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Janet Knox MacDonald
FORSYTH - Janet Knox MacDonald, 89, of Forsyth, loving grandmother of Joanna MacDonald Ingham and grandmother-by-heart of Melodie, Charissa, and Tessa Manolopoulos, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1998, at the Rosebud Health Care Center in Forsyth.
Janet was born Sept. 5, 1909, in Forsyth, the daughter of Frank and Mae Alexander Hollenbeck, and granddaughter or Forsyth's founding father, Thomas Alexander. She attended schools in Forsyth until 1919 when she moved to Fremont, Neb., with her family. Following high school, Janet attended Chicago's Physical Education College and was a leading member of their basketball team. However, she returned to her roots in Rosebud County in the late 1930s where she taught in the local schoolhouse.
Soon after, Janet met and married
Duncan H. MacDonald, with their son John born in 1946. A tenacious entrepreneur throughout her life, she developed a successful cattle ranch with her husband near Colstrip and later reopened her grandfather's Alexander Hotel as Tom's Lounge, named in honor of the original settler of Forsyth. Janet continued to run both businesses passionately from her hospital bed until the time of her death.
Janet was a generous philanthropist, setting up the John MacDonald Memorial Scholarship and actively participating in the Democratic Party.
Throughout her life, she continued her interest in basketball by following the Chicago Bulls as well as being a devoted fan of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. She was a voracious reader and avidly enjoyed crossword puzzles.
Janet is survived by her granddaughters and her two sisters, Gretchen Waymire of Forsyth and Catherine Ann Benham of Pittsfield, Mass.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, 1998, at the Beals Mortuary Chapel in Forsyth with interment to follow in the Forsyth cemetery. A reception at Tom's Lounge will be held following the graveside services. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the 4-H Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 65, Forsyth, MT 59327 or the Rosebud Health Care Center. Beals Mortuary of Forsyth is in charge of the arrangements.
Russell D. 'Rusty' Martin
MILES CITY - Russell D. Martin, age 82, of Miles City, passed away Oct. 22, 1998, at the Deaconess Hospital in Billings.
Rusty was born on July 24, 1916, in Vananda, the son of Walter A. and Grace Martin. He was raised in Melstone where he graduated from high school in 1935. He worked for the Milwaukee Railroad for 42 years as a section laborer at first then a depot agent and dispatcher, moving many times to be at his job station. He retired in 1976 as the depot agent in Ryegate.
His greatest pleasure was his family. He enjoyed fishing and gardening. He and his wife enjoyed being snowbirds and going South for a number of years.
Rusty is survived by his wife of 61 years, Vera L.; a son, Russell V. Martin and his wife, Peggy of Miles City; two daughters: Nancy Griesgraber and her husband, Joe of St. Paul, Minn., and Wanda Hodgson and her husband, Willie of Miles City; a sister, Gen Jones of California; 11 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and four brothers. Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Miles City is in charge of the arrangements.
Funeral services will be held Monday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Stevenson & Son Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the family lot in the Custer County cemetery.
Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice.
Jacob Alan Parisien
Jacob Alan Parisien, infant son of Jerrick and Amber Nelson Parisien, passed away Oct. 21, 1998, at St. Vincent Hospital.
Survivors include his parents and twin brother, Jaren of Billings; his paternal grandparents, Wanda and Michael Pond of Albuquerque, N.M.; his maternal grandparents, Chris and Mitch Nelson of Shepherd; paternal great-grandparents, Camilla Pond of Phoenix, Ariz., and Roy Redding of Sawyer, N.D.; maternal great-grandparents, Roy and Dorothy Helland of Rosebud; his aunts, Misty Strecker of Junction City, Kan., Stephanie Nelson of Fort Benton, and Heather Nelson of Billings; his uncle, Justin Nelson of Shepherd; and his great-aunt, Pam Helland of Billings.
Graveside services will be held 11a.m. Monday, Oct. 26, in the Shepherd cemetery. Memorials may be sent to the Ronald McDonald House, 1144 N. 30th, Billings, Mont. 59101. Michelotti, Sawyers & Nordquist Alderson Chapel has charge of arrangements.
John E. Plowman
JOLIET - John E. Plowman, 95, passed away Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998, at Evergreen Laurel Health and Rehabilitation Center in Laurel. He had been a resident there since mid-February of this year.
