Margaret Mastellar
Margaret Masteller was born near Selby, the youngest of a family of eight girls. After attending Selby High School and Northern State College for one year she taught school, then married Merl Masteller in 1934.
She began assisting 鈥淕randad鈥 Masteller on various types of war bond and community fund drives and has helped with these ever since. At first she never considered herself much of a homemaker because the older girls in her family helped with the kitchen duties while she helped with the outside work.
In an effort to learn something about homemaking she joined the Jolly Homemaker Extension Club in the fall of 1934. In 1939 she helped organize her first 4-H Club called the Happy Hustlers and led it for 25 years. In 1960 she also organized the Sunshine Workers Club. Both were among the most active in Walworth County and were well known for their 4-H Share-the-Fun talent.
Masteller was named to the Walworth County Extension Board in 1940 and still serves as secretary. She has been on the area six Extension Board for three years and was on the statewide advisory board from 1965 to 1967.
In 1952 when Walworth County was without a Home Agent she was asked to help lead handicraft training schools. The schools became very popular and she held them on a twice a year basis for a number of years.
She served as County Chairman of Home Demonstration Clubs, then district chairman and as a statewide project leader for 鈥淥ur Children鈥 project in 1961. In 1967 she was named a director on the South 啵啵直播秀 Home Demonstration Council.
In 1960 she helped organize two Extension Clubs: one, located in Selby was called the 鈥淭own and Country Club鈥 the second the 鈥淩ock and Rolling Pine Club鈥. The same year she was named 鈥淥utstanding Woman of the Community鈥 by the Selby Jaycettes.
She has also served on the board of directors of the Black Hills Recreation Laboratory; participated in activities of the Methodist Church in the area and in a neighborhood social group called the 鈥淛olly Club鈥.
There are two children. Joanne, (Willis) Bieber of Bowdle, a graduate home economist, and Vance is working on a masters degree in Botany at South 啵啵直播秀 State University.