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Rubin "Cal" Mettler-Chase

Rubin "Cal" Mettler-Chase

Jan 4, 2009

Rubin "Cal" Mettler-Chase, 64 of Hamilton, died Sunday, January 4, 2008 at the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospice Center in Hamilton. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, January 8, 2008 at the Daly-Leach Chapel in Hamilton. Interment will be at Riverview Cemetery in Hamilton with Military Honors presented by the US Army, Hamilton American Legion and...

Luella J. Strate

Luella J. Strate

Jan 2, 2009

Hamilton - Luella J. Strate, 92 of Hamilton died of natural causes, Friday, January 2, 2009 at the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospice and Palliative Care Center. She was born December 3, 1916 in Darby to the late Allen and Arline Bear Jones. Luella was the eldest of three daughters. She attended high school in Darby and graduated salutatorian...

Patti L. Blodgett

Patti L. Blodgett

Dec 30, 2008

Patti L. (Usrey) Blodgett Patti L. Blodgett, 65 of Polson, formerly of Hamilton, left this world to be with her Heavenly Father on December 30, 2008 due to a sudden illness. She passed away at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. Patti was born May 13, 1943 in Burns, Oregon where she graduated from High School. She attended Nazarene...

Anna Viola Myklebust

Anna Viola Myklebust

Dec 30, 2008

Anna Viola Myklebust, 81, of Hamilton, formerly of Anaconda, died Tuesday, December 30, 2008, at the Valley View Estates Nursing Home in Hamilton, surrounded by her loving family. She was born April 18, 1927 in Leipzig, ND the youngest of nine living children born to Gottfried and Anna Matilda Ulrich Bader. She was educated at the Willard School...

Dale Thompson

Dale Thompson

Dec 28, 2008

Dale Evon Thompson, 56, of Grants, New Mexico went home to be with the Lord on December 28th, 2008. She was born on June 08, 1952 to Charles T. Smith and Mavis I. Danel at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Dale attended Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California and graduated in 1970. On October 2, 1976 she...

Gary A. Habeck

Gary A. Habeck

Dec 28, 2008

Gary Habeck left this earthly world on December 28, 2008 of the many complications suffered on December 21st when the strap on his tree stand broke. - He was born in Marshfield Wisconsin on April 22, 1953 to Arnold and Margie (Richter) Habeck. His early years were spent on a farm in Unity. Gary graduated from Stratford High...

Edgar Raymond Wessel

Edgar Raymond Wessel

Dec 26, 2008

On the 10th of March 1926, Edgar Raymond Wessel was born in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho the last child of Edgar Charles and Carrie Edith Bennett Wessel. He passed away Friday, December 26, 2008 at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, at the age of 82. Ed began school in Cokeville, WY, then moving to Dietrich, ID he finished...

Carolyn M. Theobald

Carolyn M. Theobald

Dec 25, 2008

VICTOR - Carolyn M. Theobald, 61, of Victor passed away Thursday, December 25, 2008 at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital. She was born December 17, 1947 to Edward and Mary Fitzgerald. Carolyn was raised and educated in Richmond, CA. She retired from Pacific Bell as a Communications Technician. Carolyn moved to Victor in 2001. She is survived by her...

Mildred O. Hughes

Mildred O. Hughes

Dec 25, 2008

Mildred Louise Oliva Hughes was born Christmas Day in 1917, and died peacefully on Christmas Day in 2008. In those 91 years, she lived a full and wonderful life in the beautiful Bitterroot Valley. Millie and her older sister Dorothy were raised by parents Jim and Leontina "Leona" Oliva. In their childhood, Millie and her sister rode their...

Donald E. Moore

Donald E. Moore

Dec 25, 2008

In Memory of Donald Eugene Moore, 39, son of Don Moore and the late Susan Moore, who passed away in his home on Thursday, December 25, 2008. He was born December 28, 1968 in Cheyenne, WY. - Donald graduated from Hamilton High School in 1987. He then graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science in...

