OJAI, Calif. - Marie Lattimer, age 99, passed away peacefully in her sleep on March 10, 2009. Marie was born on Oct. 12, 1909, in Lefor, N.D., and was the youngest of 12 children born to Andreas and Marian Duckhorn Loh.
As a small girl, her playhouse was the sod house that her parents had built in 1897 after immigrating from Austria, Hungary. As she recalled, the one-room house had a dirt floor and the walls were decorated with a border print that her mother had done using homemade stencils and a blue clay found on the river bank that ran through the homestead. As she became older, she took great delight in going with her father in a horse-drawn hay wagon to Dickinson, N.D., where they would drive up and down the streets selling produce. The best part of the trip, she said, was that along the way they would stop and visit friends and relatives.
In 1929, Marie married Robert Lattimer and, for 56 years, lived most of that time in Billings and Laurel, Mont., until his death in 1985. Marie remained in Billings until moving to Ojai in 2006 to live with her son, Wayne, and daughter-in-law Marlene.
At the age of 91, Marie became interested in painting and started out doing watercolors on index cards because she could enclose them in letters to friends and relatives. After taking a beginning art class at the Lincoln Center, she graduated to larger paintings, and continued painting on her own, developing into a "Grandma Moses" simple style. After about three years, macular degeneration prevented her from continuing painting. The loss of her eyesight was one of the few things in her life that she had any regrets about.
Preceding her in death were her husband, Robert Lattimer; son Douglas Lattimer; daughter-in-law, Delores Lattimer; and grandson, Mark Lattimer. She is survived by her son, Wayne (Marlene) Lattimer; grandsons Stephen and David (Shari) Lattimer; granddaughter Elizabeth (Uiki) Lattimer Niko; great-grandsons, David, Robert and Logan Lattimer; great-granddaughter Alexa Niko; step-great-grandsons Taylor Foreman-Niko and Cody Cribbet; and step-great-granddaughter Taylor Cribbet; and many nieces and nephews.
The family wishes to thank the Hospice nurses, aides and volunteers in Billings and Ventura for their loving care and assistance. Memorials in Marie's name may be made to RiverStone Hospice, 123 S. 27th St., Billings, MT 59101.
Interment will be held in Billings at a later date.
OJAI, Calif. - Marie Lattimer, age 99, passed away peacefully in her sleep on March 10, 2009. Marie was born on Oct. 12, 1909, in Lefor, N.D., and was the youngest of 12 children born to Andreas and Marian Duckhorn Loh.
As a small girl, her playhouse was the sod house that her parents had built in 1897 after immigrating from Austria, Hungary. As she recalled, the one-room house had a dirt floor and the walls were decorated with a border print that her mother had done using homemade stencils and a blue clay found on the river bank that ran through the homestead. As she became older, she took great delight in going with her father in a horse-drawn hay wagon to Dickinson, N.D., where they would drive up and down the streets selling produce. The best part of the trip, she said, was that along the way they would stop and visit friends and relatives.
In 1929, Marie married Robert Lattimer and, for 56 years, lived most of that time in Billings and Laurel, Mont., until his death in 1985. Marie remained in Billings until moving to Ojai in 2006 to live with her son, Wayne, and daughter-in-law Marlene.
At the age of 91, Marie became interested in painting and started out doing watercolors on index cards because she could enclose them in letters to friends and relatives. After taking a beginning art class at the Lincoln Center, she graduated to larger paintings, and continued painting on her own, developing into a "Grandma Moses" simple style. After about three years, macular degeneration prevented her from continuing painting. The loss of her eyesight was one of the few things in her life that she had any regrets about.
Preceding her in death were her husband, Robert Lattimer; son Douglas Lattimer; daughter-in-law, Delores Lattimer; and grandson, Mark Lattimer. She is survived by her son, Wayne (Marlene) Lattimer; grandsons Stephen and David (Shari) Lattimer; granddaughter Elizabeth (Uiki) Lattimer Niko; great-grandsons, David, Robert and Logan Lattimer; great-granddaughter Alexa Niko; step-great-grandsons Taylor Foreman-Niko and Cody Cribbet; and step-great-granddaughter Taylor Cribbet; and many nieces and nephews.
The family wishes to thank the Hospice nurses, aides and volunteers in Billings and Ventura for their loving care and assistance. Memorials in Marie's name may be made to RiverStone Hospice, 123 S. 27th St., Billings, MT 59101.
Interment will be held in Billings at a later date.
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