Emma Lou Fredrickson, 83

Emma Lou Fredrickson, 82, passed away Friday, July 8, 2005, at Kalispell Regional Medical Center 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 Montana College in Havre and became a teacher. She taught school in Brockton and in Markus, Wash.

In Markus, she met and married Bert E. Fredrickson and they were married at the Hitch'n Post in Couer 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 Whitefish Junior High School and later Whitefish High School. She retired in 1994.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Bert, and 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, PeterUmbriaco, Cassie, Erin and Dane Fredrickson; ten great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

There will be a memorial celebration of Emma Lou's life on Thursday, July 14, at 10 a.m. at the Austin Funeral Home in Whitefish with the 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.