{"id":82143,"date":"2024-06-06T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2024\/06\/06\/elyse-matejovsky\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:40:01","slug":"elyse-matejovsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2024\/06\/06\/elyse-matejovsky\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Elyse Matejovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Elyse \u201cLee\u201d Matejovsky, 92, of Hope, Idaho, died on June 2, 2024, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.<br \/>\n\t  The eldest child of Thelma (Herting) and Leo Durkin, Lee was born in 1931 in Wolf Point, Mont. When she was three years old, the family  moved to Renton, Wash., where she lived until age 15. There, she developed a lifelong  love of gardening, classical  music and fine art.<br \/>\n\t  On returning to Wolf Point, Lee roomed with Hazel Neutgens  while working at the Sweet Shop Caf\u00e9. She met Charles Matejovsky soon after  he returned from military service in Korea. They married  in 1949 and moved to his family homestead northeast of Wolf Point, where they stayed for several years before  moving into town to be closer to schools. In the early 1960s, the family moved to a farm just east of Wolf Point. During the winter months, Lee helped Chuck draw plans and finish the interiors of their rental homes.<br \/>\n\t  Lee was active in the Wolf Point business community. She was a talented seamstress with a keen eye for color, fabric  and fashion. In March of 1963, she, Florence Lenz and Mary Rowan opened a ladies\u2019 dress shop called the Classic Shop. Traveling to Minneapolis,  Minn., to choose clothing for the next season topped Lee\u2019s list of favorite things to do. After they sold the shop in the late 1960s, she opened and operated a fabric store called the Fabric Boutique.<br \/>\n\t  As a business owner, Lee became an active member of the Wolf Point Chamber of Commerce. She was also active  on the county and state political front. In 1980, she helped Ted Schwinden with his successful gubernatorial campaign. In August 1983, he appointed her to the Women  in Employment Advisory Council for the state of Montana.<br \/>\n\t  She also worked for several  years with the U.S. Census Bureau, interviewing people on the Fort Peck Reservation.  In 1992, she was elected  to the Roosevelt County Commission, becoming the first-ever female to serve as commissioner there.<br \/>\n\t  Lee had an unusually fine voice. She loved to sing and often sang the blues as she <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82308,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82143\/revisions\/82308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82143"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=82143"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=82143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}