Elsie Eckert Fletcher

Elsie Eckert Fletcher, 91, died Wednesday evening, Jan. 21, 2015, at Cabinet Peaks Medical Center in Libby. She was born Oct. 1, 1923, in Burns Lake, British Columbia, to Frank and Ethel Shaw Eckert.  When Elsie was 18 years old she moved to Seattle, Wash., where she attended business school and later worked for the Civil Service as a bookkeeper.

While living in Seattle, Elsie met and married Harold Fletcher on Feb. 14, 1944. After Harold was discharged from the U.S. Navy, they moved to Libby and bought a homestead where Elsie continued to live and raise her family for the remainder of her life.  

Elsie was well known for her ability to make everything thrive and grow. She always had a large garden and gave away whatever surplus she couldn’t use herself. Over the years, Elsie raised cows, pigs, horses, rabbits, chickens, ducks, cats and dogs. She was not one to let her territory go unguarded and always kept a loaded gun handy and was ready at a minute’s notice to shoot or scare off anything she felt was trespassing on her land or stealing apples from her orchard.

She will always be remembered for her feisty nature and her way of saying what was on her mind.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Harlan and Alan Fletcher; and two grandsons, Kirk Fletcher, Jr., and Brady Fellenberg.

Survivors include her two sons, Kirk and Morris Fletcher of Libby; two daughters, Nancy Miller (Steve) of Westminster, Calif., and Carolyn Fellenberg (Bill) of Yaak; 13 grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 14, 2015, at Schnackenberg & Nelson Funeral Home Chapel in Libby. Online condolences and memories may be shared at www.schnackenbergfh.com.