A memorial service was held at Fort Calhoun November 29, 1990, for Marie Magdalena Feldhusen who died November 17, 1990, in Mountain View Care Center in Kimberly, Idaho.

Marie Magdalene Feldhusen was born April 19, 1902, at Fort Calhoun, the youngest child of Carl H. L. and Katherine Phebe Sierk Feldhusen.

Her father owned a general store at Fort Calhoun. He also bought the potato flour process and machinery to the United States from Germany. When she was nine years old, she moved with her family to Boise, Idaho, where she graduated from high school. She attended the College of Idaho at Caldwell and graduated from the University of Idaho.

She taught in several high schools in Idaho, including Sand Point, Pocatello and Malad before entering Columbia University in New York City where she received her master’s degree in home economics.

Her teaching career took her over much of the United States. She taught at Anderson, South Carolina, at Ferry Hall near Chicago and at Fargo, North Dakota. She also taught at the State Teacher’s College at Peru, Nebraska; the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale, Illinois; and at East New Mexico University at Portales, New Mexico.

She taught for persons who were on sabbatical at St. Olaf’s in Northfield, Minnesota; Sioux State, Marie, Michigan; Middlebury College in Vermont; and at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

In the late 1950s, she moved back to Boise, to the family home of her parents where she lived for many years before moving to Treasure Valley Nursing Home in Boise, and then to Mountain View Care Center.

She was a member of Second Presbyterian Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Julia; and her brother, John.

She is survived by three nieces, Jean Jesser of Kimberly, Idaho; Julia Robert of Washington, D.C.; and Dorothy Burns of Evanston, Illinois; and by two nephews, John Feldhusen, Jr. of Kimberly, Idaho; and John Barnum of Harper, Kansas. Several cousins, including Richard and Dorothy Sieves of Fort Calhoun also survive her.

She was cremated at Twin Falls, Idaho.