EMOGENE (SKINNER) BOSLAUGH Obituary (1923

Emogene Elizabeth Skinner Boslaugh, most commonly known as "Gene," was born on April 23, 1923 in Aitken, Minnesota and passed away on November 15, 2015 in Eureka, Montana. She was the youngest of four children born to Marvin and Lucille Rogers Skinner. She joined three brothers, Duncan, Darrell, and Fenwick. The family moved to Montana in 1925 and lived in Colstrip where she received her elementary and high school education. After completing high school, she attended Billings Normal School for 2 years and earned a Life Certificate for Teaching. A high point of her life was her first teaching job at Wyola, Montana on the Crow Indian Reservation. Her teaching career took her back to Colstrip and later to Eureka. She married Donald Boslaugh in 1945 in Billings and she boasted about having a marriage that spanned nearly 60 years. In 1946, when they moved to Eureka they both began long careers in the Eureka School System, Don as LCHS Principal and Gene as a first and second grade teacher. Her years of teaching in Eureka began in 1947 and she retired in 1978. Besides a lifetime of teaching, she was also a long standing member of First Baptist Church of Eureka and a Life Member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Daughter Carol was born in 1951 and she joined step-brothers David and Richard Boslaugh. Gene enjoyed her long life of teaching, traveling the world, spending the winter in warm places, and attending family events. She took great pride in her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and all their achievements and accomplishments. She also never forgot all her many "kids" throughout her years at school and most of them will never forget her. In her later years, many friends and neighbors called her "Nana" or "Gramma Gene" and it pleased her immensely. She always cared about the kids! Gene was preceded in death by her husband Don, her parents, her three brothers, and her niece Susan Skinner. She is survived by daughter Carol and her husband Ron Hanson of Eureka, son David and his wife Marian of Winchester, Virginia, and son Richard and wife Beverly of Oak Harbor, Washington; grandchildren Barb Haner, Brian Boslaugh, Susan Boslaugh, Bruce Boslaugh, Amy Hanson, and Andy Hanson and their spouses and children; and many nieces and nephews including Tim and Tom Skinner, Lynda Skinner Labatte, and Donnie, Phillip, and John Wayne Brown. Gene and Don gave much of their time and efforts to constructing the Baptist Church building. She would have appreciated any memorial funds to be donated to the First Baptist Church of Eureka Building Fund, P.O. Box 391, Eureka, MT 59917. Services were held at the First Baptist Church of Eureka on Saturday, November 21st at 11:00 A.M. Arrangements were by Schnackenberg & Nelson Funeral Home in Eureka and online condolences and memories may be made to www.schnackenbergfh.com.