Montabe, Marie

Marie Montabe was a Wyoming poet, lecturer, and writer. She was born in Firth, Nebraska to A.P. and Catherine Phillips Montabe. The family settled near the town of Powell, Wyoming, in 1915. In 1925 she wrote the script for the Gift of the Waters Pageant, which was revived in 1950 and presented annually in Thermopolis, Wyoming, in the 1950s and 1960s. She was elected Republican state committeewoman for Albany County in 1942, and she was active with her husband, H.H. Horton, in recruiting for the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps in Wyoming during World War II. Marie Montabe was first married to Michael Savaresy, by whom she had one son, Richard. She married Dr. Harry H. Horton, a Laramie, Wyoming, chiropractor and state legislator, on June 5, 1927. After Horton’s death in 1959, she married George S. Lindstrom.

From the guide to the Marie Montabe papers, circa 1870s-1969, 1905-1969, (University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.)