Mae Ellen Guthrie

Mae Ellen Guthrie died in Bismarck on August 27, 2026. She was 88. Born in Bismarck on September 14, 1937, with Anglo Plains roots that shaped the table more than the flag. She learned early that a day is something you finish, not something you wait for. She watched bin temperatures like a doctor watches fever. Dust and numbers shared her days; growers trusted her chalk marks. Colleagues still mention a chalkboard of bin temperatures. She married Harold in 1960. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised two daughters through public schools and ordinary weather. After Harold died in 2019, she kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember a rake leaned against a shared fence after a storm. She liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. She died in Bismarck, among streets she never needed to explain. The radio is still tuned to the station that played while work got done.