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Obituary: Beryl Ellowa Littlefield

May 30, 1937 - December 29, 2024
Beryl Ellowa Littlefield
May 30, 1937 - December 29, 2024
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Beryl Ellowa Littlefield passed away on December 29, 2024, at Highgate Senior Living Memory Care in Great Falls, Montana at the age of 87. Beryl was born on May 30, 1937, in Larson, North Dakota to Louie and Elvira Watterud. She was the second of four children.

Beryl’s father was killed in a horse accident on their family farm when Beryl was fourteen years old. A few years later, Beryl moved to Conrad, Montana to live with her aunt and uncle to attend her senior year of high school in 1955. After graduating from Great Falls Commercial College in January 1957, she worked for attorney Charles Jacobsen in Conrad.

She married Jack Baker of Conrad, MT in 1958. In 1965, the Baker family moved to Nampa, Idaho where all five children were raised. Beryl was a kind, loving mother. There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do. She wasn’t one to sit idle. She enjoyed sewing, cooking, canning, ladies aid, home repairs, furniture refinishing, teaching Brownies, gardening, landscaping, etc. Beryl divorced Jack in 1979.

Beryl bought a home in Meridian, Idaho and held a financial position upstairs at Washington Federal Savings and Loan downtown Boise, Idaho for about 16 years.

While living in Meridian, Beryl was introduced to Leon Littlefield. In 1992, Leon and Beryl were happily married for less than two years when Leon passed away from a brain tumor. Beryl retired in 1997 and moved to Montana to be near her daughter and son-in-law; sister; and mother. Beryl had a close relationship with her mother; sister; five children; and six grandchildren. She always enjoyed the visits from her children to her home in Great Falls.

She maintained that her best years were her retirement years. It was during these years that she became an avid quilter and had a reputation for excellent work. She was commissioned by a prominent Great Falls quilt shop to produce numerous store samples and won quilting awards at the Montana State Fair. Beryl enjoyed teaching and visiting the ladies at the “East Brady Quilting Club.” She also enjoyed volunteering with the ladies of St John’s Lutheran Church in Great Falls to sew quilts for the less fortunate.

She is survived by her sister, LaVonne Gilcher; son, Jeffrey Baker; daughter, Laurel Baker; daughter and son-in-law, Lana Heinz, and Randy Heinz; daughter and son-in-law, Paula Baumann and Roy Baumann; daughter, Karmen Alvaro; grandson, Alex Heinz; granddaughters, Lydia Bordo, Candice Shields, Lesley Malson, Kennedy Alvaro, and Kilee Alvaro.

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