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Edna S. Hall
SHERIDAN, Wyo. - Edna S. Hall, longtime Sheridan resident, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2000, at Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County, at the age of 92.
Edna was born on Oct. 28, 1907, in Lane, S.D., to Joseph Charles and Emma Forst Kutil. On March 3,1928, she was united in marriage to Platt Hall and the couple moved to the Sheridan area from Rapid City, S.D. in 1945. She and Platt were co-owners of the Sport Shop on Main Street in Sheridan for 25 years.
"Our dear little mother was a world-class homemaker and she was determined to teach those lessons well to her daughters and granddaughters. She was a beautiful seamstress. She loved baking special cookies and treats for others. Her large flowerbeds were filled with perfect design and color for all seasons. The begonia and African violets were varieties of which she was especially proud. Edna was a charter member of both the Sheridan Garden Club and the African Violet Club. She had always loved fishing, camping, birding, and sharing all sporting events and activities with her beloved Platt for those fifty years together. Mom's most blessed vocation for her long lifetime was tending to her family and keeping a lovely home. We all appreciate that and loved her for it."
She was also a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Church Circle Three.
Preceding her in death were her husband of 50 years, Platt, who died in 1977; her brothers, Joseph and Leo and sister, Evelyn.
Survivors include, two daughters, Gloria and (Gordon) Novakovich of Sheridan and Patty and (Ted) Lechner of Billings; four brothers, Arthur Kutil of Sioux Falls, S.D., Harold Kutil of Huron, S.D., Milton and(Gladys) Kutil of Anchorage, Alaska, and Leslie and (Ricky) Kutil of Big Stone City, S.D., a sister, Lila Johnson and sister-in-law, Adeline and (Wayne) Anderl all of Sioux City, Iowa; granddaughters, Debra Kath (Ralph) of Sheridan and Lisa and (Dr. Gregory) Miknis of Broomfield, Colo.; grandsons, Dr. David Lechner (Kerry) of Helena, Mont.; Tom Lechner and (Amy) and Michael Lechner, all of Billings; great-grandchildren, Ashley and Courtney Miknis, Megan and Kyle Lechner, and Ryan Kath, and many dearly loved nieces and nephews; and 55 years of dear friends in Sheridan.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26, at Kane Funeral Home, with Deacon Joe Kristufek officiating. Interment will follow in the Elks cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church c/o Delphine Tone, First Interstate Bank, P.O. Box 2007, Sheridan, WY 82801.
Oliver Anderson
PLENTYWOOD - Oliver Anderson, 80, died Monday, Feb. 21, 2000, at Mercy Hospital in Williston, N.D.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at Plentywood Lutheran Church with burial in Plentywood Memorial cemetery. Fulkerson Funeral Home is in charge.
Vernon F. Dillon
GLENDIVE - Vernon F. Dillon, 93, died Monday, Feb. 21, 2000, at the Glendive Medical Center Extended Care Facility.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the United Methodist Church with private interment in Dawson Memorial cemetery. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home is in charge.
J. Thomas Mader
BROADUS - J. Thomas Mader, 82, died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2000, at the Powder River Manor.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Assembly of God Church with burial in the family lot of the Bowers Creek cemetery near Broadus. Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home is in charge.
Barbara Loy Koch
Barbara Loy Koch, 58, of Billings, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000. She had contracted breast cancer 27 years ago and was in remission for many years, but finally succumbed to that disease.
She was born on Jan. 9, 1942, in Billings to William and Alice (Skones) Brownfield. She grew up in Worden and graduated from Huntley Project High School. She received a teaching degree from Eastern Montana College and taught at Lockwood Junior High School for 29 years. She was active in professional organizations: the Montana and National Education Associations; as a delegate to the MEA legislative assembly, in national meetings, and on negotiation teams to improve benefits for her local teachers.
She loved sports, as a spectator, as an athlete, and as a coach. A fondness for small animals, especially unwanted strays, was part of her character. In 1963, she married
Dean Beiswanger and was divorced in 1966. In 1978, she married
Roger Koch.
She is survived by her husband, her mother, her daughters: Barb (Craig) Kirkpatrick of North Oaks, Minn., Kimberly Mink (Michael) Reiter of Worden, Loy Koch, of Billings and grandchildren, Tyson, Andrew, and Noelle Reiter. She was preceded in death by her father1 and a daughter, Honey Koch.
Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be held at King of Glory Lutheran Church on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 11 a.m. A private interment will take place at a later date at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to King of Glory, Big Sky Hospice, or the Ronald McDonald House.
