Obituary: Leslie Denise Paquette Baltz | White River Now [Video]

Leslie Denise Paquette Baltz was born March 12, 1946, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Milton Eugene Paquette and Phyllis Joyce D’Ersby. Denise enjoyed telling folks she was an “air force brat” and had lived all over the world with her father, mother and brother Jim. In 1966, Denise married Odis Paul Baltz and settled in Mtn. View Arkansas. Throughout the years, she worked at several businesses in the community, including the hospital, chamber of commerce and Ozark Legal Services, from which she would eventually retire. Denise was known to her family affectionately as MAS thanks to her first grandchild’s inability to say grandma. Her life was devoted to her family, friends, work and her creative arts. There was no type of needlework or crafting she could not master and she often hand-made gifts for family and friends to treasure. As with many mamas and grandmamas and great grandmamas, her …