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Memorial services for Gladys Theo “Jody” Opheim will be held Saturday, Aug. 9, at 10 a.m. at the Opheim Lutheran Church. Pastor David Rogenes will be officiating. Inurnment will follow at the Lawndale Cemetery, which is east of Opheim. The inurnment will be followed by a reception at the Opheim Lutheran Church. She died Saturday, May 3, 2014, at the Help for Health Hospice Home in Riverton, Wyo....
Rose Alice (Cox) Grandchamp went peacefully and gracefully home to the Lord at 9:40 a.m. on Saturday, July 26, 2014. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 31, at 10 a.m. at the Frazer Community Hall, with Pastors John Grandchamp and James Oguin officiating, followed by interment in the St. Joseph Cemetery in Frazer. She was born on a cold day in 1919, about 2 miles north of Nashua on the now Willy Lauckner place, to Issac Cox and Cora Running Woman, both of the Assiniboine tribe. She met...
June H. (Dunn) Kern, 93 years young, passed away at Sunrise on Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Wolf Point, Mont., and went home to be with her Lord. A Celebration of her life will be held at 1 p.m. at Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel in Wolf Point on Wednesday, July 30. Interment will be in the Greenwood Cemetery in Wolf Point. She was born June 12, 1921, to Amzey and Lydia Dunn in a farmhouse south of Whitetail, Mont. She attended school in Whitetail in the early years by riding a horse-drawn...
Ira Wesley "Wes" Rimel, 93, died in Junction City, Ore., on July 13, 2014, following a brief illness, after having spent a year near his family in Eugene. A Wibaux native, he had been living in St. Marie until June 2013. The memorial service will be held in Armitage Park in Eugene at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9. Ashes will be buried in Wibaux in the future. He was born on Jan. 10, 1921, to Ira "Dice" Rimel and Hazel "Barbara" Rimel née Webber in Wibaux. He graduated from Wibaux County High School...
Sunset services are planned for Victor Forslund. There will be a cowboy funeral at sunset for Forslund at the Jack Nickels Ranch in Fort Peck on Thursday, July 31, at 6 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Victor Forslund, 61, passed away on Friday, June 20, 2014, at the Jack and Pearl Nickel’s ranch in McCone County south of the Fort Peck Dam....
Danne Fred Volkening, 78, of Holmen, Wis., died on Saturday, July 19, 2014, at the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse, Wis. Memorial services will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, at Journey Lutheran Church, 2703 Sand Lake Road, in Holmen, with Rev. Steven Meyer officiating. Friends and family may call at the church from 4:30 p.m. until the service. He was born Feb. 2, 1936, in Elgin, Ill., to Harold and Dorothy (Stuart) Volkening. He served in the U.S. Army for two years until his...
William D. Omvig passed at his home in Kalispell, Mont., on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, as he had lived – with enduring strength and quiet dignity. Born to Arthur and Nellie (McEwen) Omvig on May 24, 1931, on the family farm/ranch he so loved, he was educated at, and graduated from, Opheim High School in 1949. It was during his sophomore year in high school that he met his best friend and future wife, Yvonne Gilbert. Upon graduation, he enlisted in the United States Air Force, serving four years in Korea and Texas, while earning the rank of S...
A memorial to honor the life of Gene E. Crawford will be held Saturday, Aug. 2, at 4 p.m. at Kiwanis Shelter #4 below the Fort Peck Dam south of Glasgow. He died Friday, May 2, 2014....
Lorin Edward Flesjer, 69, died at home and went peacefully into the arms of Jesus on Saturday, July 5, 2014, after a valiant battle with Alzheimer's Disease. We will miss our intelligent, fun-loving, friendly, beloved grandpa, father, and husband. Visitation was held from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and from 6 until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, at the Silha Funeral Home in Glendive. A Funeral Service was held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 10, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Glendive with Pastor Stan Hoob...
Patricia Marie (Birkoski) Ozuna, 69, a long-time resident of Albuquerque, N.M., died of cancer on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at her home. She was born in Glasgow, Mont., to Joseph and Genevieve (Soboleski) Birkoski. She met Juan Ozuna while he was serving in the U.S. Air Force and they married on May 5, 1962, in Glasgow. They lived in Montana until 1985, when they moved to Albuquerque. She was preceded in death by two sons, Juan Jr. and Daryl Ozuna; her parents; four sisters, Stella, Regina, Martha...
Leona Blanche (Christiansen) Giese of Billings, formerly of Hinsdale, 82, peacefully passed away on Sunday, July 13, 2014. She was born on Oct. 10, 1931, in Voltaire, N.D., to Andras Gustov and Jennie (Bittner) Christiansen. In 1949, she married Reuben Giese. They had five children and were married for 65 years. She loved to play bingo and will be greatly missed. Survivors include her husband, Reuben Giese; one brother, Henry Christiansen; three sons, Alvin, Norman and Leon; and two daughters,...
Lorin Edward Flesjer, 69, died at home and went peacefully into the arms of Jesus on July 5, 2014, after a valiant battle with Alzheimer's disease. We will miss our intelligent, fun-loving, friendly, beloved grandpa, father, and husband. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and from 6 until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9, at the Silha Funeral Home in Glendive. A Funeral Service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Glendive with Pastor Stan Hoobing...
Dorval Kittleson, 90, passed away on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow, Mont. He was born Oct. 14, 1923, in Glasgow, the son of Alex and Eva (Stevens) Kittleson. He was raised in the Galpin Community, and on May 26, 1945, married Blanche Fullerton in Glasgow. He enjoyed farming and considered sitting on the tractor a vacation. He was always building and inventing something. He also enjoyed ice fishing and piloting his houseboat. He loved his kids, western TV shows...
