Mary Ann Bean

Mary Ann Bean (73) went to practice her loving ways in an even bigger arena on April 3, 2008. Services will be held on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 2:00 P.M. in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Mary Ann was born in Mentor, Ohio on September 12, 1934, to Carl Eingar Pearson (who was born in Hagfors, Sweden, a male model, plumber poultry man among many other talents). and Mary Margurete Shepherd as a young woman. Mary Ann assumed the role of helping the folks while working full time as a meat cutter in a butcher shop owned by Sy Kaplan, a life long friend. She also attended college paying her way through her course work. She married Ernest Schnittlinger at the age of 31. She studied and converted to the Jewish faith on November 3, 1965. There still being a core in her parent’s lives she started a family of her own. She still continued working full time but dramatically changed professions to that of managing a small chain of Jewelry Stores with her husband. She still helped her mother whose health requires a loving daughter like Mary Ann at times. Besides raising her two children she made room in her heart for extras, one of whom Robert Helsley who grew up to become her son in law. Mary Ann had a second marriage with Harry Richard Bean on May 13, 1989 Her many year of hard work and providing for others left her disabled in 1990. You still could find her caring for her sick husband, helping to raise grandchildren, cooking for droves, creating wonderful cross stitch pictures, baking, baking, and baking. She attended sick neighbors and friends around the clock when needed with out being asked. It is hard to say if she’ll be remembered most for her cookies and pastries or for her in exhaustible loving heart and wonderful wry humor. She is survived by her Husband Harry Richard Bean of Bonners Ferry, ID;daughter Stephanie Helsley and husband Robert of Sagle, ID, her grandson Zachary Menge of Naples, her son Mike Schnittlinger and wife Michelle (Crickett) of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, her three grandson born in that union Aron, Dillon and Branden, her sister Karen Pearson and her many special friends who received her loving help without asking and without the ties of blood. Memorials may be sent to NAMI (National Alliance of Mental Health) and earmarked for the study of childhood on set bipolar disorder.