film.
John's love of flying be-
gan in his younger years
when his dad built him an
airplane swing with three
automobile springs, and the
swing hung between the ga-
rage and the house and he
spent hours "flying" that
plane his dad made. He
earned his pilot's license
quite young and was a spray
pilot during the summer
months when he lived in
Firth, Idaho, and was work-
ing as a sixth-grade teacher
and raising his family. He
owned many planes during
his lifetime and flew them
not only to work but al-
most every day. He wrecked
plenty of them, too.
John went to church
Louell
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of God
Church
310 Idaho flue., Louell
Services
Sunday School -- 9:45 am
Morning Worship - 10:50 am
Sunday Night - 6:30 pm
Wed. Bible Study - 7 pm
Rev. Dan Jarvis
548-7105
gree in education. He was
a sixth-grade teacher in
Firth, principal there for
seven years, and worked
for his master's degree in
elementary administration
certification.
John achieved two doc-
torates while he worked
as a teacher and a prin-
cipal. He flew to Logan,
Utah, to take his classes
after school and earned his
doctorate in business ad-
ministration. He earned his
second doctorate in Cali-
fornia. He also established
his business as a car deal-
er, calling it The Flying
"M." He enjoyed buying and
selling cars all his life.
He became a super-
intendent in Cowley,
Coalville, Idaho, Mackay,
Idaho and Midvale, Ida-
ho. He loved education and
his work. He was the man
in charge, either was loved
or disliked by his school
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boards and people, and he
was a fine educator. He
slept very little, remod-
eled homes, built homes at
night; he loved life, loved
to travel and had energy
and strength of body and
spirit. And always he flew
planes. They were his ma-
jor love in life.
John wrecked his
dream plane, a Bonanza, in
1995, was in a coma for four
months, broke every bone in
his body, has had many sur-
geries and somehow came
out of it after spending a
year in the hospital. He was
forced to retire because the
wreck diminished his abili-
ties to function as an ad-
ministrator. His brilliant
mind was affected, and he
lost 20 percent of his high-
er learning capabilities and
became just a normal per-
son.
He met Drne Tebbs
when he was a principal
in Cowley and they spent
many years together in
turmoil, adventure, full
commitment, love and re-
spect. They were married
in the 80s, both were educa-
tors and had much in com-
mon. They retired in Cow-
ley in 1997 and have lived
in the community in their
retirement.
• Six years ago, John was
diagnosed with bladder
cancer and Diabetes II. He
suffered surgery once more
and though his cancer never
returned, he was bedridden
for the rest of his life. He
• endured this final illness
with great aplomb, a decent
attitude and suffered his in-
dignities with heroic mea-
sures. Patient even though
he was crippled, grew weak,
spent much time in the hos-
pital, he faced his illness-
es with gallantry and good
nature. He grew patient,
sweet, kind and was a won-
derful companion and hus-
band. We mourn him.
He is survived by
his mother, Marguerite
Meek of Los Angeles, wife
Drue, his ex-wife, Donna
Hanson of Salt Lake City,
his children, Becky and Todd
Geary of Lyman, Marjorie
and Phil Ovard of Hene-
fer, Utah, John E. Meek of
Stansbury Park, Utah, Ted
and Jessica Meek of Las Ve-
gas, Michael and Cigdem
Meek of Braunsville,Texas,
Lori Jo and Andy Metcalf
of Salt Lake City, Michael
Meek of Los Angeles and his
sister-in-law Judie Meek of
Othello, Wash. He is also
survived by 26 grandchil-
dren and 10 great-grand-
children, relatives, friends
and townspeople who have
known him for so long.
He was preceded in
death by his father, Ed-
mund "Tufty" Meek, his
son, Thomas Warren Meek,
and his brother, Eddie
Meek. He was also preced-
ed in death by his beloved
Aunt Meg.
Memorial services will
be held at the LDS church
in Cowley on Sunday, Nov.
20 at 3 p.m., and a grave-
side service will be held at a
later date.
Faith Southern Baptist
Church _! .
340 E. 3rd St., Lo'el
Pastor Michael McKnight
548-6561
Services; Sunday School 9:45 am
Morn. Worship 11 am • Eve. Womhip 6 pm
Wad. Bible Study 7 pm
Nicholas R.
Montanez
Nov. 10, 1938-
Nov. 13, 2011
Nicholas R. Montanez,
73, died on Sunday, Nov.
13, surrounded by his fam-
ily. He was born Nov. 10,
1938, to Felipe and Josefa
Montanez in Lovell.
He married the love of
his life Guadalupe Gonza-
lez on Sept. 5, 1956. They
were blessed with nine chil-
dren. He served with the
Wyoming National Guard
from Nov. 28, 1955, to Dec.
16, 1963, when he was hon-
orably discharged as a SP4.
He loved being with his
family most of all, but he
also enjoyed playing cards,
watching old westerns and
novellas.
He is survived by his
children Sanjuanita Stan-
ley, Julice (Rolando) Davi-
la, Nick Jr., Tomas, Diana
Stanfield, Rafael, Andres
(Tricia), Raymundo, Les-
lie (Mario) Davila and 33
grandchildren, 36 great-
grandchildren and 10
brothers and sisters. He
was preceded in death by
his wife Guadalupe, his son
Martin, his parents and
five brothers and sisters.
His rosary will be held
Thursday, Nov. 17, at
Haskell Funeral Home at
7 p.m. His funeral will be
held Friday, Nov. 18, at St.
Joseph's Catholic Church
at 11 a.m. He will be laid to
rest at theLovell Cemetery
following Mass. Haskell
Funeral Home in Lovell is
in charge of arrangements.
Condolences may be sent to
the family online at www.
haskellfuneralhome.com.
St. Joseph's
Catholic Church
1141 Sh0shone Ave., Lovelt, WY
Sacrifice of the Mass
Sunday at 11:30 am
Reverend Glen Szczechowski
Worh+o S,,,e I ay 7 pm/
9:00 am /Rev. Kurt McNabb /
Sunday School
10:30am 56E. Main [
Bible Lesson J
6 pm . Lovell
5th & Montana, 548-7127
Rev. Christopher Brandt
9:15 am Bible Study
10:30 am Worship Service
Wednesday Service 7:30 pm
The Lutheran Church-Missoun Synod
548-;'021
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