Wahkiakum Eagle-February 2000

BAUER, Beatrice J.	
	
  Age 74, a Puget Island resident.  She was born in Minnesota, the 
daughter of William and Gertrude Jurgenson.
  She worked as a telephone operator most of her life, beginning that 
career at the age of 17.  She retired from U.S. West Communications 
where she was a member of the Communications Workers Union.  
  She married William Bauer in Tuscon, Ariz., in 1972 and they moved to 
the Wahkiakum area in 1977 to make their home on Puget Island.  
  She enjoyed creating ceramics, roller skating, riding motor-cycles 
and traveling.
  Survivors include her husband, William, at home; sons, Ed Longtine of 
Wisconsin and Gary Longtine of Nevada; stepson, Bruce Bauer of New 
York; daughter, Laurie Schwartz of Tuscon; stepdaughters, Trudy Ann 
Bauer of New York and Carla Bauer of Albuquerque, N.M.; a brother, Bill
Jurgenson of Wisconsin; a sister, Ramona Wirl of Wisconsin; and several 
grandchildren, great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
  There were no services.
  Dowling Funeral Home was in charge.


Beatrice J. (Jurgenson) Longtine Bauer
Burial place unknown
20 Feb 1926-21 Feb 2000
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)