Mark Roger Herbenick
Nov 11, 2013
HAMILTON - Mark Roger Herbenick, 50, of Hamilton passed away Monday, November 11, 2013 at his home in Hamilton. He was born October 7, 1963 in San Bernadino, CA the son of Thomas and Margaret Herbenick. Mark is survived by his mother, Margaret, of Hamilton. Memorial services will be held on Friday, November 22, 2013 at 7:00 pm...
Daniel Lewis Humphrey
Nov 10, 2013
HAMILTON - Daniel Lewis Humphrey, 57, of Hamilton passed away Sunday, November 10, 2013 at his home from a heart attack. He was born November 12, 1955 in Los Angeles, CA the son of Irving Frank and Georgia Lewis (Eaton) Humphrey. Dan was raised and educated in California and graduated from high school in 1973. He married Martha...
Marie Gene Mckee
Nov 10, 2013
Marie Gene (Bartlett) McKee, 88, of Corvallis, Montana passed away November 10, 2013 after a long battle with cancer. She was born July 27, 1925 in Spokane, Washington and raised there. Early on she found what would become a lifelong love for animals, particularly horses and dogs, with a special partiality for German Shepherds. She was a member...
John W. Shoemaker
Nov 10, 2013
John Woodrow Shoemaker, a native of Missoula, Montana, comfortably passed away in his sleep at the age of 96 at the Bee Hive Homes in Missoula on Sunday, Nov 10, 2013. John was born on May 9, 1917 the only child of William and Rose Mathis Shoemaker, both deaf and mute. He lived in a foster home in...
Donald L. Klapwyk
Nov 8, 2013
Donald L. Klapwyk, 82, of Darby passed away Friday, November 8, 2013 at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula. He was born September 19, 1931 in St. Patrick's Hospital, in Missoula, the son of the late John and Freida Klapwyk. Don was raised on a ranch in the Missoula area first helping to run a dairy operation and later...
Florence K. Pagenkopf
Nov 8, 2013
Florence K. Pagenkopf, 92 of Hamilton passed away Friday November 8, 2013 at her home. She was born December 20, 1920 in Hamilton, MT to Robert G. Kyle and Florence Parker-Kyle, the youngest of three children. She graduated from Hamilton High School. Florence married Paul O. Pagenkopf. The couple raised three children, Gordon C., Robert R. and Barbara...
Roy "Mr. Rainbow" Thomas
Nov 3, 2013
Roy Thomas "Mr. Rainbow", 76, of Hamilton, went to be with his Lord and Savior Sunday, Nov. 03, 2013. He was born on Oct. 09, 1937 in Hamilton, MT and felt fortunate to be able to live here again for the past 17 yrs. He married Sheraleen Madsen (Sherrie) of Scobey, MT, on Aug. 06, 1960 and they...
Anna Vee Brandborg
Nov 2, 2013
Hamilton - Last Saturday evening, Nov. 2, Anna Vee Brandborg, 88 years along and proud of it, drifted off from the world of sourdough pancake breakfasts, environmental activists, uppity and accomplished children, cookouts on Tin Cup Flat, 14 dogs and company in the living room, pithy observations, good advice, good bourbon, bad jokes, good cooking, outrageous laughter, the...
Gary R. Greer
Oct 30, 2013
HAMILTON - Gary R. Greer passed away on October 30, 2013. He was born in Ogden, Utah on May 15, 1943 to Ray and Lucille Greer. He served in the military from 1960 - 1963. He worked for many years at Hill Air Force Base. In 1962 he married Charmaine Maltby and had two children, Paula and Wayne....
Carol S. Thomas
Oct 29, 2013
Carol S. Thomas passed at home in the presence of her family on October 29, 2013 at 5:35pm. Carol was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on November 6,1942 to Dorothy and Robert Tuell. Siblings are Ed, Bobby, Mary, Evelyn, Ralph, Margaret, Pat and Truman . Survived by sisters Margaret George and Pat Bataglia of California. Husband Bill Thomas, daughters...
