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Elisabeth "Elsie" M. Montgomery
Birth date: June 12, 1924
Death date: January 4, 2015
Elisabeth "Elsie" M. Kern Montgomery passed away January 4, 2015. She was born June 12, 1924 in the small town of Rockendorf in the Bohemian Forest of Czechoslovakia. She was an only child and lived with her parents, helping them run their County Inn until the end of WWII.
Robert Montgomery was stationed with the US Army on the Czechoslovakian border where they met and later married
on November 27, 1948. She returned with him to the U.S. as a war bride. Her husband later continued his military career and she accompanied him to many military posts in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, and Germany for the next 24 years. She also spent two worrisome years alone while Bob served in Vietnam.
Elsie and Bob returned to Bozeman in 1971 to retire and make their home. Elsie enjoyed being a homemaker, loved to dance, play cards, bowl, and grow flowers in her garden. Most of all, she clearly valued the friendship of all her wonderful friends. She also felt great compassion for the many homeless and neglected animals and was an ardent supporter of the Gallatin Valley Humane Society.
Elsie was preceded in death by her father, Laurenz Kern in 1977, her mother, Anna in 1994, and her loving husband, Bob in 2012 after 64 years of a happy marriage.
Survivors include her dear friends Ed and Maria Chambers of Bozeman, MT, also cousins living in Germany, sister-in-law Linda Manning of Billings and brother-in-law Dick and family in Helena.
A special thank you to Keven Comer and Bozeman Deaconess Hospice, also to all her caregivers and friends at the Bozeman Lodge.
A graveside service will be held Thursday, 3:00 pm at Sunset Hills cemetery. Please meet at Dahl Funeral Chapel at 2:45 pm to process to the cemetery.
Phoebe Corthell Montagne
Birth date: February 28, 1922
Death date: January 9, 2015
Born in Laramie, Wyoming, 2/28/1922 to Morris and Harriet Corthell, Phoebe grew up in Laramie on the edge of the University of Wyoming campus, riding her horse to the family cabin, named “Mertensia”, in the Snowy Mountain Range. Phoebe took her final ride January 9, 2015 into her beloved mountains to rest with her animal friends among the trees and flowers. She described a desire to ‘cross the gurgling creek” to be with John Montagne.
Memories of a tom-boy childhood included horse-centered family farm activities, huge family Christmas gatherings around an 18 foot long table with food served by model railroad, and watching 3 movie matinees back to back with buddies.
Traveling to Sun Valley Ski Area on the train with her cowboy and lawyer father, “Skiebe” won the 1940 Intercollegiate Ski Meet at Sun Valley and was the Wyoming 1942 Combined State Champion in Downhill Skiing and Slalom!
While attending the University of Wyoming she worked as camp cook for the UW Geology Field Camp. There she met her “man of the mountains”, John de la Montagne from Dartmouth College. They married
in late 1942 and during WWII she followed him through Colorado, Texas, and 10th Mountain Ski Troop postings.
Upon his return from Italy, she and John lived in Jackson Hole where John was a teacher in the winter and Ranger Naturalist dealing with climbing at Grand Teton National Park in the summer. Son Cliff was born in 1947. After a short stint in Crater Lake National Park, they moved to Hanover, NH where John worked in the Dartmouth College Admissions Office. After she was told that the Dartmouth staff wives should “dress appropriately and should not wear blue jeans on campus”, they again moved to the West in 1953 (where she could). Phoebe urged John back to graduate school at U of WY where she was able to enjoy her extended family while he completed a PhD degree in geology. Matt was born in 1950. Upon graduation they became a faculty couple at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. From there in 1957 the family moved to Bozeman, where John was a member of the new Earth Sciences Department at Montana State Univ. They lived next to the Charles Bradley family on South Tracy Avenue for almost 40 years.
Bridger Bowl skiing weekends, Cub Scout leadership, geology field trips and field camps, canoe trips on Yellowstone Lake and Grand Teton National Park lakes, involvement with the 320 Ranch where son Cliff worked, Teton Valley Ranch where son Matt worked, and weekend hikes in her beloved woods and mountains were her passions. She and John were involved with the formation of the MT Wilderness Association in 1959. Her dream of “living in the mountains and woods” was realized in 1970 when the Hodgeman House was built south of Bozeman.
A selfless mother and family caregiver her whole life she finally got to “rest” with a move to the Hillcrest Retirement Home in 1995. She and John moved to Aspen Pointe when it was built next door and spent their remaining years there with many friends. The “Phoebe Team” was of great comfort and companionship in her final years there and at the Gallatin County Rest Home.
Preceding her in death were her parents, and an infant sister, husband John and infant son Rocky, and sister Amy King. Remaining relatives are sister Jean Weitz of Fort Collins, CO, sons Cliff (Joan) of Bozeman, Matt (Judy) of Jackson Hole, WY and grandchild Greta de la Montagne of Bayside, CA, and great grandchildren Clary and Walker Owen, and step grandchild Josh Bogle.
A celebration of her life will be held at Aspen Pointe on February 13, 4:00pm. Memorials can be made to one of her favorite charities HRDC at 32 South Tracy Avenue, Bozeman, MT 59715 as helping those less fortunate than she was always her concern.
