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Harvey Holzworth
Funeral services for Harvey Holzworth, 74, of Miles City were Monday morning, Sept. 18, 2006, in Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City.
Mr. Holzworth died at his home in Miles City on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006.
Born on Sept. 4, 1932, in Glendive he was the son of George and Ella Armstrong. He lived in Fallon where he attended grade school and high school in Terry.
He enlisted in the United States Army in 1954, serving in Korea. Upon his honorable discharge, Mr. Holzworth returned to Montana were he worked on the Tonn Ranch as a ranch hand. He had resided in Miles City ever since.
His survivors include his daughters, Rose Normandy of Henrietta, Okla., and Taneille Holzworth of Missoula; his brother, William (Bert) Holzworth of Loveland, Colo.; his sisters, Rosemarie “Skip” (Ross) Cane of Spokane, Wash., and Lila “Delilah” (Ed) Bluestone of Houston, Texas; and five grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
If desired, memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice.
June Scott
On September 12, 2006, June Scott was suddenly called home into the loving arms of Jesus. June was loved dearly by her husband, family and friends. She was an amazing woman who lived out her faith through kindness, generosity, encouragement and servanthood. Her life was defined by love. She was a great storyteller who kept family history alive by her descriptive words and phrases. She readily would give chuckles and smiles to each conversation. She rarely complained and did not want to be a bother to anyone. Her familiar words were “Oh. I’m just fine!” She was a role model to all who knew her; full of life, strong in character, fun loving, gentle and genuine. We are all heart-broken about her passing and each look forward to the day we’ll be reunited with her in Heaven.
Gloria June Owens was born November 19, 1928 to Bode and Edith Owens in San Angelo, TX. She grew up on the Barnhart family ranch with her two younger brothers, Buck and Tom Owens.
On August 3, 1947, she married
the love of her life, John R. Scott, Jr. of Mertzon, TX. About a year after their marriage, they moved to Montana to “pioneer the last frontier.” June had many stories to tell about her ranching days, and many times others would say, “You should write a book.”
After living 40 years in Montana, June and John moved back to Miles, TX, to help care for their aging parents. The next 10 years, June dedicated her time, energy and love to her husband and three ailing parents. From that time on, her home became “the place to visit.” Our family has so many precious memories of visiting Texas and taking trips with “Grandma.”
June leaves behind: her husband of 59 years, John Robert, 4 children, ten grandchildren, and two “great-grandbabies.” They are John R. Scott III, (Cindy), the father of Becky, (Tim) Juan and James, Maggie Scott Brown, the mother of Amanda Brown, Sissy Croft (Charlie), the mother of Katie, Clay (Rachelle) and Clint, and Jim Bode Scott (Marcie), the father of Sarah, Hannah and Caleb. The great-grandbabies are Cyrus Scott Croft and Scott Owens Peltzer.
A memorial service was held at the Johnson’s Funeral Home Chapel on Saturday, September 16, at 1:00 PM. June requested to be buried in Billings, MT. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, September 20, at Faith Chapel, 517 Shiloh Road, Billings. Interment will be at Yellowstone Valley Memorial Park 3605 Grand Ave.
“We Love you, Mom; You were the sunshine of our family.”
Robert Bramhall
Robert Francis Bramhall, 80, of Santa Fe, N.M., formerly of Miles City died Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006, at the Veterans Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M., following a short illness.
Known as Bob to all of his friends, he was born May 10, 1926, in Powell, Wyo., and was the son of Robert Merle Bramhall and Nellie Frances Bramhall. He attended school in Deaver, Wyo., and graduated in 1943.
Soon after graduation, he joined the Army where he served as a sergeant in Germany during the European Theater. After his discharge, he worked in the oil fields of Wyoming, Montana and Utah.
It was in Meeteetse, Wyo., where he met and married
his beloved wife, Juanita, in September of 1947. They settled in Meeteetse to raise their family. After leaving the oil fields, Mr. Bramhall worked for the Park County Road and Bridge Crew before starting the 4B Fencing Company with his wife and sons.
Later, he worked for the Wyoming Department of Transportation in Meeteetse as a heavy equipment operator and moved on to crew supervisor in Basin, Wyo., where he retired in 1991 and moved to Miles City to be near his son John’s family.
In retirement, he still was a worker — chiefly known as an all around handyman.
