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Dustin Jeffrey Bietz, 31, passed away from complications of a stem cell transplant in Billings, Mont., on Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. He was surrounded by many people who loved him and in the arms of his loving wife and son. He was born on March 30, 1982, in Bismarck, N.D., to Jeff and Kathy (Wold) Bietz. He grew up in Beulah, N.D., where he was involved in many sports including basketball, baseball, softball, football and golf. He was very competitive. He had numerous friends growing up and was...
Thomas Francis Duprez was the oldest son born in Waltham, Mass., to Donald and Phylis (Bennett) Duprez on Nov. 16, 1946. There would be three more sons and the family would move to La Mirada, Calif., where Tom and his brothers went to school. He graduated from La Mirada High School in 1964. He was drafted into the army in 1966 and served his time at Fort Rucker in Alabama. Tom and Nancy (Hamilton) Duprez were married in 1968 and had two sons, Mark Thomas and Craig Robert. They divorced in 1979....
Melda Loy (Collins) Carter, 78, died on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013, at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Mont. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Dec. 14, at 11 a.m. at the Hinsdale Legion Hall in Hinsdale, followed by interment in the Hillview Cemetery in Hinsdale. She was born on July 6, 1935, in Emmett, Idaho, the daughter of Richard Shelton and Muriel June Collins. She lived in Idaho until age 17 and worked for Bell Telephone, living in Spokane, Wash., England from 1959 to...
Palmer Gene Garsjo, 59, joined his mother in heaven on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, passing peacefully with his always caring niece, Jodi, at this side at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow. Funeral services are scheduled for Friday, Dec. 13, at 11 a.m., at the First Lutheran Church in Glasgow, followed by interment in the Nashua Cemetery in Nashua. He was born June 15, 1954, to Hartvik and Agnes (Buen) Garsjo, in Glasgow, Mont. He grew up on the family farm north of Nashua with his parents,...
Sue (Penner) Baker, 93, died Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, of natural causes at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow, Mont. She was born on her grandfather's homestead in Waterloo Township, North Dakota, on Aug. 17, 1920, to Peter and Mary (Harder) Penner. She was married to Cameron W. Carswell on Sept. 19, 1944. Later she married John Alfred Baker on Oct. 14, 1946. They lived in California, many places in Montana, and Williston, N.D. She was a "nanny" and did sewing for families. She worked on the...
Elaine Geraldine "Scotty" (Scott) Kjelstrup, 91, died Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, at the Highgate Senior Living in Billings, Mont. A memorial service will be at First Congregational Church in Glasgow at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12. She was born in Eureka on Dec. 18, 1921, to Merlin and Addie Scott. She joined a brother, Everett, in the family home, who was a year older. She grew up in Eureka and graduated from Lincoln County High School in 1939. She attended Montana State College, (now MSU), and met...
Annie (Schmidt) Davis, 75, died from a heart attack, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City, Okla. She was born July 10, 1938, on the farm of Emil A. and Eva (Teske) Schmidt near Lustre, Mont. She was the last of 10 children that spanned a generation of 21 years. She grew up in a family where spiritual priorities, discipline and personal contribution were woven into the fabric of every day of life. As a child she loved to play dolls with her cousins and was...
Dustin Jeffrey Bietz, 31, died on Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, at the Billings Clinic in Billings, Mont., from complications from a stem cell transplant. Services will be Monday, Dec. 9, at 11 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Glasgow. A complete obituary will appear in next week's paper. Bell Mortuary of Glasgow is in charge of the arrangements....
Oscar couldn't bear another birthday without his beautiful bride, Alma. Alma Isabelle (Newell) Robertson, 90, went to join her husband on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013. No services are planned at this time. A Celebration of Life will be held next summer at the Robertson Ranch. She was born on June 10, 1923, in the Bitterroot, to John and Nellie Newell. She met her sweetheart during her junior year and was married shortly after on Aug. 4, 1941. She had two daughters and was left to tend the house and...
William J. "Bill" Court was born on July 5, 1927, to parents Nick and Olga Court, on the family farm south of Hinsdale, Mont. He died from cancer on, Nov. 21, 2013, in Billings, at the age of 86. Cremation has taken place. A Memorial Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church. Inurnment of ashes will be at a later date in the Hinsdale Hillview Cemetery. Most of his life was lived in the Hinsdale area. After graduation from Hinsdale High School in 1944, he...
Sister Christopher (Mary) Weber, 84, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, at Talahi Senior Campus in St. Cloud, Minn. She was born and raised in Nashua and Glasgow. She attended South Side Grammar Public Grade School and Glasgow Public High School. In 1948, she entered Saint Benedict's Monastery in St. Joseph, Minn., making perpetual monastic profession as a Benedictine sister July 11, 1953. Sister Christopher served in both elementary and secondary education in Minnesota. In 1972, she went to...
Walter James Thorn, 77, from Glasgow, Mont., died Tuesday, November 12, 2013, in Billings after a year-long battle with a rare form of leukemia. He was born on Aug. 30, 1936, in Great Falls, Mont., to James and Helen Thorn. He married Sondra Gallagher of Glasgow on Aug. 15, 1959, and spent the next 54 years with his best friend. They had four children. He graduated from Havre High School in 1955 and joined the Navy, where he participated in Operation Redwing, which was the testing of the H-Bomb...
Cindy Lu (Sutherlin) Spencer, 57, of Glasgow, Mont., died from respirator and renal failure on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow. She was born April 20, 1956, in Omaha, Neb., the daughter of Lowell and Dolores (Candee) Sutherlin. She lived there for the first eight years of her life. Her family moved to the Seattle area in 1964. She attended Bellevue Christian School and Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Wash. She and her youngest daughter,...
