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Joyce Elaine Slingsby
Aug 6, 2014
Joyce Elaine Slingsby, spent the last days of her life basking in the love of her family. She passed away Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from complications of congestive heart failure at Spring Meadows Assisted Living surrounded by her family. Joyce was born February 4, 1926 in Berthold, ND, the second of three children to John and Lena (Jordheim) Smith. As...
Vera Elder (Kortte) Spring
Aug 5, 2014
Vera Spring, 87, passed away on Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Vera was born October 5, 1926 in Columbia Falls to Elsie (Merkle) and Leo Rafeal Kortte. She lived an amazing life. Growing up on the family homestead near Polebridge, MT, she worked hard and played hard. Riding and using horses everyday was a part of life, all year long. She...
Howard 'Max' Stone
Jul 23, 2014
Howard “Max” Stone passed away at his home in Bozeman surrounded by his loving family July 23, 2014. He was born March 4, 1927 in Elmdale, Kansas to Howard and Viola (Emaline) Stone. Max graduated from Westmoreland High School in northeastern Kansas. After graduation he served in the United States Navy Pacific Theatre and Amphibious Forces during WWII. Upon his...
Beverly 'Bev' Tweedale
Jul 18, 2014
Beverly Tweedale, 80, passed away Friday, July 18 at Emeritus Springmeadows in Bozeman. She was born in St. Paul, MN on November 1, 1933 to George and Christine Crawley. Beverly’s professional career included administrative assistant positions with the Flagtown Flyer community newspaper, Central Lutheran K-8 Elementary School, TPTZ TV (PBS network) and the Minnesota Department of Transportation in Roseville and...
Helen L. Darwin
Jul 17, 2014
Helen Darwin of Naples, Florida, died Thursday, July 17th, 2014 in Bozeman, Mt at the age of 88. She was born and grew up in Cable, Wisconsin. After obtaining her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater she settled with her husband, Bob Darwin, in Midland, Michigan to raise her family and to pursue her teaching career in the public schools....
Anthony Paul Bucher
Jul 15, 2014
Born 1923 at St. Joseph Hospital in Lewistown Montana. His folks were living and farming five miles below Hanover Montana on Spring Creek. He started grade school at Amherst school district 104 which was across the road by their house. He was the third oldest of six. And by the time he was able to work he did a man’s...
Dana Orlando Schrupp
Jul 6, 2014
Dana Orlando Schrupp passed away July 6, 2014 at his home in Bozeman surrounded by his loving family. He was born March 19, 1922 in Shepherd, MT to Frank and Edna (Worrall) Schrupp. Dana was raised on a farm west of Great Falls and graduated from Great Falls High School in 1940. He worked at the Anaconda refinery for two...
Sandra Alice Tetro
Jul 2, 2014
Sandra Alice Tetro, 53, died after a long battle with cancer on July 2, 2014 in Bozeman. Sandra was born February 22, 1961 to Archibald and Alexandria Tetro. Born in the West, she spent many years living in the East only to return to the West she loved, living in Montana for 24 years. Sandra and her brother had car...
Naya Sage Reed
Jun 30, 2014
On June 30, 2014 our hearts were broken when we lost our little Naya bug. It’s a deep sudden loss because she impacted so many, even if she had met them but briefly. The interest she showed in others around her, her ability to go around a room and talk to whomever, laugh with any, and make an insecure or...
William 'Bill' Carl Grubbs
Jun 28, 2014
William “Bill” Carl Grubbs passed away unexpectedly on June 28, 2014. He was born September 12, 1925 in Cincinnati, OH to Carl and Viola (Breitner) Grubbs. Bill moved to Pontiac, MI when he was 13 years old and graduated from Pontiac Central High School in 1943. He served our country in the United States Marine Corps from 1943-1945. Bill attended...