Phillip O. "Phil" Ballard
Oct 29, 2013
HAMILTON - Phillip O. (Phil) Ballard, 84, of Hamilton passed away Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at the Marcus Daly Hospice and Palliative Care Center. Phil was third of six children born on October 10, 1929 to Hal and Mildred Ballard in Fairfield, ID. He moved to Bellingham, WA as a baby, attending all twelve years of school there,...
Joyce Janiece Anderson
Oct 28, 2013
HAMILTON - Joyce Janiece Anderson, 70, of Hamilton passed away Monday, October 28, 2013 at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital. She was born March 8, 1943 in Pueblo, CO the daughter of James W. and Loree V. (Coleman) Howerton. Joyce attended school most of her 12 years while living in Bellvue, CO. She graduated from Cache La Poudre High...
Jessie Fay Mcentire
Oct 27, 2013
Jessie Fay McEntire passed away on October 27, 2013 at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, MT. She was born in Idabel, OK on July 9, 1923 to Lee and Cindy Bivins. Her four sisters and four brothers affectionately called her "sister". In 1940, she married Alfred McEntire and had four children together; Steve, Linda and twin boys,...
Frances Bonita Shipp
Oct 26, 2013
Frances Bonita Shipp, 83 of Hamilton went to sleep to wait for the coming of the Lord. Frances was born May 5, 1930 to Lucy and William Fitzgerald in New Martinsville, West Virginia. She loved to play Bingo - in fact, she was called Bingo Bonnie. She enjoyed shopping, camping and going for rides. She loved her chicken,...
Robin Jerry Petri
Oct 23, 2013
Robin Jerry Petri, 58 of Hamilton passed away on October 23, 2013. He was the third son to Patricia (Lensing) Reed and Jack Petri born October 18, 1955. Robin joined the Army before finishing High School, but later received his GED while in the service. After an honorable discharge, Robin worked as a carpenter and an electrician and...
Doris Holmes
Oct 22, 2013
CORVALLIS - On the morning of October 22, 2013, Doris Holmes passed away at home in Corvallis, MT with her loving husband by her side. Doris was 81 years old. She was born May 16, 1932, in Mount Vernon, New York to Manuel and Maria Pinto. Doris was a loving wife of 63 years to Glenn (Bud) Holmes...
Benjamin Lee Smead
Oct 22, 2013
Benjamin Lee Smead, 28 of Hamilton died October 22nd at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula as the result of an auto accident. Ben was born February 13, 1985 in Missoula to William H. and Katherine C. Smead. He attended and graduated from Flathead High School in Kalispell. He worked as a Ford service technician. Ben enjoyed fishing, gold...
Vlade William Joyner
Oct 20, 2013
Vlade William Joyner, son, brother, uncle, and adventurer, died on October 20th, 2013. Vlade had a whit and charm unlike any other. Vlade's light was bright. He lit up a room, most of the time intentionally, but often without trying. Words to make you blush were always at the tip of his tongue. Vlade could instantly charm his...
Lorri-Ann Tracy-Piazzola
Oct 17, 2013
HAMILTON - Lorri-Ann Tracy-Piazzola, age 52, of Hamilton MT, passed away at her home on October 17, 2013. She was born in Bozeman, MT at the Deaconess Hospital, to Karene Lea Tracy. Lorri lived most of her life in Livingston, MT, then in 1996 moved to Hamilton, where she continued her work of home health care, and taking...
Jean T. Waldo
Oct 13, 2013
Jean Tardeville Waldo, 89, of Hamilton passed away at her home Sunday, October 13, 2013. Jean was born November 11, 1923 in Anaconda the daughter of the late Dean Ivan and Ruth Baker Tardeville. She attended Business College in Butte. She worked at the Anaconda Smelter until after WWII. On March 21, 1945 Jean married Ralph (Bob) Waldo...
