Loretta "Tootie" Mort

Glendive, Montana: Loretta "Tootie" Mort, age 95, passed away on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at the Glendive Medical Center in Glendive. Visitation will be held from 10:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. and from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Friday, March 9, 2012 at the Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home in Glendive. A Vigil service will be held at 7:00 P.M. on Friday, March 9, 2012 in the Chapel of the Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home in Glendive with Father Joseph Ponessa officiating. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Glendive with Father Joseph Ponessa Officiating. Rite of Committal will be held in the Dawson Memorial Cemetery in Glendive. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home of Glendive has been entrusted with the arrangements. Tootie was born on March 16, 1916 in Haley, North Dakota, the daughter of Jess and Flora (Sack) Anderson. She attended grade school at Norbeck School in Harding County, South Dakota and graduated from what is now Harding County High School in Buffalo, South Dakota. Tootie belonged to the Catholic Church and served as an organist for the choir from her sophomore year until she left Buffalo. After graduation, Tootie was employed by Agricultural Construction Association, which was located in the Harding County Courthouse and later was elected to the office of Register of Deeds, a job she held for four years. Tootie met the love of her life in 1947, Erle Helmer Mort. On December 27, 1947 they were united in marriage in Strool, South Dakota, and to this union two children were born: daughter, Erlene and son, Tim. Together Tootie and Erle bought and operated the Dutch Room in Buffalo from 1948 until 1956. Tootie and Erle moved their family to Glendive in 1958 where she was employed with First Security Bank for eighteen years until her retirement. After they were both retired, she and Erle enjoyed sixteen great years of getting to travel in their RV. Winter months were spent down south and during the summer they would spend their time with family. In 2001, Tootie and Erle gave up the RV and spent their time enjoying family and friends. Tootie was a member of the Birthday Club, they met once a month and was a favorite thing of her's to attend for over forty years. She had a strong faith in the Lord and had been a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Glendive for over fifty years. Tootie enjoyed boating, cross stitching and was an avid reader. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jess and Flora Anderson; husband of fifty nine years, Erle Mort, and brothers, Clifford and Clarence "Bud" Anderson. Survivors include her children, Erlene Kuntz and her husband Dennis of Eagle, Idaho and Tim Mort and his wife Evelyn of Glendive; five grandchildren, Jeremy Kuntz and his wife Angela of Nampa, Idaho; Travis Kuntz and his wife April of Eagle; Shawn Kuntz and his wife Amy of Meridian, Idaho and Cole and Jillian Mort of Glendive; five great-grandchildren, McKaylee, Daisy, Dakota and Dexter Kuntz and Sierra Corrigan; one sister, LaVonn Johnson and her husband Richard of Florence, Montana; sister-in-law, Elaine Quenzer of Yakima, Washington; a close niece, Mona Humphrey and her husband Dr. Don Hopwood of Glendive; close cousin, Etta Maher and her husband Soda of Glendive and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at: www.silvernale-silhafuneralhome.com.

Loretta "Tootie" Mort

March 16, 1916 - March 10, 2012

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