Obituaries

Dec 21, 2017

Life Story for Doris I Anderson

Dec 20, 2017

Obituary for Jack McCoy

Jack was born May 3, 1959, the youngest of five children born to Bill and Angeline McCoy. He grew up on the North Side of Missoula and attended Whittier Grade School and graduated from Hellgate High. He went to work at White Pine & Sash Co., where our father worked, and was employed there until...

Dec 19, 2017

Dec 18, 2017

Obituary for JoAnne VanDerhoff Haugen

JoAnne VanDerhoff Haugen, the New Year's baby of 1953 in Missoula at St. Patrick Hospital, died Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in the same hospital. Joanne graduated from St. Pat's School of Nursing and had a 33 year career there, starting in Pediatrics and working in General Surgery. Her school years were in Paradise and...

Dec 15, 2017

Obituary for Donald Joseph Morman

Donald Joseph Morman was born on March 14, 1950, to Earl and Verena Morman in Yankton, South Dakota, as he was often fond of describing himself, “just a dumb farm boy from South Dakota.” Those who knew him know how far from the truth this was, however, as over the course of his 67...

Dec 13, 2017

Obituary for Valene M Tucker

Valene was born and raised in Hiawatha, Utah, graduating from high school in Price, Utah in the class of 1950. She married her high school sweetheart, Gerald Culwell and they moved to California, and had one child, a daughter named Pamela (Santa Fe, New Mexico). Their marriage lasted two years at which time, Valene...

Dec 11, 2017

Obituary for Owen Schmautz

Elvin Owen Schmautz, 83, of Missoula, passed away on Monday, December 11, 2017. Owen was born on November 22, 1934 to Ben and Myrtle Schmautz. As a young man he attended Franklin Grade School where he participated in football, basketball, and Track. While attending Missoula County High School, he was a member of the back...

Dec 8, 2017

Obituary for Kenneth J "Ken" Sutton

Kenneth "Ken" J. Sutton passed away peacefully at the Beehive Assisted Living on December 8, 2017 of natural causes. He was 88 years old. Ken was born on June 30, 1929 in Baytown, Texas to Sylas and Harmonia Rose Sutton. He attended Texas A and M in 1948 where he played basketball for...

Dec 6, 2017

Life Story for Russell L Best

Dec 5, 2017

Obituary for Bobbi Mathes

-Bobbi Rose Mathes, 81, passed away of natural causes on Dec. 5, 2017 at Mineral Community Nursing Home. Bobbi was born in Wheeling, WV on Feb. 3, 1936 to Wallace Van Hoose and Blanche Fraley. Bobbi moved a lot and has resided in W. Virginia, Oregon, Texas, California and Montana which she loved the best....

Dec 1, 2017

Obituary for June E Wilhelm

June was born in Missoula on June 26, 1922, to Ruby and Chester Smith. She attended schools in Missoula and Helena and shared colorful tales of childhood on the grandparent's homestead in Perma. June's first marriage, to Grant Malcolm, produced a son, John, and daughter Carol. June was licensed in Swedish Massage, in practice...

Dec 1, 2017

Life Story for James E Rogers

Nov 29, 2017

Obituary for Charles R Zadra

Charles R. Zadra, 97, passed away in Missoula, Montana, with family by his side, on November 29th, 2017. A native of Dillon, Montana, Charlie appreciated the great outdoors and Montana’s rich history. Charlie remembered well Missoula’s small logging mills, one of which he helped his father operate. He built a rustic log cabin of...

Nov 27, 2017

Obituary for Leonard Zawada

Leonard D. Zawada was born in Miles City, MT on January 14, 1944 to Frank and Elsie Zawada. On November 15, 1970, Leonard married Anna Marie Fonner and were together until she passed away in 1994. Leonard joined the Navy in 1967 through which he then served in the Vietnam War. He was later transferred...

Nov 26, 2017

Obituary for Timothy Jay "Tim" Brambo

Tim Brambo passed away on Sunday, November 26th, surrounded by his close circle of family and friends. Tim was born in 1964 to Harold “Red” and Ann, the youngest of three children. His parents owned L & R Tire, where Tim began working during his high school years. He continued working in the...

Nov 25, 2017

Obituary for Joanna Marie Cameron

Joanna (Jo) Marie Cameron, 54, of Missoula MT. passed away Saturday, November 25, 2017 in Trout Creek, MT. Jo was born January 2, 1963 in Salem, Ohio to Charles L. Moore and Barbara Moore. She was the youngest child of four girls. Jo is preceded in death by her mother, Barbara. She is survived...

Nov 22, 2017

Obituary for Paul F Steen

“We are what we were when … ” MISSOULA — A native New Orleanian and the first son of William and Marcelle Gueringer Steen, from early childhood Paul expressed his fertile imagination, keen observations and self-sufficiency. These same qualities and a lifelong devotion to his Catholic faith sustained him in his long and creative...

Nov 21, 2017

Obituary for Sharon R Johnston

Sharon Rae Johnston, 62, loving daughter, mother, sister, aunt and grandmother, died peacefully Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, surrounded by her loving family at St. Patrick Hospital after a courageous two-and-a-half-year battle with ovarian cancer. Sharon’s life of unlimited love and selflessness began on Oct. 19, 1955 in Butte; born to Hanford and Peggy (Shaffer)...

Nov 20, 2017

Nov 20, 2017

Obituary for Helena Sheets

Helena "Helen" Sheets, 89, of Drummond, passed away on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, at Riverside Health Care, of natural causes. Mom was born on Nov. 5, 1928, in Richey, to Maria and David Knopp. She grew up on a farm by Powell, Wyoming, later moving to Billings. Mom met and married John Sheets on April...