Emma Rein

Emma Rein, age 88, passed on Saturday, January 11, 2003 at the Prairie Community MAF in Terry, Montana. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at the Terry Community Presbyterian Church in Terry, Montana, with Rev. Leon Rathbun officiating. Interment will be in the Sidney Cemetery in Sidney, Montana. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 from 2:00 P.M., until 8:00 P.M., with a prayer service at 7:00 P.M., at the Chapel of the Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home in Glendive. Visitation will also be on Wednesday morning, January 15, 2003 one hour prior to the service at the church in Terry. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home of Glendive, Montana, and Frank Family Funeral Home of Wahpeton, North Dakota, are entrusted with arrangements. Pallbearers will be: All Her Grandchildren and Honorary pallbearers will be: All Her Friends and Relatives. Organist is Deb Schwarz and Pianist is Travis Reyman, and Special music by Doris & Keith Frost. Emma Haffner Rein was born on May 15, 1914, in Worden, Montana, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth(Oblander)Haffner. The family moved to Sidney, Montana to the experiment farm, and she attended Sidney Public School through the fifth grade. The family moved to Greeley and Eden, Colorado, where she attended two years of public school. They moved back to Sidney and then farmed the John Alling place, and she attended Newlon Country school her seventh & eighth grade. She helped her dad with the farming, and she then met her future husband to be, who was working for her dad. Emma was united in marriage to Carl Rein on March 11, 1934 in the Ebenezer Congregational Church in Sidney, and the reception dinner was held out at the Alling farm, and they continued to farm in the Sidney area and Crane, and in 1955, they moved to a farm five miles from Fallon and later buying a farm near the Yellowstone River. They retired from farming and built a new house on a small corner of land near the farm, where they continued to raise a large garden and they both enjoyed selling their produce at the Farmer's Market, which was held during the summer on Friday's in Glendive. Carl passed away on July 21, 1987, and Emma has continued to live on their place, where she raised her large garden, starting everything from seed, and continued to take her produce to the Farmer's market, she enjoyed her flowers, gardening, mowing and keeping up her yard, which she was very proud of, and enjoyed bowling. She also did crocheting, baking, canning and enjoyed playing Skip-Bo, and being with her grandchildren. She was a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Glendive. They had celebrated their 50th Golden Anniversary on March 11, 1984. In August of 2002, she had a massive stroke and heart attack, and in September, she then became a resident at the Prairie Community MAF in Terry. Surviving her are: two sons: Bob(Marguerite)Rein of Great Falls, Montana, and Doug(Caryn)Rein of Terry, Montana, two daughters: Marilyn(Elmer)Frank of Wahpeton, North Dakota, and Beverly(Roddy)Reuther of Terry, Montana, two sisters: Frieda(Medford)Case of Kennewick, Washington, and Leah Haas of Glendive, Montana, Twelve Grandchildren, Fifteen Great Grandchildren and Two Great Great Grandsons. She was preceded in death by her parents: Henry & Eva Haffner, her husband: Carl Rein, one brother: George Haffner, and two sisters: Molly Miller and Lydia Gabel.

Emma Rein

May 15, 1914 - January 15, 2003

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May 15, 1914 - January 15, 2003

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