Maryalys Marrs Frisbee, 94

Maryalys, it was time for your beautiful, gentle soul to return to God and to be with your beloved husband, Selden, and your youngest, Beth. The unkindness of time diminished your cognition, but never your kind and loving nature. Maryalys Marrs Frisbee passed away peacefully on May 18, 2010, at the age of 94. Her long life, spent largely in Cut Bank, consisted of devotion to her husband, her family, her church, her community and the hundreds of children she taught. She loved the Big Sky country and its many outdoor pursuits " summers at Flathead Lake, Glacier Park, gardening, and careening too fast along snowy trails on her Arctic Cat. She had three holes-in-one, putting to shame the male members of her family. Gramma s house, with a kitchen full of soup, sandwiches, cookies and milk after school and on weekends was the highlight of her grandchildren s early lives. It was always a safe haven from parents and the outside world. Maryalys graduated from Hellgate High in Missoula, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree and Masters of Arts degree in teaching and English from the University of Montana where she was a Delta Gamma. She first taught in Victor, but left there to marry Selden, a new lawyer, in August 1939. Son Bob was born in 1940, followed by Lynne, Snuff and Beth. She lived numerous places during World War II until Selden was discharged, and returned to Cut Bank in 1945; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren ultimately followed. She took great pride in being the first and only woman on the Cut Bank Golf Club board of directors, the first woman on the hospital board, and achieved a Distinguished Woman Award for starting the Cut Bank Senior Citizen Center. She was proud of her family as well. She believed, though, that she would be forgiven that small sin. Maryalys found these words for Selden s passing, which she did not use. However, they eloquently express her faith and nature: Maybe you will burn my body and scatter it to the winds to help the flowers grow. If you need to bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses, and all my prejudices against my fellow man. Give my sins to the Devil and my soul to God. If by some chance you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you all do that, I will live forever. Maryalys is survived by son, Bob, and his wife, Susan; daughter, Lynne; son, Snuff, and his wife, Laurie; and son-in law, Dan Short. She also leaves her loving sisters, Patti Chapman, and Jean Swanson and her husband, Norm. Mass of Christian Burial will be held for Maryalys at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 22, at St. Margaret Catholic Church in Cutbank, with Father Michael Drury as celebrant. Burial will follow at the Crown Hill Cemetery. Johnson-Gloschat Funeral Home is caring for Maryalys family. You are invited to go to www.jgfuneralhome.com to offer condolences and view Maryalys tribute wall.