John lived a very active life up until recently. He accepted the Lord as his personal saviour while a teenager. He was a member and elder of the Joliet Christian Church where was song leader and sang in the church choir and sang special numbers. John sang for many funerals. He was a member and Past Master of Carbon Lodge #65 of Joliet, Royal Arch of Red Lodge, Alderman Commandery #5, and Al Bedoo Shrine in Billings. He played with the Al Bedoo Shrine Band for a number of years, was a member of Rock Rose Chapter #63 Order of Eastern Star of Columbus, the Kitchen Band of Joliet, Joliet Senior Citizens and the Joliet Lions Club. John was known as a gentle person and a wonderful father. He loved his family, he loved music, fishing and visiting with friends.
John E. Plowman, son of Eugene and Laura Plowman, was born in northern Kansas on Jan. 31, 1903. He graduated from Jewell High School in 1920. He taught in rural schools in Kansas for about 14 years. On April 22, 1925, he married
Etta L. Kemmerer. They moved to Montana in 1943 where they farmed and ranched in the Joliet and Edgar/Pryor areas with Harry and Mary Plowman, known as "Plowman Brothers" until retirement in 1969, when they moved into Joliet. He sold his home in September of 1997. He moved to the Aspen View Retirement home in Billings in June of last year and lived there until moving into the Evergreen Laurel Nursing Home in February of this year.
John was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Etta, April 12, 1989; a daughter, Mary Jean Rowland; two brothers, Harry and Ray; and a sister, Mabel Bohnert.
He is survived by one son and wife, Ed and Gerri Plowman of Joliet; seven grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Masonic memorial services will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1998, at Smith Funeral Chapel in Laurel. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1998, at Joliet Christian Church with interment in Sunset Memorial Gardens in Billings. Memorials are suggested to: Joliet Christian Church, Joliet Ambulance Service, Shrine Hospitals or charity of one's choice.
Lyle Vernon Sorby
CULBERTSON - Lyle Vernon Sorby, 78, died Friday, Oct. 23, 1998, at the Roosevelt Memorial Hospital.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time Monday, Oct. 26, in the Bethel Free Lutheran Church. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the church. Fulkerson Funeral Home of Williston, N.D., is in charge.
Adele Taggart
CODY, Wyo. - Adele Taggart passed away at home in Cody on Oct. 21, 1998. She was born Adele Shields on Jan. 23, 1917, in Sedalia, Mo., the only daughter of Del Almond Shields and Adeline Corine Marcotte. She was 7 years old when her father died of tuberculosis and she and her mother moved to Casper.
Adele attended the University of Wyoming where she met her husband, Lloyd W. Taggart. They were married
on July 12, 1940. The first year they were married
they lived in Yellowstone Park where Lloyd was building roads for Taggart Construction Company. They moved to Fresno, Calif., and then Seattle where Lloyd worked for Boeing Aircraft during the war. They returned to Cody where they raised six children.
Adele was active in Kappa Kappa Gamma, Bridge Club, Play Readers and the Cody Country Art League. She was a gourmet cook and a great seamstress. She was an avid collector of antique quilts, Indian jewelry, art and she loved to go shopping. She was a loving wife and devoted mother.
In the early 1960s the Taggart family bought the WMK Transit Mix Company in Las Vegas, Nev., and Lloyd and Adele, along with their two youngest children, moved to Las Vegas where Lloyd managed the company. While in Las Vegas, Adele was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and later she and Lloyd were married
and sealed in the St. George Temple. Adele served as a volunteer for the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the Clark County and Nevada State Republican Parties and enjoyed serving in several positions in the Church. She and Lloyd were also very active in their church study group.
Survivors include her husband, Lloyd; six children, Lloyd "Tag" Taggart and Bryan Taggart of Salt Lake City, Todd Taggart of Bullhead City, Ariz., Becky Flippin of Las Vegas and Judy Norcross and Marc Taggart of Cody. She is also survived by 23 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday, Oct. 26, at 10 a.m. at the Wyoming Avenue Chapel. Interment will follow at Riverside cemetery. Ballard Funeral Home is in charge of services.
LaFollette 'Mick' Walby
GLENDIVE - LaFollette T. "Mick" Walby, 77, died Friday, Oct. 23, 1998, at the Glendive Medical Center.
Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church with interment in the Dawson County cemetery. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home is in charge.
Leon A. Yarger Jr.
GLENDIVE - Leon A. Yarger Jr., 81, died Friday, Oct. 23, 1998, at the Glendive Medical Center Extended Care Facility.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Chapel of the Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home with interment in the Brockway cemetery.
