12/18/06 Woman of the Year Stapleman

Marjorie Stapleman has lived in the same house in Paul for more than 40 years. Stapleman and her family are farmers, through and through. But after four decades of hard work the artist in Marjorie Stapleman took over. STAPLEMAN "In 1993 I quit farming because I couldn't get up in the tractor. I had both of my knees replaced. I've always had an interest in hand work and in quilting and I have done a lot of quilts. For all my children and when each one of my grandchildren get married they get a quilt. This cowboy quilt I made it for a couple of grandsons when they were young. My grandson is now nearing 40 years old he won't give the quilt up. Some of them are wearing out after all these years and I have replaced a few and I swore I'd never be a quilter because it looked to me like a lot of work but once I started which was a long time ago, probably 40 to 50 years ago, I really got into it and I really like it." Marjorie Stapleman, quilter and South Central Idaho Woman of the Year. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott