Old Missoula

Updated Dickerman Family – Miller Creek, Missoula – 1920

C. E. ‘Roy’ Dickerman and Marguerite Sieverts Berry Gilder

Married 1919 in Missoula

Parents of:

Richard M. Gilder – born 1911 – St. Regis, Mt

Charles S. Gilder – born 1912 – Missoula, Mt

Agnes Alice Gilder Smith – born 1914 – Bonner, Mt

Margarette Augusta Gilder Maclay – born 1915 – Mullan, Id

Clarence Elroy Dickerman – born 1920 – Missoula, Mt

Myra Ruth Dickerman Ladwig – born 1922 – Missoula, Mt

Lois Irene Dickerman Hames – born 1924 – Missoula, Mt

Jessie Lamar Dickerman – born 1925 – Missoula, Mt

Marguerite was born in Bozeman, Mt in 1884 and came with her mother, stepfather and 2 sisters to the Missoula/Lolo/Florence area in 1899. With her sister, Agnes, she attended the University of Montana – class of 1908 – and obtained a Montana teaching certificate. She taught in several places in Western Montana, including Augusta, Drummond and St. Regis. She was teaching in St. Regis at the time of the huge 1910 fire and was evacuated via a boxcar. She married Charles M. Gilder of Colfax, Washington in 1910 in Wallace, Idaho and moved after that to Missoula and then to Mullan, Idaho. Her husband, a Spanish American War Vet., was killed in an industrial accident in Mullan, Idaho in 1916, leaving her with 4 small children. She then moved back to Missoula where her mother and 2 sisters lived. She purchased property in the Miller Creek area, and married Clarence ‘Roy’ Dickerman in 1919 in Missoula. After having 4 children with her first husband, Charles M. Gilder, she subsequently had 4 more with Clarence Dickerman. The family operated a small dairy at their home in Miller Creek while raising their eight children. They delivered milk to the fort and south side of Missoula. She had been active in local 4H and taught for a time at Cold Springs School. Marguerite died in 1934 after a long illness. A sister, Agnes Lauber, then assisted in caring for their younger children.  Clarence ‘Roy’ Dickerman was born in Wisconsin in 1884 and died in Missoula in 1973.

As with many families from that era the dedication, perseverance and strength of these hardy souls is astounding. After surviving the devastating loss of her husband in Idaho, Marguerite found a new life in Missoula with the gentle and cordial, Roy ‘Pops’ Dickerman. It could not have been easy.

Compiled by Don Gilder – 2016