Theophil G. Breitling
LAUREL - Theophil G. Breitling, 89, of Laurel, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1998, at the Evergreen Care Center in Laurel.
He was born April 20, 1909, in Golden Valley, N.D., the son of Phillip and Christina (Klause) Breitling. He was raised in North Dakota and in 1928 his family moved to Bridger. In 1933 they moved to Sidney. There he met and married
Irene Zieske, Dec. 31, 1934, in Sidney. They moved to Livingston in 1950 and to Billings in 1953.
Prior to moving to Billings, Theophil worked as a mechanic and tanker driver. He became a barber in Billings and worked at the Western Barber Shop for 23 years, retiring in 1975.
He moved to Laurel in the early 1980s.
Theophil loved music and to dance. He was a very family oriented man and loved being with and sharing with his children, grandchildren and other family members. He enjoyed watching baseball and wrestling on TV, playing cards and visiting.
He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Laurel. He had been a member of the Cody Elks Lodge, and was a member of AARP and Laurel Senior Citizens.
Survivors include his son, Orland (Leslie Ann) Breitling of Fountain Hills, Ariz.; his daughter, Vandralee (Robert) Gonion of Custer; eight grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren; his brother, Rueben Breitling of Oregon; and sister-in-law, Gladys Breitling of Billings.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife in 1977, and nine siblings.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Smith Downtown Chapel. Interment will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Memorials to the American Cancer Society.
Tommy Morgan Crandall
PAYETTE, Idaho - Tommy Morgan Crandall, 44, formerly of Miles City, Mont., died Thursday, Oct. 1, 1998.
Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Church of Christ in Miles City. Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Miles City is in charge.
G.E. 'Doug' Douglass
GRINNELL, Iowa - G.E. "Doug" Douglass, 90, of Grinnell, formerly of Hardin, Mont., passed away Sunday, Oct. 18, 1998, in Iowa.
He was born Jan. 30, 1908, in Pittsburgh, a son of Earl and Pearl Goetschius Douglass. Doug's father, Earl Douglass, discovered the bones that began what is now Dinosaur National Monument near Vernal, Utah. He was an only child and lived at the monument site from the time he was six months old until he was in high school.
His admiration for his father, who he considered to be his greatest teacher, continued throughout his lifetime and was the driving force in many of the things he did in later life. Doug became a self-taught mining engineer, working with gold companies in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Oregon and California.
In 1932, while working near Chico Hot Springs, he met the school teacher of the Chico country school. Thelma Dunckel, from Livingston, became his main interest in life and on Dec. 27, 1933, they were married
in his mother's home in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their life together took them all over the west with the Humphrey's Gold Co. until they finally settled in the Sacramento Valley in California.
In 1981 Doug and his wife, Thelma, moved to Hardin to live near their daughter, Mary Dodson. After the death of his wife in 1989, he moved to Roundup where he resided for six years. In 1996 Doug was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and lived the remainder of his life at the St. Francis Manor in Grinnell near his daughter and son-in-law, Diane and Tom Iverson. Recollections of his father and of his own adventures roaming the hills of northeastern Utah became Doug's most enduring memories toward the end of his life.
Doug was a member of the Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include two daughters, Mary Margaret Dodson of Wolf Point, Mont., and her children, Kathleen, Carl and Peggy, and Diane Iverson and husband, Tom of Pella and their children, Paul, Philip and Mark.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Saturday in the Hardin Fairview cemetery. Bullis Mortuary of Hardin has been entrusted with arrangements.
Evelyn Jane French
HARDIN - Evelyn Jane French, 78, of Hardin passed away Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1998, after a brief stay in the Big Horn County Memorial Hospital.
She was born Jan. 17, 1920, in Choteau, a daughter of Bing and Emily Hanson Hodgskiss, in the middle of a blizzard and complained about the cold ever since. She attended schools in Choteau and enjoyed sports, including playing center on the basketball team. She later attended Montana State College in Bozeman, where she was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
Evelyn enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943, served with the WAVES during World War II and received her honorable discharge in 1946. She returned to Montana, moving to Hardin where she worked for the Campbell Farming Corp., Big Horn County Assessor's Office, Hardin Lumber Company and French's Building Materials.
She married
Troy A. French on April 6, 1947, in Hardin and she spent the next 51 years on one "grand adventure to the next" as a loving helpmate and navigator.
