Emma Lou Fredrickson, 82

Emma Lou Fredrickson, 82, passed away Friday, July 8, 2005, at the Kalispell Regional Hospital of natural causes.

Emma was born June 18, 1923, in Enderlin, N.D., to Walter and Ellen Kaber. The Kaber family moved to Whitefish in 1935. Emma attended school in Whitefish and graduated from high school in 1943.

She went on to college at Northern University in Havre, and became a teacher. She taught school in Brockton, and Markus, Wash. In Markus she met and married Bert E. Fredrickson and they were married at the Hitch'n Post in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on June 5, 1948.

She started teaching in Whitefish, in 1962, where she taught the subjects of English and literature. She went back to school at the University of Montana and received her master's degree in library science. She then became librarian at the Whitefish Junior High and later the Whitefish High School. She retired in 1996.

She was preceded in death by parents; husband, Bert; brothers, Marvin, and Louis Kaber; and sister, Lois Hull.

Emma Lou is survived by her daughters, Mary Ellen Harker of Kalispell, and Thea Lou Roach and son-in-law, Jay, of Columbia Falls; son, Dirk David Fredrickson of Alamosa, Colo.; brothers, Harvey Kaber of Laurel, and Larry Kaber and Charlotte, of Kalispell; grandchildren, Lisa, Amie, Jamie and Jackie Harker, Jason, Benjamin, Samuel, Peter Umbriaco, Cassie, Erin and Dane Fredrickson; five great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

There will be a memorial celebration of Emma Lou's life 10 a.m. Thursday at the Austin Funeral Home in Whitefish with Rev. John Bent, officiating. Burial will follow at the Whitefish City Cemetery.

The family suggests that memorials can be made to the Whitefish City Library in Whitefish.