Tsugi 'Yoko' Wilson
RED LODGE - Our dearly beloved Tsugi "Yoko" Wilson peacefully left this earthly existence on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2000, at her home in the presence of her loving husband after a five-year battle with cancer and other complications. She was 56 years old.
Yoko was born on April 14, 1933, in Shizuoka, Japan, the second daughter of Kyotara and Kayo Kon. During her youth, Yoko experienced the horrors of war during the Russian invasion of the former Japanese island of Sakhalin at the end of World War II, where her family was residing at the time.
Yoko and her future husband met while Oliver was serving in Japan with the Army Signal Corps during the Korean Conflict. Oliver and Yoko married
in Tokyo at the American Embassy on Nov. 24, 1958. She arrived in the United States on Jan. 15, 1959.
She spent most of her married
life as a partner with her husband on the Wilson family farm on Clear Creek until their retirement in 1990, at which time they moved to an acreage two miles south of Red Lodge.
Yoko began working as a cook at the Beartooth Elks Lodge in 1983, and continued until New Years Eve 1998. She was a member of the B.P.O. Does.
Yoko pursued a variety of activities, but she was particularly passionate about knitting, fishing and playing bingo.
She was preceded in death by her mother and father, two sisters-in-law, Aila Jarvie and Esther Hill, one brother-in-law, Waino Wilson, and her mother- in-law and father-in-law, John and Bertha Wilson.
Survivors include her husband, Oliver Wilson of Red Lodge; son Michael J. (Arlene) of Anchorage, Alaska, son, Matthew J. (Madeline) and grandson Shane of Los Angeles; sisters, Shiyoe and Kiseko Kon, and brother Sinti Kon of Shizuoka, Japan; sister-in-law, Ellen (Toby) Lantta of Red Lodge; and numerous nieces and nephews. She will be lovingly remembered by many friends of many cultures in Red Lodge and surrounding area.
In accordance with Yoko's wishes, cremation has taken place and no service will be held. The Olcott Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials are preferred to Beartooth Hospice, Box 590, Red Lodge MT 59068.
Mary K. Thompson
DENVER - Our beloved Mary K. Thompson, 87, went home to be with our lord on Feb. 19, 2000, at the Christopher House in Denver. Mary was born June 1, 1912, to Charles and Marie Kolarich in Red Lodge, Mont. Mary attended school in Red Lodge and upon graduation moved to Billings to attend Billings Business College majoring in accounting.
She started her career at the Laurel Refinery, later moving to Yale Oil. She married
Theodore Thompson Dec. 21, 1939, and moved to Missoula to further her education as a CPA. She returned to Billings to work for Colberg Accounting, later working for the EC Business Office where she retired in 1984.
Mary is survived by one son, Todd Thompson and wife, Dicksie of Aurora, Colo. Other survivors include sisters, Betty J. Bourne of Billings, Helen Pipkin of Freeland, Wash., one brother, Louis Kolarich of Red Lodge, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Charles and Robert.
Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. at Smith Chapel West with burial following in Red Lodge at 3 p.m.
Donald Betcher
LIVINGSTON - Donald Betcher, 34, died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2000, at Livingston Memorial Hospital.
Cremation has taken place and no services are planned. Franzen-Davis Funeral Home & Crematory is in charge.
Orval M. Boyer
RED LODGE - "Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Daddy". Our Daddy, Orval M. Boyer, 89, of Red Lodge, died Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 23, 2000, in Cedar Wood Villa.
Orval was born in Red Lodge on April 2, 1910, to pioneer parents Orval Clay and Emma Caroline Boyer. He lived and farmed on Willow Creek most of his life. Orval loved the farm - the horses, the machinery, but mostly the old threshing machine steamer tractor. He had his own harvesting route on Willow Creek, Red Lodge Creek and Volney Creek, starting at Cooney Dam and working toward home. Orval ran the steamer, the regular threshing machine and the modern combine over the span of his life.
He was a doer - he saw it all and he did it all. He loved music and reading. Orval played the button accordion and was an accomplished violinist.
On June 16, 1934, Orval married
Lucille M. Wood. Together they raised their family on Willow Creek. Becoming a number one husband and parent were added to his repertoire. Six children were born to this union. Four survived the years when there were no antibiotics to fight childhood diseases, and the poor child-birth procedures.
Surviving are children, Carolyn Kumpula (Ron), and sons, Ron Jr. and Bruce D. of Laurel; Nancy J. McArtor (James) of Cody, their son, Brandon and daughter, Ashli Koster; Elaine of South Africa, her son, Corey Huff and daughter, Carla Khyl of Billings; Orval E. "Skip" Boyer, and daughters, Kristie Dennis and Barbara Boyer of Bearcreek; and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lucille M. Boyer on Jan. 8, 1994.
