Jean Elizabeth Guiot

1929 - 2023

Our mom took the early afternoon shuttle to Heaven to meet back up with our dad on November 24, 2023. Theirs was a match made for life and Charlie and his "little bride" spent 65 years together.

Jean Elizabeth Stucky Guiot was born April 26, 1929 to Ralph and Hazel (Cowan) Stucky. She grew up in the family home at Dry Creek and attended the Dry Creek Bible Church most of her 94 1/2 years. She would often tell people she was a country girl and had never lived in town. Her mother died when she was 5 years old and Grandpa Stucky raised their four children with help from the community "village". She attended elementary school at the little white Dry Creek School with an outhouse out back. In the winter, Grandpa walked his four children to school uphill "both ways" over the drifted snow-covered fences when it was many degrees below zero, just to make sure they arrived safely. He still had to make the return trip home alone. She graduated from Belgrade High School.

Mom met our dad, Charles Guiot, through her brother Carroll. The morning they were married, the congregation of the Dry Creek Church knew when they would be passing by and went out to form a human chain by holding hands across the road to wish them well. Their first year of married life was a tough winter with many feet of snow. Mom would sneak through the deep snow to snare a pheasant for a special meal treat.

During their life together, they were blest with three children, Joyce Mahana, Mildred (Bea) DeHaan and Chuck Guiot. She was a loving wife, mother, homemaker and great friend during her years on this side of Heaven. She and Dad enjoyed traveling around the state with their fifth-wheel trailer as well as a few out of state trips to various places including Arizona one winter. They were season MSU basketball ticket holders for a number of years. Mom loved watching basketball (and later football). Dad would use his binoculars to scope out friends to visit during half-time. A few days before mom joined dad, she watched the devastating loss of her Bobcats in the Brawl of the Wild.

Jean was preceded in death by her husband Chuck, parents and three siblings and spouses, Ray Stucky (Hazel), Dorothy Vogel (George) and Carroll Stucky (Donna); son-in-law Don DeHaan; sister-in law and brother-in-law Kay and Charlie Blakely and brother-in-law Edwin Tofslie.

She is survived by her three children; grandchildren Lori DeHaan (Jason), Angela DeHaan-Lovaas (Paul) and Jeff Mahana (Teresa) and several great grandchildren and great great grandchildren; sister-in-law Alice Tofslie and several nieces and nephews.

A special thank you to the Compassus Hospice staff in Helena, MT who assisted in providing gentle, compassionate care for mom and her family for the last 9 1/2 months. They were uplifting angels and became special friends to each of us.

A Memorial Service will be held 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday December 5th at the Dry Creek Bible Church.

Donations can be made to the Dry Creek Bible Church or the Bozeman Health Cancer Center in Bozeman, MT. Her final care is being provided by Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service.