Mary Beatrice de Fremery

Mary (Molly) Beatrice de Fremery, 95, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Graveside funeral services will be conducted 10:00AM, Friday, October 8, 2010 at the Pilot Butte Cemetery, in Bend, Oregon. Memorial services will be held 10:00 AM Thursday, October 14, 2010 at The Bridge in Sandpoint. Molly was born on April 21, 1915 in Santa Barbara, California. She attended schools in Port Hueneme and Piedmont and started college at the University of California, Berkeley, but left to care for her mother and sisters while her father was sick and died. She lived in Piedmont and Pleasant Hill, California for many years. She lived in Bend, Oregon from 1969 until 2004 when she moved to Sandpoint, ID to be close to her daughter. She was active in the Girl Scouts organization and was a longtime member of the Sierra Club and enjoyed hiking the mountains of Northern California. She also pledged and maintained membership in her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta. She loved gardening; her year-round vegetable garden in Bend was featured in Sunset Magazine. She also enjoyed knitting and sewing for her children and grandchildren. To know Molly was to love Molly. Her smile could brighten your day and warm your heart like a giant beam of sunlight. She was a woman of great courage and adventure, as she traveled extensively during her long life. She spoke at length about her travels with Pete throughout the west. She cruised around the tip of South America on a barge and visited many countries on that long voyage. She loved England and enjoyed the Chelsea Garden Show while there. She also took a garden tour of New Zealand and said that it was one of the most beautiful places she had ever been to. Molly loved horses and traveled to Rome, Italy for the 1998 World Equestrian Games. She took a cruise to Alaska when she was 90 years old and loved to watch the glaciers calve from her balcony. When entertaining visitors in Sandpoint Molly enjoyed train rides and long scenic drives through the countryside admiring the fall colors. She loved to read and had an extensive library covering a wide variety of subjects. She read the newspapers daily and was always interested in what was going on in the world. She is survived by 3 children: Charles Green in Las Vegas, NV; Edward de Fremery in Pittsburgh, CA; and Lexie de Fremery of Sagle, ID; 6 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren; and 2 great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Charles Green and her husband Peter de Fremery, 2 great grandchildren Mitchell Green and Robert Green and 2 sisters Barbara and Lally. Contributions in her memory may be made to Save the Redwoods League.