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Constanze "Connie" Hull
Aug 20, 2018
Constanze “Connie” Hull, 59, of Belgrade, passed away Monday, August 20, 2018 while she was on a vacation in Alaska. She was born March 27, 1959 in Wiesbaden Germany. Her parents Bill and Erika (Wilken) Page, moved to the states with her shortly after she was born. Connie was an Army brat and moved often with her family. Her father...
Richard George Hoyt
Aug 18, 2018
Richard George Hoyt, 66, of Bozeman, Montana, passed away peacefully in his sleep on August 18, 2018. Richie, as his family knew him, was born in Leonia, N.J. on October 25, 1951. He graduated from Leonia High School after which he served in the U.S. Navy. Richie spent most of his life living in in the western part of the...
Virginia June Traubert
Aug 14, 2018
Virginia June Traubert (Hanners) was born September 13, 1931 in Klamath Falls, Oregon to Augusta (Rotan) and C. Thomas Hanners. She passed from this life August 14, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana due to heart failure. She grew up as an only child in a series of dirt floor cabins in lumber towns in Oregon and northern California, where her family...
Barbara E Arpin
Aug 14, 2018
Barbara E. Arpin passed away peacefully with family at her side Tuesday, August 14, 2018, at the age of 93. Barbara was born February 11, 1925 to Nellie and Arthur Klingler in Harlem, Montana. She had four sisters, Helen, Bernice, Thelma Ann and Arline and one brother, Russell. She and her siblings were raised on her family’s ranch in Savoy,...
Donna Christensen Sundby
Aug 12, 2018
Donna Christensen Sundby passed away late in the day on August 12, 2018, in Manhattan, MT. She was born Donna Jeanne Jeannette, the fifth of six children, to Fred and Ellen (Nelson) Propp on November 15, 1928, in Raub, ND. The family moved to Washburn, ND, in 1934 where Donna grew up and graduated from Washburn High School in 1946....
James O Martin
Aug 12, 2018
James O. Martin, 73, of Bozeman, MT, passed away August 12, 2018. He was born November 20, 1944 in Latrobe, PA to Robert and Irene (Myers) Martin. He and his parents moved to Poughkeepsie, NY when he was 5 and he remained there until he moved to Bozeman, MT in 1970. He married Jeanette Oberg on August 10, 1968 in...
George Jack Gallagher
Aug 7, 2018
I was born in San Diego in 1941 and was adopted a few days later by Jack and Mary Gallagher. I was raised in the San Diego area by Mary, along with my younger sisters Connie and Florence. I went to Sweetwater High School. After high school I went to San Diego State on a two-year program. I had such...
Margaret Lonardo
Aug 6, 2018
Margaret Lonardo died peacefully in her sleep on August 6, 2018 at Gallatin County Rest Home. She was born on August 14, 1924 in Warren, Rhode Island to Margaret and Antone Mello, and grew up on the family farm along with one sister and four brothers. As a child of the depression era, she was forced to quit school at...
William "Willie" Henry Fahrman
Aug 5, 2018
William “Willie” Henry Fahrman, 70, of Bozeman passed away August 5, 2018, due to brain cancer. Willie was born October 28, 1947 in Great Falls, MT. He lived for the first 6 years in Black Eagle (across the river). He moved back to Great Falls to attend and graduate from public schools. Willie was an Eagle Scout and very proud...
Georgia Marie Pearson
Aug 4, 2018
Georgia Marie Pearson passed away August 4, 2018 at the age of 67. She was born on June 5, 1951 to George F. and Nancy Antonovich in Butte, MT at St. James Hospital. Georgia was raised in Livingston, MT and graduated from Park High School in 1970. After high school, Georgia attended college for 2 years at Vo-tech in Butte,...
Clyde C. Zirbel
Jul 28, 2018
Clyde C. Zirbel, MD, 89, passed away on July 28, 2018 in Roseville, California with family at his bedside. Born in Oakland, California to Clyde and Dorothy Zirbel on June 13, 1929, he graduated from Boulder Creek High School in Santa Cruz County. He received his medical degree from Stanford University in June 1955. He married is beloved wife, Margaret...
Melvin Earl Runge
Jul 27, 2018
Melvin Earl Runge, AKA "The Hawk", 78, of Bozeman, passed away at his home on Friday, July 27, 2018. He was born in Redding, CA. Mel was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and his son, Timothy. He is survived by his son, Michael Runge (grandson Michael Jr.); his daughter, Samantha and son-in-law, Mark Hernandez (grandchildren Jennie Foster...
Betty Daily
Jul 15, 2018
Betty (Hurst) Daily, formerly Betty West, passed away July 15, 2018, with her family at her bedside. Born October 8, 1942 in Townsend, Montana to Russell and Bertie Hurst, Betty was raised by her Aunt Nell Walter, due to the untimely death of her mother. She enjoyed her time with Aunt Nell and her uncles on their family ranch. Later...
Margaret Helen Kraft
Jul 13, 2018
Margaret Helen Kraft, 82, of Belgrade, passed away July 13, 2018 at her home, with her loving family at her side. She was born July 3, 1936 in Bozeman to Adam and Audrey (Lawrence) Zindler. She was raised and educated in Bozeman, graduating from Gallatin High School. She married Ralph Kraft on April 2, 1954 in Bozeman, MT. She was...
Terry Lee Clark
Jul 11, 2018
Terry Lee Clark, 58, of Belgrade passed away on July 11, 2018. Terry was born on November 20, 1959 in Helena, Montana to Jean Marian and James Lee Eickmeyer. Terry grew up in Helena and graduated from Helena High School. After graduation, Terry went on to follow her dreams moving to Bozeman, Montana where she attended college at Montana State...
Clete Fred Laforge
Jul 9, 2018
Clete Fred LaForge 47, of Bozeman, MT passed away on July 9, 2018. Clete was born in Deer Lodge, MT on December 22, 1971 to his parents Joseph Thomas LaForge Sr. and Sarah Jane Nepine. Clete’s hobbies and interests were hunting, camping with his father, brothers and sons. Clete will always be remembered most for his love for his family....
Nancy Elizabeth Beckett
Jun 19, 2018
Elizabeth Beckett, 60, of Bozeman passed away on June 19th, 2018 after a year-long illness. Elizabeth was born July 24, 1957 to her parents Leland and Barbara (Berg) Beckett, in Newport Beach, California where she was raised. Elizabeth moved from California to Colorado to attended college at University of Colorado, Boulder, where she earned a PhD in Social Psychology. Later,...
Joan Cecelia Cullen Wagner
Jun 19, 2018
Joan Cecelia Cullen Wagner, passed away on June 19th at Highgate Senior Living in Bozeman, Montana. Joan was born on May 12, 1934 in Bozeman, MT. She spent nearly all of her life in Montana, with a brief stay at the University of St. Mary’s in Leavenworth, KS to earn her Bachelor’s degree in Education and time on the East...
Andrew James Klatt
Jun 12, 2018
Andrew James Klatt, 32, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on June 12, 2018. He was born October 7, 1985 in Bozeman, MT to Robert and Shannon (Barnard) Klatt. He grew up in West Yellowstone and graduated from high school in 2004. He attended college in Texas for one year, but then he came back to Montana...
John Wesley Hanes, Jr.
Jun 9, 2018
On June 9th, 2018, John Wesley Hanes, Jr. age 93, departed this world peacefully at his own home with his wife and son by his side. He was born March 31, 1925 in New York City, New York to John Wesley and Agnes Mitchel Hanes. He graduated from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts in 1943 and was an active alumnus. At...
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