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Local Obituaries for Chester, Shelby, Cut Bank, Conrad, MT & Surrounding Areas
Susie Ward
Apr 9, 2023
Susan Ashley Ward, 74, passed on Sunday, April 10, 2023.
Celebration of Life will be Friday, April 14, at 10:00am at Conrad Baptist Church.
Coffee and cookies will follow the service.
David Hadford
Apr 7, 2023
David Hadford, 67, of Chester, passed away in Benefis hospital in Great Falls from natural causes on April 7th, 2023.
David was born November 23rd 1955 in Billings to Lyle and Elaine Hadford. David grew up in Rudyard, MT and was a lifelong farmer. A wonderful father, husband, and friend to many, David had...
Frances Louise (Hares) Larson
Mar 30, 2023
Frances Louise (Hares) Larson, 92, passed Thursday, March 30, 2023. Her passing was peaceful and covered with her family, prayer, worship music, and compassionate healthcare. Frances was born on December 22, 1930, the middle child to Ivan John “Tobey” and Irma B. Hares in Midwest, WY. Frances had two sisters, Patricia and Donna, who were particularly...
Thomas Eckstein
Mar 25, 2023
R Thomas Eckstein 76, born on May 16th 1946, passed away March 25th 2023 in Conrad.
Funeral services will be Monday, April 3, at 10:00am at Conrad Baptist Church.
Thomas graduated from Conrad High School in 1963. He attended and graduated with an associate’s degree in Ag technology...
Theo Leola (Simmes) Wiegand
Mar 23, 2023
Theo Leola Wiegand, 87, passed on Thursday, March 23, 2023.
Theadora Leola Simmes was born June 29, 1935 to Theodore and Mildred Simmes on their farm near Sunburst. She was the 5th of 6 children born to Ted and Millie. She attended school in Sunburst. On February 9, 1952 she married John Hoover Wiegand....
George Melvin Jackson
Mar 21, 2023
George Melvin Jackson ended his “Run for the Roses” on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at the age of 81, when he passed away at home.
George came out of the “Gate” on October 10, 1941 in Havre, MT, born to Melvin George Jackson and Agnes Marie Blanchard. He joined his older sister,...
Leonard Jacob Young
Mar 18, 2023
Leonard Jacob Young, 80, passed away from lung cancer at Logan Health with his family at his side on March 18, 2023. Services will be held on August 5, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. at St. William's Catholic Church in Shelby, with a reception to follow at the Shelby Elks Lodge. His ashes will be spread at a later date....
Mary Faith Elkins
Mar 16, 2023
Mary Faith Elkins, 67, passed on March 16, 2023 in Conrad.
Mary was born August 8th 1955 in Conrad to Charles and Marina Elkins. She was the youngest of their four children. She was very social and always on the go. Sports were one of her favorite pastimes. Basketball, Softball, FHA and...
Una (Alley) Moog
Mar 15, 2023
Una Nadine Alley passed March 15, 2023. Una was born February 8, 1928 in Oxford, Kansas, 3rd of 7 children born to Howard V. Alley & Ellen Keith Alley. The family moved to Chester, MT in March of 1929. She attended schools in Chester, Joplin and her senior year in Conrad, graduating with the class of 1946....
Juanita (Cook) Suta
Mar 14, 2023
Juanita Suta, 88, farmer/rancher wife and mother, passed away of natural causes on Tuesday, March 14, with her daughter and granddaughter by her side at her granddaughter’s home in Kalispell.
Juanita was born in Great Falls to Gertie and Bill Cook. She was raised in Shelby with her 3 brothers, Ivan, Jack, and Herb. Juanita attended school...
Judy Ann Sawyer
Mar 1, 2023
Judy was born in Conrad to Lois and Edward Jury August 19, 1955. She grew up in the town of Conrad, MT, with her brother Frank Jury. After graduating high school, she attended 2 years of college in Dillion, MT. She married Richard Sawyer March 27th 1976, and moved to Brady, MT. They had two children Warren and Brandon...
Ruth Ann (Lund) Young
Mar 1, 2023
Ruth Ann Lund-Young passed from this life to her eternal reward on March 1, 2023 at Westview Senior living in Great Falls MT where she peacefully spent the last three and a half years of her life. Ruth was born on October 31, 1960, to Tom and Betty (Sand) Lund in Glasgow MT. She attended grade school in...
Scott Berkram
Feb 28, 2023
Scott Ryan Berkram, 55, of Cut Bank, passed away at home on February 28, 2023, in Cut Bank.
Funeral services will be held at the First Presbyterian Church of Cut Bank on March 18 at 3:30pm.
Scott was born in Bozeman on May 11, 1967 to Dennis Berkram and Carol...
Michael D. Lytle
Feb 26, 2023
Michael Dalton Lytle, 51, passed on Sunday, February 26, 2023.
No services are planned at this time.
Gail Marie (Greenwood) Donner
Feb 25, 2023
Gail Marie (Greenwood) Donner, 61, passed away on February 25, 2023 at her home in Chester, Montana.
Gail was born March 3, 1961, the youngest of seven children, in Bozeman, Montana to Madonna “Donna” Marie Schell and Russell Q. Greenwood. In 1962, Donna and the children moved back to Wisconsin to be near family. ...
Norma Jean Copenhaver
Feb 23, 2023
Norma Jean Copenhaver, age 70, passed away peacefully and surrounded by her family on February 23, 2023 in Conrad, MT.
She was born November 6, 1952 to the late Wayne and Joyce Copenhaver, and was raised on the family farm East of Brady, MT with her three siblings, and cousins close by. She was...
Marguerite V. (Verstraete) Freebury
Feb 23, 2023
Marguerite Rachael (Verstraete) Freebury, 91, passed on Thursday, February 23, 2023 of renal kidney failure. 1 of 6 kids born to Emil and Marie Verstraete. She was the middle child of 4 sisters and 2 brothers. In 1951 she married her neighbor boy and love of her life, Richard “Dick” Freebury.
Marguerite...
Catherine Stibel
Feb 21, 2023
Catherine H. Stibel, 94, a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, sister -in- law, aunt, great aunt, and friend peacefully passed away February 21st.
Vigil service will be held Friday, March 24, at 7pm at Asper/Pondera Funeral Home. Funeral mass will be held Saturday, March 25, at 10am at St. Michael's Catholic...
Oliver W. Harris
Feb 18, 2023
Oliver Wendell Harris, Jr. 99, passed February 18, 2023. Graveside service will be Monday, April 17, at 11:00am at Crown Hill Cemetery. A reception and time of fellowship will follow at the Cut Bank Moose Lodge.
Oliver was born August 2, 1923, near Brinkman, Oklahoma as a sharecropper’s son. His family of eight migrated...
Patti (Purcell) Danielson
Feb 15, 2023
After blessing us with her presence for more than 100 years, Mary Patricia “Patti” Danielson passed away February 15, 2023., at Long term Care in Logan Conrad. She is truly missed. She was born in Hutchinson, Minnesota on June 8, 1922 to James and Mary Cynthia Purcell. When she was young, the family moved to Sweetgrass where she...
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