Obituaries
William Rulon Rogers
Mar 29, 2025
William "Will" Rulon Rogers, 44, was born on October 23, 1980, in Salt Lake City, UT to William Leroy and Mindy (Merrill) Rogers. Will sadly passed away on March 29, 2025, in Nashville, TN. Though Will passed on too soon, he had grown into a man whose heart was as vast as his talents, leaving behind a legacy of love,...
Ila Jean Lewis
Mar 29, 2025
Ila Jean Lewis, 89, of Missoula passed Saturday, March 29, 2025 at her home surrounded by family. A memorial service will be held at the Missoula Church of Christ, 1528 S Higgins Ave, Saturday May 3rd at 3pm. Online condolences may be left at gardencityfh.com.
Ila Jean, daughter of Lester and Edna (Ferguson) Criger, was born December 27, 1935 in Allston...
James "Jim" Backus
Mar 29, 2025
James Sallee Backus, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, and friend passed from this earth on March 29th, 2024, at the age of 89, surrounded by his loving family at his home in Missoula, Montana. Born on May 3, 1935, to William and Lizbeth Backus in Dillon, Montana, Jim's life journey was marked by warmth, kindness, resilience, and an...
Raymond "Frenchie" Doucett
Mar 29, 2025
Raymond “Frenchie” Doucett, 92, of Missoula passed away Saturday, March 29, 2025 at Auberge in Missoula. A Mass of Christian Burial will held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, April 10, 2025 at Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Missoula. Burial with Military Honors will be held at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 10, 2025 at the Western Montana State Veterans Cemetery. Online condolences...
Sandra Reid
Mar 26, 2025
Sandra K. Reid, 84, passed away peacefully on March 26, 2025, in Missoula, Montana.
Sandra was born on October 4, 1940, in Orange, California. She grew up in Redmond, Oregon, where she graduated from Redmond High School in 1958. Shortly after, she married her high school sweetheart, Rod B. Reid, on August 25, 1959. Together, they built a life filled with...
Margaret "Marge" Lubbers
Mar 25, 2025
Margaret "Marge" Courtney Lubbers
April 20, 1927- March 25, 2025
Marge was born at Sunshine Farm near Yankton S.D., the second child of Clarence D. and Margaret Courtney. She took a pony cart to Fishbeck grade school and graduated from Mount Marty High School in Yankton. After graduation, she and her sister Mary took a train to work at the Pentagon in...
Phyllis Irene Cowan
Mar 23, 2025
Phyllis Irene "Babe" Applegate Cowan, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, passed away on March 23, 2025. She was surrounded by the love of her family, who will forever cherish the warmth, kindness, and joy she brought into their lives.
Born on May 3, 1939, in Deer Lodge, Montana, Phyllis grew up in Avery, Idaho, and Frenchtown, Montana....
Candice Crawford
Mar 21, 2025
Candice “Candy” Diane (Weiler) Crawford, 77, of Missoula, Montana, passed away on Friday, March 21, 2025.
Candy was born in Missoula on November 27, 1947, to Adam and Edith (Mullenax) Weiler. She was a proud, lifelong resident, receiving her education in the Missoula Public School System. She would later build a beautiful life here with her husband of over 30 years,...
Linda Forwood
Mar 20, 2025
Our loving wife and mother, Linda L. Forwood, passed away on March 20th, 2025 in Missoula. She was born and raised April 10th, 1945, in Anaconda, Mt, a daughter of Frank and Dorthy Johnson. She is survived by her husband, Bill Forwood, son Mark (Cindy), daughter Stacy (Tom), son Matt (CeCe), seven grandkids (Alisha, Karissa, Jason, Franki, Billy, Mason, Rylee),...
Angela DiNenna
Mar 17, 2025
Angela Elizabeth DiNenna, 83 of Missoula, MT (formally of Charleston, SC) passed away peacefully March 17th, 2025, at Providence St Patrick's Hospital. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, March 27, 2025 at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church with interment at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
She was born February 11,1942 in Boston, Massachusetts to Carmine and...
Augustine Minjares
Mar 17, 2025
Augustine Minjares wore out his body on March 17, 2025. Like most of us he would have liked to have lasted a little longer.
Gus lived a full life and because he tried to live it fully he made many mistakes. He would have like to apologize for those he has hurt through those mistakes and to thank all of those...
Jill Borden
Mar 16, 2025
On the afternoon of Sunday. March 16, 2025 at Park Place Care Center in Great Falls , Montana, the Reverend Jill Borden passed from this life. Jill was the daughter of John Borden , a Chicago business man, investor, and adventurer, and Frances Yeaton , a young daughter of an Iowa mayor , who met at a Michigan resort and...
Katherine "Renie" Pappas
Mar 16, 2025
Katherine “Renie” Pappas, 87, of Missoula passed away on March 16, 2025 due to complications of pancreatic cancer.
She was born in Missoula, on February 27, 1938 weighing a whopping 4 pounds 6 ounces to Greek immigrant parents Athena and Peter Pappas. Renie talked often of the many opportunities her parents provided her during childhood, made possible by their long journey...
George Pohndorf
Mar 14, 2025
George Richard Pohndorf, Jr., 57, passed away on Friday, March 14, 2025, at Edgewood Missoula Memory Care.
He was born on March 30, 1967 in Seattle, WA, to Roberta and George Pohndorf, Sr.
He grew up in Bellevue, in the days when the area was thick with woods and trails. He shared an obsession with model trains and historic steam trains with...
Roy "Skip" Owings Jr.
Mar 14, 2025
Roy “Skip” Owings Jr. took his last breath on earth and his first breath in heaven on Friday, March 14 th , 2025. Following a brief illness with cancer, he passed bravely and peacefully, surrounded by family at his home in Missoula, MT.
Skip was born March 6th, 1951 in Lewistown, MT to Roy and Frances Owings. Most of his early...
Shelley Icenhower
Mar 13, 2025
Shelley Ann Icenhower (Coston) passed away on March 13, 2025. She was born September 12, 1962 in North Carolina. She was a graduate of the University of Montana. She was preceded in death by her dad John Pope Coston Sr and her mom Rae Patricia Coston.
She leaves behind a daughter, Mishawn Lloyd; two sons, Jason Icenhower (Jasmine) and Michael Lloyd...
Edna Kinsella
Mar 13, 2025
Edna Foster Fowler came into the world six weeks early after her mother fell down the stairs to the backyard. She was born in Louisville, KY a year to the day after her brother Jeff on December 14, 1942. Family lore states that in the chaos her tiny lung collapsed. She was not expected to live through the night, but...
Merlyn Lofgren
Mar 11, 2025
Our beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, Merlyn Wayne Vincent Lofgren, passed away March 11, 2025. He was 98.
Born October 22, 1926, and raised on a dry farm in North Dakota during the Great Depression, Merlyn and his two siblings were raised by humble, God-fearing parents. Attending church or going on a trip into town with his family always meant...
Dolores Wiegert
Mar 11, 2025
Dolores Betty Wiegert, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and faithful servant of Christ, was called to her heavenly home on March 11, 2025, at the age of 90. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on July 21, 1934, the third daughter of Frank and Clara Heuer.
From an early age, Dolores was nurtured in the Christian faith. She was baptized on...
Robert McKelvey
Mar 10, 2025
Robert William McKelvey died peacefully on March 10 in Missoula at age 95. Bob was born on April 27, 1929 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and spent his boyhood in Ligonier, a small town about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburg. He won a national scholarship to study at Carnegie Mellon University and went on to get his PhD in mathematics at the...
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