He enjoyed his family, fishing and playing pool. Mr. Bramhall had a lifelong love of taking pictures with his 8mm movie camera, and later owned one of the first VHS recorders available. He spent many years filming his family and grandchildren growing up.
Mr. Bramhall was a member of the Full Gospel Men’s Fellowship, where he was a lay pastor and Bible Worker. He was also a lifelong member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and an avid supporter of the building of the World War II Memorial, which he visited in 2005 in Washington, D.C. He was a family man who loved and served God.
Survivors include his two sons and their wives, Robert E. and Ana of Piscataway, N.J., and John and Janie of Santa Fe; four grandsons, William and his wife Lisa, Joseph and his wife Amanda, Timothy, and Ruben and his wife Maria; two granddaughters, Janelle and her fiancé, Shawn Loying and Bobbiana and her husband Donte Brown; two great-grandson, Colton and Braden; and three great-granddaughters, Tiyana, Megan and Hailey.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Stanley in 1952; and his wife of 58 years, Juanita, who died last year in 2005.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, Sept. 18, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Interment will be Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Deaver cemetery in Deaver, Wyo.
Should friends desire memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice.
Louis Carpenter
Louis “Jim” James Carpenter Sr., 66, of Miles City died at the Holy Rosary Extended Care Facility in Miles City on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006.
Mr. Carpenter was born on March 18, 1940, in Manton, MI to Delvin Charles and Frances Carpenter.
He and Rose Marie Hirdning were married
on April 21, 1958. They had five children.
The family moved to Miles City in 1974 where he was employed at Pine Hills School, Miles City Cab, was the animal control warden in Miles City and at the Olive Motel, retiring from there in 1995.
Baseball was Mr. Carpenter’s favorite pastime. He loved to watch the Atlanta Braves lose and The Detroit Tigers win! He loved to sit in the park and feed the squirrels. Mr. Carpenter enjoyed watching people and spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He gave them all their very own nicknames. He was a channel surfer who enjoyed wrestling, war movies, westerns and, as he called them, “Shoot ’um up, bang ’em with blood all over” movies. He was always one to think of others before thinking of himself.
His survivors include his wife, Rose, of 48 years; his brothers, Delvin (Son) Carpenter and Jessie Carpenter; his children, Carol Johson and Tina (Dwayne) Bruce, and Kim (Mike) Neibauer, all of Miles City, Louie (Carmen) Carpenter of Bear Lake, MI, and Billy Joe (Jodi) Carpenter of Cadillac, MI; his grandchildren, Candy Carpenter, Harold (Pete) Woehl, Samantha (Jeff) Cookman, Raymond (Jana) Emeline, Andy, Mick and Josette Neibauer, Steven and David Williams, Corey Bruce and Heather and Allen Carpenter; and his great-grandchildren, Dominic and Cole Emiline and Christopher Cookman.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Delvin Charles Carpenter; his sisters, Maria Carpenter and Cindy Carpenter; and his great-granddaughters, Katie Rae and Erika Rose Emeline.
Funeral services will be Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006, at 2 p.m. at the Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Interment will follow at a later date in Manton, MI, next to his parents.
Should friends desire, memorials may be made to Mrs. Carpenter, c/o Candy Carpenter, 416 S. Montana Ave., Miles City, MT 59301.
John Janssen
John Maurice Janssen, 81, died Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, at Deaconess Billings Clinic of heart failure following by-pass surgery.
Mr. Janssen was born to William M. and Hallie A. Warkins Janssen Sept. 17, 1924, at Coalwood. He was delivered by his midwife grandmother, Jessie O. Warkins. his parents ran Janssen Mercantile and the Coalwood Post Office located between Broadus and Miles City.
As a child, he helped with the family’s businesses, which included farming and ranching. He and his brother Lew were 4-H members, raising large gardens and fattening steers. Mr. Janssen’s early education was at Coalwood School. When it came time for high school, he boarded with his Grandma Janssen in Miles City and attended Custer County High School. He left school his junior year and took a job in a defense plant in California. He built B-17 bombers for Douglas Aircraft, making 68 cents an hour.
He later worked for GeoTechnical Corp., a seismograph company, traveling throughout Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Texas. Eventually he bought his own rig and drilled water wells. He also did dirt work and ran a trucking company.
