Margaret "Margie" Mundstock, 66, of Redfield, SD, died Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at Community Memorial Hospital in Redfield. Her funeral will be Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Redfield. Reverend Stephen Perry will officiate. After a time for fellowship and lunch the burial will be in the Rosemound Cemetery near Barnesville, MN at 4:30 p.m. Visitation will be Friday from 5-8:00 p.m. with a Eastern Star Service at 7:00 p.m. at Thelen Funeral Home in Redfield. The family prefers memorials directed to North Dakota 4-H Foundation 323 Family Life Center; Fargo, ND 58105-5436 www.thelenfuneralhome.com

Margie was born November 24, 1942 in Marion, OH to Ralph and Margaret (Pace) Shults. The family moved to Hettinger, ND in 1949, where her father was employed at the Adams County Record. owned by his brother DJ Shults. In 1950, the family moved to Mott, ND, where her father was editor of the Mott Pioneer Press, another Shults family owned newspaper. Margie attended first grade in Ohio, second grade in Hettinger and graduated from Mott Lincoln High School with the class of 1960. While in high school, she was active in FHA, receiving her state FHA Homemakers degree, UMYF, a camper and employee at Wesley Acres, UMC camp, a member of Mott Assembly, Order of Rainbow for Girls and was a state officer. She was a ten year member of the Rancherettes 4-H Club in Mott and the NDSU 4-H club, a member of the 4-H Square Dancers, along with Wally, who frequently danced on Fargo TV's Polka Party. She represented Hettinger County at the State 4-H Dress Review and received numerous 4-H awards, 4-H club leader and recipient of the Hettinger County 4-H alumni award. Margie attended NDSU, class of 1964, majoring in Ag Extension/Home Economics with a minor in Sociology. She was a member of Wesley Foundation, the UMC college youth center and was on the planning committee for the new center.

She met her husband, Walter Mundstock, an Ag Education Major from Barnesville, MN, while he attended NDSU. They were married at the UMC in Mott on August 23, 1963. They moved from Fargo to Mott in 1964, where her husband was editor of the Mott Pioneer Press until 1981. The family moved to Anaconda, MT in 1982, where her husband was editor of the Anaconda Leader.

Margie was a member and a officer and a member of Mott Chapter #81 Eastern Star, Jaycettes, Cub Scouts Den Mother, polling place worker, US Census worker. They were members of the Mott UMC and were UMYF adult leaders. She was employed part-time at the Credit Bureau of Anaconda and a member of Grace Baptist Church.

The family moved to Redfield in 1988 when Wally and Margie purchased the Redfield Press. The paper was sold to News Media in 2000.

Margie was a member of Redfield UMC, Good Samaritan Center Board and VFW auxiliary. Margie and Wally were EMTs in North Dakota and Montana.

While in Mott, Margie and Wally, along with three other couples, built and operated cable TV systems in Mott and Lemmon, SD, which they later sold to Midcontinent Communication.

She was employed for nearly fifty years in the weekly newspaper business as she started working in the family owned Mott Pioneer Press in 1951. She was also employed at the Fargo Forum, anaconda Leader and co-publisher of the Redfield Press. She assisted her husband in editing the North Dakota Mason, the Montana Masonic News and the Golden Times, a senior citizens newspaper.

An ovarian cancer survivor since 1994, she participated in the Redfield Relay for Life, of which the Redfield Press,Serenity and The Healing Touch were corporate sponsors. She was the recipient of a kidney transplant in 2004, after years of dialysis.

Margie enjoyed photography, ceramics, embroidering, knitting, making quilts, doing other crafts and reading. Helping her husband with his landscaping projects was another favorite activity. She also made doll cakes for special occasions. She liked to sew, designed and sewed her wedding dress, sewed formals, centennial outfits and clothes for her family and friends and home interior items including curtains for her home.

Attending her children's school and 4-H activities, camping with her family and friends and "Quiet Times" spent with her husband exploring the three states in which the family lived were also favorite activities.

Margie is survived by her children: Kyle (Lenora) Mundstock of Bismarck, ND; Lori Jo Mundstock (Ron Karr) of Redfield; and Jonae Mundstock of Dallas, TX; two grandsons John (Jenni) Hintz and Taylor Mundstock; two great grandchildren Ashlyn and Carsen Hintz. She is also survived by her sister-in-law Sarah (Greg) Hayes of Pelican Rapids, MN; and her father-in-law Laurence Mundstock of Lake Park, MN and a niece, nephew and many cousins.

She was preceded in death by her husband Wally in 2005 and her parents. She was followed in death by her little friend and companion Daisy, her miniature poodle.