Marian Meland, age 86, of Terry, MT passed away peacefully at the Prairie Community Hospital of natural causes.
Marian Brown was born on March 30, 1927 the daughter of Ralph and Florence Brown at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Marian grew up and attended school in Oakland, OR where she graduated high school. On November 24, 1979 she married the love of her life Pete Meland in Petersburg, Alaska. Pete and Marian made their home in Sitka, Alaska for a short period of time until Pete’s retirement. They moved to Monona, Iowa where they lived for 6 years. In 1989 they moved to Myrtle Creek Oregon to be closer with family and built a new home, they resided there until Pete passed away in 2003. In 2006 Marian moved to Fallon, MT where she remained until the time of her passing.
Marian loved fishing, hunting, cooking and truly loved doing crafts she was an avid quilter and loved to sew and do oil paintings.
Marian’s family would like to thank Dan & Dawnya Kirkpatrick for taking special care of Marian for the last several years. Marian truly enjoyed her time with them and she grew especially fond of their children Micah and Shawnee.
Marian is survived by her children, Frank (Judy) Cramer of Fallon, MT, Dave (Sue) Meland of Salem OR, Mike (Paula) Cramer of Myrtle Creek, OR and Carolyn Cramer of Southerland, OR; four grandchildren, Shasta Gish, Russell Cramer, Keith Cramer, Rebecca Cramer and numerous great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Pete and one brother Delmar Brown.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, April 22, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Terry, MT.
Service Schedule
Funeral Service
1:30 PM
Monday April 22, 2013
Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home
300 Spring Street
Terry, MT 59349
Service Schedule
Funeral Service
1:30 PM
Monday April 22, 2013
Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home
300 Spring Street
Terry, MT 59349
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Mark & Donna Underberg says
Thoughts and prayers to Marian’s Family and the Kirkpatricks. ” Oh God ” we will all miss Her.
Arlen and Alice Miller says
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. God Bless
Cathy & Gary Kalmback says
Frank and Judy,
You are in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time!
Janet Loomis says
I will miss Marion so much. I can’t tell you the joy it gave me to help that sweet lady. I loved every minute. And my daughter Jessica loved visiting with her when she was able. And the love and hard work she put into her quilting, was amazing. I kept trying to get her to make something for herself but it was always for one of the family. She loved making things for her kids and grandkids.
She will be greatily missed. And i will think of her everytime i see something that was paper pieced. The Lord Bless her and keep her.
So sorry for your loss of such a great lady.
Rebecca Cramer says
Grandma, I will miss you more than you will ever know.
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him/her that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let him/her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her/his eyes, that those photons created within her/him constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly.” – Aaron Freeman
Natasha Hutchison says
My condolences go out to Marian’s family and the Kirkpatrick’s. I was fortunate enough to get to know her and was welcomed into the Kirkpatrick home to do her hair! I sure will miss her! She has such a special place in my heart! And every time I use her potholders she had made me..she was quite the seamstress..I think of her! She was such a fascinating woman and will be missed by many!