Obituaries
David Koester
Feb 7, 2009
Obituary for David Koester
MISSOULA - Dave Koester, 78, passed Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, at Bee Hive Homes in Missoula, after a long, difficult battle with Parkinson’s disease and congestive heart failure. Dave was born to Dorothy and Fred Koester on March 3, 1930, in Painesville, Ohio. He attended Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio, where he excelled in...
Steven Sandtner
Feb 6, 2009
Obituary for Steven Sandtner
MISSOULA - Steven J. Sandtner, 101, passed away Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, his late wife’s birthday, at his residence in Missoula from natural causes. He was born December. 22, 1907, in Chicago to Stephan and Juliana Sandtner, immigrants from Hungary. When he was 4 years old, his mother died and he and his three sisters...
Nicia LePiane
Feb 6, 2009
Obituary for Nicia LePiane
MISSOULA - Nicia Darlene LePiane passed away Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, from complications following surgery at St. Patrick Hospital. She was born Nicia Darlene Osness on January. 22, 1975, in Murray Utah. Nicia moved to Montana in 1997, obtained her GED and attended the University of Montana for costume design. She married Christopher Todd LePiane...
Sally Wehmeyer
Feb 5, 2009
Obituary for Sally Wehmeyer
MISSOULA - Sally Elizabeth Kraemer Wehmeyer, 87, passed away Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital. She was born on March 15, 1921, in Cold Spring, Minn., the third of Adam and Mary Kraemer’s 12 children. When Sally was just 14, her mother passed away, leaving behind a dozen mouths to feed in the...
William Farrington
Feb 4, 2009
Obituary for William Farrington
MISSOULA - William Ernest Farrington, age 76, of Missoula, died after a six-month battle with cancer at 5 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. He was born April 15, 1932, in Nappanee, Ind., to Lloyd M. and Marie Krauter Farrington. He married Susanne Fried April 12, 1970, on Long Island, N.Y. They resided in Sea Cliff,...
Charles Burmeister
Feb 2, 2009
Obituary for Charles Burmeister
SEELEY LAKE - Charles Fredrick William Burmeister, 83, of Seeley Lake, died of pneumonia Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital, surrounded by family. He was born June 12, 1925, in Woodhaven, Long Island, N.Y., the son of the late John and Anna Burmeister. He was the youngest of three siblings. He graduated from...
Mike Monaco
Feb 2, 2009
Obituary for Mike Monaco
MISSOULA - On Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, Mike Monaco gave one last squeeze to his lady’s hand and took his final journey. Mike began his 96-year-life journey September. 26, 1912, in Cantalupo, Italy, born to Antonio Monaco and Loreta DiToro Monaco. In 1929, on his next journey, Mike followed his father’s lead, and at the...
Richard Minson
Feb 1, 2009
Obituary for Richard Minson
ST. REGIS - Richard A. Minson, 68, of St. Regis, passed away Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital. He was born on September. 2, 1940, in Missoula, the son of Louis A. Minson and Theresa C. Minson. He attended Hannah High School in Wyoming. On January. 22, 1961, he married Judith Marie Eixenberger...
Frank Knoll
Feb 1, 2009
Obituary for Frank Knoll
MISSOULA - Frank J. Knoll 83, passed away Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital of pneumonia. He was born January. 2, 1926, in Glendive to Joseph and Barbara Knoll. Frank joined the Navy at 17 and served in World War II in the South Pacific Islands with three years on active duty. He...
Brian Simkins
Jan 31, 2009
Obituary for Brian Simkins
ST. REGIS - Brian Keith Simkins, 48, of St. Regis, passed away Saturday, January. 31, 2009, at his home in St. Regis following a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born June 29, 1960, in Superior to Gene and Gwen Simkins. As a child, Bud grew up with his two brothers and two sisters in...
George Grissom Rev.
Jan 30, 2009
Obituary for George Grissom Rev.
