Mary Louise Brett
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 8 - April 24, 1958
Death claimed Miss Mary Louise Brett April 15, as she sat at the supper table in her brother’s home. Miss Brett had lived her 70 years In the community pioneered by her father, the late Joseph Brett, and died suddenly of a heart attack. The daughter of Joseph and Mary Brett, Mary Louise was born at Edwards February 29, 1888. She was baptized in the Episcopalian Church In Leadvllle. Mr Brett, a colorful figure In Eagle county’s early days, was a native of France, in Alsace In 1852. He migrated first to England then to America. He first went to New York in 1876 then to Denver. In the spring of 1877 Mr. Brett went to Falrplay, then an Indian country. In the summer of ’7B he prospected in the Eagle river valley returning the following year to Edwards to prospect. In 1880 Mr Brett married Mary Guenon at Red Cliff, riding the long miles horseback to Breckenrldge for a marriage license. Brett brought his bride back to the home he had built on Lake Creek, near the site of the present community of Edwards. Here the couple spent the rest of their lives and reared their two boys and two girls. A boy and a girl preceded the parents in death. Mrs Brett died in 1902, and Louise, then 14, took over the duties of mother and homemaker. She became well known for her cooking ability when she fed the many sportsmen who irequented her father's Frenchman's Fishing Club. During her lifetime. Miss Brett's favorite hobby was fishing, an outdoor sport which she enjoyed through the years, despite falling health. She stood ready with a helping hand to aid a neighbor in distress The snow was never too deep or the night too cold to prevent her from going to the neighbor who needed her in sickness or death. Miss Brett Is survived by a brother. James of Edwards and his wife, Leona; three nephews, Vernon Brett of Seattle, Wash., Joseph Brett of De Beque, Earl Brett of Littleton and their families. Miss Brett's father died in 1931. Services for Miss Brett were conducted April 18 at the Edwards Community Hall, and attended by a large crowd of friends from many distant Colorado towns. The Reverend Byron Hasstedt of the Eagle Methodist Church delivered the funeral sermon. Burial, conducted by Bowman Mortuary of Eagle, was In the family plot on the Brett ranch. Pall bearers were Pete Dodo. Clover Samples. Ralph Strickland, Jack Terry, Chet Rumlnski. Dan Koprinikar. John L. and Teddy Reynolds, Hoot and Garfield Terry Hubert Peterson and Jack Hill. Honorary pall bearers were Judge Wm. H. Luby. Oscar Nelson. King Stewart, John Lumph and Howard Bardsley.
