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Patricia Sue Peters
MILES CITY - Patricia Sue "Pat" Peters, 58, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1999, at her home of cancer.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, in the chapel of Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home with interment in the family lot in the Custer County cemetery.
Regina Golinski
DENVER - Regina Golinski, a longtime resident of Billings, died Oct. 8, 1999, in Denver, where she has lived for the past six years.
Born Jan. 2, 1910, in Chernowitz, in what was then the Austrian/Hungarian monarchy, Mrs. Golinski was privately educated and was married
June 2, 1933, to Michael Golinski. The Golinskis lived with their son in Wels, Austria, during World War II, and later immigrated to Billings where they lived for more than 35 years.
Mrs. Golinski was a homemaker, an employee of Montana Power and a talented vocalist. She enjoyed gardening, music and outdoor activities.
Services were held Oct. 16 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, and burial was at Mount Olivet cemetery in Denver.
Mrs. Golinski is survived by her son, Franz K. Golinski of Denver; her grandson, Michael R. Golinski of Las Cruces, N.M.; and her godson/nephew, William Zankowski of Ennis, Mont.
Anna C. Johnston
WORLAND, Wyo. - Anna C. Johnston, 83, died Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, at the Washakie Medical Center.
Graveside funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, in Riverview Memorial Gardens cemetery. Bryant Funeral Home is in charge.
Florence E. Butkay
FORSYTH - Florence E. Butkay, 82 of Forsyth, formerly of Hysham, died Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1999, at the Rosebud Health Care Center in Forsyth.
Florence was born March 2, 1917, in Hysham, the daughter of Claude C. and Mae Phillips Barkhuff. She spent her youth and attended schools in Hysham.
On Oct. 28, 1933, Florence married
John Butkay in Hardin. They farmed and ranched on Sarpy Creek where they raised their family. In 1949, Florence and John moved to Bridger where Florence worked at the Clarks Fork Hotel as a hotel clerk and also as a waitress. In 1958, they moved to Minot, N.D., before returning to Hysham in 1960. Florence cooked and waitressed at various cafes in Hysham.
Following their retirement in 1972, they continued to live in Hysham where Florence helped with the Hysham Senior Citizens for many years. Florence was also well known for her work in the garden, growing some of the most beautiful roses in the area.
Florence was a member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Hysham, the Hysham Senior Citizens, Royal Neighbors of America, and the Pinochle Club. She enjoyed baking, making agate jewelry with her husband, John, and collecting state plates as well as various knickknacks.
She is survived by her husband, John of Forsyth; four children, Bev Pulver and her husband, Howard of Glendale, Ariz., and her children, Bob, Scott and Rick; Jerry Butkay and wife, Neita of Hardin and his children, Tanya, Teri, and Tim; Kay O'Donell and her husband Hod of Ennis and her children, Barbara, Casey, and Joel; and Gloria Bigelow and Ernie of Colstrip and her children, Laurie and Ernie Jr.; and 26 great-grandchildren. Florence was preceded in death by her five brothers and sisters.
Memorial graveside services will be held 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, 1999, at the Hysham cemetery with interment of the urn to follow. Beals Mortuary of Forsyth is in charge of the arrangements.
Richard Neil Wood
BOULDER - Richard Neil Wood, age 25, of Boulder, passed away Monday at Benefis East Hospital at Great Falls as a result of injuries sustained in an auto accident near Boulder.
Neil was born April 20, 1974, at Rapid City, S.D., to William and Dixie (Dean) Wood. He moved to Boulder during his seventh grade year and later graduated from Jefferson High School at Boulder in 1992. Neil then joined the National Guard and later attended law enforcement academy at Bozeman. Most recently, he was attending Montana Tech and working as a mechanic at the Montana Tunnels Mine in Jefferson City.
Neil loved all outdoor activities and sports, especially golfing. Neil's many friends attest to his warm personality, honesty, and sincerity. Neil lived for his family and friends and was always willing to help anyone in need. Neil was greatly loved by his family and friends and will never be forgotten.
Neil married
Sarah Norden on July 27, 1996, at Boulder.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah Wood of Boulder; mother and stepfather: Dixie and Rusty Graf of Boulder; father and stepmother: William E. and Anna Wood of Pierre, S.D.; father-in-law and mother-in-law: Dick and Linda Norden of Boulder; grandparents: Rod and Eunice Hanson of Fairfield, Jim and Bangy Norden of Billings, Dorthy and Dick Dean of Edgemont, S.D., and Enone Kunar of Santa Maria, Calif.; brothers: Bill and Brittany Wood of Missoula, Dustin Graf of Boulder, Matt, Brandon, and Daniel Wood, all of Pierre; sisters: Cassandra Meade of San Miguel, Calif., Kellie Fisher of Paso Robles, Calif., Maranda Hankins of Gillette, Wyo., Melissa and Crista Wood of Pierre; sisters-in-law: Amy and Betsy Norden, both of Boulder; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Memorials preferred to: Boulder Golf Association, c/o First Boulder Valley Bank, P.O. Box 207, Boulder, Mont. 59632.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Oct. 22, at 1 p.m. from the South Gym at Jefferson High School with Rev. Robert Holmes and Rev. Dee Anna co-officiating. Interment will follow at the Boulder cemetery.
