- Date Of Birth: March 16, 1931
- Date Of Death: January 3, 2009
- State: Montana
Bette Mahala (Hagerman) Huggins, age 77, passed away of a stroke on Saturday, January 3, 2009 at Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Kalispell, Montana. She was born on March 16, 1931 in Verndale, Minnesota to Percy and Marion (McKnight) Hagerman. She was one of six children.
After a short time in Michigan, the family moved to Montana where she met and later married Bill Martin Huggins on September 6, 1952. Tamie, their only child was born on August 27, 1964. They were married for 48 years until his death on September 19, 2000 due to cancer.
Bette was known for her “Ph.D” in pinochle and was ready to play “anytime, anywhere”. She was a good cook, housewife and a great mom and an adored aunt by many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Bill in 2000 and her parents.
Bette is survived by her daughter, Tamie Schroeder and husband Tim of Kalispell, MT; four brothers, Donald Hagerman, Bill Hagerman and wife Muriel and Larry Hagerman and wife Deanna all of Kalispell, MT; Blair Hagerman and wife Carolyn of Idaho; one sister, Myra Finck of Kalispell, MT; two sisters in law, Iona Stidolph of Oregon and Sharon Nyquist of Alaska; a brother in law, Don Huggins of Polson, MT and many nieces and nephews and cousins.
