Obituaries

CHESTER - Clifford Clinton "Cliff" Leighton, 90, retired John Deere salesman and former manager of Chester Implement, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2003, at a Chester nursing home. The funeral service will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Chester. Burial will be at the Chester Cemetery. Cliff was born on Dec. 8, 1912, at Mount Hope, Wis., to Clinton A. and Cecelia (Holman) Leighton. The family moved to Montana in 1919. Cliff received his education in Havre and graduated from Havre high School in 1931. He...

BLAIR, Neb. - Nona Alfreda Bentsen Vammen, 91, of Blair, Neb., died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2002, at a Blair nursing home. A memorial service was held Wednesday at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Home chapel in Blair with the Rev. Kenneth A. Jensen presiding. Graveside services and inurnment are to be held at the Ebenezer Lutheran Church Cemetery in McCabe at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Stephen Odegaard officiating. Nona was born on Sept. 11, 1911, to Ole and Anna (Andersen) Olsen on her parents' homestead outside of McCabe. She...

CHESTER - Clifford Clinton "Cliff" Leighton, 90, retired John Deere salesman and former manager of Chester Implement, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2003, at a Chester nursing home. The funeral service will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Chester. Burial will be at the Chester Cemetery. Cliff was born on Dec. 8, 1912, at Mount Hope, Wis., to Clinton A. and Cecelia (Holman) Leighton. The family moved to Montana in 1919. Cliff received his education in Havre and graduated from Havre high School in 1931. He...

BLAIR, Neb. - Nona Alfreda Bentsen Vammen, 91, of Blair, Neb., died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2002, at a Blair nursing home. A memorial service was held Wednesday at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Home chapel in Blair with the Rev. Kenneth A. Jensen presiding. Graveside services and inurnment are to be held at the Ebenezer Lutheran Church Cemetery in McCabe at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Stephen Odegaard officiating. Nona was born on Sept. 11, 1911, to Ole and Anna (Andersen) Olsen on her parents' homestead outside of McCabe. She...

BLAIR, Neb. - Nona Alfreda Bentsen Vammen, 91, of Blair, Neb., died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2002, at a Blair nursing home. A memorial service was held Wednesday at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Home chapel in Blair with the Rev. Kenneth A. Jensen presiding. Graveside services and inurnment are to be held at the Ebenezer Lutheran Church Cemetery in McCabe at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Stephen Odegaard officiating. Nona was born on Sept. 11, 1911, to Ole and Anna (Andersen) Olsen on her parents' homestead outside of McCabe. She...