Puget, Jeanne Marie Ansolabehere

Jeanne Marie (Ansolabehere) Puget March 16, 1917 - June 19, 
2010 Rosary and requiem Mass will be held on Thursday, June 
24, 2010, 10:00 a.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 
900 H St. in Bakersfield. Burial will follow at Union Cemetery. 
Our mother, the matriarch of our family, passed away 
peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family. Born to 
Basque immigrant pioneers Jean and Marie (Eyherabide) 
Ansolabehere, she was the last of their nine children to 
decease. Raised on a ranch in northwest Bakersfield, she 
attended Beardsley Elementary School, and graduated from 
Kern Union High School in 1935. She married the love of her 
life, August Puget, May 16, 1937 and had four children, Jeanne 
Marie, Bernard, Anita and Vincent. As a devoted mother and 
loving wife, she was a homemaker and assisted Dad in the 
family sheep business. She made time to care for extended 
family members and friends. Mom was an active member of 
the Kern County Wool Growers Association, Wool Growers (Bo 
Peeps) Auxiliary and the Kern County Basque Club. Her 
extensive participation in the Basque Community will be 
missed. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, 
brothers, Michael, Martin, John, Pascal, Bernard, Gracian, Martin 
II and sister Rosalie Etcheverry. She is survived by daughter, 
Jeanne Marie Curran and her children Richard and Nancy, 
Michael and Alice Curran and Denise McCombs; son, Bernard 
and daughter-in-law Lynne Puget and their children Bernard 
and Ramona Puget, and Rachelle and Mike Towery; daughter, 
Anita Bayne and her children Curtis and Leann, David, Matthew 
and Paige Bayne, Renee and Mike Kemp; and son, Vincent and 
special friend Carol and his children Lisa and Justin 
Schimnowski, Kristin and Caleb Moore, Andy and Erica Puget 
and adopted daughter, Marguerite Ferdinand and 29 great-
grandchildren who will miss the Amatxi. Along with sister-in-
law, Jo Francis Ansolabehere and many nieces, nephews and 
cousins of the Basque Community. Visitation will be held at 
Greenlawn Mortuary, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 from 2:00 - 
7:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any 
remembrance be made to Garces Memorial High School, St. 
Jude Children's Research Hospital , or charity of your choice. 
Greenlawn Mortuary www.bakersfield.com/obits

Published in Bakersfield Californian from June 22 to June 23, 
2010