Agnes Medvec

Agnes Mae (Lohse) Medvec, 86, of Tracy, a homemaker, died of natural causes on Monday, October 22, 2012 at Peace Hospice.A visitation will be held one hour prior to the funeral liturgy, which will be held on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at Holy Spirit Catholic Church.Burial will follow at Sand Coulee Cemetery.Schnider Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.Agnes was born in Heron Lake, Minnesota in the family home on the farm on July 12, 1926 to Chris Lohse and Matilda (Henkels) Lohse. She attended country school then was bussed to town when the school closed. She enjoyed working on the farm, helping with all the farm animals and learning how to cook and bake from her mom. The family barn was blown over a few times by terrible storms that the family waited out in their basement. The kids enjoyed jumping out of the hay loft of the barn into the cut hay below, and making numerous mud pies (some of them are probably still baking in the sun). They raised horses, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and guineas. Agnes graduated from Heron Lake High School in June, 1943 and Electronic Radio TV Institute in Minneapolis as a Radio Operator in 1944.She moved to Montana to work as a radio operator at Western Airlines where she met her future husband, Bill Medvec, who also worked at the airlines in the cargo department. Bill had to quit his job at the airlines when they married in 1947 at St. James Catholic Church in Sand Coulee because of nepotism laws. They moved to Bethany, Missouri where her husband went to Watchmaker School. They moved to Conrad, Montana and then to Chester with their two children and then to Great Falls where another child was born, and then to the Medvec Family home in Tracy where their fourth child was born. Many students will remember Agnes as the assistant school lunch lady at Centerville School where she worked for 10 years. Agnes was a great cook and baker, she passed her passion on to her daughter. There were always flowers, vegetables and fruit trees in her yard. Agnes was a 4H cooking and sewing leader for many years and accompanied her husband and family on many Boy Scout Camping adventures.She also volunteered as a voting assistant for many years. Agnes loved traveling with her husband and family to almost every state in the US. Agnes is survived by her daughter, Susan (Les) Morgan of Helena; sons Michael (Carol) Medvec of Vancouver, WA, Bruce (Debbie) Medvec of Tracy, and Gary (Brenda) Medvec of East Helena; sisters Mary Genevieve Mocol of Mankato, MN, Betty Olsem of Fulda, MN, Frances Wolitzski of Decatur, GA and Lorraine Witzel of Fulda, MN; brother Bill Lohse of Heron Lake, MN; eight grandchildren, Michael Medvec, Shelley (Patrick) Long, Bill (Tristan) Lee, Christina (Mark) Lee-Henderson, Rena (Eric) Nelson, Jace (Morgan) Medvec, Stacia Medvec and Kyra Medvec; and nine great-grandchildren, Geralyn Mullen, Michael Mullen, Matthew Long, Chelsea Long, Destinee Lee, Tyler Henderson, Payton Henderson, Keenan Henderson and Dayton Medvec.She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Medvec in 2012.Memorials are suggested to Peace Hospice, 1101 26th Str. So., Great Falls, MT 59405.