Margret May Rock Rupp, 77, passed away on Friday, June 27, 2014, at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, with family by her side. 

She was born on Nov. 27, 1936, in Whitefish, the youngest of six children to Sylvester “Red” and Mary Marie Gauzer Rock. She attended Whitefish Elementary and High School. 

After school, Margie married her high school sweetheart, James "Pat" Henry Rupp from Columbia Falls. Margie and Pat raised seven children and were married for nearly 59 years. Family and friends were the most important aspect of life for Margie. She enjoyed spending summers with the Rock clan celebrating family and the Christmas holidays in West Glacier, where it was nothing short of a true live Norman Rockwell painting. Margie retired from Whitefish Elementary School, where she loved seeing and being around children. 

Margie was a social butterfly. She loved getting out and visiting friends and being part of the community of Whitefish. She belonged to a bowling league on Wednesday nights, and she also started bowling with the Tuesday bowling housewives. 

Margie was very involved in the Winter Carnival as the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. She was knighted in 1993 as “Two Queen Mama" after having two of her daughters being crowned Winter Carnival Queens. Margie was a very active member of the Ladies of the Moose, Ladies of the Kalispell Eagles, Ladies of the V.F.W., The Red Hats Grannies, and the Happy Valley Water board. Margie’s favorite pastime was hanging out with her bridge and bingo friends.

Margie was preceded in death by her father and mother, Sylvester and Mary Rock; her brothers, Robert and Walter; her sisters, Alice Shero, Betty Hale and Baby Ruth Rock; her mother- and father-in-law, James Henry Rupp and Eula Fletcher Rupp Hopper; brother-in-law, Warren Kennedy; and granddaughter, Courtney Rupp.

Margie is survived by her husband James "Pat" Rupp  of Whitefish; her children, Jim Rupp and Laurie of Boise, Idaho, Bob Rupp and Gerri of Columbia Falls, Linda Hale and Wayne of Selah, Wash., Susan Haag and Steven of Malta, Tom Rupp of Kalispell, Donn Rupp of Boston, and Deanna Kelly and Dan of Whitefish; additionally, 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; and not to forget numerous nieces and nephews.

A celebration of life will be held at 1 p.m. on Aug. 16 at the Moose Lodge. 

The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to the Moose Lodge for the Moose Hearts (Moose kids).