Obituaries
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...
Ryan Braulik
Mar 11, 2025
Ryan Braulik, 45, of Seeley Lake passed away on Tuesday March 11, 2025.
He was born July 23, 1979 in SeaTac, Washington to parents Gary and JoAnn Braulik. On July 31, 2010 he married his soulmate, Karmen. The couple moved from Washington to Montana in 2011. In 2012, they were blessed with twins.
Ryan was a remarkable man - passionate, family was...
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...
Deborah Laroque
Mar 9, 2025
Deborah Lucille Laroque, 67, of Missoula, Montana, passed away peacefully on March 9, 2025. Deborah was born on September 6, 1957, in Livingston, Montana. She graduated from Park High School in Livingston and carried her Montana roots with her wherever life took her.
Throughout her life, Deborah called several places home-including Reno, Nevada; Tacoma, Washington; and ultimately Missoula, where she spent...
Leo Wesland
Mar 8, 2025
Leo (Butch) Wesland passed away on March 8th, 2025, leaving a big hole in the hearts of all who knew and loved him. Butch was born in Great Falls, Montana to Lewis Wesland and Jean Hamilton on June 26th, 1959. He was very much a family man. He loved spending as much time with family as possible, whenever he could....
Sharon Sue Orsak
Mar 8, 2025
Sharon Sue Orsak, aged 76, passed away peacefully on March 8, 2025, after a very long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Born on October 29, 1948 in Bay City, TX to the late J.T. “Bubba” Byrd and Katynel Byrd (Bond), Sharon spent most of her life in Bay City and led it quietly and very simply. She loved her...
Kathleen Roberts
Mar 3, 2025
Kathleen Anne Roberts was called home by our lord. She passed away on Monday March 3, 2025, of natural causes at the Missoula Springs Living Senior Home.
Kathleen was born on December 18,1943, in Junction City, Kansas to Ralph and Rozelle Mary Dunmire. As a young girl she attended Fort Peck Grade School in Montana. Later after moving with her family...
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