Charlotte Mae Anne (Weltz) Tipton, 78, passed away on Friday, July 4, 2014, at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Mont. Funeral services will be held Friday, July 11, at 11 a.m. at the Evangelical Church in Glasgow, followed by interment in the Highland Cemetery in Glasgow. She was born May 25, 1936, in Glasgow, the daughter of Lars Eric and Mary Dolores (Johnson) Weltz. She was raised in Glasgow and graduated from Glasgow High School in 1954. She enjoyed being a cheerleader. On...
Kathleen Ann Nelson, 56, went home to live with the Lord on Monday, June 30, 2014. Thanks to Hospice Care and the Roger Maris Cancer Center she was able to spend her final days at home surrounded by the loving care and support of friends and family. Her memorial service will be held at Grace Lutheran Church in Fargo on Tuesday, July 22, at 1 p.m. A family graveside interment in Spokane will be held at a later date. Born in Seattle, Wash., on Sept. 24,1957, to David and Betty Nelson, she moved to...
Kathleen Rose (Sommer) Leeds, 63, died on Sunday, June 22, 2014, at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow. She was born in Milwaukee, Wis., to Ralph Sommer and Virginia (Gates) Sommer. Survivors include her parents, Ralph and Virginia Sommer; and three brothers, Paul, William and Jerome Sommer. Twice widowed, she is also survived by three children, Nathan Wood, Krysta (Wood) Drugge, and Amy Wood from her marriage to Charles Brent Wood; three step-children, Scott Leeds, Doug Leeds and...
A celebration of Life for Kerry Ann (Minnerath) Ross will be held for friends and family at the Saco Lutheran Church at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 12. Lunch will be served after the service. She passed away Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Garden Grove, Calif....
Orlie P. Linn, 89, an Army WWII veteran, POW and rancher of Saco, died Wednesday, June 25, 2014. He was born Sept. 28, 1924, in Mowquea, Ill., the son of Harry and Mintha (Perry) Linn. He and his two sisters and three brothers made their home in small town Illinois. After serving in WWII, he and Ed Pekovitch were traveling through Montana when their vehicle broke down in Saco. They both went to work for local ranchers and married local women. Orlie went to work for Dann Garrison on the ranch...
Grant Donovan Risa passed away from natural causes on Thursday, June 26, 2014, at the age of 94 at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Mont. He was born Dec. 17, 1919, to Martin and Thea (Blikken) Risa. He was one of seven children and called Opheim home his entire life. He proudly served in the Army during World War II where he earned the Purple Heart. On May 20, 1949, he married Patricia Taylor in Rockglen, Saskatchewan. They farmed northeast of Opheim where they raised their sons,...
Sandra Lee (Flaten) Foth, 67, passed away peacefully at the home of her sister, Connie, in Billings, Mont. She had been diagnosed with stage four cancer and lung disease just four months ago and was under hospice care. Cremation has taken place and graveside inurnment will be held at 2 p.m., on Sunday, July 27, at the Greenwood Cemetery in Wolf Point. She was born to Clinton and Cora Flaten, Sept. 28, 1946, in Wolf Point, Mont. She attended the first eight grades at Turner School in the Prairie...
James Ray “G.G.” Clinkingbeard, 84, died in his home in Fort Peck due to natural causes on Tuesday, April 22, 2014. There will be a private memorial service with the family at a date to be determined. Jim, as many knew him, or G.G. (great-grandpa) as his great-grandchildren knew him, was born in Missoula to L. Ray Clinkingbeard and Audrey Geneva Taylor on Aug. 30, 1929. He was the oldest of three, had two sisters, Frankie Rae Clinkingbeard (Selvig) and Jo Ann Clinkingbeard (Selvig). He grew up in Missoula and attended the University of Mon...
Thelma Patricia (Hopstad) Dostert of Nashua passed away at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow on Monday, June 16, 2014, at the age of 92. Born on Dec. 2, 1921, to Norwegian immigrants Peter and Petra (Brendhaugen) Hopstad, she lived at their homestead farm in the Badger Community north of Glasgow with her seven brothers and sisters. She attended the Badger School and was a member of the Highline Lutheran Church. The family later moved to Glasgow, and she graduated from Glasgow High School...
Victor Forslund, 61, passed away on the Jack and Pearl Nickel’s ranch in McCone County south of the Fort Peck Dam on Friday, June 20, 1014. Cremation has taken place and services will be held at a later date. He spent three years loving his life on the ranch, working long hours and enjoying each day. He appreciated the sunrise of morning and the sunsets of nightfall. He was born to Victor and Elizabeth Forslund on July 31, 1952, in Syracuse, N.Y. He was schooled at Morrisville, N.Y., and after graduation spent seven years in the Air Force. He w...
Janice Maureen (Christensen) St. Clair, 70, passed away Friday, June 20, 2014, at Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow, surrounded by family and friends, after courageously battling ALS. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 26, at the Bell Mortuary, followed by interment at the Highland Cemetery. Please join us afterwards at the VFW Hall for refreshments. Born Oct. 30, 1943, to Julius and Margaret Christensen, she grew up in rural Hinsdale. She loved hunting, fishing, camping...
Richard L. Hanvold, 48, passed away Dec. 21, 2013.Burial will be at the Highland Cemetery in Glasgow on Saturday, July 5, at 11 a.m. He was the son of Karen Hanvold and the late Bill Hanvold, the father of William "Willy" Hanvold of King Fisher, Okla., as well as the brother of Kim Woulf of Glasgow and Wend Gunn of Marble Canyon, Ariz. He was the grandson of the late Tom and Amanda Mullen and Doris Neubauer and Henry Hanvold. He is also survived by Richard Mullen, Yvonne Cole, Susan Henderson,...
