Ruth Viola Allman

Ruth Viola (Fossen) Allman, 101, formerly of Valley County, passed away in Mesa, Ariz., on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.

A graveside service will be held later at the Greenwood Cemetery in Wolf Point, where she will be buried next to her husband and children.

She was born to Nora and Henry Fossen on Aug. 31, 1913, in Fingal, N.D. At a young age she moved with her family to the Cottonwood area north of Wolf Point.

She graduated with the class of 1933 from Wolf Point High School. While in high school, she and her sister, Liffie, formed the Fossen Orchestra and played at dances in northeast Montana, including at the Silver Star West of Scobey. After graduation, she worked as a dental assistant for Dr. Burgess in Glasgow.

In 1937, she married Ellis Allman in the First Lutheran Church in Glasgow. They moved to Wolf Point in the early 1940s and remained there until 1965, when they moved north of Nashua to the farm in the Grain community. They remained north of Nashua, Glasgow or Fort Peck Lake in the summers and Mesa in winters until 2000.

She was a member of, and very active in the First Lutheran Church and choir in Wolf Point and Glasgow, and was a member of Bethel Lutheran during the years they lived in the Grain community.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ellis; four children, Mark, Kathy, Steven and David, and one sister, Liffie Mundt Trumbull.

Survivors include two daughters, Mary Lou Buchmann Wahlberg of Mesa, and Sandi Wyrzykowski and her husband, Jerry, of Fort Peck; three grandsons, Corby and Craig Allman of the San Diego area, and Jonathan Wyrzykowski of Conrad; one granddaughter, Amy Wyrzykowski Hand and her husband, Bob, of Billings; eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter; a niece, Nola Mundt Collins, in Mesa; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.