Obituaries

MARIETTA, Ga. - Arvid W. Hobby, 67, of Marietta, Ga., died Thursday, June 19, 2003, in Marietta. A Mass was held last Wednesday in Marietta. A memorial service and interment will be held in Glasgow at a later date. He was born in Bainville on July 23, 1935, to Fred and Helen (Vannatta) Hobby. He attended school in Bainville. After graduation, he joined the Great Northern Railway in 1954 in Havre, then transferred to Glasgow. He continued to work for the railroad as a brakeman and later as a conductor. He retired with...

ROCKY BOY - Edward James Arkinson, 50, of Rocky Boy died on Sunday, June 29, 2003, at a Havre hospital of complications of diabetes. The wake service began Sunday at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church at Rocky Boy. A traditional funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Burial will follow the service at the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Edward was born on May 5, 1953, at Rocky Boy to Thomas and Maggie (Coffee) Arkinson. He attended school at Rocky Boy and at Wahpeton, N.D., and also SIPI Indian College in Albuquerque, N...

John Sienkowski, 39, died Monday, June 23, 2003, at a Havre hospital due to heart complications. A memorial service will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Sienkowski residence, No. 27 61 Ave. NW. Take an immediate right after the bridge after the Beaver Creek Golf Course. In case of inclement weather, the services will be at the St. Jude Parish Center with the Rev. Chad Leatherman officiating. A private family interment will take place at a later date. Cremation has taken place. John was born Nov. 17 1963, in El Paso,...

Angelina Kay (Angie) Lotton, 22, of Havre died unexpectedly of natural causes relating to Addison's Disease on Monday, June 23, 2003. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church in Havre with the Rev. Rowlie Hutton officiating. Angie was born Dec. 2, 1980, and attended school in Havre. She graduated from Havre High School in 1999. She had a love for children and spent many hours being a part-time nanny in high school and subsequently traveled to many places as a full-time nanny foll...

Cleo Geneva Everaert, 79, of Havre died Monday, June 23, 2003, at a Great Falls hospital of natural causes. There will be a committal rite service at the Highland Cemetery in Havre at 2 p.m. Thursday with Sister Judith Maender officiating. Cleo was born Dec. 10, 1923, to Alfred and Alice (Clowes) Schuele in Havre. Cleo grew up and attended schools in Havre. She graduated from Havre High School in 1941. After high school she was employed at the Havre Laundry. In 1971 she met Florimond "Butch" Everaert. The couple were married...

ROCKY BOY - Ronald D. Eagleman Jr., 5, of Rocky Boy died Wednesday June 25, 2003, at a Havre hospital after a battle with brain cancer. A wake service will began Wednesday night at the Rocky Boy Lutheran Church with the Rev. Ruth Votaw officiating. The funeral service will be 10 a.m. Friday at the Rocky Boy Lutheran Church. Burial will follow at the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Ronald was born June 13, 1998, to Ronald Eagleman Sr. and Lorena The Boy in Havre. He attended Head Start School in Rocky Boy. Ronald enjoyed playing X Box...

LIBBY - Bertha Anderson, 79, died Saturday, June 14, 2003, at her home in Libby. A service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Libby Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Kevin Lindgren officiating. Private interment will be at Highland Cemetery in Havre. She was born on Feb. 29, 1924, on the family homestead near Gildford to Peder and Anna Mork. She met Dell Anderson and they were married on Jan. 11, 1944, at Great Falls. They lived at Gildford and farmed on the Anderson homestead six miles south of town until selling the farm...

Angelina Kay (Angie) Lotton, 22, of Havre died unexpectedly of natural causes relating to Addison's Disease on Monday, June 23, 2003. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church in Havre with the Rev. Rowlie Hutton officiating. Angie was born Dec. 2, 1980, and attended school in Havre. She graduated from Havre High School in 1999. She had a love for children and spent many hours being a part-time nanny in high school and subsequently traveled to many places as a full-time nanny foll...