Evelyn was a lifetime member of the First United Methodist Church, 50-year member of the Order of Eastern Star, a past American Legion Auxiliary member and a member of the Big Horn County Historical Society.
She loved creative times, painting and crafts; but most of all reminiscing. She treasured life and clung tenaciously to doing things the RIGHT way. She held her lifelong friends close to her heart. She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Margaret Ray.
Evelyn leaves behind her soulmate and heart buddy, Troy of Hardin; two daughters, Sandra (Pat) Breckenridge of Hardin and Carlah (Allen) Watson of Billings. She was the treasured grandmother of Keith Breckenridge and Kara (Lance) Letasky and soon to be great-grandchild. She is also survived by a sister, Lois Brusven of California and a brother, Jack Hodgskiss of California, as well as many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Monday in the Bullis Funeral Chapel with Eastern Star Rites. Cremation will follow the services. Private interment of the Ashes will follow at a later date.
Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church Building Fund (elevator), Hardin, MT 59034.
It's easy enough to be Pleasant when life flows along like a song - But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile, when everything goes wrong. The test of the heart is trouble and it always comes with the years. The smile that is worth the treasures of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.
Ruth Hoagland
THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. - Ruth Hoagland, 92, died Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998, at Canyon Hills Manor.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, at Lakewood Park cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Mortimore Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.
Patty Kluver
ROSEBUD CREEK - Patty Kluver, 77, of Rosebud Creek, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1998, at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Billings.
She was born July 28, 1921, in Forsyth, the daughter of Charlie and Genie Philbrick Dowlin. She spent her early years along Armells Creek, attending school first at home and then at the Trail Creek Schoolhouse, a short horseback ride away.
Patty lived with her family in Helena during the legislative sessions while her father was a state senator, and recited a poem at the age of four on the Senate floor. Patty attended Rosebud High School, graduating from high school in 1938 at the age of 17. Following graduation, Patty attended a finishing school in Walla Walla, Wash., before attending Montana State University in Bozeman. She had to leave college during her second year to return home to work on the family ranch.
On July 14, 1950, Patty married
E.M. "Red" Kluver in Billings. They spent their first year living in a tent at a cow camp on the head of Muddy Creek. Later they lived at the McCuistion Cow Camp on Greenleaf Creek, at the Newell Philbrick Ranch, on a ranch on the Big Porcupine Creek, and later on a ranch they purchased along the Yellowstone River. Patty and Red finally settled on part of the family holdings, known locally as the old Bean Ranch, along Rosebud Creek in 1962 and have lived there since.
Patty's love for horses flourished in 1947 when she acquired a band of Thoroughbred mares. This love of horses resulted in Patty becoming the first secretary and a founding member of the Forsyth Horse Show. Her love of the land inspired her to write numerous letters to many state and national political figure heads. Patty's writing continued on in many different directions including her column "Up The Creek" in the local newspaper, poetry, and was instrumental with the book "They Came and Stayed."
For a number of years, Patty would volunteer her time to instruct a workshop at Rocky Mountain College for Women in Math and Science Careers. She was a member of the Rosebud County Pioneers, Rosebud Senior Citizens, Ladies Auxiliary of the V.F.W., Range Riders, Northern Plains Resource Council, and Women's Group of the Federated Church. She enjoyed judging speech meets at local schools, the American Legion Oratorical Speech Contest and the annual speech events for 4-H. Patty also enjoyed people from all walks of life.
She is survived by her three sons, daughter and their families: Karson and Marie Kluver and their children, Jan, Abner, Kathleen and Freeman; Kirby and Freida Kluver and their children, Coralei, Cortney and Casey; Kelly and Barbara Kluver and son, Tanner; her daughter, Colleen and husband, Tom and their children, Erin and Trevor; her extended family: son-in-law, Donald Manasse and his sons, Patrick and Colin; as well as numerous cousins. Patty was preceded in death by her husband, "Red" in 1976; her father, Charlie in 1934; her mother, Genie in 1979; stepdaughter, Kathy Kluver-Manasse in 1993; and most recently her sister, Mary in June of 1998.
Funeral and Graveside services will be held 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26, 1998, at the Lee cemetery south of Colstrip. Public visitation will be held Friday, Oct. 23, from 1-5:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 24, from 1-5:30 p.m. at the Beals Mortuary Chapel in Forsyth. Memorials may be made to the Rosebud County Pioneers or the Northern Plains Resource Council. Beals Mortuary of Forsyth is in charge of the arrangements.
