Prayer Service: Friday, at 6:00 p.m. in the chapel of Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City
Funeral Service: Saturday, at 1:00 p.m. at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Interment: will follow in the family lot in the Custer County Cemetery
Marjorie Anne Boulware, age 77, of Miles City passed away on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at the Holy Rosary Health Center in Miles City.
Marjorie was born in Belfield, North Dakota on March 22, 1926, the daughter of Louie and Laura (Lebo) Pelissier. She was raised on the ranch at Medora, North Dakota. She attended schools in Belfield, North Dakota where she graduated from high school. Following high school, she went to college at St. Marys Nursing School at Rochester, Minnesota. She was a Cadet in the Nurses Corp during the war. She worked in the VA Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She then moved to Miles City where she worked as a nurse in the operating room at Holy Rosary Hospital. She later met and married Bill Boulware on January 1, 1948 in Miles City. They moved to Bozeman where Bill went to college and Marjorie worked in the hospital as a nurse in the operating room for 2 years. They returned to Miles City where they operated the family ranch at Locate. In 1966, they moved to Miles City where the children went to school. Marjorie worked at the Holy Rosary Hospital until 1976. In 1982, she began working as a licensed Commodities Broker at the sales yards in Miles City where she worked until 1992. Marjorie was on the board of directors at the First Interstate Bank for 10 years until 2001. Marjorie enjoyed playing bridge, following politics and the stock market, watching football, and pursuing her genealogy by traveling to Quebec, Montreal, Maine and Salt Lake City with her sister Elsie.
Marjorie is survived by her husband Bill Boulware of Miles City, two sons: Jeffrey Schuyler Boulware and his wife Holly of Brookings. SD, John Francis (Jack) Boulware of San Francisco, CA, daughter, Jimi Lou Woodward and her husband Gary of Miles City, MT, by six grandchildren Tori Moss of Gillette, WY; Tate Woodard of Miles City, MT; Schuyler Boulware USAF 2nd LT. of Shreveport, LA, Jonathan Boulware of Merritt Island, FL, Erik & Thomas Boulware of Brookings, SD, and a sister Elsie Trotter of Cawston, British Columbia. Preceded in death by her brother Bernie Nelson Pelissier and a half sister Jean Jacobson.
Memorials may be given to the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1110 College Drive, Suite 212, Bismarck, ND 58501 or charity of one's choice.
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