Leila Godfrey

Leila Godfrey

Dec 24, 2008

CORVALLIS - Leila Godfrey, 83, of Corvallis passed away in her home on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 after a long illness. She was born October 3, 1925 in Albany, WI. - Leila is survived by 9 children, Walter and wife Dorothy of Silverton, ID, David and wife Cheryl of Thompson Falls, Susan of Darby, Seth and wife Dian...

Raymond J. Erickson

Raymond J. Erickson

Dec 24, 2008

FLORENCE - RAYMOND J. "RAY" ERICKSON, 68, OF FLORENCE PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2008 AT HIS HOME. HE WAS BORN ON AUGUST 3, 1940 TO ELMER AND EILEEN ERICKSON. RAY, HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, BOB AND HIS PARENTS LIVED IN CHOTEAU, MT. HE SPENT MANY SUMMERS AT HIS GAANDMOTHER'S RANCH IN HELMVILLE. AS HE GREW OLDER HE WORKED...

Leo Paul Joron

Leo Paul Joron

Dec 24, 2008

Leo P. Joron, 83 of Victor, died Wednesday, December 24th at the Marcus Daly Hospital in Hamilton, MT. A memorial reception with Military honors presented by the Marine Corps League - Bitterroot Detachment and the Hamilton American Legion Post 47 was held in December 2008.

Gerald W. Zirbel

Gerald W. Zirbel

Dec 22, 2008

Hamilton - Gerald 'Jerry' Zirbel passed away Dec. 22, 2008 at Marcus Daly Hospice of natural causes. He was born in Wrightstown, Wis. in 1928 to Lawrence Zirbel and Adaline Fredrich Zirbel. Jerry graduated from Wightstown High School in 1946 and began his career in agricultural sales, through the years traveling many states. From 1950 until 1952 he...

Rob Betz

Rob Betz

Dec 19, 2008

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Rob Betz, 46, of Idaho Falls, passed away Friday, Dec. 19, 2008, due to illness. Rob was born Dec. 21, 1961, in Crosby, N.D., to Russell and Karen Betz. Rob grew up in Hamilton, where he was an all-star athlete for the Hamilton Broncs. After graduating from Hamilton High School in 1981, Rob moved...

Eleanor F. Cooley

Eleanor F. Cooley

Dec 19, 2008

VICTOR - Eleanor Fannie "Scottie" Cooley, 84, of Victor passed away Friday, December 19, 2008 at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. She was born June 18, 1924 in Tunkhannock, PA the daughter of Caryle and Beatrice Page. - Eleanor graduated from Brooklyn High School in Pennsylvania. She married Donald Cooley on Oct. 17, 1943. Eleanor had many varied...

Howard George Eimer

Howard George Eimer

Dec 18, 2008

HAMILTON - Howard George Eimer, 92, of Hamilton passed away Thursday, December 18, 2008 at the Marcus Daly Hospice and Palliative Care Center of natural causes. He was born February 4, 1916 in Gloucester City, NJ the son of Howard P. and Florence Eimer. - Howard worked as a delivery man for Dolly Madison during the depression. He...

Eddie B. Usrey

Eddie B. Usrey

Dec 16, 2008

Eddie B. Usrey, 95 of Hamilton, went to be in the arms of His Heavenly Father on December 16, 2008 in Orofino, Idaho. Eddie was born December 8, 1913 to Claude and Winnie Usrey in Sawyer, Oklahoma. Eddie then moved with his parents to Sayre, Oklahoma, where he graduated from Sayre High School and was a track star....

Beulah Irene Shelby

Beulah Irene Shelby

Dec 15, 2008

Beulah Irene Shelby, 99, of Hamilton, passed away on December 15, 2008 at Marcus Daly Hospice and Palliative Care Center. She was born on June 11, 1909, in New Brighton, PA, to Marvin and Clarabelle Sturgeon. She had two brothers, Ronald and Richard. She was educated in Hugo, CO. and attended Greeley Teachers' College where she earned certification...

William "Bill" Fox

William "Bill" Fox

Dec 14, 2008

HAMILTON - William Burton Fox, 75, of Hamilton passed away on Sunday, December 14, 2008 at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital of natural causes. He was born March 24, 1933 in Newberry, MI the son of Waldo and Mable Fox. - He was two years old when his family colonized to the Matanuska Susitna Valley in Alaska. Bill resided...

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