Aganetha Wall
Aganetha "Agnes" Wall died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2003, at Northeast Montana Health Services in Wolf Point.
She is survived by her husband, David, of 66 years; a son, Allen and his wife, Barbara, of Wolf Point; daughters, Nancy Speas of Gillete, Wyo., Pat Wiens and her husband of Wolf Point; 13 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Helen Wall, Susie Toews and Nellie Rauch, all of Wolf Point.
She is preceded in death by her parents; four sisters, Katherine Thiessen, Anna Becker, Marie Wedal adn Sarah Wall; two sons, Ronald and Stephen; and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the E.M.B. Church in Lustre with Pastor John Skillman and Pastor Bruce Bogar officiating.
Lucille Gibbs Samuelson
Lucille Gibbs Samuelson, (Te Wana Kagh Win, Sees her Home), 89, died Feb. 2, 2003, surrounded by her family at her home in Poplar.
She was born on April 1, 1913.
She was preceded in death by 13 brothers and sisters; three grandchildren; husbands, Wilbur Renz, Gilbert Samuelson and Joseph Hamilton; sons, R ichard V. Gibbs and Harold Renz Sr.; and a daughter, Maxine Renx Vantine.
She is survived by daughters, Roberta Garfield, Alma Jean Renz, Nancy Samuelson Foote (Albert) and one adopted son, Bob DiBonoto, all of Poplar; three sisters, Hazel Lingle of Deer Creek, Colo., Janet Crisp of Sonora, Calif; 36 grandhchildren; 100 great-grandchildren; and 20 great-great-grandchildren.
Services were held Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Poplar Activity Center.
Rev. Enright Bighorn will officiate the services.
Cremation will take place at alater date.
Leo Zimmer
Leo Zimmer, 70, of Wolf Point, died Jan. 22, 2003, at St. Peter's Hospital in Helena.
He was proceded in death by three brothers, one sister and one grandchild, Elijah.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy of Wolf Point; four sons, James of Palmer, Alaska, William of Billings, Tim of Oswego and Loren of Wolf Point; three daughters, Janice Breitenfeldt of Whitehall, Mary Beil and Teresa Jones, both of Hinsdale; four brothers, Jim Zimmer of Glentana, Tom Zimmer of Martinsdale, Mark Zimmer of Wainwirght, Alberta, Canada, and Vince Zimmer of Thayme, Wyo.; four sisters, Francis Daley and Mae Stein, both of Glasgow, Rose Taylor of Aurora, Colo., and Lucille Autry of Odessa, Texas; and 25 grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 27, at the Immaculate Conception Church in Wolf Point with Father Steve Zabrocki officiating.
Interment was in Greenwood cemetery.
Audrey Hatten
Audrey Jean (Drum) Hatten, 38, died Jan. 22, 2003, at Northeast Montana Health Service Trinity Hospital in Wolf Point.
She was preceded in death by her biological parents, her adoptive parents and one daughter, Vanessa.
Survivors include her husband, Wayne Gendron of Wolf Point; two daughters, Summer Drum of Poplar and Charlotte Ambrosia Gendron of Wolf Point; two sisters, Mary Drum Red Eagle and Brenda Drum Stromy, both of Poplar;; and two brothers, Gregory Hatten of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Nolan Hatten of Seattle, Wash.
Funeral services were held on Monday, Jan. 27, at Clayton Memorial Chapel in Poplar with Pastor Danny Lindsay officiating.
Threasa Goudy
Former Troy resident Threasa Goudy, 102, died on Oct. 9, 2003, at the Kalispell Regional Medical Center.
She was born on Jan. 22, 1901, at Minneapolis, to Ernest and Elizabeth Misslin Wilson
The Wilson family moved to Outlook when Threasa was nine years old to be near her maternal grandparents and two years later they moved to a homestead east of Whitetail.
Threasa married
Ambrose Goudy on Oct. 7, 1919, at Redstone, and they moved to a farm near the homestead where their children were born and where they lived for 22 years.
They had 12 children but three of them died in infancy.
In 1945 they moved to Troy, where their children grew up.
The family moved to Kalispell in 1964.
Threasa was preceded in death by her husband and three children, Emma, Marian and George; grandsons Larry Sledjeski and Bobby Rice Jr.; great-grandson Tony Williams; sisters Anna Marriott of Canada and Grace Schmidt, Anaconda; and brothers Tony Wilson and Leo Wilson, both of Kalispell..
Survivors include sons John Goudy and his wife MaeBelle, Fergus Falls, Minn.; Donald Goudy and his wife Myrna, Seattle, Wash., and Ambrose Goudy and his wife Beverly, Great Falls; daughters Grace Williams, Kalispell; May Sledjeski, Tacoma, Wash.; Inez Tweet and her husband Glen, Seattle; Lucille Mott, Otis Orchards, Wash.; Edithe Burgess, Hot Springs, and Georgia Stack, Spokane Valley, Wash.; 43 grandchildren, 84 great-grandchildren, 48 great-great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews including Mary and Donald Marriott in Canada, Jerry Wilson in Nevada and Ronald Wilson in California.
Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. on Tuesday at the Bethel Baptist Church in Kalispell with the Rev. David Pestal officiating.
Burial followed at C.E. Conrad Memorial cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Bethel Baptist Church, 936 4th Ave. West, Kalispell; the Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch, 1732 South 72 West, Billings or a charity of the donor’s choice. Arrangements are under direction of Johnson Mortuary and Crematory.
Ruth Shelden
Longtime Libby educator Ruth Virginia Shelden of Greenwood Village, Colo., died at home on Oct. 6, 2003.
She was born on Sept. 13, 1910, on a farm in the Bozeman area to Arthur W. Osborne and Beulah E. (Doty) Osborne.
Ruth earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Montana State University at Bozeman in 1932.
On Dec. 1, 1934 she married
Arthur H. Shelden at Bozeman.
They lived for a time at Troy before moving in 1941 to Libby where she and Art lived until his death and where Ruth remained until 1999.
Ruth taught elementary school classes, high school home economics and adult education classes.
In 1961 she received a master’s degree in home economics from MSU in the same ceremony in which her oldest son Bill received his master’s degree in geology.
Ruth established an upholstery business in 1967 that she continued to operate for more than 25 years.
Active as a 4-H leader in college and at Libby, Ruth was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, a member of the Democratic Women’s Club and an active partner in the Kootenai Valley Habitat for Humanity program.
Favorite pastimes included tending her flower gardens that surrounded the “house that Ruth built” south of Libby, and creating Japanese Bunka needlework.
Ruth was preceded in death by her husband Art in 1996, and by one grandchild.
She is survived by a younger brother William Osborne, Cupertino, Calif., four sons, Arthur W. (Bill) Shelden, Centennial, Colo.; Richard O. Shelden, Roanoke, Va.; Robert M. Shelden, Kendall Park, N.J., and Kenneth R. Shelden, Alameda, Calif.; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Services are being held on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Drinkwine Family Mortuary in Littleton, Colo.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Kootenai Valley Habitat for Humanity or the Heritage Museum.
Arrangements are under direction of the Drinkwine Mortuary at Littleton, Colo.
Frank Carley
Frank M. Carley, 79, died Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003, at the Libby Care Cemter.
He was born on May 19, 1924, at Spokane, to Frank S. and Lucille Morris Carley.
The family lived in rural Washington during Frank’s childhood.
He served with the U.S. Army during World War II.
A longtime resident of Alaska, Frank worked in construction. He also trained sled dogs and many of those dogs participated in the Alaska Iditerod.
Following retirement, Frank spent several winters in the Eureka, returning to Alaska.
Survivors include brother Virgil Carley in Buchanan, Mich.
Private arrangements are under care of the Nelson & Vial Funeral Home.
Joyce Chapman
Joyce M. Chapman, 78, died at her home in Libby on Oct. 5, 2003.
She was born on Nov. 24, 1924, at Havre, to George and Grace Hansen Brennan.
Raised and educated at Joplin, Joyce graduated from Joplin High School in 1942.
She entered Sacred Heart School of Nursing in Havre, signing up with the U.S. Cadet Nursing Corps.
Joyce graduated from nursing school with a nursing degree in 1945 and was registered to nurse in California, Washington and Montana.
Joyce came to Libby in 1952 to work as a nurse at St. John’s Lutheran Hospital.
She married
Gene Chapman on July 6, 1954.
Joyce continued working at the hospital until 1974, when she started working at Chapman’s Variety because of Gene’s illness. However, she continued home nursing, always ready and willing to care for anyone who called and needed her.
Nursing was Joyce’s first love and it had a special place in her heart.
She retired from special duty nursing in 1988 and home nursing in 1997. She continued to work at Chapman’s Variety until the end of December 1991, and helped out later after son Harry took over the store and would call and ask “Mom, what are you doing? Are you dressed? Got anything planned for today.”
She knew right away that he wanted her to help out for a few hours and she enjoyed seeing and visiting with old friends who came into the store.
Earlier she enjoyed the activities of Harry and George, attending band concerts and football games. She skipped Harry’s wrestling matches, sending Gene to them.
Joyce enjoyed playing in community bands, fishing, camping, playing pinochle and going on trips with friends.
She was a life member of Harper Erdman VFW Auxiliary No. 1548, serving as local president, district president and in other offices including musician, color bearer, guard and conductress.
Joyce was also a Cub Scout den mother.
She was preceded in death by her husband Gene in 1991, her parents, sister Mary Carpenter and special nephew John Carpenter.
Survivors include sons Harry and his wife Greta, Rapid City, S.D.; George and his wife Shirley, Kalispell; step-daughter Gayle and her husband Ron, Missoula; step-son Larry and his wife Jenny, White Salmon, Wash.; nephew Jim Carpenter and his wife Patty, Haugen, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation is from 1-6 p.m. Thursday followed by parish vigil services at 7 p.m. at the Nelson & Vial Funeral Home.
Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church with burial to follow at the City of Libby cemetery.
