Obituaries

Dec 29, 2020

KENNETH SNODGRASS Longtime Corvallis resident Kenneth (Ken) Snodgrass passed away Tuesday, December 29, 2020.  Ken, the oldest son of Rachel and Donald Snodgrass, was born in Spokane, Washington on Feb. 19th 1946. He was raised in the Bay Area and graduated from Burlingame High School.  He served in the National Guard during Vietnam. Ken worked as a motorcycle policeman...

Dec 27, 2020

Corvallis – Jerry David Spear, 72 of Corvallis passed away Sunday, December 27, 2020 at the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton.

Jerry was born March 9, 1948 in Indianapolis, Indiana to the late Jack and Jacqueline Ash Spear.  He was raised and educated in Waldron, IN and graduated from Waldron High School.  Jerry worked at the...

Dec 27, 2020

VICTOR - Samuel Koffler, 88, of Victor passed away Sunday, December 27, 2020 at his home.  Graveside services with Military Honors were held at the Western Montana State Veterans Cemetery in Missoula.

Dec 26, 2020

Loyce Lenore Teller, age 98, passed away peacefully on December 26, 2020, into the arms of her Lord and Savior. Mom was one of the last true Bitterrooters. She loved her home and town, of Corvallis. While working at the high school as a secretary, from 1960-1975, she made many good friends.

Our home was a wonderful...

Dec 26, 2020

Corvallis - Kenneth Clarence Gardner, 103 of Corvallis passed away Saturday December 26, 2020 at home surrounded by his family. He loved having his family around visiting and being with his family, friends, and neighbors.

Born October 4, 1917 to Hugh Vernon Gardner and Laure Mae Stanger in Salem Utah. They moved from Utah to Idaho Falls...

Dec 24, 2020

Donald Robert Erdman, 75, of Hamilton passed away Thursday, December 24, 2020 at his home.  He was born August 28, 1945 in Plainview, Texas the son of John Robert (Bob) Erdman and Jesse Maxine Skipworth.

Don was raised in North Dakota in Golden Valley until his family moved to Mott, North Dakota in 1961.  This is where...

Dec 23, 2020

Corvallis – Gayle Marie Tintzman, 86 of Corvallis passed away Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at her home in Corvallis.

Gayle Marie Anfinson Tintzman was born February 24, 1934, the only child of Anfin and Florence Bates Anfinson at the old Marcus Daly Hospital in Hamilton. She attended Corvallis

schools all her life graduating Salutatorian of...

Dec 22, 2020

DARBY - Veryl Baaska Kosteczko was born in Wisconsin on October 31, 1929 at the beginning of the Great Depression, the second child of Arthur and Dorothy Baaska. She left us at the age of 91 on December 22, 2020 in the year of a global pandemic.  In her long, full, and independently strong life, she made a tremendous...

Dec 22, 2020

Ken Price of Corvallis passed away on December 22, 2020 following a 2-year battle with cancer. Ken was born on May 8, 1942 in Laurel, Montana to Oren and Anna (Halverson) Price, joining his protective older sisters, Patricia and Orene. He spent his boyhood bird hunting and fishing on the Yellowstone River with his dog Rodney. He graduated from...

Dec 22, 2020

Margaret Ann (Mahoney) Marchant, 94, passed on to a Heavenly family reunion on Dec. 22, 2020, from complications of COVID-19 at Discovery Care Centre in Hamilton. Mom was born on Nov. 11, 1926, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the youngest of three children. As a child she had a strong resemblance to Shirley Temple and was well known in her neighborhood...

Dec 21, 2020

Our beautiful son, Andrew James Jenkins (32), of Darby, Montana was called to rest with the angels on Monday, December 21, 2020 in his residence in Oakland, California.  He was born in Hamilton, Montana on August 2, 1988. He is survived by his mother, Rhonda Boyer Dolcater; father, David Jenkins (Lisa); stepfather, Randall Dolcater; loving sisters, Miranda (Matthew) Simmons,...

Dec 21, 2020

Bruce James White, 81, passed away at The Hamilton Assisted Living, on December 21, 2020, having suffered the ravages of Parkinson’s Disease for several years. Bruce was born January 4, 1939, at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital, the son of Harold and Stella (Clopton) White. He was raised on the White ranch northwest of Victor, and attended Victor Schools, graduating...

Dec 20, 2020

Shirley soared to Heaven singing “I’ll Fly Away” as she left the chains of this earth on Sunday, December 20, 2020. Music was always a very important part of Shirley’s life as she sang and whistled through her life. She was often the soloist at church in Chinook and Harlem where she lived for the first half of her...

Dec 19, 2020

HAMILTON - Mildred L. "Millie" Higgins, of Hamilton, passed away December 19, 2020, of natural causes. She was born July 22, 1931, to Floyd and Hertha Bennett living her life in the Bitterroot Valley that she loved. She was a wife, homemaker, and a great mom. She worked at Ravalli County Bank for 32 years and retired as a...

Dec 19, 2020

HAMILTON - Mavis Miller, 91, of Hamilton, Montana passed away at The Remington on December 19, 2020 from Alzheimer’s dementia.

Mavis was born in December 1929 in Richfield, Utah to Kent and Fern Nelson.  She was the first of four daughters born to the Nelson household.  Mavis was raised in Richfield, graduating from Richfield High School as...

Dec 15, 2020

HAMILTON - Gary Ray Hettrick died December 15, 2020 due to onset complications from pulmonary fibrosis.  He was 73.

A lifelong resident of Hamilton, Gary was born November 1, 1947 to William and Anna (née Foudray). He was the youngest of four children, his older siblings being Shirley, Margaret (“Marty”), and William Jr.  After graduating from Hamilton...

Dec 15, 2020

Ruth Laverna Toevs, Sherwood, Peterson (aka Gigi, Gramma, Framma, Aunt Ruthie, Uncouth Ruth) Is now at peace, and has joined the heavenly choir on December 15, 2020.

Born August 25, 1929, in American Falls, Idaho, to Edgar and Annice Toevs. Ruth was the second oldest of the 6 Toevs children including: Walley, Margaret, Marylyn, Ed, and Jim....

Dec 13, 2020

Hamilton – Glynnell Reed, 89 of Hamilton passed away peacefully surrounded by her family, Sunday, December 13, 2020 at her home in Hamilton.

She was born October 9, 1931 in Dalhart, Texas the daughter of the late William A. and Georgie Robertson Reed.  Glynnell graduated from the University of Montana in 1991 with a degree in Social...

Dec 12, 2020

HAMILTON - Florence Mary Radermacher, 87, of Hamilton passed away December 12, 2020 Bee Hive Homes in Hamilton.  Funeral Mass will celebrated on Friday, September 3, 2021 at 1:00 pm at St. Francis Catholic Church in Hamilton.  Interment will follow at Riverview Cemetery.  There will be a reception following the interment in the Pastoral Life Center.  Arrangements are under...

Dec 12, 2020

Patricia Beard, 96, of Hamilton, passed away Saturday, December 12, of natural causes at the Sapphire Lutheran Homes in Hamilton. Pat was preceded in death by her husband, Rod Beard and her son, Dennis Beard. Pat is survived by her daughter, Debra Smith, of Hamilton; two grandsons, Rod (Angela) Turner of Victor, Todd (Sara) Turner of Gillette, WY; three...