Buller, Violet Rose Richert (1924-2010)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2010 Oct 18 p. 21

Birth date: 1924 May 19

text of obituary:

VIOLET BULLER

Violet Rose Buller, 86, of Glendive, Mont., died Oct. 9, 2010, at Glendive Medical Center Extended Care. She was born May 19, 1924, to Benjamin and Susie (Boese) Richert at their home near rural Richey.

She was educated at the Fairview School in rural Dawson County. On Dec. 28, 1941, she married Vern Buller at Bethlehem Mennonite Church.

She and her husband farmed nine miles east of Richey from 1942 until they moved to Paraguay in 1954, where Vern helped clear land and worked construction. In 1956 they returned to Richey to continue farming until 1960, when they moved back to Paraguay. They stayed there until 1965 when the call to return to the Richey area brought them back. In the late 1980s they moved to Lame Deer, and in 2006 they moved to Glendive.

She was an independent and self-sufficient woman whose life was devoted to her husband and children. She raised large gardens and canned all of the produce that she could. She contributed her cooking skills to feeding the children attending the Northern Cheyenne Mennonite Church Bible Camp for more than 20 years. She was also an accomplished seamstress and quilter. Her denim quilts were often in demand. She played the piano and organ for many church services and functions.

Survivors include a son, Tom Buller and his wife, Linda, of Glendive; three daughters, Kathy Gadomski and her husband, Doug, of Albuquerque, N.M., Nina Gibbs and her husband, Dave, of Republic, Ohio, and Cecilia Jenkins of Albuquerque; a twin sister, Viola Unruh of Wolf Point; six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Vern, in 2008; three sisters; two brothers; an infant granddaughter and an infant grandson.

Funeral services were held in the Chapel of the Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home in Glendive. Burial was in the Bethlehem Mennonite Cemetery in Bloomfield.