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Local Obituaries for Chester, Shelby, Cut Bank, Conrad, MT & Surrounding Areas
Mary Ellen (Patrick) Solum
Dec 15, 2022
Mary Ellen Solum, age 89, joined her Lord and Savior-Jesus Christ-on December 15th, 2022.
Mary Ellen was born to Harry and Anna Patrick on March 14, 1933, in Lewis County, Missouri. Not long after her birth the family moved to the north Rudyard area in Montana to farm. She was later joined by her...
Kenny Peterson
Dec 13, 2022
Kenny Lee Peterson, 48, passed Tuesday, December 13, 2022.
Celebration of Life will be held Monday, December 19, at 2pm at Valier High School Gymnasium.
Kenny was born to Stanley “Tom” and Kathy (Rittel) Peterson on September 29, 1974, in Choteau, MT. He was the first of two children. He...
Judy Diane Gunderson
Dec 12, 2022
Judy Diane Gunderson, 81, passed at her home on Monday, December 12, 2022.
Judy was born in Great Falls March 26, 1941. She was the second of five children born to Douglas and Josephine (Plank) Gunderson. She received her education at the rural Bears Den Grade School, Joplin High School, and Montana Ste College....
Margaret E. (Moser) Rigby
Dec 12, 2022
Margaret Elizabeth (Moser) Rigby, 100, passed away of natural causes Monday, December 12, 2022 at Logan Health-Conrad extended care.
Margaret was born on September 29, 1922 in Agawam, MT to Adolph and Johanna (Gemar) Moser. She was the youngest of 8 children. She attended school in Agawam and Choteau. Margaret was schooled...
Ted A. Lee
Dec 11, 2022
Ted Allen Lee was born April 30, 1959 in Los Angeles, California to Ted and Janet Lee. Ted was the middle child and had three sisters, Jean, Kathy, and Janet who passed away as an infant. Ted passed away on December 11, 2022 at 9:32pm in Great Falls Montana, surrounded by his family and children. Ted started working...
Forrest "Bud" Welker
Dec 9, 2022
Forrest M "Bud" Welker, 86 died of natural causes on December 9th at the Logan Health Care Center in Shelby, Montana.
Bud was Born on July 12th, 1936 in Shelby to Forrest and Marion (Pettigrew) Welker. He graduated from Conrad High School in 1954 and soon after served in the US Marines at Camp...
Arlene Esther (Abenroth) Henke
Dec 8, 2022
Arlene Esther (Abenroth) Henke was born May 18, 1960, in Fallbrook, California to Albert and Nita (Cairnes) Abenroth. Arlene passed away on December 8, 2022, from a brief fight with neuroendocrine cancer in Great Falls, Montana.
Visitation will be held Friday, December 16, from 6-8pm at Whitted Funeral Chapel Shelby. Funeral services will be...
Fay L. (Johnston) Manley
Dec 7, 2022
Fay L. (Johnston) Manley, 91, passed away on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at Benefis Peace Hospice in Great Falls, surrounded by family.
Fay was born November 18, 1931, in Great Falls to James D. Johnston and Ethel DeGuire Johnston. She spent her early years in Browning and moved to Conrad just before...
Virginia (Offerdal) Robinson
Dec 6, 2022
Virginia B. Robinson, 99, passed December 6, 2022 at Logan Health Center Extended Care in Conrad.
Virginia was born in Conrad on August 22, 1923 to Ole and Bertha (Solberg) Offerdal. She hurried into this world in the backseat of the family’s Model T Ford while on the way to town. She...
Matt Waller
Dec 5, 2022
J. Matthew Waller, 44, passed on Monday, December 5, 2022.
Matt was born April 11, 1978 in Shelby to John and Nina (Seymour) Waller. He graduated from Cut Bank High School and attended University of Montana in Missoula and Montana State University in Bozeman. Matt was an owner and finance manager at Northern Ford...
Marlene Faye Wetzel
Dec 4, 2022
Marlene Faye Wetzel was born to Doris L. (Barlow) and Walter S. Wetzel on August 4, 1939, in Browning, MT. Marlene was the 1st born and became little mother to William (Petesy), Helen (Penny), Walter Jr., Donald, Michael and Sher. She later became big sister to Lance and Christine. After graduating from high school in 1958, Marlene married...
Jeanie (Brown) Long
Nov 26, 2022
Georgena “Jeanie” Marie Long passed away surrounded by her family, on November 26th, 2022 at Benefis Healthcare in Great Falls. She was born November 27th, 1943 in Moscow, Idaho, and attended school in Grantsdale and Anaconda MT. It was in Anaconda that she married her best friend and sweetheart Forest L. Long. They and their children, Debbie, Diane,...
Roberta (House) DesRosier
Nov 25, 2022
Gertrude Roberta DesRosier, 96, passed on Friday, November 25, 2022 of natural causes at the home of her son, Lee Peterson. She spent her last days with visits from all her children and their families.
Roberta was born in Glasgow, MT on July 8, 1926 to Robert C. and Gertrude L. (Ebersole) House. She...
Roberta Dorothy (Preston) Sellner
Nov 24, 2022
On Thursday, November 24th, 2022, Roberta Sellner, passed away peacefully at home. Roberta was born on February 22, 1941 in Bemidji, Minnesota to Theodore and Dorothy (Adams) Preston. She met the love of her life, Gordon Sellner, at a truck stop where she was cooking. She would joke that he dripped water on her burgers from showering in...
Millie (Reams) Kantorowicz
Nov 24, 2022
Laura Mildred “Millie” Kantorowicz, 96, of Chester, MT passed away on November 24, 2022. She was born in Indiana, to Margaret Rudder and James Reams, on March 15, 1926. Millie was the fourth of eight children. The Reams family moved from Laurel County to Indiana and lived for a few years and moved back to their home place...
Don Smith
Nov 24, 2022
Donald Ray Smith, 79, died on November 24, 2022, in Conrad. He was the husband of Patricia Smith and they shared 14 years together.
Born in Bakersfield, CA on April 29, 1943, he was one of six children and the only son of Ernest and Lucy Smith. He graduated from...
Wendy Sue (Carrico) Kennedy
Nov 22, 2022
Wendy Sue Kennedy, 72, passed away Monday, November 22, 2022, at Northern Rockies Medical Center, in Cut Bank.
Wendy was born May 1, 1950, in Shelby, to the late Woodrow and Ruth (Anderson) Carrico. She graduated from Montana State University – Northern in 1972, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Early Education...
Jim L. Nelson
Nov 19, 2022
James Leonard Nelson, 92, passed on Saturday, November 19, 2022.
Jim was born on June19th 1930 to Harvey and Susie Nelson in Shelby, Montana. Jim graduated from Shelby High in 1948. He joined the US Marine Reserves in Shelby and fought in the Korean War from 1950 - 1951.
When...
June Irene (Running) Jordan
Nov 15, 2022
June Irene Jordan, 93, passed away peacefully on Tuesday November 15, 2022 at Logan Health Conrad Nursing Home. She was born April 6, 1929, in Marsh Field, Wisconsin, to Mark and Amanda Running. She was a graduate of East High School at Green Bay Wisconsin in 1946. She attended the University of Wisconsin and Madison General School of...
Kenneth Larson
Nov 12, 2022
Kenneth Larson, 74, passed on Saturday, November 12, 2022.
Services will be held Spring 2023.
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