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Barbara Ann Lacefield

Barbara Ann Lacefield

Oct 2, 2013

HAMILTON - Barbara Ann Lacefield, 69, of Hamilton passed away Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at her home. She was born September 27, 1944 in Kelseyville, CA the daughter of Linten Edward and Lottie May Lacefield. Barbara graduated from Kelseyville High School and then went on to graduate from Heald Business College. She was very artistic and enjoyed drawing...

Judith C. Clark

Judith C. Clark

Oct 1, 2013

VICTOR - Judith C. Clark, 71, of Victor passed away Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at the Marcus Daly Hospice and Palliative Care Center. She was born July 20, 1942 in Ogden, UT the daughter of William B. and Carroll Cook. - Judy graduated from Ben Lomond High and then earned her Associates Degree from Weber State University. She...

Marilyn Dawn Miller

Marilyn Dawn Miller

Sep 26, 2013

Marilyn Dawn Miller, age 87, passed away in the early hours of Sept. 26, 2013. Born in Missoula, Sept. 7, 1927, to Samuel and Jean (Cordell) Barnes, she lived the latter parts of her life in beautiful Hamilton, Montana. She was married to Welling Kay Miller in Missoula in September 1948. She is survived by her son Clel...

Kendall E. "Yogi" Moore

Kendall E. "Yogi" Moore

Sep 26, 2013

CORVALLIS - Kendall E. "Yogi" Moore, 69, of Corvallis, MT passed away Thursday, September 26, 2013 at his home. He was born December 22, 1943 in Sacramento, CA the son of the late Glenford R. and Dorthea D. (McGonigal) Moore. Yogi was raised on his family's ranch in Lincoln, CA and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1962....

James Tillson Burgess

James Tillson Burgess

Sep 26, 2013

James Tilson Burgess, Jim, was born in Williston, North Dakota on January 29, 1926 to Thomas Orlando and Hazel Tilson Burgess. At an early age, the family moved to Fairview, Montana and then to Sidney where he attended grade school and graduated from high school in 1943. That same summer, at 17, he joined the navy. He received...

Floyd G. Lamson

Floyd G. Lamson

Sep 22, 2013

Floyd G. Lamson, 91, of Hamilton passed away on Sunday, September 22, 2013 at home. Born on August 4, 1922 in Brighton, VT, he is survived by his wife, Marilyn of Hamilton, his son and daughter-in-law, Alan and Janet of Manchester, CT, his son-in-law, Michael Mertins, of Hamilton, two grandsons, and five great-grandchildren. Floyd was predeceased by his...

Janet Pauline Miller

Janet Pauline Miller

Sep 22, 2013

Janet (Janette) Pauline Miller was born January 13, 1920 on a remote homestead in Garfield County, 50 miles NE of Jordan, MT. Her parents were Richard and Clara Miller of Haxby, MT. The oldest of five children, she grew up in a log home on the Miller homestead. In 1939, Janet married Harvey Keith Glasspoole, a Fort Peck...

Theodore O. "Ted" Maxwell

Theodore O. "Ted" Maxwell

Sep 22, 2013

CORVALLIS - Theodore O. Maxwell, "Ted", 76, of Corvallis passed away Sunday September 22, 2013 at the Marcus Daly Hospice and Palliative Center due to complications from multiple strokes. He was born August 29, 1937 in Peoria, Illinois, the oldest son of Okran Graves Maxwell III and Clara Elizabeth Owen. Ted was raised in Illinois and in 1968...

John M. Savochka

John M. Savochka

Sep 20, 2013

Darby - John M. Savochka, 71, of Darby passed away Friday September 20, 2013 at the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital, from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was born November 14, 1941 in Hamilton, the son of the late John and Ida Ellen Savochka. John graduated from Darby High School and attended the University of Montana. In 1964 John...

Ray Benjamin Petersen

Ray Benjamin Petersen

Sep 17, 2013

Ray Benjamin Petersen, 73, of Victor, Montana and San Juan Capistrano, California died on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at Community Medical Center in Missoula, Montana. Ray was born on March 7,1940 in Emmett, Idaho to Ray and Margaret (Pitts) Petersen. He was reared in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area and graduated from Klamath Falls High School in 1958....

