Dolores "Dee" (Schwarz) Hegstrom
Dolores "Dee" (Schwarz) Hegstrom
Dolores "Dee" (Schwarz) Hegstrom, 96, of Boise, passed
away peacefully on Saturday, June 22
,
2013.
The daughter of Dr
.
Peter
and Rose Ann Schwarz
,
Dee was born in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho on September 6
,
1916.
Dee attended school in Pocatello and earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in Elementary Education from Idaho State University
.
She
began her teaching career in Lava Hot Springs
,
where
she met her future husband, Bud Hegstrom. They were married in Pocatello on
August 16
,
1939. They moved to Sun Valley to run the pharmacy during WWII
and opened their own drug store in Ketchum a few years later
.
Dee
resumed teaching in Ketchum while helping Bud operate their store
.
She
and Bud enjoyed hunting with Ernest and Mary Hemingway, Gary Cooper
,
Clark
Gable, selling fishing licenses to Bing Crosby and other notables
,
and
forming many lifelong friendships
.
Dee relocated to Boise with her husband and children and taught
at Cole School until her retirement
.
Many
Boiseans have benefited from her dedication and remarkable teaching talent and
have enjoyed her annual 3
rd
grade field trips
up the street to visit the Hegstrom livestock menagerie at her home. Dee was
devoted to her Catholic faith and taught religious education to children at her
Ketchum parish. She enjoyed outdoor sports and supported the Ada County
Sheriff's Posse and EHCAPA Bareback Riders. She was a lifelong member of Delta
Kappa Gamma as well as the Retired Teachers (Boise
&
Idaho),
St
.
Al
'
s Auxiliary, Ketchum
/
Hailey
Altar Society
,
St
.
Mark's Altar Society and Cole School PTA
.
Family
and friends will always remember her for the warm welcome they received at her
home
,
accompanied by the world’s best homemade chicken noodle soup and
cherry pie.
Dee is survived by her daughters Ann Hegstrom and Mary Lynn Gloth
and husband Steve of Boise and grandchildren Nicholas of Star and Chelsea of St
.
Louis,
Mo.
A viewing will be held Thursday, June 27
,
2013
,
from
3-5 p.m. at the Alden
-
Waggoner Funeral Chapel, Boise. A vigil prayer service will be
held Thursday, June 27
,
2013
,
at 7 p.m. at St
.
Mark's Catholic Church
,
Boise.
Funeral services will be held Friday
,
June
28
,
2013, at 11 a.m. at St
.
Mark's
.
A
luncheon at the church will follow the service, prior to burial at Dry Creek
Cemetery, Boise
.
Friends and loved ones are invited to make donations to the
charity of their choice.
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