THE LAST VIEW from the BRIDGE

MUNCIE ELIZABETH MORGER OBITUARY

Mary Elizabeth Kacso was born on September 9th, 1929, in Detroit, Michigan. She was the oldest daughter of Mary Elizabeth Weinrauch Kacso, and Gideon Louis Kacso. Her parents moved to Melvindale, Michigan when she was 3 months old. She attended Dasher School grades K, 1 st and 2nd and St. Mary Magdalene 3rd to 8th grades. She graduated from St. Francis Xavier High School in 1947. She was hired by Ford Motor Company in November of 1947 and was employed there until 1953

Muncie loved school and her favorite classes were English, History, and Math. She always had her nose in a book and told the story of how she used to sneak reading a book during other classes.

She married her high school sweetheart in 1950, and the marriage produced four children, John, Jeffrey, Jennifer, and Jerome. The marriage ended in 1981 after 31 years.

At this time she resumed her maiden name Kacso and Muncie as her legal name.

She was often asked if Muncie was a nickname. Her Grandmother and Mother were also Mary Elizabeth and they were born in Hungary. Grandmother called her daughter Ma-rish-ka and her granddaughter, Muncie. The name was used by all the family.

Muncie held various jobs as a single person. She was employed by General Electric a year, at Frames Unlimited full and part time for 10 years, two years at a Facial Salon, one year at a doctor's office, and at the American Lung Association for 5 years before moving to Montana in December of 1992.

Muncie always had a love of volunteering. She began by writing a column for the Church paper in Allen Park, Michigan. She was a room mother every year during her children's elementary school years. She took Adult Education classes at the high school or Community Center every season.

The reason for her move to Montana was daughter Jennifer and son-in-law Tom were hired as Respiratory Therapists at Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls in 1987. Five years later, her first two grandsons, and a new home for the Graupmann family brought Muncie to Great Falls in 1992.

She met Wally Morger on May 9, 1993, and moved to Fort Benton in November.

Her passion was Fort Benton, its history, the archeology dig at the Old Fort, the Visitors Center, the Joe Overholser Research Center, and writing the "View from the Bridge" for the River Press.

Wally was a rural mail route carrier for 41 years and Muncie became qualified and assisted for 6 years. She loved the mail route and had many stories about happenings on that route.

One of her favorite stories was why and how she began writing the "View from the Bridge." She was coordinating the Visitors Information Center and thought that writing about the Visitors would be interesting to the readers of the River Press. She wrote only from Memorial Day to Labor Day. At the Governor's Conference on Tourist, the committee from Fort Benton decided that she should write every week. It was at this time that the View was put on the Fort Benton website.

When Readers would tell her that they read the View, she would try to explain that she did not attend college. She was a depression baby and very few students went on after high school. She bought a cassette tape at a garage sale for .25 cents on "How to write." It basically said to write as you speak. One reader from Geraldine said, "That is exactly how I feel, as though you are talking to me." Muncie loved all her readers.

She was preceded in death by her Kacso and Nagy grandparents, her parents Mary and Gideon, her son-in-law Tom Graupmann, her sister Pauline Winger, Audra Morger Bonilla, and Lisa Morger Miller, and the "Wind Beneath Her Wings," her husband Wally Morger.

Muncie is survived by sons John and wife Jane Chidester, Jeffrey and wife Barbara,

Jennifer and husband Mike, Jerome and wife Sherry and grandsons: Ben, Bryan, Joshua, Joseph, Josiah, and great grandson Ari, and many very special nieces and nephews. Also surviving are her extended Morger family Valerie and husband Mark, Randy, Venetta and husband John, Darcy and husband Glenn, Shane and wife Geri, Brian, Wallis and husband Van, Greg and wife Jamie Bonilla, many grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Cremation has taken place and no services will be held honoring Muncie's wishes. She hoped that you expressed your feelings for her while she was here. She just wanted you to remember her when you view the beauty of Montana, Fort Benton, and the Missouri River. As she often said, "See you there."