Ann Tucker, age 90, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and formerly of Huron, died Monday, February 7, 2005, at Idaho Falls. Her funeral service will be at 2:00 PM Saturday, February 12, at the Church of Christ in Huron with A M Johnston and Oris Bryant officiating. Burial will be at Altoona Cemetery, rural Hitchcock. Friends may call from 8:00 to 9:00 PM this Friday evening at the Welter Funeral Home or prior to the service at the church Saturday afternoon. Her mother and father coming to this country from near Salzberg. Ann Marie Putzi was born October 1, 1914, just before World War I to Joseph Putzi and Magdelina Polichnig Putzi. They lived in the small village of Streistad, near Salzburg, and came to this country by boat, for a better life. They lived first in Hibbing, Minnesota, and later moved to West Milwaukee where they had eight children: John, Katherine or Katie, Mary, Joe Jr., Ann, Rose, George and Ethel. Ann was the only one of the eight children to graduate from high school, from West Milwaukee High in 1932. Anns children will always remember her practical jokes and doubling over at the consequences. After high school, Ann worked at the Hansen Glove factory and later as a telephone operatorbeing known after by her friends for having that telephone operator voice. Ann married Antone Kassin in 1937 in Milwaukee. They had three children together. Katherine or Kay, Nancy Kassin, was valedictorian of her high school class, a talented artist, and was set to begin teaching elementary school in Huron, South Dakota, when she was killed by a reckless driver at age 20. Gerald Antone Kassin is a college basketball coach at Altus, Oklahoma. The Onida, South Dakota, high school team he coached won the State Championship, and he was an assistant coach for the Texas Tech Red Raiders when they made the nationals. Lawrence Antone Kassin retired a major from the Marine Corps and served in Vietnam. Larry, a natural and charismatic leader, has the unofficial record for the most unclaimed purple hearts in Marine Corps history. He now teaches history and math and life preparation at Topeka High. In 1941, Tony Kassin died of peritonitis. In 1946, after being a widow for six years in Park Lawn in north Milwaukee, Ann met Tech Sergeant Harry Tucker, just home from his tour of duty in Europe after the Big War. They met at a Big Band dance hall, the Eagles Club, in Milwaukee and married October 26, 1946, in Winona, Minnesota. Harry died on Pearl Harbor Day in 1991. Their daughter Barbara was born in Milwaukee. In 1949, Ann and Harry moved with their family to Harrys mothers farm near Hitchcock, South Dakota. Their son William was born there, followed by Bruce, Bonnie, and Patsy. Ann read voraciously until she suffered a stroke in 1983. In 1999, she moved in with her daughter Barb in Billings and later lived with her daughter Pat and her husband and Pats daughter Cady for several years in Idaho Falls. In 2003, Ann endured a debilitating seizure, after which she lived at the Idaho Falls Care Center. Her still elegant, queenly face, would light up like a Christmas tree when her family would visit.