Cleo Geneva Everaert, 79, of Havre died Monday, June 23, 2003, at a Great Falls hospital of natural causes. There will be a committal rite service at the Highland Cemetery in Havre at 2 p.m. Thursday with Sister Judith Maender officiating. Cleo was born Dec. 10, 1923, to Alfred and Alice (Clowes) Schuele in Havre. Cleo grew up and attended schools in Havre. She graduated from Havre High School in 1941. After high school she was employed at the Havre Laundry. In 1971 she met Florimond "Butch" Everaert. The couple were married...

ROCKY BOY - Angie F. Swan, 24, died Sunday, June 22, 2003, from injuries she sustained in a motor vehicle accident. A wake will begin today at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church. The funeral ser- vice will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with Marvin Russette officiating. Burial will follow at the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Angie was born on June 22, 1979, to Clifford and Marjorie (Cochran) Swan in Havre. She was raised and educated in Rocky Boy and Harlem. Angie worked numerous jobs in her young life, including...

BIG SANDY - Ray Aman, 78, retired grain elevator operator and Army veteran died Tuesday, June 17, 2003, with his family by his side at a Great Falls hospital after a short illness. The funeral service will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Big Sandy with the Rev. Marvin Eldridge officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at the Big Sandy Cemetery. A fellowship will be held at the church immediately following the graveside service. Memorials may be made to the Big Sandy Medical Center, 165 Mo...

Glorianne Virginia Mangold, 65, died Friday, June 13, 2003, at a Great Falls hospice of cancer. Visitation will be on Wednesday at the Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester. Vigil prayers will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the mortuary chapel. A funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. on Thursday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Inverness with burial following at the Rudyard Cemetery. A luncheon will be at the Rudyard Catholic Youth Center. Glorianne was born April 3, 1938, in Havre to Clinton Evans Sr. and Mathilda "Tillie"...

Virginia (Ginnie) Elizabeth (Fisher) Keeley, 77, of Havre died Monday, June 16, 2003, at a Havre hospital of natural causes. Memorial graveside services will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Highland Cemetery. Virginia was born June 1, 1926, in Hauge, N.D. to Julia and John Fisher. Her mother died when she was very young and she was raised by her stepmother, Eva Fisher. Virginia attended school in Hingham and graduated from Hingham High School. She then went to work for F.A. Buttrey in Havre. She married Mark A. Keeley June...

HARLEM - Gay A. Stearns, 77, formerly of Chinook, died at his home in Harlem on Friday after a long battle with congestive heart failure. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Fort Belknap Red Whip Center. Burial with military honors will be in the Malta Cemetery. Gay was the oldest of 12 chil-dren born on April 14, 1926, in Malta to Kenneth and Beatrice (Smith) Stearns. Gay attended schools in Whitewater. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944 and served during World War II. Gay was a bar/restaurant owner, ranch...

BIG SANDY - Claude E. Miner, 62, farmer and veteran, died Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at home of cancer. A gathering and rosary will be today at 7:30 p.m. The funeral will be on Thursday at 11 a.m. at the St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church in Big Sandy. Claude was born in Havre to George and Edith Adell (Anderson) Miner on Aug. 19, 1940. He was raised and lived most of his life in the Kenilworth area. He attended school at the Ferndale and Lincoln schools in the country until the family moved to town where he graduated from the...

David John Borst, 57, of Carson City, Nev., died Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at Carson City from complications of cancer. Cremation has taken place. A burial will take place next to his parents in Havre. Dave was born Aug. 20, 1945, at Malta to Lillian and James Borst. He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Lillian Borst, and brother, James. Survivors include his wife, Marlas; sons, Tom and Bob; daughter, Sheila; brothers, Irvin and Jerry of Havre, Richard of Yuma, Ariz., and Robert of Kalispell; sister, Patty...

