The Saint Mary's Cemetery is located in Missoula County and there are approximately 3,500 gravesites. It was established in the 1880s.
Hilda Kreitzberg was born on April 2. 1900 and she died on July 17, 2000 at the age of 100.
"Hilda S. Kreitzberg
MISSOULA - Hilda S. Kreitzberg, 100, Missoula's oldest continuous resident, died July 17, 2000, at Community Medical Center. Born April 7, 1900, she was one of six children of Anton Schilling and Emma Eigeman. Anton came from Germany in 1884 and Emma, her father, brother and four sisters from Switzerland in 1890. All settled in Missoula and raised the families of Schilling, Eigeman, Sidler, Bickel, Kramis and Richlie.
Hilda's greatest joy was spending the summers at her cabin on Placid Lake where she was visited by her rapidly growing family. Each morning she cooked pancakes for all hands, perhaps one hundred thousand from 1950-1998.
Playing a weekly game with her bridge club was an important part of her life for over 50 years. She often won. She continued to play bridge very well to the end.
Mrs. Kreitzberg is survived by her four sons George, James, Richard of Salem, Ore., and Carl of Media, Penn.; 21 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at St. Anthony's Church on Wednesday, July 19 at 10 a.m. with the Rev. John P. Miller officiating. Internment will be at Saint Mary's Cemetery next to her husband, John S. Kreitzberg, who died in 1948."
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Some major events that took place during Hilda Kreitzberg's lifetime: Women have the right to vote, First Rose Bowl parade, first motion picture and automobile, first appearance of Mickey Mouse, the Great Depression, WW I, WW II, Korean War, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Atomic Bombs dropped, natural disasters, beginning of the Civil Rights movement, Prohibition, Woodstock, the assassination of two presidents: William McKinley and John Kennedy.
1900 - *Hilda Schilling-Kreitzberg was born
1901 - President William McKinley is assassinated
1902 - January 1 - The first Rose Bowl is held
1903 - December 17 - Wright Brothers succeed in the first plane flight
1904 - November 24 - Field tractor is invented by Benjamin Holt
1906 - The San Francisco earthquake
1910 - February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
1914 - July 11 - Babe Ruth makes his major league debut
1914 - World War I Begins in Europe
1915 - January 25 - Bell and Watson conducted the 1st telephone conversation
1916 - August 25 - The National Park Service is officially created
1918 - World War I Ends
1919 - National Prohibition of alcoholic beverages
1920 - 19th Amendment: Giving all American Women the Right to Vote
1921 - September 7-8 - The first Miss America pageant
1923 - March 2 - Time Magazine is published for the first time.
1923 - *Son: George was born to Hilda and John Kreitzberg
1924 - June 2 - All Indians are designated citizens by U.S. Congress
1925 - *Son: James was born to Hilda and John Kreitzberg
1928 - May 15 - First appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film
1929 - Stock Market Crashes
1930s - The Great Depression
1931 - March 3 - The Star-Spangled Banner become the national anthem
1934 - *Son: Richard was born to Hilda and John Kreitzberg
1935 - August 14 - The Social Security Act is passed
1937 - *Son: Carl was born to Hilda and John Kreitzberg
1938 - October 30 - Orson Welles broadcasts War of the Worlds radio drama: Martian invasion on earth
1941 - Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor – U.S. Declares War on Japan
1945 - Atomic Bombs Dropped
1945 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Dies
1946 - First televisions were sold
1947 - Jackie Robinson: 1st African American Major League Baseball Player
1950 - January 17 - The Brinks robbery in Boston $2.8 million stolen
1955 - U.S. Supreme Court Orders Desegregation of Schools
1955 - July 17 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California
1953 - December 30 - The first color televisions go on sale.
1960 - Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Begin “Civil Rights Movement”
1962 - February 20 - Lt. Col. John Glenn, first U.S. astronaut in orbit the Earth
1963 - November 2 - President John F. Kennedy Assassinated
1963 - Oswald Shot by Jack Ruby
1965 - First Heart Transplant
1966 - July 1 - Medicare begins
1969 - 400,000 People Attended “Woodstock”
1969 - July 20 - Apollo program: Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
1970 - April 22 - The first Earth Day celebration is held
1971 - Constitutional Amendment 26: Lowering Voting Age to 18
1973 - Skylab, USA's first space station launched
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns Presidency over Watergate
1975 - January 6 - The television show Wheel of Fortune premiers
1977 - May 25 - The movie Star Wars premiers
1979 - Three Mile Island nuclear accident
1981 - August 12 - IBM introduces the personal computer
1982 - November 13 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated
1985 - November 20 - Windows operating system is released.
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger accident
1989 - The Berlin Wall crumbles
1990 - Hubble Space Telescope placed in orbit
1990 - March 18 - Largest art theft in U.S. history occurs in Boston, Massachusetts
1993 - World Trade Center bombing
1995 - October 2 - O.J. Simpson acquitted
1995 - 168 killed in Oklahoma City bombing
1997 - February 9 - The Simpsons the longest running prime-time cartoon television series in history
2000 - *Sadly Hilda Kreitzberg passed away