Esther Mae (Kleppelid) Jernigan, 88, died Nov. 13, 2013, at Carolinas Hospital in Florence, S.C. Born in Circle, Mont., on March 25, 1925, to Albert and Rosemond (Palmerton) Kleppelid, she grew up in McCone County, Mont. She graduated from high school in Circle, and attended nursing school in Great Falls. While on a layover in Great Falls, as he hopped aircraft on his way to his hometown of Louisville, Miss., World War II Navy seaman Edwin Jernigan met and fell in love with Esther. When the war...
Gordon R. Larson, 87, died Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, of natural causes at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow. He was born on Dec. 11, 1925, in Opheim, Mont., to Olaf and Delia (Skarsten) Larson. He was one of six children, including one sister and four brothers. They lived on a farm/ranch 2 miles east of Opheim, where he resided his entire life. He was a true blue farmer, through and through, and he loved spending his days under Montana's famous Big Sky. He married Arlene Arneson on...
Joseph "Joe" Marshall Halvorsen, 94, died Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, at Sidney Health Center in Sidney, Mont. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23, at Pella Lutheran Church in Sidney with Pastor Charlane Lines officiating. Interment of cremains will be in Sidney Cemetery. He was the youngest of seven children born to Hans J. Halvorsen, a Norwegian immigrant, and Anna Margrethe Walla Halvorsen. He grew up on Deer Creek near Glendive. Before World War II, having attended Montana...
Longtime Flaxville resident, Dale M. Fishell Jr., 88, died Nov 10, 2013, at the Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home in Plentywood. He had been a resident at the nursing home for the past several months. There will be a memorial service at a future date. He was born May 29, 1925, in Outlook, Mont., to Dale and Elizabeth (Crossen) Fishell. He grew up with an older sister, Mercedene, and brothers Victor and Harry in Redstone. He attended school in Redstone, graduating from high school in 1943. After high school, he started farming with his father in...
Carole Ann (Oderman) Whipple, 71, died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, in Helena. She battled breast cancer a few years ago and last spring she discovered that she had metastatic bone cancer. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother, sister and friend. We will hold her in our heart with great love. She was born Feb. 5, 1942, in Great Falls, Mont. Her parents were George and Palladia Oderman. They moved to Glasgow, and that is where she was raised. She graduated from Glasgow High School. She married Frank...
James Murray Olk, 74, of Glasgow, Mont., died Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, at his home of a pulmonary embolism. Funeral services will be held Friday, Nov. 15, at 11 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Glasgow. The family invites you to a luncheon after the service followed by a committal at Highland Cemetery and a "Celebration of Life" at Sunnyside Golf Course in his memory. He was born Sept. 16, 1939, in Detroit, Mich., the only child of Joseph and Clara Olk, where he graduated from Cooley High...
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, Melda Deloris Fire Moon, 57, of Glendive, Mont., formerly of Frazer, Mont., died at the Glendive Medical Center. She was born to Lyle and Leta Fire Moon on May 5, 1956, She was the oldest daughter of eight siblings. At a young age of 9 months, she was diagnosed with spinal meningitis. She lived with the family until the age of 25, and at that time she became a resident of Eastern Montana Industries in Glendive until her passing. She had an extended family at her resid...
Jon Darryl King, 53, of Great Falls, Mont., died Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. A private ceremony will be held by his family and close friends at a later date. He was born Feb. 12, 1960, in Great Falls and raised in Nashua. After graduating from high school, he went on to serve four years in the Air Force and returned to live out his life in Great Falls. Known as a true jack of all trades, there was not much he could not build or fix. Thoroughly passionate for the outdoors, he was an avid hunter and fi...
Donna Mae (Hill) Smith, 77, died peacefully at her home in Tenino, Wash., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. She was born to Marc and Ella Hill on Sept. 7, 1936, in Glasgow. She spent her childhood in the Glentana area. The family moved in 1949 to Glasgow, where she graduated from high school in 1954. She attended Holy Name College for two years in Spokane, Wash. It was there that she met Robert G. Smith. They were married on June 30, 1956, in Glasgow. They had six children. Her husband was a career...
Irene Pearl Martin, 81, of Brockton, Mont., died peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, in Billings, Mont. She was born in Fort Yates, N.D., on Oct. 14, 1932, to Julia Ireland Fast Horse and Jake Martin and lived a majority of her life in Brockton. She also lived on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation while she was married to Adelbert Lone Bear, Sr. She worked at numerous jobs throughout her life but her most memorable places of employment were Brockton School and the...
Verda Rosecellia (Torgerson) Hoffarth Stewart, born Dec. 26, 1923, in Dagmar, Mont., passed peacefully on Oct. 19, 2013, in San Diego, Calif. Mass for the Repose of her soul will be held at 11 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 10, at St. Catherine Laboure Catholic Church. Her wishes were to be cremated and laid to rest at the Plentywood Memorial Cemetery in Plentywood, with her beloved husband, Roy. Date and time are pending. She was born the second daughter of eight children to Martin and Agnes Torgerson on t...
Terry R. Bowman, son of Grace Bowman and the late Jack Bowman, died Oct. 19, 2013, from complications following a heart attack. A Celebration of Terry's life will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, in the lower level of Central Christian Church at 1221 16th St. W in Billings. Come fellowship with us and share your memories of Terry. He brought sunshine into so many lives with his loving heart and dry sense of humor; he will be greatly missed by family, friends, co-workers at Aspen Meadows and...
