Martha Huft

GLENDIVE - Martha Huft, age 92, of Glendive, died on Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at the Glendive Medical Center Extended Care Facility in Glendive.

Visitation will be on Friday, April 4, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and 6 until 8 p.m. at the Chapel of the Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home in Glendive. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Glendive, with Pastor Avis Anderson officiating. Interment will be in the Dawson Memorial Cemetery in Glendive. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home of Glendive is entrusted with arrangements.

Martha was born on Sept. 17, 1915, in Eureka, S.D., the daughter of Jacob and Katharina (Leicht) Gutjahr. At the age of 7, Martha moved to Montana with her mother and stepfather (Christian Roesler). She received her education at the Garvin and Amo Schools in rural Dawson County, near Marsh, Mont. Martha was employed as a cook during the building of the Buffalo Rapids Irrigation Project near Glendive. She married Jacob Huft on Sept. 15, 1940, in Marsh. While her husband was in the military, Martha moved to Medford, Ore., where she was employed as a cook for the United States military forces stationed there. Following her husband's discharge from the military, they returned to the Fallon area, where they owned and operated a dairy farm on the Buffalo Rapids Project for nearly 15 years. Martha and her husband sold their dairy farm and retired into Glendive in 1976, where she worked as a cook at Grandview Retirement Apartments for 14 years. She had been a resident of the Glendive Medical Extended Care Facility since August 2004.

Her hobbies included crocheting and making popcorn cakes for her friends and relatives at Christmastime.

Martha was a member of Zion Lutheran Church and the Hill and Dale Homemaker's Club for 43 years. She was also a member of the VFW Auxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary. Martha had been involved with the Glendive Medical Center Auxiliary, working as a volunteer at the Attic since 1978.

She was preceded in death by her parents; stepfather; her husband Jake in 1993; sister, Alma Miller in 1972; half-brothers, Ruben in 1993 and Edwin in 2000; two stepbrothers, Jacob and Christ.

Survivors include her sisters, Lydia Entzel, Freda Haidle; half-sisters, Ann Baisch and her husband Kenny and Marie Miller, all of Glendive; her-half brothers, Erwin Roesler and his wife Elizabeth of Eureka and Emil Roesler and his wife LaDonna of Glendive; numerous nieces and nephews.

Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at: www.silvernale-silhafuneralhome.com.