Elma Jean Entze passed away on December 15, 2025.  She was born Elma Jean Alger on August 23, 1941 to Shirley E. Campbell and Stanley Alger in Camden, New York.  She later moved to the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas with her mother and on to Makoti, North Dakota as a child.

     After she graduated from high school. She moved to Bismarck to attend a Beauty School to become a Beautician and Instructor.  It was in Bismarck, while working a second job that she met Robert R. Entze. They married after her graduation from Beauty school, and had a daughter Lisa K. and four years later a son named Robert A.  They moved to Emerado after Robert was born and made this place their home.  This is where her love and passion for Libraries started with Librarian Alice Roy at the Grand Forks AFB Library.  She started in Civil Service at the base in 1973 at Red River Inn dinning facility.  In 1975 her position was on the chopping block when a RIF came down and she was moved to the base Library. While working at the GFAFB Library, she started taking Library Science classes at The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks to become a better Library Technician.

     In 1979 she moved to Monument , Colorado and started working for The United States Air Force Academy Libraries.  She stayed there until her retirement in 2015.

     She belonged to T.O.P.S. Club in Colorado and in North Dakota, where she made North Dakota State Queen one year.  She was also a Girl Scout Leader in both of these states.

    In Colorado she was very active with Task Force Omega, a POW/MIA organization that kept the issues alive by marching in the parades, doing Stand

Downs and  helping homeless Veterans to apply for benefits and taking Christmas gifts to nursing homes for Vets.  While in this organization she met Jim, one of the crew members of the Freedom Flight hot air balloon team and started crewing for the balloon when it came to Colorado Springs.  Which is where her love of hot air balloons came from.  She also worked summers in the ticket booth at the Colorado Renaissance Festival.  She belonged to the Red Hats and the American Legion Auxiliary of Makoti, North Dakota. Her friends called her Jeanne, her favorite flowers were yellow roses and Lilacs.  She loved going on trips with her friends and making her own greeting cards.

     She is survived by her sister, Sandra, (Sandy) I. Nelson of Kenmare, North Dakota and her Daughter, Lisa K. of Colorado Springs, Colorado