Orval instilled in his children a simple faith in our Lord and the confidence that they could do anything. He always stood beside them to help.
In later years they resided in Bearcreek, and Orval worked as the Carbon County road crew foreman, working hand in hand with his friend and neighbor, Frank Cole, Jr.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 28, in the Olcott Funeral Chapel in Red Lodge. Orval will be buried at John Henry cemetery in a pine casket beautifully fashioned by his grandson Bruce. Memorials may be given to Cedar Wood Villa, Box 430, Red Lodge MT 59068.
"Daddy, we love you and will miss you. Give Mom a hug for us."
Edward Kocon
GREYBULL, Wyo. - Edward Kocon, 78 of Greybull, died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2000, at the Billings Deaconess Hospital. The son of John and Bernice Kocon, he was born in Hamtramck, Mich., Sept. 5, 1921. His family moved to Chicago where he was raised and educated. He married
Jane A. Kostrzeba in Hamtramck, Jan. 9, 1944. They celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary this past January. Edward farmed at Brown City, Mich., until retiring and moving to Wyoming in 1973. He and Jane made their home in Powell and Wapiti before moving to Greybull in August 1998.
Edward found great joy in the outdoors and Wyoming mountains. He was an avid hunter and fisherman as well as a devoted family man. He attended Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Greybull.
Survivors include his wife, Jane; and his daughter, Marilynn E. Kelly and her husband, George of Greybull; and a grandson, David E. Kelly and his wife, Brooke stationed with the Air Force in Goldsboro, N.C.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother.
Cremation has taken place. Memorial services are planned for a later date.
Michelotti, Sawyers & Nordquist has charge of arrangements.
Aaron M. Morgan
Aaron M. Morgan, 20, was struck by a vehicle early Monday morning, Feb. 21, 2000, and died from the injuries.
Aaron was born in Billings on Aug. 16, 1979, a son of Rick and Pam (Fredericks) Morgan. He received his education in Billings and had most recently been working as a waiter at Jake's. Aaron loved to travel and had seen much of the western and central U. S. in the short time he had.
Survivors include his mother, Pam Sessions; father, Rick Morgan; and brother, Jonathan Fredericks, all of Billings. He is also survived by grandparents, Leonard and Marjean Davis of Billings and Leona and Dale Dawson; uncles, Richard, Miles, and Jim Morgan; aunts, Cindy and Colleen, Christie Rollins of Worden, Vickie Claussen of Billings and Keri Kulhanek of Highland Ranch, Colo.; as well as other aunts, uncles and four cousins.
Cremation is planned and a memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26 at the Smith Downtown Chapel.
Margaret S. Working
SHERIDAN, Wyo. - Margaret Sterling Working, 78, died on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000, at Memorial Hospital of Sheridan.
Cremation has taken place and the date of her memorial service will be announced later. Gifts may be given to the donor's choice in care of Delphine toner, First Interstate Bank, P.O. box 2007, Sheridan, WY 82801. Kane Funeral Home is in charge.
Philip R. Walling
LEWISTOWN - Philip R. Walling, 61, of Lewistown, died Tuesday afternoon at his home of an apparent heart attack. He was born June 30, 1938, the son of Cleo and Frances (Kanouse) Walling in Jordan. They moved to Lewistown, and he graduated from Fergus High School. While in high school, he began working for his father in the road construction business.
On Dec. 30, 1961, he was united in marriage to Leona Geary in MarVista, Calif. They made their home in Lewistown, and he continued to work as a heavy equipment operator on road construction until 1971. He then began raising, training and racing thoroughbred horses. He raced at tracks all over Montana, the United States and Canada.
Phil enjoyed hunting and fishing but his biggest love was his horses.
He is survived by his loving wife, Leona of Lewistown; three brothers: Jim and wife, June of Lolo, Charles and his wife, Jeri of Eugene, Ore., and Jess of Lewistown; two sisters: Mary Losey and her husband, Dick of Connoll, Wash., and Marcia Brown and her husband, Danny of Dayton, Ore.; sister-in-law, Ruth McNeil and her husband, Bob of Lewistown; brother-in-law, Mick Geary of Lewistown; aunt Marion Gradl of Butte, and numerous nieces and nephews.
His parents and one brother preceded him in death.
Memorial services for Phil Walling will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Cloyd Chapel. Cremation has taken place. The Cloyd Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Friends may stake memorials to the Cardiac Care Unit of the Central Montana Medical Center or the charity of their choice and they may be left at the Cloyd Funeral Home.
