OBITUARY LISTINGS

Laila Lindberg

Jul 11, 2020

Laila Iverson Lindberg, 96, of Shelby died July 11, 2020 surrounded by God’s grace and love. She was born to Harald and Ida Thompson Iverson on January 11, 1924, in Mt. Vernon, WA – the youngest in her family with three older brothers Irving, Floyd, and Lyle.  They moved to Montana in 1927, and in 1932 settled in Conrad...

Claudette R. Vanden Bos

Jun 25, 2020

Claudette R (Becker) Vanden Bos was born Nov 23, 1945 in Conrad to Gordon and Bessie Becker. She passed away June 25, 2020.

Claudette attended and graduated from Conrad High School.  She married Barney Vanden Bos on June 25, 1965 in Conrad and raised two sons, Russell and Roy, on the family farm near Dupuyer. ...

Evelyn Eggen

Jun 24, 2020

Evelyn Eggen, 103, passed Wed, June 24, 2020 in Jacksonville, FL.

Graveside services will be Thurs, July 2, at 1pm at Joplin Cemetery.

Evelyn was born January 25, 1917 in Chester to Emile and Carrie (Holmquist) Jabes. She graduated from Chester High School in 1935 and married Clifton Eggen in October of 1939 in Great...

Shirley R. Davis

Jun 24, 2020

The day before Shirley Roberta Davis was born, the temperature in Shelby reached 100 degrees. On the day when she was born, September 16, 1936, Shelby had a blizzard which dropped 5 feet of snow. Her parents are Ed Adams and Elsie Moffatt/Ball who farmed near Shelby.  Shirley was the baby of the family and had 11 older siblings;...

Glenn C. Dillman

Jun 21, 2020

Glenn Cameron Dillman, 68, of Brady, passed at his home on Sunday, June 21, 2020.

He was born on August 27, 1951 to parents, Maurice Dillman and Selma (Boggs) Holm in Conrad.

He graduated from Conrad High School and spent much of his life in the Conrad area working in construction as a heavy equipment...

Bill G. Pate

Jun 20, 2020

Billy “Bill” Gene Pate, 79, passed Saturday, June 20, 2020.

Bill was born December 21, 1940 in Obion, TN to Archie and Adelle Pate.  He was raised in Obion, TN and Granville, WI and finished his education in Menomonee Falls, WI. Bill enlisted into the US Air Force in 1959. At his honorable discharge in...

Jeff L. Brown

Jun 17, 2020

Jeff Lee Brown, age 60, passed at his home in Conrad, on June 17th, 2020.  He was born to Dick and

Barb Brown and raised in Conrad for most of his childhood.

While growing up, he was an athletic young man with a passion for things like snow skiing and moto-cross racing.  Jeff...

Richard Jackson

Jun 13, 2020

How do you condense 85 years of an exemplary life into one article?

Richard Jackson was born April 22, 1935 to Kenneth and Irene (Lincoln) Jackson in Havre. The three of them, along with his older sister Dorla, lived north of Inverness his first five years and then moved to the farm/ranch North of Rudyard which was...

Eva Haynes

Jun 10, 2020

Eva Roberta McGrew was born on July 15, 1934 to Donnie And Maxine (Gammon) McGrew.  She was frail as a young child but loved to follow her dad everywhere. As she turned into a teenager, majority of her day was spent riding her horse with friends around the small town of Dupuyer.

She attended school...

Briton Alan Bunnell

Jun 7, 2020

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we lay to rest one of our young, talented, and wonderful children of God.  May he rest in eternal peace with our loved ones beyond with God.

Briton Alan Bunnell came into this world on the 2nd of September 2002, full of light and love that warmed...

Stedman D. Beebe

Jun 5, 2020

Stedman Beebe passed away peacefully at his home in the early morning hours of June 5, 2020. He was born November 15, 1937, in Fair Haven, Vermont to Ralph and Bertha (Briggs) Beebe. His siblings, Ted, Darren, Jack, Robert, and Ione preceded him in death.

After graduating from Springfield High School in Springfield, Vermont, he...

Jean Luedtke

May 29, 2020

Margaret Jean Luedtke, 87, a longtime Cut Bank resident passed Friday, May 29, 2020 at her apartment at Buffalo Hills Terrace Independent Living in Kalispell from complications of Lupus.  Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, a private family funeral service will be held Saturday, June 6, at the First Presbyterian Church in Cut Bank.

Jean...

Bucky Hillebrand

May 28, 2020

On the evening of May 28, 2020 Donovan “Bucky” Lee Hillebrand, an avid fisherman, passed at St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena with family by his side.

Bucky was born in Grand Forks, ND on March 28, 1950 to Floyd D. Hillebrand and Lorraine Knutson.  After growing up in Shelby and graduating from Shelby High School...

Earlene Bardgett

May 21, 2020

Iva Earlene Keister Bardgett, 73, passed in her sleep on May 21, 2020, in Spokane, Washington.

Funeral service were held on Saturday, May 30, 2020 at Conrad Mission Church, 205 2nd Ave. N.W. in Conrad.

Earlene was born February 24, 1947 to Earl and Iva Keister, homesteaders of Conrad.

Earlene graduated from Conrad...

Alice Bach

May 17, 2020

Alice J. Bach left us peacefully Sunday, May 17, in Chester. She will be greatly missed by her children, Kristi Thisselle, Wayne Thisselle (Lita), Jon Thisselle, Lynnette Anderson; her brother, Bud Broadhurst; her nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, her many friends, and anyone else that called her Mom or Grandma.

She was born in Chester on...

Branden L. Boggs

May 14, 2020

Branden Lane Boggs, 43, passed away Thursday, May 14, 2020.

Public visitation was held Sunday, May 17, and Monday, May 18, at the Whitted Funeral Chapel in Cut Bank.

Jack Hurley

May 14, 2020

Jack Hurley, 73, passed on May 14, 2020.  He was born on June 30, 1946 to Gordon and Jean Hurley.  Jack was raised on the family farm East of Conrad with brothers, Bob and Jim, and sister, Glenna.  He graduated from Conrad High School in 1964 where he was a track star. Jack went on to attend...

Terry D. Hawks

May 12, 2020

Teresa (Terry) Hawks was born to Vivien Powers and Andy Green March 19, 1948 in Evansville, IN.  After Andy and Vivian went separate ways, Vivien married the man Teresa loved as her father, Donald Rail, and took his last name.  She spent her early childhood as a road warrior, sleeping at her dad’s feet as he drove...

Irene Stoddard

May 9, 2020

Mildred “Irene” Stoddard completed her journey on this earth on May 9, 2020 at the Pondera Medical Center Extended Care in Conrad. She was 90 years old and died of natural causes.

Irene was born in Cornell, Illinois on February 20, 1930 to Tault and Nona Howard. She was the fourth born out of eight...