Dear Editor: God Bless the Baumeisters

Dear Editor,

My name is Laura, and I live in Twin Bridges. My husband, Tom McCarthy, passed away two years ago this August.

We all remember the winter of 2022 with all the snow. Tom was blessed to have Bart Baumeister as a friend and his boss at the Pipestone Quarry. He, his wife Natalie, and their son Gage helped me so much through my first winter alone. Anytime I needed them, they were there to help me. They cleared snow from my driveway, helped me with my firewood, and even bought and installed a new door for me. My septic froze up twice. Bart prevented it from happening this past winter by telling me to put more dirt on the area where my lines had frozen up. He even brought me two large bales of straw to put on the grass seed I had planted over the added dirt.

Gage lives in Twin Bridges and is closer to me. He was always willing to take time to run up to help me in so many ways, always reminding me that I was family now and that they would always be there when I needed help.

Learning to adjust to becoming a widow was much easier because of the Baumeister family's willingness to help me. In my saddest and greatest time of need, I wouldn't have made it without their help.

God Bless each one of you, and thank you so much.

LAURA MCCARTHY

Twin Bridges, Montana