All Obituaries

    “And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God made a farmer.”   Malcolm “Mac” Donald McAlpine, age 87, of Valier, MT, went over the Great Divide on October 11, 2018.   Mac was born in Great Falls, MT on March 19, 1931 to Thomas and Marie (Itherbide) McAlpine. He exhibited his father’s strong Scotch heritage with traits he passed down to his own children and...

  Ellsworth Brian Graff was born July 12, 1929 in Havre to Clarence and Ruth Graff. He went to meet his lord and savior October 2, 2018 in Chester at 89 years of age.   Ellsworth’s father passed away when he was 6 years old and several years later his mother married Cornelius Olson.  They lived north of Joplin and farmed.  After graduating from high school, Ellsworth attended college in Bozeman where he met Margaret Nelson.  They were married in 1949 and just...

  Peggy Carter, 85, of Chester, died peacefully in her sleep while attending her grandson’s wedding in Bozeman. Despite recent health struggles, Peggy found the strength and courage to do the things she loved most: spend time with her family, eat anything sweet, and put puzzles together with friends.    Born Margaret Ann Hanson to parents Jens Hanson and Janet McRae in Miles City, Peggy was the youngest of four children. She graduated from Custer County High...

Howard Zuidema was born June 17, 1950 in Conrad to Benjamine and Nellie Zuidema.  He passed away in Great Falls on October 17, 2018. He was 68 years old. Memorial service will be Monday, October 22, at 11:00 AM at the Christian Reformed Church in Conrad.

  Virginia (Ginny) Lee Porter passed away in the Marias Medical Center with her husband Jim by her side on October 11, 2018. Ginny was born in Shelby to Walter (Jeff) Jeffers and Martha Trovatten Jeffers on April 28, 1944. She was the oldest of four children. She lived with her family in California then returned to Shelby in her teens and lived with her Aunt and Uncle Ray and Georgia Tomsheck on the farm west of Shelby. She then lived in Shelby where she met and married James Porter...

    Ellen "Jeanette" Frost passed away peacefully on September 21, 2018, at the Pondera Medical Center Extended Care. She was born to Gerhard Lund and Ellen Black Lund on August 1, 1935 in Jamestown, N.D., Jeanette was one of four siblings raised at the family home in Sunburst. After graduating from North Toole County High School, where she was an excellent student, musician, cheerleader and friend, Jeanette  attended Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Mt....

  Steven Udell Jenson, 64, passed away Sunday morning, October 14, 2018, at the Benefis Teton Medical Center in Choteau, MT, from natural causes associated to a stroke he suffered in October 2011. Steve was born January 19, 1954, in Conrad, MT, to Andrew Udell and Charlene Maxine Jenson. He was the fourth of seven children and grew up in Choteau. Even as a small child, Steve was always singing and dancing. Throughout his life he enjoyed and shared these talents often. He was the most...

Charley John Wagner, 77, of East Glacier, passed away October 17, 2018. No services are planned at this time.

   This world is at a great loss, as one of the most gentle, maternal and affectionate women of her time has been called up to heaven. Margaret Christine (Stremcha) Robertson was born on August 13, 1925 in Havre, Montana to Antone and Francis (Smoltz) Stremcha. Margaret graduated from Big Sandy High School in 1944, where she was the majorette for four years. Soon after, she married her high school sweetheart, Walter F. Robertson in June of 1944. Together, the couple raised three...

  Chester Harlis Heien, 99, passed away October 5, 2018 at the Village Health Care Center in Missoula just shy of his 100th birthday.     Chester was born November 19,1918, in Geyser, Montana during the Spanish Influenza to Albert and Gladys (McGuire) Heien.  He grew up on the family farm 18 miles west of Brady, Montana and graduated High School from Brady in 1937.       In 1943, Chester enlisted in the Army Air Corps and took Officer...