Scott Funeral Home of Boulder in charge of arrangements.
Mary Herman Seguin
HOBSON - Mary Herman Seguin, 102, of Hobson, died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999, at the Central Montana Medical Center in Lewistown.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Creel Funeral Chapel in Lewistown with interment in the Strouf cemetery.
Andrew Miller
CASPER, Wyo. - Andrew "Andy" Miller, 32, formerly of Sheridan, died Sunday, Oct. 17, 1999, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Visitation will be 8 a.m.-noon Thursday, Oct. 21, at Champion Funeral Home in Sheridan. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home with interment in the Sheridan Municipal cemetery.
Della Frances Davidson
HARLOWTON - Della Frances Davidson, 78, died Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, at the Wheatland Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 22, in the Harlowton cemetery. Perkins Funeral Home is in charge.
Archie C. Scott
GLENDIVE - Archie C. Scott, 87, died Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1999, at the Glendive Medical Center.
A memory service will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, at the Chapel of the Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Evangelical Church of North America with interment in the Dawson County cemetery.
Alice B. O'Brien
SHERIDAN, Wyo. - Alice B. O'Brien, 69, died Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, at the Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Sheridan Municipal cemetery. Ferries Funeral Home is in charge.
Frederick Ardell Webber
WAYNE, Neb. - Frederick Ardell Webber, 63, passed away Oct. 18, 1999, in Wayne. Frederick, son of Frederick J. and Gloria (Thaut) Webber, was born Feb. 9, 1936, at Bridger, Mont. He attended grade school in Bridger, graduated from Joliet High School, received his B.S. degree from Eastern Montana College in Billings, M.A., E.D.S. at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Ed.D. in mathematics from Indiana University.
Fred was professor emeritus, having taught mathematics at Wayne State College from 1965 until retiring in 1995. Fred was united in marriage to Connie Matthews on Aug. 24, 1968. The couple made their home in Wayne where they were instructors at Wayne State College. Fred was an active member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, having served as treasurer for many years on the Board of Education, VIA, and Men's Club, was parish council president, and was instrumental on the Capital Building Campaign. Fred was an active member of Lions Club International, serving as president and secretary many years, manager of Wayne Lions Club Camper Park, and was also a member of the Wayne City Planning Commission. He was an expert coin collector, enjoyed gardening, collectables, and turkey and pheasant hunting.
Fred is survived by his wife, Connie; son, Steve Webber of Mesa, Ariz.; daughter, Susan Webber of Pullman, Wash.; brothers, Darell and Tim Webber of Hardin, Mont.; sisters, Gloria Menke of Hardin, Alida Brown of Tucumcari, N.M., and Mary Webber of Boulder, Colo.; father-in-law, Milton Matthews of Wayne; four nieces and one nephew.
Fred Webber was preceded in death by his parents.
Vigil services were held Wednesday, Oct. 20, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wayne. A Christian Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at the church. Interment will be in the Greenwood cemetery in Wayne.
Arrangements by Schumacher-Hasemann Funeral Homes.
Allen D. Hofferber
Allen D. Hofferber, 51, passed away peacefully Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, in Billings following an extended illness. He was born June 22, 1948, in Billings to Jacob and Erma Marker Hofferber. He was raised and educated in Billings, graduating from Billings West High in 1967. After graduation, Allen's career was in the used auto parts business. He worked for Piper's Auto Wrecking until the business was purchased by Johnson Auto Wrecking in 1971; he continued working there until April of 1998.
He made many friends and was a friend to everyone who knew him. His joy was to go on weekend fishing trips to Fort Smith with his buddies.
Allen is survived by his father, Jacob of Billings; brother, Gerald (Arlene) of St. Croix Falls, Wis.; sisters, Sharon (Larry) Long of Spokane, Wash., Markay (Dan) Marsich of Billings, and Marilyn (Bob) Adkins of Joliet; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother (1993), and two brothers, Donald (1980) and Howard (1995).
Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday at Cremation or Funeral Gallery, 8th St. W. and St. John's with interment following at Rockvale cemetery. Memorials may be made to charities of choice. Arrangements were made by Cremation or Funeral Gallery.
S. Keith Anderson
HELENA - S. Keith Anderson, chief executive of the Montana Taxpayers' Association in Helena for well over three decades, died at his home from cancer on Oct. 18, 1999. He was 75. Keith was a nationally recognized advocate of the concerns of taxpayers and main street business, being elected president of the National Taxpayers' Conference in Washington, D.C., and president of the Western States Taxpayers' Conference.
Long after his retirement in 1989 and well into the 1990s, Keith Anderson continued his support of these causes through the Montana Society of Association Executives, which he helped organize in the early 1980s. Acting on a pro bono basis from his home, he kept the association lively and viable, even as he took an active role in such organizations as the Pachyderm Club, Rotary Club, many aspects of Masonry including the Algeria Shrine, and Gates of the Mountains Boat Club, Green Meadow Country Club, and many others.
