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Obituary of Irma Maxine (McCarter) Pertrick

Irma Maxine McCarter Petrick, 97, a resident of Hagerman, passed away on Sunday, March 6, 2016 at DeSano Place Suites in Shoshone.

Irma was born on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Polson, Montana on September 2, 1918 to William and Mattie (Thorpe) McCarter. In the spring of 1924 her parents returned to Corral, Idaho and took over management of the McCarter family ranch. Irma was a skilled horsewoman and enjoyed helping her parents on the ranch. She attended the Corral Creek Grade School and graduated from Camas County High School in Fairfield in 1936.       

After high school Irma and her sister, Wilma, went to a school in Boise that trained young people for skilled jobs in the clothing industry.  She was an excellent seamstress and sewed all her own clothes. She then moved to the San Francisco Bay area to study commercial art at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.  Irma worked for 30 years in the civil service for the Navy living most of those years in Burlingame, near San Francisco.   

When she attended her 30th high school reunion she became reacquainted with her classmate Herman Petrick and they were married September 23, 1968 in Winnemucca, Nevada and settled on Herman's ranch near Hill City.

Irma loved her garden and her flowers.  She was an artist and had some of her art displayed at the fair.  She was in her eighties when she wrote a book for her family “Cousins: McCarter and Thorpe Families 1802 – 2004."

Irma is survived by: her sisters, Wilma West of Oakland, Calif. and Eileen Hanson of Jerome; sister-in-law Mercedes McCarter of Boise; nieces, Naoma Spackman of Fairfield; Jacqueline Robinson of Hagerman; Mary Sue Lewallen of Las Vegas, Nevada; Laura West of San Francisco, Calif.; Becky West of Oakland, Calif.; Kate McCarter of Portland, Oregon; Joan McCarter of Boise, Idaho; and nephews, Bill (Mary) Palmer of St. Helens, Oregon; Carter West of Malden, Massachusetts; and Bill McCarter of Boise; and 15 great nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, William S. McCarter and Mattie Thorpe McCarter; her husband, Herman W. Petrick; her sisters, Marge McHan and Agnes McFee; and her brother, Joe McCarter.

The family would like to extend a special thanks to all the staff at DeSano Place Assisted Living for all they have done for Irma over the years.    Irma was very partial to the Idaho Youth Ranch and in lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be sent to the Idaho Youth Ranch.

Birth	2 Sep 1918	Kalispell, Flathead, Montana
Residence	1920	Dayton, Lake, Montana
Residence	1930	Corral, Camas, Idaho
Residence	1935 - 1993	Bliss, Gooding, Idaho
Residence	1 Apr 1940	Corral, Camas, Idaho
Marriage	6 Dec 1943	Corral, Camas, Idaho - William T. McCune
Residence	1953	San Bruno, San Mateo, California
Residence	1956	San Mateo, San Mateo, California
Marriage	15 Mar 1957	San Mateo County, California - James Thomas Ward
Marriage	23 Sep 1968	Winnemucca, Humboldt, Nevada - Herman William Petrick
Marriage	23 Sep 1968	Winnemucca, Humboldt, Nevada - Herman William Petrick
Death	6 Mar 2016	Shoshone, Lincoln, Idaho

Spouse

Herman William Petrick (1919 - 1994)

Spouse

James Thomas Ward (1928 - 1994)

Spouse

William T. McCune ( - )

Father	William Senter McCARTER (1887 - 1977)
Mother	Mattie May THORPE (1892 - 1991)
Sibling	Marjorie Nadine McCarter (1912 - 1980)
Sibling	Agnes Muriel McCarter (1913 - 1997)
Sibling	Wilma Elaine McCarter (1920 - 2018)
Sibling	Eileen Marian McCarter (1922 - 2016)
Sibling	Joe Thorpe McCARTER (1930 - 2015)