In 1947, while renting an apartment from Lucille Campbell, he met Alice Fern Campbell. Mr. Janssen leased the Campbell Ranch on Powder River for a short time before moving back to Coalwood. There, he leased and bought a combination of pasture and farmland, raising Hereford cattle and wheat on his Twin Buttes Wheat Farm. In the fall, he guided deer and antelope hunters in the Coalwood area and enjoyed hunting elk and bear in western Montana.
Mr. Janssen and Alice Campbell were married
Aug. 29, 1953, in Sheridan, Wyo. They observed their 53rd anniversary the day before his death. Three children were born to the couple and raised on the family ranch 20 miles north of Broadus: John Roger (Lana); Jeri Lyn (Robert) Dobrowski; and Dallas Lee (Connie).
Mr. Janssen attended artificial insemination school in the 1960s and became a rep for American Breeders Service. He and his wife artificially bred their own beef herd and encouraged other ranchers to use exotic breeds semen. Among the breeds he sampled through A.I., along with their registered and recorded Charolais herd, were Beefalo, Tarentaise, Limousin, Chianina, Simmental, Maine Anjou, Murray Grey, Longhorn and Watusi.
Mrs. Janssen’s milk cows were bred to top-of-line Jersey sires. They kept records on their cattle through the Montana Beef Performance Assoc. Mr. Janssen successfully raised an A.I. colt decades before it became commonplace.
The couple made their home at Coalwood for 45 years before retiring. They moved to a 63-acre parcel on Sunday Creek, just downstream from where L.A. Huffman photographed the jerk-line 12. Happiest when he was busy, Mr. Janssen built their new place up from scratch, fencing the property, building corrals and landscaping the yard. He maintained a small herd of cattle up until the time of his death.
As a young man, Mr. Janssen’s hobbies included leatherwork and dirt-track stockcar racing. He was a 4-H leader, a Shriner and served on the board of the Range Riders Museum. Recently, he came to enjoy reading Western history, making lamps from hand-forged branding irons and framing pictures. He frequently attended household and antique auctions and was a relief driver on the Kinsey mail route.
His survivors include his wife, Alice; a brother, Lewis (Helen); sons Roger and Dallas; daughter, Jeri; four grandchildren: Jennifer and Brian Dobrowski and John Wyatt and Dillon Janssen; two step-grandchildren: John (Ardawna) Denny and Ronna (Eric) Hull; and seven step-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Virginia; a brother, Floyd (Faye); a grandson, Bruce Dobrowski; and a daughter-in-law, Diane (Roger) Janssen.
A prayer service will be held Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006, at 7 p.m. at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Funeral services will be Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006, at 2 p.m. at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Interment will be in the Custer County cemetery at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family prefers memorials to the Range Riders Museum, 435 L.P. Anderson Rd., Miles City, MT 59301-4753 or the Jack Jenkins Memorial Scholarship c/o Bob Janssen, HC40, Volborg, MT 59351.
Wes Tibbetts
Wesley Harold Tibbetts, 62, of Miles City died suddenly on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, at the Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City.
He was born in Terry, on Dec. 19, 1943, the son of Roland L. and Mary Elizabeth Smalis Tibbetts. He attended schools at Goodview north of Terry and graduated from Terry High School.
Following graduation, he attended the University of Montana in Missoula and then Montana State University in Bozeman where he graduated with a degree in Agriculture and Business. He then returned to the family ranch.
In 1971, he and his father purchased the Miles City Livestock Yards, which he owned and operated until 1991. He then purchased Cattleman’s Choice Loomix Company, which he operated until the time of his death.
Mr. Tibbetts married
Judy Schnell on Sept. 20, 1974.
He was a member of Phi Sigma Gamma, Livestock Marketing Association, Miles City Club, Cow Capital Turf Club, Sage Riders, Range Riders, Montana Board of Horse Racing, National Cutting Horse Association, First Presbyterian Church, and was a past president of the Miles City Area Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Tibbetts was also very active in the Local State Republicans. He also successfully operated the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale for 20 years.
Survivors include his wife, Judy Tibbetts of Miles City; a son, Jason Wesley Tibbetts of Billings; a daughter, Tara Nicole Tibbetts and her husband Kevin Derr of Fort Worth, Texas; two brothers: Ron Tibbetts and his wife June and Steve Tibbetts and his wife Sue, all of Terry; a sister, Elarian Nichol of Missoula; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
A prayer service will be Monday, Sept. 4, 2006, at 7 p.m. at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006, at 2 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church in Miles City. Interment will follow in the Custer County cemetery.
