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James Blair
Feb 14, 2024
James Stephen Blair “Jim”, loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2024, after a short battle with cancer.
Memorial service will be Friday, February 23, at 2:00 pm at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church.
Jim was born May 18th, 1943 in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from Oilmont High School in 1961, and went on to Junior College...
Marjorie Jones
Feb 9, 2024
Marjorie Stella (Kinsey) Jones was born on March 13, 1926, in Builth Wells, Wales, United Kingdom. She went to be with the Lord on February 9, 2024, at the age of 97 at the BeeHive Assisted Living Center in Conrad, Montana from natural causes.
Marjorie's parents were Henry Kinsey and Eileen (Burns) Kinsey. She grew up in Central Wales and...
Gloria Schultz
Feb 10, 2024
Gloria Morrill Schultz passed away on February 10, 2024, at the BeeHive Home in Conrad, Montana. She was born March 14, 1931, in Santa Clara, California, to Robert and Lillian Morrill. When Gloria was 10, her family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, because her father worked for the Army Corps of Engineers. The family lived on Hickam Field, and on...
Zachary Cline
Feb 9, 2024
Zachary Allen Cline, 29, passed away on February 9, 2024 at Cut Bank, Montana.
Zachary was born on February 2, 1995 in Cut Bank, Montana to Bridget and Jeff Cline. He grew up in Cut Bank, Montana and attended Cut Bank High School where he enjoyed drawing, spending time with his family, listening to music, and making poems.
Zachary was known for...
Mark Young
Feb 7, 2024
Mark Frederick Young was born on October 10, 1951 in Shelby. He was the second of five children of Irvin Allen Young and Mary Katherine (Noble) Young. He grew up in Oilmont and Sunburst, graduating from North Toole County High School, Sunburst in 1971. Following graduation, he went to auto college in Great Falls, and finished in 1972. In November...
Edna L. Reese
Feb 4, 2024
Edna Lucille Reese, 103, passed away February 4th 2024 at the Liberty County Nursing Home in Chester, MT.
A memorial service will be held at the Gildford Community Church at 1:30pm, Saturday February 17th in Gildford, MT. A livestream of the service can be found on the "Community Church of Gildford" Facebook page.
Edna was born April 27, 1920 to Frank and...
David Wallace
Feb 6, 2024
It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that the family of David Carroll Wallace announces that he died peacefully while he slept on Tuesday, February 6, 2024. The angels carried him away to be with Jesus. David was 83 years old.
Funeral services will be Monday, February 12, at 2:00 pm at Whitted Funeral Chapel in Shelby. Visitation will be...
Irvin Lewis Yeager
Feb 3, 2024
Work hard, play hard. Irvin Lewis Yeager came into the world June 16, 1955 to have these
values instilled in him. Born to Kennith Yeager and Lorine Lillian Walston he was the fourth of
four beloved children. He grew up on K-bar-6 family ranch near Conrad, Montana after being
born in Escondido California.The love of farming and raising livestock, grew from the beginning
of...
Joel H. Fenger
Feb 2, 2024
On February 2, 2024, Joel Herbert Fenger, 80, a well-known area pilot, farmer, car restorer, and businessman, died of complications derived of a blood infection at the Liberty County Nursing Home.
Joel, the oldest of two sons was born on April 16, 1943, to Herbert (Herb) and Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Fenger in Chester Montana. He grew up on the family...
Yvonne Annette McAlpine
Jan 22, 2024
Yvonne Annette McAlpine, 85, passed away on January 22nd in Shelby, MT. Yvonne lovingly known as Vonnie was born November 24th, 1938 in Shelby to Obert and Clarice Carlson.
Vonnie grew up in Kevin with her parents and brother Merle Carlson. She attended school in Kevin up to 8th grade and then finished the rest of her high school years in...
Gene Riewer
Jan 29, 2024
Eugene D. Riewer was born July 8, 1930 in Frazee, Minnesota and peacefully passed away on January 29, 2024 at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls. Gene left behind a legacy as a family business owner and was a pillar in the Conrad community.
Gene was one of 14 children, born into a tight-knit family in Frazee. In 1948 he planted...
Vernon Allan Gjullin
Jan 21, 2024
Vernon Allan Gjullin, 78, passed on Sunday, January 21, 2024.
A memorial gathering with food and fellowship will be Saturday, February 3, at 2:00pm at the Conrad Moose Lodge.
A full obituary to follow.
Tom Jones
Jan 23, 2024
Our beloved Tom Jones passed away peacefully and comfortably on January 23rd. As one granddaughter noted, Grandpa Tom, our gentle giant, swooped Grandma Rita up immediately after arriving in his Heavenly Home. Yet, as St. Michael Catholic Church posted, we are so sad to lose one of the most dedicated men to God.
Tom was born on December 7, 1934, in...
Jack A. Linquist
Jan 18, 2024
Jack A. Linquist was born June 1st, 1931, to Ernest Linquist and Lillian (Lena) Brayko Linquist. Jack was one of five kids born into this union. He grew up in Scobey MT, where he graduated from Scobey High School in 1949.
After a couple of years working on a local ranch, he was recruited into the Air Force on February...
Julie Peterson
Dec 29, 2023
Julie Marie Peterson, known by many who loved her as “Moo Moo”, passed away December 29, 2023.
Julie was Born June 9, 1952, at Swedish Children’s Hospital in Seattle Washington. She grew up in Everett, Washington and loved countless camping, hunting and fishing adventures as a young girl. She always found it ironic that she wound up being a...
Ronald Blomquist
Apr 11, 2024
Ronald O. Blomquist, 78 of Cut Bank, passed away April 11, 2024.
Services will be held Tuesday, April 16, at 2pm at St. Anne Catholic Church in Heart Butte. Burial to follow in Hall Family Cemetery.
Ron was born in Scobey on February 25th, 1946. After graduating high school, he attended Eastern Montana College. He started his teaching career in Browning and...
Marvin Gary Jeppesen
Apr 7, 2024
Marvin Gary Jeppesen (89) of Shelby, Montana passed away on Sunday April 7, 2024 in hospice care in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife of almost 56 years, Sandra, by his side. They were in Las Vegas for an extended vacation visiting their daughter at the time of his death.
Marvin was born in Chester, MT to Ingolf and Magnhild Oline...
Don Cleveland
Apr 7, 2024
Don Cleveland, 88 of Fairfield, passed away April 7, 2024.
Memorial services will be Friday, April 12, at 10:30am at Fairfield Faith Bible Church. A luncheon at the church to follow the service.
Don was born in McGrew, NE on May 11, 1935, to Lee and Catherine (Bulck) Cleveland.
Don was the fourth of 8 children, he attended school in Harrisburg, NE (Banner...
Syble Osler
Mar 23, 2024
Syble Verlane (Sigurdson) Osler, age 90, of Shelby, MT, passed away peacefully on March 23, 2024, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on April 15, 1933, in Raymond, WA, to the late Hemp and Essie Wood. Syble was the youngest of seven children.
In 1950, Syble married the love of her life, Richard (Dick) J. Sigurdson, and together they...
Ronald Reighard
Feb 27, 2024
Ronald Lee Reighard of Sunburst, MT, passed away unexpectedly on February 27, 2024, with his wife by his side.
He was born on May 17, 1944, to Bill and Mary Reighard in Billings, MT. He joined Dorothy, MaryEllen “Buddy”, Jim, Kenny, Bob and 11 months later another brother David joined the family.
Ron grew...
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