Madeline Louden

Funeral Services for Madeline ?Madge? Elizabeth Loudon, 86 of Baker, MT formerly of Brockway, MT will be 1:00 p. m. Saturday, November 25, 2006 in the Chapel of Stevenson Funeral Home in Baker, MT with the Rev. Father Thomas Tobin officiating. Interment will be at a later date in the family lot of the Riverview Cemetery at Circle, MT. Madge passed away on Friday, November 17, 2006 at Holy Rosary HealthCare Hospice in Miles City, MT due to a long illness with Alzheimer?s disease. The last years of Madge?s life were spent at the Fallon Medical Complex Nursing Home in Baker. Madeline Mooney was born May 5, 1920 to William Clarence and Mary Alice Mooney in Melstone, MT. She graduated from Melstone High School in 1938 where she was an avid basketball player. Madge loved all kinds of sports, especially for the fights due to her inherited Irish nature. Her favorite team was the LA Lakers. In February of 1942, during WWII, Madge enlisted in the WAC (Women?s Air Corp) and was stationed at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX until her discharge in August of 1943. Her main duties were to fill out paper work for the soldiers, box up supplies that were needed, and make bandages. Madge married two times and had three children before she finally met and married her soul mate, George Loudon, on December 8, 1959. They had another child to this union. ?George was a day late and a dollar short? but she loved him so and they were married for 42 years residing in Brockway for most of it until George passed away in 2001. Madge was an outdoorsy person. She had an amazing green thumb and would go into her garden early in the morning and talk to her plants which ?helped them grow. ? Everywhere Madge would go, her Dalmatian dog Freckles, and all of her cats would trot along behind her all in a row. Madge was a bookkeeper for their business Loudon?s House Moving, a waitress, and an amazing cook and avid pie maker. She would make everything from scratch and never use a recipe. Madge would cook for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years every year and always invited the whole town of Brockway. Their little house was bursting out of its seams and it was the best time of their lives. One of Madge?s proudest accomplishments happened later in life in 1980 at the age of 60 when she finally got her drivers license so that she could be a cook at the Nursing Home in Circle. She did that until she retired in 1985. She and George spent their last years together fishing up at Fort Peck Lake, playing games of Pinochle, and visiting friends and family. Madge is survived by her son, Michael Keefer, Coldwell, ID; three daughters, Margo White, Miles City, MT, Tanya (Randy) Marchion, Baker, MT and Kelly Fruit, Grand Islands, NE; two sisters, Ellen Baker and JoAnn Fleming, both of Harlowton, MT; eight grandchildren, Chance Thompson, Dawn (Eric) Winters, Jessica (Jeremy) Vogel; Randy, Brian, and Tiffany White; and Allen and Derek Fruit; eleven great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents, William and Mary, her loving husband, George her four sisters, Gwen Frederickson, Edith Harris, Marge Mooney, and Opal Lindsay, and an infant grandson Matthew.


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Burial Date: November 25, 2006
Funeral Home Baker, MT

Funeral: Saturday, Stevenson Funeral Home, Baker, MT