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Larry Stoltz
Aug 1, 2020
Larry Edward Stoltz, 79, passed away on August 1, 2020, after a tough battle with pancreatic cancer. Born May 9, 1941, to Cliff and Wilma Stoltz, Larry was raised on the ranch north of Valier. He graduated from Valier High School in 1959, and from Montana State College in 1964. He enjoyed his time in Bozeman as...
Kristen Hope Ries
Jul 31, 2020
Kristen Hope Ries lost her long battle with mental illness and died on July 31st, 2020. We pray she has found the peace that was unattainable for her here on earth and is at rest in her mother’s loving arms.
Kristen was born September 10th, 1988 in Merced, CA. She lived in many different locations throughout her...
Bob Ries
Jul 29, 2020
Robert "Bob" Ries 77, passed away at his home in Great Falls on July 29, 2020.
Bob was born on Dec 11, 1942 in Conrad to Raymond & Rosella (Koenig) Ries. He grew up on a wheat farm; graduated from Conrad High School in 1962 and then moved to Great Falls and worked as a custodian for...
Blanche O. Anderson
Jul 27, 2020
Blanche Ora (Poppler) Anderson passed away at Liberty County Medical Center- Hospital on July 27, 2020 6:37 pm. Blanche was 98 years and 215 days old.
Blanche was born December 26, 1921, in Alma Montana at the family homestead 30 miles North of Joplin, the sixth of seven children born to Benjamin and Ruth (Knutson) Poppler. She...
Norma Layton
Jul 23, 2020
In the early morning hours of July 23, 2020, Norma, 89, passed peacefully in her sleep at Sweet Memorial Care Center in Chinook, and journeyed to her final home with her Savior Jesus Christ beside her. Born on April 13, 1931, Norma was the third of seven children born to Nekolae Nilson Leom and Anna Marie Amundson...
Kay Fowler
Jul 23, 2020
Kay (Kathleen) Ann Fowler, 91, passed on July 23, 2020 in Conrad.
Kay was born September 19, 1928 in Jordan, Montana, to John and Alma Murnion. Kay attended grade school in Jordan, the first 2 years of high school in Miles City, and then graduated in Jordan with the class of 1946. She earned her teaching certificate...
Ruth Wymer
Jul 19, 2020
Ruth Louise Wymer passed peacefully on Sunday July 19, 2020 in Fullerton, CA. She was 101 years old. She was the last surviving child of Arthur and Helen Scholz, pioneering homesteaders southeast of Shelby. She was preceded by her parents, Arthur and Helen Scholz; brother, Edgar Scholz; and sisters, Dorothy Armstrong, Gladys Adamson, and Susan Virgin. Ruth is survived...
Charles E. Rohlf
Jul 12, 2020
Charles “Charlie” Eugene Rohlf, 92, passed on July 12th, 2020 at BeeHive Homes in Conrad.
Visitation will be Friday, July 24, from 5 to 7pm at Whitted Funeral Chapel. Funeral mass will be Saturday, July 25, at 1pm at St. Williams Catholic Church. Burial will take place in Minnesota at later date. Charlie...
Bill Pruet
Jul 11, 2020
William Justin Pruet, 59, passed July 11, 2020 at his home in Shelby.
Bill was born November 2, 1960 to Bennett and Hazel Pruet at the Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. He attended school in Albany, GA and graduated from Albany High School in 1978. Bill went to work in manufacturing and...
Laila Lindberg
Jul 11, 2020
Laila Iverson Lindberg, 96, of Shelby died July 11, 2020 surrounded by God’s grace and love. She was born to Harald and Ida Thompson Iverson on January 11, 1924, in Mt. Vernon, WA – the youngest in her family with three older brothers Irving, Floyd, and Lyle. They moved to Montana in 1927, and in 1932 settled in Conrad...
Claudette R. Vanden Bos
Jun 25, 2020
Claudette R (Becker) Vanden Bos was born Nov 23, 1945 in Conrad to Gordon and Bessie Becker. She passed away June 25, 2020.
Claudette attended and graduated from Conrad High School. She married Barney Vanden Bos on June 25, 1965 in Conrad and raised two sons, Russell and Roy, on the family farm near Dupuyer. ...
Evelyn Eggen
Jun 24, 2020
Evelyn Eggen, 103, passed Wed, June 24, 2020 in Jacksonville, FL.
Graveside services will be Thurs, July 2, at 1pm at Joplin Cemetery.
Evelyn was born January 25, 1917 in Chester to Emile and Carrie (Holmquist) Jabes. She graduated from Chester High School in 1935 and married Clifton Eggen in October of 1939 in Great...
Shirley R. Davis
Jun 24, 2020
The day before Shirley Roberta Davis was born, the temperature in Shelby reached 100 degrees. On the day when she was born, September 16, 1936, Shelby had a blizzard which dropped 5 feet of snow. Her parents are Ed Adams and Elsie Moffatt/Ball who farmed near Shelby. Shirley was the baby of the family and had 11 older siblings;...
Glenn C. Dillman
Jun 21, 2020
Glenn Cameron Dillman, 68, of Brady, passed at his home on Sunday, June 21, 2020.
He was born on August 27, 1951 to parents, Maurice Dillman and Selma (Boggs) Holm in Conrad.
He graduated from Conrad High School and spent much of his life in the Conrad area working in construction as a heavy equipment...
Bill G. Pate
Jun 20, 2020
Billy “Bill” Gene Pate, 79, passed Saturday, June 20, 2020.
Bill was born December 21, 1940 in Obion, TN to Archie and Adelle Pate. He was raised in Obion, TN and Granville, WI and finished his education in Menomonee Falls, WI. Bill enlisted into the US Air Force in 1959. At his honorable discharge in...
Jeff L. Brown
Jun 17, 2020
Jeff Lee Brown, age 60, passed at his home in Conrad, on June 17th, 2020. He was born to Dick and
Barb Brown and raised in Conrad for most of his childhood.
While growing up, he was an athletic young man with a passion for things like snow skiing and moto-cross racing. Jeff...
Richard Jackson
Jun 13, 2020
How do you condense 85 years of an exemplary life into one article?
Richard Jackson was born April 22, 1935 to Kenneth and Irene (Lincoln) Jackson in Havre. The three of them, along with his older sister Dorla, lived north of Inverness his first five years and then moved to the farm/ranch North of Rudyard which was...
Eva Haynes
Jun 10, 2020
Eva Roberta McGrew was born on July 15, 1934 to Donnie And Maxine (Gammon) McGrew. She was frail as a young child but loved to follow her dad everywhere. As she turned into a teenager, majority of her day was spent riding her horse with friends around the small town of Dupuyer.
She attended school...
Briton Alan Bunnell
Jun 7, 2020
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we lay to rest one of our young, talented, and wonderful children of God. May he rest in eternal peace with our loved ones beyond with God.
Briton Alan Bunnell came into this world on the 2nd of September 2002, full of light and love that warmed...
Stedman D. Beebe
Jun 5, 2020
Stedman Beebe passed away peacefully at his home in the early morning hours of June 5, 2020. He was born November 15, 1937, in Fair Haven, Vermont to Ralph and Bertha (Briggs) Beebe. His siblings, Ted, Darren, Jack, Robert, and Ione preceded him in death.
After graduating from Springfield High School in Springfield, Vermont, he...
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