YAKIMA, Wash. - The Rev. G. Ellwood Grissom passed away peacefully in Yakima, Wash., on Friday, January. 30, 2009. George Ellwood Grissom was born to E.A. and Adelaide Grissom in Lewistown, May 24, 1928. When he was a young child, the family moved to Hamilton and he graduated from high school in Corvallis. He...
Donald Johnston
Jan 30, 2009
Obituary for Donald Johnston
MISSOULA - Donald Lee Johnston, 71, of Missoula, passed away, Friday, January. 30, 2009, of natural causes, at St. Patrick hospital. He was born June 26, 1937, in Anaconda, to Joseph and Helen Johnston. He went to school at Whittier Grade School and attended Missoula County High School for two years. He later married Dee...
Doris Andrus
Jan 29, 2009
Obituary for Doris Andrus
MISSOULA - Longtime Missoula resident Doris Andrus, 82, died on January. 29, 2009. She was born Doris Elinor Henderson on Feb. 6, 1926, the seventh of eight children to Mark Leo and Geneva Green Henderson. She was raised in Coggon, Iowa, and graduated from the University of Iowa before moving to Browning to work as...
Dolores Taylor
Jan 28, 2009
Obituary for Dolores Taylor
MISSOULA - Dolores “Dee” Taylor, 77, of Missoula, passed away at her home Wednesday, January. 28, 2009. She was born November. 3, 1931, in Missoula, the daughter of Angelina and John Piccinini. She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1950. Dee married Howard E. Taylor March 10, 1951. She owned Pancey’s Alley for eight years....
Margie Kost
Jan 28, 2009
Obituary for Margie Kost
MISSOULA - Margie V. Kost, 86, passed away Wednesday, January. 28, 2009, of natural causes. Margie was born to Byron P. Howard and Sarah S. Tippets Howard August. 1, 1922 in Sidney. Being born blind, Margie attended and graduated from the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind in Great Falls in June 1940. She...
L. Edwin Wang
Jan 28, 2009
Obituary for L. Edwin Wang
MISSOULA - L. Edwin Wang, 89, passed away Wednesday, January. 28, 2009, at his home of natural causes. Ed was born in Medford, Ore., to Laura Madeline Wang and Lorang Edwin Wang. Ed and his baby brother Louis were raised by their mother during the Depression. Ed’s mom supported her kids by operating the...
Allen Dalberg
Jan 27, 2009
Obituary for Allen Dalberg
MISSOULA - Allen Hjalmer Dalberg, 75, passed away Tuesday, January. 27, 2009, at St. Patrick Hospital. He was born September. 22, 1933 in Deary, Idaho. At five, he moved with his family to Moscow, Idaho. During his school years in Moscow, he became an outstanding athlete, and twice he was selected for boys’ state. During...
Sharon Larson
Jan 27, 2009
Obituary for Sharon Larson
MISSOULA - Sharon “Sunny” K. Larson, 65, of Missoula, passed away at home Tuesday, January. 27, 2009, of natural causes. She was born October. 29, 1943, in Angola, Ind. She worked for Skaggs, Osco and CVS. They were like family to her, for which she was always very thankful. In 1996, Sharon carried the Olympic...
Sharon Ailport
Jan 27, 2009
Obituary for Sharon Ailport
CLINTON - Sharon Louise Ailport, 60, of Clinton, passed away at St. Patrick Hospital on Tuesday, January. 27, 2009. Sharon was born April 25, 1948, in Missoula to Tilden and Edna Kesterson. She graduated from Seeley Lake High School in 1966. On November. 24, 1971, she married Tim Ailport and they lived in Clinton. She...
Richard Cardwell
Jan 23, 2009
Obituary for Richard Cardwell
MISSOULA - Richard Allen Cardwell, 69, of Missoula, passed away Friday, January. 23, 2009, at his residence of natural causes. He was born July 6, 1939, in Kokomo, Ind., to Virgil and Hilda Cardwell. Richard grew up on a farm in Indiana with his younger brother, Thomas, and graduated from Windfall High School in Windfall,...
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