Edna Louise Settelmeyer

Our loving mother, grandmother and sister, Edna Louise Settelmeyer, passed away on April 24, 2013 at 94 years old with her grandson present. She will be laid to rest on Friday, May 3, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. with a graveside service at Pilot Butte Cemetery in Bend. Oregon, followed by a reception in the Three Sisters Room at the Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center in Bend. Edna was born on October 6, 1918 in Prineville, Oregon, the oldest of three and only daughter of Joe and Grace Bryson. She grew up on the Central Oregon High Desert on Bear Creek at the family ranch, first attending school in a one room schoolhouse at Pringle Flats, then high school in Prineville. While a young girl, Edna developed her many talents for cooking, sewing and gardening as well as helping with the everyday ranch work. In 1938, she married her forever best friend and sweetheart, Jacob Pau I. Settelmeyer, together moving to the Settelmeyer Ranch outside Brothers, Oregon. In the spirit of the true ranch wife, in 1940 while helping with cattle branding, she gave birth one day later to a son at St Charles Hospital in Bend. Later she would have a daughter and another son and continued her help to work the ranch. In the ensuing years, the family would eventually sell the ranch and move into Bend, back to Brothers briefly where she was the post mistress, then to Eugene and Newport, Oregon and finally to Terrebonne, Oregon where her husband and children continued the ranching traditions. After a brief interim in the hardware and restaurant business, Edna and Jake finally retired and traveled extensively throughout the west, enjoying their easier going lifestyle of camping, fishing, loving nature, visiting family, regularly spending winters in warmer climates and enjoying trips to Reno. Edna and Jake settled down for a quieter retirement in Newberg, Oregon, and after 62 years of an incredibly loving and devoted marriage, Jacob passed away in 2000. A year later, Ednas youngest son, Max of Tigard, Oregon also died. In her final years, Edna would enjoy gardening, reading and visiting her children and grandchildren. She eventually remained in Boise, Idaho after a sudden impairing health event where her oldest son, Jerry and wife and grandson, Scott and family reside. While there she so enjoyed her great grandson, Nicholas and the family pets. Edna is survived by a brother, Claude Bryson of Emmett. Idaho; a brother, Harold Bryson of Hermiston, Oregon; a son, Jerry and his wife, Janice Settelmeyer of Boise, Idaho; daughter, Norita Donaldson of Aloha, Oregon; daughter-in-law, Susan Settelmeyer of Tigard, Oregon; eight grandchildren, their spouses; nine great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. A graveside service will be held at 1:00 PM on Friday, May 3, 2013 at Pilot Butte Cemetery, Bend, OR. Funeral Home: Niswonger-Reynolds Funeral Home New 105 NW Irving Ave Bend, OR US 97701

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Edna Louise Settelmeyer

October 6, 1918 - April 24, 2013