S. Keith Anderson's roots were deep in the ranch country of Central Montana. He was born in Lewistown on June 17, 1924, the only child of Oscar I. and Alma Savre Anderson. Oscar Anderson's family began ranching on Spring Creek near Lewistown in 1882.
As an only child and with no neighborhood children to play with, Keith was raised with adults, cow hands and occasional ranch visitors. His best friends were his dog, Jack, and a series of saddle ponies he rode around the ranch and to classes in a one-room log schoolhouse where 17-year-old Florence Duffy taught grades one through eight. Miss Duffy roomed at the Anderson ranch during her tenure and, in Keith Anderson's words, "taught me to read and write and think."
When Keith graduated from Lewistown High School in 1942, the country was at war. Keith enrolled at the University of Washington where he joined the ROTC student military training program. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in the summer of 1943, serving as an aerial gunner with B-17 and B-29 bomber groups.
After his discharge at March Field in 1946, Keith enrolled at the University of Montana at Missoula, where he earned a degree in business and political science with a minor in history and economics. With his graduation, Keith fulfilled one of two promises he had made to his father, Oscar: graduate from college and become a Shriner. The latter was to follow as Keith became a member of both the York and Scottish rites and a lifelong, enthusiastic member of the Algeria Shrine of Helena.
In his own words, the major event of Keith's college career was the day he met a co-ed named Carol Chaffin, a member of a pioneer Bitterroot Valley family. Carol, the pride of Keith's life, became Montana's first official Miss Montana in 1947, and Keith eagerly kept track of her activities at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, where she earned a scholarship allowing her to finish her college education.
The Andersons were married
in a small church in Hamilton on Dec. 27, 1949. Keith and Carol taught classes at Alberton High School for a time before moving to the Anderson ranch on the Judith River.
When Keith's mother, Alma, died in 1953, his father agreed to sell the ranch and retire to Lewistown, where he lived until his death a decade later. Keith and Carol and their infant son, Craig, moved to Helena early in 1955 when a position as research assistant opened at the Montana Taxpayers' Association. Quickly acclimating himself to the work of the organization he was to serve for so long, Keith was soon named its Executive Secretary.
Keith's involvement with the work of MonTax, the shortened name he gave the Association, was total. His tireless work with the Legislature, at school budget meetings throughout the state and on the lecture circuit on behalf of the taxpayer and main street business is legendary and enduring.
Keith and Carol Anderson as a couple have made a lasting contribution to life in Helena, and their two sons, Craig and Eric, have continued the tradition in Billings, where they live with their families. Craig, a graduate of the University of Montana, is a CPA and CFP and is a Vice President of Merrill Lynch. He and his wife, Jane, have two sons, Chris and Chase. Eric, also a CPA, holds a law degree from the University of Montana and a master of law degree in taxation from New York University. He is a partner of the Crowley Law Firm. Eric and his wife, Dale, have a daughter, Alexis.
Services will be held at Plymouth Congregational Church in Helena at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 21, 1999. Masonic graveside services will be held at the Lewistown cemetery at 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, 1999, by Officers and Members, Friendship Lodge #37, A.F. & A.M. Hagler-Anderson Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, please send memorials to Shriners Hospitals for Children, c/o Algeria Shrine Temple, P.O. Box 1174, Helena, Mont. 59624-1174 or Plymouth Congregational Church Memorial Fund, 400 S. Oakes, Helena, Mont. 59601 or a charity of your choice.
Charlotte L. Carlson
LEWISTOWN - Charlotte L. Carlson, 54, died Sunday, Oct. 17, 1999, at her home of cancer.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at the Beaver Creek cemetery. Creel Funeral Home is in charge.
William H. Hancock
William H. "Bill" Hancock, 90, of Billings, passed away Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, at his home.
He was born Aug. 16, 1909, in Ballantine, the son of J. Homer and Elma (Werts) Hancock. He was raised in Ballantine and graduated from Worden High School in 1926. He then attended Poly Tech in Billings for two years where he studied accounting.
He worked at the State Experiment Farm at Huntley for a while and then became an accountant for the Bureau of Reclamation where he worked until retiring in 1972.
He married
Jesse O. Ryan on Aug. 17, 1934, in Billings.
Bill enjoyed golfing, gardening, and was active in his church.
He was a member of the Elks Lodge, Eastern Star, Al Bedoo Shrine, and Worden Masonic Lodge No. 144.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie of Billings; his son, Gary and wife, Marie Hancock of Billings; grandchildren, Teri Goodner, Mike Hancock, Karen Porter and Will Hancock; great-grandchildren, Ashley Goodner, Alan Goodner, Aron Goodner, Lena Hancock and Kennedy Porter; sisters-in-law, Letha Egbert of Hemet, Calif., Doris Hancock of Bellevue, Neb., and Wanda Hancock of Mesa, Ariz.; several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his son, Larry B. Hancock, and brothers, Wilfred and John Hancock.
Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22, at the First Congregational Church. Cremation will follow. Memorials to the First Congregational Church or the Al Bedoo Shrine Transportation Fund, c/o Al Bedoo Shrine, P.O. Box 20673, Billings, MT 59104.