David John Borst, 57, of Carson City, Nev., died Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at Carson City from complications of cancer. Cremation has taken place. A burial will take place next to his parents in Havre. Dave was born Aug. 20, 1945, at Malta to Lillian and James Borst. He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Lillian Borst, and brother, James. Survivors include his wife, Marlas; sons, Tom and Bob; daughter, Sheila; brothers, Irvin and Jerry of Havre, Richard of Yuma, Ariz., and Robert of Kalispell; sister, Patty...

Luke Clayton Blackwell, 11, died Sunday, June 8, 2003, in a tragic auto accident north of Zurich. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church in Havre with burial following at 5 p.m. in the Forsyth Cemetery at Forsyth. Luke was born on Nov. 17, 1991, to Michael and Loreena (Reena Gilje) Blackwell in Port Angeles, Wash. He lived with his family in the coastal Pacific Northwest and Forsyth. Then later attended his first school years in Mandan, N.D., and Havre. Luke was one of a kind...

GILBERT, Ariz. - Laurel Ann Holloway, 72, of Gilbert, Ariz., died May 25, 2003. A memorial for family and friends is planned for late June. Laurel was born on Aug. 22, 1930, at Rudyard to Ralph and Lottie Koefod. She attended Montana State University and was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She married Frank Holloway in 1950. Her family will miss her warm sense of humor and strong will. Laurel is survived by he sister, Kathleen Van Luchene of Mesa, Ariz.; daughters, Pamel Holloway of Estes Park, Utah, and Wendy Lambros of...

FORT BELKNAP AGENCY - A wake service for Frances White of Fort Belknap Agency will start at 7 p.m. today at her home. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the White Cemetery at Three Buttes. A full obituary will follow....

CHESTER - Mina May Thielman, 96, died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, June 2, 2003. A funeral service will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Chester with burial following at the Chester Cemetery. Mina was born in Mildred, Minn., to Claude and Ella Mae (Porter) Ames on May 23, 1907. When Mina was a child, her family moved to Hannah, Alberta, Canada, and she began her early education there. When she was 10, the family moved to Lothair, where her father operated a livery stable. She continued her...

FORT BENTON - Joseph Peter Jordan, 84, a former Fort Benton mayor, died of natural causes Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at a Great Falls hospice. A vigil service will be at 7 p.m. Friday at Immaculate Conception Church in Fort Benton. A funeral will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the church with burial in Riverside Cemetery. A lunch in the church basement will follow the burial. Joe was born on Jan. 3, 1919, on the family farm in Hettinger County, N.D., to Juliana Stein and Peter Jordan. He attended country school until eighth grade and...

HARLEM - Joshua Thomas Raven Chief (Kuxi Hunpa) Rutherford, 28, a Blaine County deputy sheriff, died on Thursday, May 29, 2003, after responding to a domestic disturbance. A wake and rosary was Sunday at the Fort Belknap Agency in the Red Whip Recreation Center. A funeral Mass was this morning at the Harlem High School gymnasium with the Rev. Joseph Retzel, S.J., officiating. Joshua was born on Aug. 16, 1974, in Denver, Colo. He was educated at Edgewater Elementary School, Wheat Ridge Junior High School and Harlem High...

CHINOOK - Carroll Ray Rudolph, 79, died Sunday, June 1, 2003, at a Chinook nursing home due to natural causes. A funeral service will be 2 p.m. Thursday in the American Lutheran Church with burial in the Kuper Memorial Cemetery. Carroll was born in Chester on Oct. 10, 1923, to Ray and Hazel (Ray) Rudolph. He was raised in Joplin and graduated from Joplin High School in 1943. He attended college at Northern Montana College in Havre for two years. Carroll was a farmer and rancher all of his life. He and his brother Donald had R...

Howard Glenn Olson, 79, retired railroader, died Friday, May 30, 2003, at a Great Falls Hospital of natural causes. A funeral service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First Lutheran Church in Havre with the Revs. Catherine Card and Brad Ulgenes officiating. The committal service will be held at the Highland Cemetery in Havre following the funeral services. There will be a fellowship reception at the church following the committal rite. Howard was born March 9, 1924, to Halvor and Gunda (Aamot) Olson in Havre. He was raised and...