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Ethel MacDonald’s Celebration of Life at Free Cycles

Name: Ethel MacDonald’s Celebration of Life at Free Cycles
Start: 2025-11-16T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-11-16T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Free Cycles

Ethel MacDonald's Celebration of Life at Free Cycles 11:45 am Sunday, November 16, 2028 — *Join **Women Bike Missoula** in a **Celebration of Life** for the late Missoula cycling icon and club founder **Ethel MacDonald** at **Free Cycles** from 12:00 pm Noon to 4:00 pm Sunday, November 16*

November 16, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Missoula cycling icon and Women Bike Missoula founder Ethel MacDonald passed away October 6 at the age of 87. She was still riding with the group in her last year of life.

A Celebration of Life will take place this Sunday, November 16 at Missoula’s Free Cycles (732 S First St. SW) from 12:00 pm Noon to 4:00 pm. This will be an open house celebration so feel free to drop by at any time.

You can also join the short ride from Jeanette Rankin Peace Center at 11:45 am to Free Cycles – one of Ethel’s favorite places in Missoula – to bridge her love of both peace and bicycles.

Ethel’s love of bicycles and wish that more women would use the bike for transportation and recreation led her to form Women Bike Missoula in 2014. Since that time the group has grown to over 500 women. Ethel was multi-dimensional in her passions and you can read more about her life here. If she touched you in some way, please join the celebration on Sunday and be inspired to live your own life to the fullest extent.

At Free Cycles, Matthew Marsolek & Ethel’s drumming friends will gather to “drum in” the bicyclists as they arrive—a joyful tribute to her spirit & love of community.