Linda Concordia (Zeller) Kuebler (1908 - 2004)

Born 26 Nov 1908 in Carson, ND

Ancestors

Wife of Emil Kuebler — married 5 May 1929 (to 22 Jan 1950) in Carson, Grant, North Dakota

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 2004 at age 95 in Billings MT

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Biography

Linda Concordia (Zeller) Kuebler Skinner was born on Nov. 26 the, 1908 in Carson, ND to Ludwig and Katherina Zeller. She grew up in Heil, ND and received her education in Carson. Linda worked in her father’s meat market at a very young age and managed an IGA store in Mott, ND at the age of 18.

Linda met her first husband Emil (Butch) Kuebler when she was 6 years old. The family farms bordered each other. On May 5th, 1929 they were married and to this union 4 children were born, Marvin, Harvey Ronald, Marlene and Dick. They came to the Ft. Peck area in the early dam construction days and lived there until Emil’s death, from a plane crash, in 1950. She later married Merle Skinner on Aug 24th, 1954.

Merle and Linda first lived in Malta, then north of Ft. Peck on her farm, then in Glasgow, MT, and then in Colfax, WA where she managed a motel, and later moved to Spokane, WA. where Merle died in 1980. She moved to Billings, with her daughter Marlene, in 2002.

Linda was a active person. She loved her garden and fruit trees, canning everything. Fishing was another great love, as was playing Rummy Cube and watching her favorite baseball team, the Seattle Mariners.

Preceding her in death were her mother and father, Katherina and “Louie”, all her sisters and brothers, Mary (Bleick) Albert, Theodore, Clara (Stradtmann) William, Ella (Creighton) Anna (Clayton) Joe, Charlie, Helena (Grosz), Ernest and son-in-law, Dr. Charles Sternhagen and her infant son, Harvey Ronald.

Survivors include her son Emil Marvin and his wife Kathy of Rancho Palos Verde, CA., a daughter Marlene of Billings, MT. and her son Dick and wife Karen, of Nashua MT. She had 18 grandchildren, 58 great grandchildren and 1 great great grand child.

Linda lived by her favorite saying, “Never give up”.

Her remains were cremated.

A Memorial service was held at The First Lutheran Church on April 4, 2005 and her remains were interned at the Glasgow Highland cemetery.

Sources

• http://www.kltz.com/obitsearch.php?select=2005-03-01

• http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv68759

Guide to the New Deal in Montana/Fort Peck Dam Oral History Project 1987-1989

OH 1080: LINDA KUEBLER SKINNER INTERVIEW 2 tape(s), Summary 5 pages Linda Skinner (b. 1908) was a resident of the Fort Peck, Montana area during the construction of the Fort Peck Dam in the late 1930s. She discusses her work in a meat market in New Deal; living conditions; recreation; the slide disaster; work in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers information booth at the dam site. Interviewed by Mary Murphy, July 31, 1987, Fort Peck, MT.