Hilda Ann (Walther) Cary
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Joseph H Cary
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 5 B obit - August 19, 2010
Hilda (Walther) Cary was born
25 February 1913 in Mustang,
Oklahoma and died 7 August
2010 in Twin Falls, Idaho. She
was the fourth of ten children of
Fritz and Martha (Exner) Walther,
immigrants from Switzerland and
Germany, respectively. Education
meant everything to her. She
started school speaking only
German; earned high enough
marks to skip 7th grade; and, in
order to attend high school, she
left home to live as a mother's
helper while going to school. After
finishing high school, during
the hard years of the Depression,
she attended college while working
as a maid, a Kress store clerk,
and an elder assistant. She went to
Cameron Junior College in Lawton,
Okla., and then to Central
University at Edmond, Okla.,
where she got a B.S. degree. She
taught in a one-room school in Oklahoma before the War.
When World War II broke out, she went to San Diego, California,
to work at Consolidated Aircraft building B-24 Liberator bombers.
While in San Diego she met and married Joseph H. Cary, who was
serving in the Army. After the war, the couple made their home in
Grand Junction, Colorado. They later bought a farm northwest of
Loma, Colorado, where they raised their family and operated a dairy
for many years. During that time, Mrs. Cary returned to the classroom
to teach third grade at Loma Elementary School for four years.
Her passion for education continued in a home filled with books,
trips to the Grand Junction library, gifts of books to her children and
grandchildren, and many visits to the Book Mobile. She was proud
of each graduation and achievement by family members, and that
there were three generations of schoolteachers.
When they retired from the dairy, Mr. and Mrs. Cary traveled
coast-to-coast, border-to-border, and to Alaska in their motor home.
After Mr. Cary died 11 August 1998, Mrs. Cary sold the farm and
moved to Fruita, Colorado, where she lived until 2005. As macular
degeneration and other health issues set in, she moved to Idaho to be
near her daughter. It was there that her love of chocolate would
leave fond memories with her family and caregivers.
Mrs. Cary was a long-time member of the Loma Community Church
until moving to Fruita where she joined the Methodist Church.
Mrs. Cary is survived by one sister, Bertha Wirth of Gillespie, Illinois;
her son Joe Henry Cary, and daughter-in-law Tina of Longmont,
Colorado; her daughter Martha Kincaid and son-in-law Dennis
of Twin Falls, Idaho; three grandchildren, Scott (Autumn)
Kincaid, Lindsay (Jared) Ashmead, Erin (Jeff) Youngren; and one
great-grandson, Noah Ashmead. Preceding her in death was one son,
John 'Pat' Cary.
Visitation will be at Snell-McLean Funeral Home in Fruita from
4:00 – 8:00 PM on Friday, August 20, 2010. Graveside services will
be held on Saturday, August 21, at 10:00 AM, Elmwood Cemetery,
Fruita, CO. Donations to a public library or school would honor her.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 8 A - August 18, 2010
Hilda Ann Walther Cary,
97, Fruita, died Aug. 7, 2010, in
Twin Falls, Idaho.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8
p.m. Friday at Snell McLean Funeral
Home. Graveside services
will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at
New Elmwood Cemetery.
Ms. Cary was a homemaker.
Survivors include one son,
Joe of Longmont; one daughter,
Martha Kincaid of Havern,
Idaho; one sister, Bertha Wirth
of Gillespie, Ill.; three grandchildren;
and one great grandchild.
Memorial contributions to a
public library of choice.