Jeremy Wilbert Yetter

Jeremy Wilbert Yetter

Sep 16, 2013

Jeremy Wilbert Yetter, 41 passed away Monday, September 16, 2013 at his residence in Ashland, Montana. He was born October 26, 1971 to Jerome "Jerry" and Sandra "Sam" Yetter in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, joining the family which included his elder brother, Matthew. Diagnosed with Juvenile Onset, Type 1, Diabetes at the age of five, he battled the disease most...

Debby Lambert

Debby Lambert

Sep 15, 2013

Debby Lambert, 55 of Hamilton passed away September 15, 2013 at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. She was born August 17, 1958 in Hamilton, MT to Robert "Bob" and Margaret "Marty" Davison. Debby attended Business College at Eastern Montana College. She was preceded in death by her father Bob Davison. Surviving include her husband Al of Hamilton; son,...

Hazel L. Ayers

Hazel L. Ayers

Sep 14, 2013

Hazel L. Ayers, 87 of Hamilton passed away September 14, 2013 at her home in Hamilton. She was preceded in death by her parents, James and Nola Cox Chadwick; her brother, Elmer Chadwick; her sister, Ruby Mauler; and her husband of 63 years, Joseph C. Ayers. Hazel was born April 4, 1926 in Jacksboro, Tennessee where she attended...

Connie Ann Schmitt

Connie Ann Schmitt

Sep 14, 2013

Connie Ann (Childers) Schmitt, 63 of Martell, Nebraska and most recently Hamilton, Montana passed away Saturday, September 14, 2013 at the Marcus Daly Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Hamilton, MT. She was born October 14, 1949 in Seward, Nebraska. Daughter of the late Charles and Winnifred (Eppert) Childers. Connie was one of nine children, four brothers and...

Walter Stidger Peckinpaugh

Walter Stidger Peckinpaugh

Sep 13, 2013

Walter Stidger Peckinpaugh died September 13, 2013. He was born to Roger Thorpe and Mildred Peckinpaugh in Cleveland, Ohio, October 13, 1915, the second of four boys. His father was a major league baseball player so his early life was spent around such greats as Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson which probably influenced his great love of sports....

Larry Lockhart

Larry Lockhart

Sep 3, 2013

Lawrence (Larry) Everett Lockhart age 73, of Missoula, MT, was born July 15, 1940 in Santa Rosa, California to Everett Lorance and Ethel Lucy Brooks Lockhart. He was the fourth of eight children. - His early childhood was spent swimming in the Trinity River near Weaverville, CA at Lewiston, where the family lived, hunting Black tail Deer, catching...

Stuart Milton Donaldson

Stuart Milton Donaldson

Aug 26, 2013

Hamilton - Stuart Milton Donaldson, 69, passed away on August 26, 2013 at the Marcus Daly Hospice and Palliative Care Center due to complications from a stroke and cancer. Stuart was born in Middlesex England in 1943 to C.F. "Bus" and Catherine Donaldson. Bus started Donaldson Brothers Ready Mix in the Bitterroot Valley; where Stuart and his brother...

Harold F. Stanton

Harold F. Stanton

Aug 25, 2013

CONNER - Harold F. Stanton, 78, of Conner passed away Sunday, August 25, 2013 at his home. He was born April 7, 1935 in Hamilton, the son of the late Harold B. and Frances G. Stanton. Harold entered the U.S. Army and was stationed in Frederick, MD where he met his future wife, Jane Blackson. They married in...

Gerald "Jerry" Fiman

Gerald "Jerry" Fiman

Aug 24, 2013

Gerald Frank Fiman, age 75, of Hamilton, MT died Aug. 24, 2013, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was a loving husband and is survived by his wife of 52 years, Karolynn L. Fiman (Weber). Jerry was born in Spokane, WA and was raised in Hamilton, a son of the late Frank and Iola Fiman. A 1956...

Norma May Camp

Norma May Camp

Aug 19, 2013

Norma May Camp, 100 of Missoula passed away peacefully in her sleep Monday, August 19, 2013 at Bee Hive Homes in Missoula. Norma was born February 27, 1913 in Loogootee, Indiana to the late Joseph L. and Ida Jan Crays. The family homesteaded to Broadus, MT several years later, traveling out west in an old Ford Model T...

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