Should friend desire, memorials may be made to the Sage Riders or to the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Edwin Oster
Edwin John Oster, 84, of Miles City died peacefully Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006.
Mr. Oster was born on Feb. 12, 1922, in Hebron, N.D., the son of John and Ida Oster. He attended school in Hebron through high school.
He enlisted in the Marine Corp and served from Dec. 6, 1941, through Dec. 5, 1945, as a tech with a rank of Sergeant.
Shortly after his service with the Marine Corp, Mr. Oster and Loretta E. Sager of Graceville, Minn., were married
on Nov. 1, 1958, and he began working for the United States Postal Service. Mr. Oster worked there from 1948 through 1978.
He retired in Miles City and enjoyed amateur radio, going to church, liked photography and spending time with his wife and friends. Mr. Oster was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church and the amateur radio club in Miles City.
His survivors include his children, Richard E. Oster of Sand Point, Idaho, Brian K. (Brenda) Oster of Wichita, Kan., and Denise K. (Cy) Ellerd of Billings; his sisters, Alice, Eleanor (Art) and Shirley; his brother, Harold (Eunice); his grandchildren, Cammie, Angie, David, Deanna, Matthew and Zadoc; his great-grandchild, Kileigh; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Loretta; his son, David John Oster; his brothers, Marvin, Walter and Leroy; and his sister, Florence.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006, at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Funeral Services will be Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006, at 11 a.m. at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Miles City. Interment, with full military honors provided by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1579, will follow in the Eastern Montana Veterans cemetery.
Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the Trinity Lutheran Church, 221 S. Center Ave., Miles City, MT 59301 or to the charity of one’s choice.
Lydia Sherman
Lydia Sherman, 73, of Federal Way, Wash., former Miles City resident, died Sunday, Sept. 3, 2006, after a short illness.
Mrs. Sherman was born in Sanders on Aug. 8, 1933, to Fred and Pauline Wambolt. The family moved to the Forsyth area where she started country school. They later moved to Kinsey where she finished grade school and graduated from Custer County High School at Miles City in 1951.
She and Jack Sherman were married
in August 1953 and they lived at various military bases until his discharge from the Air Force. They shared their life together for 53 years.
To this union, three sons were born, Michael, Kirk and Gregory.
An avid sports fan, Mrs. Sherman encouraged her sons to participate in school sports and became a great fan of the Seattle Mariners.
Her hobbies were sewing, garage sales and flea markets. She had a huge Holly Hobbie collection. The Sherman home was full of lovely antiques. Baking biscotti was a favorite pastime of hers and the biscotti jar was always full. Together with her husband, she traveled around visiting family and friends and especially enjoyed the many jazz festivals they attended.
Her survivors include her husband, Jack, of Federal Way; her sons, Michael (Michelle) of LaPine, Ore., Kirk of Marysville, Wash., and Gregory (Kristina) of Seattle; one granddaughter, Dinae Sherman of Marysville; her sisters, Pauline Haggerty of Miles City, Rose Reinhardt of Billings and Helen Dloughy of Lincoln, Neb.; three brothers, Alex of Tucson, Ariz., Leo of Santa Clara, Calif., and Ed of Billings; a “special friend, ” Alyssa; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters and four brothers.
At her wishes, cremation has taken place and a private remembrance by the family was held.
Carl Bostwick
Carl Bostwick, 86, of Broadus died Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006, from complications of diabetes.
Mr. Bostwick was born May 21, 1920, in Chugwater, Wyo., to Elliott and Ethel Bostwick. In his youth, he enjoyed participating in baseball, basketball and track. His love of sports continued throughout his life.
After high school he moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., and joined the Army.
He and Gail Ashenhurst were married
in 1942 after meeting at a barn dance in Slater Flats.
Mr. Bostwick served in Europe during World War II. He and his wife had five children and raised them in Broadus.
He enjoyed coaching Little League, Babe Ruth baseball and basketball and always stayed involved in the local sports programs. His heart stayed in Broadus. He owned the Standard Station and retired from Powder River County in 1985.
His survivors include four children: Judy and Russ Hynes of Grand Junction, Colo., Jim and Dawn Bostwick of Salem, Ore., Lynn Bostwick of Bighorn and Dennis Bostwick of Boise, Idaho; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and siblings; a son, Jerry; and his wife, Gail.
Services will be held at the Powder River Congregational Church in Broadus on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006, at 10 a.m.
If friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice.