Harriet Adelaide Isbell
Jun 10, 2014
Harriet Adelaide Bassett Isbell, 90, of Belgrade, passed away Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Daughter of Harry Howard and Margaret Teague (Briggs) Bassett, she was born January 25, 1924 in Long Beach, California. Harriet grew up and was schooled in Long Beach, graduating from high school there. During WWII, she worked at Douglas Aircraft, but was mostly a housewife and mother....
Richard 'Dick' Lee Yelton
Jun 9, 2014
Richard “Dick” Lee Yelton passed away Sunday, June 8, 2014 in Bozeman, Montana. He was born on October 30, 1925 in Erlanger, Kentucky to Everett and Jennie (Geiger) Yelton. Dick graduated from Lloyd High School in Erlanger, KY. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering. He attended Carnegie Mellon University working toward a...
Sharon Dee Shields
Jun 8, 2014
Sharon Dee Shields, 70, of Belgrade, passed away Sunday, June 8, 2014. She was born January 11, 1944 in Hawthorne, CA to Clayton and Mildred (Loessin) Laing. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to the Hammer-Sisseton area of South Dakota, where Sharon grew up. She graduated from West Fargo High School with honors in 1962. After moving to the...
Rollene Laura Thill
Jun 7, 2014
Rollene Clifton Thill passed away peacefully at St. Vincent’s Hospital on June 7, 2014 at the age of 80. She was born on September 12, 1933 in Wenewoc, Wisconsin, where she spent her early childhood. She later moved to South Dakota, graduating from Timber Lake High School. Rollene and Joe married on June 1, 1953 in Timber Lake, SD. In...
Donald James Vick
Jun 4, 2014
Donald James Vick, 76, of Belgrade, passed away Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at his home. He was born March 15, 1938 in Denver, Colorado to Donald Denver and Mildred Marie (Riordan) Vick. Donald loved swimming as a young man; he was an award winning all-state swimmer with especially strong breast and butterfly strokes. He also worked as a lifeguard at...
Rosemary Zentner
Jun 3, 2014
Rosemary “Rosie”, “GG” Zentner, 81, of Bozeman, passed away June 3, 2014. She was born July 5, 1932 in Dickenson, ND to George and Katherine (Olheiser) Reisenuer, the fourth youngest of fourteen children. Rosemary was raised and educated in Dickenson. While she was working at the City Cafe in Dickenson she met Thomas Zentner. The couple was later married on...
Michael Joseph Doll
May 29, 2014
Michael Joseph Doll, 90, of Bozeman, passed away Thursday, May 29, 2014 at his home. He was born August 31, 1923 in Mandan, North Dakota. He was the second of three sons. He grew up in Mandan attending St. Joseph Catholic School and Mandan Public High School. During his senior year in high school he enlisted in the United States...
Sarah 'Beth' Huffine
May 23, 2014
Sarah “Beth” Huffine passed away May 23, 2014. She was born March 2, 1920 in Bozeman, MT to Edward and Olive (Bumgarner) Ross. Beth was raised on a farm east of Belgrade, MT and graduated from Belgrade High School in 1938. She married Lewis Huffine in 1939 and the couple made their home north of Bozeman, on Springhill Rd. Beth...
Ann Fitzpatrick Watkins
May 21, 2014
Ann Fitzpatrick Watkins, 88, of Middletown, NJ, passed away in Bozeman, MT Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Ann was the daughter of Leo and Annabelle Fitzpatrick and loving wife of Walter Watkins (deceased). She passed away at High Gate Senior Living after a short illness. Ann was born on July 22, 1930 in Brooklyn, NY. She lived in Chatham, NJ before...
Louis Nathaniel Dixon Jr.
May 21, 2014
Louis Nathaniel Dixon Jr. passed away May 21, 2014. He was born June 26, 1920 in Kansas to Louis and Ola (Depew) Dixon. He grew up with one brother, Ralph J. Dixon Louis was a welder at Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, Oregon during World War II (1944-1945) and then an Auto Mechanic after the war for a brief period (1946)....
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