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Karen Abel:
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OBITUARY
Christine "Tena" Padgett, 101, died of natural causes on November 22 at Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow. Services will be Wednesday, November 28th at 2 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Glasgow with Reverend Emory Robotham officiating and with burial in Highland Cemetery. Bell Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Tena was born in Fessenden, North Dakota, to Heinrich Fuhrmann and Christina Harr Fuhrman. Her family immigrated from Russia in 1891. She was the youngest of 15 children. Her family homesteaded in northern Valley County. She attended the Fuhrmann School. She worked on various farms and at the Baylor Grocery Store. Later she went back to North Dakota to live with her older sister Lucy in Steele, North Dakota, and received her high school diploma. She took college courses for teaching and received her teaching certificate in 1924, where she taught 2 years in North Dakota. She moved back to Montana and in 1926 married Bill Padgett in the Congregational Church in Glasgow. Her wedding present was a 1924 Ford. They lived on the farm for 7 years, lived a year in Glasgow, spent several years in rural Fort Peck for the building of Fort Peck Dam, and moved into Fort Peck in 1939. Tena worked many years at a drug store in Fort Peck. In 1963 they moved back to Glasgow and she has resided in the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow since 1995. She was a member of the American Legion Auxilary, was an active community servant, and was very active in the First Congregational Church. She enjoyed reading, gardening, cards and dancing.
Survivors include her daughter Shirley (and husband Jerre Sheppard) of Longmont, Colorado; 4 grandchildren: Laura Vukasin of Great Falls, Karen Sheppard of Longmont, Colorado, Kristen Sprigg of Longmont, Colorado and Mitchell Sheppard of Copperas Cove, Texas, and 3 great grandchildren.
Sources:
1. Title: Census
2. Title: Obituary
3. Title: Montana Marriages - Publication: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mtlcgs/nim/marr/
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