Obituaries

Mary Green, 91, died Thursday, July 26, 2007, at Northern Montana Care Center of natural causes, one week shy of her 92 birthday. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the First Lutheran Church with Pastor Brad Ulgenes officiating. Mary was born Aug. 2, 1915, in Rossoshi, Russia to Henry and Molly Ostwald. Mary was the last survivor of nine children. She immigrated to the United States in 1926, and homesteaded in Culbertson. She married John Green on April 18, 1933. They made their home in Culbertson later...

Ruth Karmy, 60, died Sunday, July 15, 2007, in a Eugene, Ore., hospital from complications of congestive heart failure and colon cancer. A memorial service is planned at a later date. Ruth was born in Havre on May 1, 1947, to Raymond and Amy Wall. She grew up on the family ranch north of Kremlin and also graduated from Kremlin High School in 1965. She was involved in 4-H and all the other activities during her school days. She graduated from Walla Walla College in Washington in 1969, with an elementary education degree. Then...

Keith Stewart Gustafson, 87, died Tuesday, July 24, 2007, at Northern Rockies Medical Center of a brain tumor. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the Hi Line Funeral Home in Cut Bank. Funeral Services will be held at the Mountain View Baptist Church in Cut Bank with his good friend Pastor Bill Barnard officiating. Burial will follow at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Cut Bank next to his wife Irene and son Curtis. Keith was born June 7, 1920, in Brocton to William and Florence (Whitney) Gustafson. At the age of 3...

Sharon Anita Carter, 60, died Tuesday, July 24, 2007, at the Northern Montana Care Center due to cancer. Cremation has taken place and her memorial service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Robert Quinn conducting. A private interment will be held at a later time. Sharon was born May 3, 1947, in Carbondale, Colo., to Carl and Cecilia (Wiggins) Henke. She was raised and educated in Colorado. She married Robert Carter on May 8, 1974, the couple made their home in Grand Junction,...

Catherine “Bessie” Wanken, 93, died Tuesday, July 17, 2007, at the Liberty County Nursing Home. Rosary prayers will be at 7 p. m. today at the Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester. Her funeral mass will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Chester. Burial will follow at the Chester Cemetery. Catherine “Bessie” Wanken was born Nov. 23, 1913, at the family farm near Hay Coulee, south of Chester. She was one of 15 children born to Stanley and Katherine (Lopata) Kantorowicz. She received her formal educati...

Percy John Plumage, 74, died Monday, July 23, 2007, at Northern Montana Hospital of natural causes. A wake service is scheduled for 7 p.m. today at the Medicine Bear Center in Lodge Pole. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. at the Medicine Bear Center. The committal rite will be celebrated at the Big Warm Family Cemetery. A fellowship reception will follow the committal at the Medicine Bear Center. Percy John Plumage, “Walks All Over The Mountain,” was born Jan. 1, 1933, to Paul and Elizabeth (Chandler) Plumage at...

Cole Keith Moog, age 18, died Tuesday, July 17, 2007, in Havre. Vigil prayers will be 7 p.m. tonight at St. Jude's Catholic Church in Havre. The Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a. m. Saturday at St. Jude's. A memorial luncheon will follow the Mass in the church social hall. Graveside services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Joplin Cemetery. A coffee hour for family and friends will follow at Kjos Hall in Joplin. Cole was born March 1, 1989, in Havre to Daren and Mary Ann (Pimley) Moog. He was the second of three sons...

Rolly Francis Kaufman, 89, a retired rancher and Pearl Harbor survivor of WWII, died peacefully at the home of his son, Gary in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Sunday, July 15, 2007, of natural causes. Funeral services will be 11 a. m., Monday, July 23, at the Adams Memorial Chapel in Malta. Interment will be in the Malta Cemetery with military honors. Rolly was born at Black Coulee on May 5, 1918, to Dean O. and Elsie Kaufman. He attended elementary and high school at Malta, graduating in 1936. While at Malta he was captain of the Mal...

Clarence G. Pursley of Havre, 89, died on July 17, 2007, at a Havre Hospital of natural causes. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, July 23, 2007, at the St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Big Sandy with the Rev. Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial will be at the Big Sandy Cemetery. A luncheon will follow the burial at St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church. Clarence was born on Feb. 23, 1918, at Lostwood, N.D., the son of Joseph and Mary Pursley. At 9 years of age, he moved with his mother and five siblings in...

Ruth W. Christofferson, 93, a retired L.P.N. and a resident of Havre, died Sunday, July 15, 2007, at a Libby Hospital of complications from surgery. The funeral service will be at 2 p. m. Friday, July 20, 2007, at the Assembly of God Church with Pastor Steve Flatau and Norman Christofferson officiating. Her burial will follow at the Highland Cemetery. A luncheon be held at the church immediately after the services at the graveside. Ruth was born on July 6, 1914, at Black Diamond, Alberta, the daughter of Norman and Nellie...

Betty Lou Nelson, 83, a longtime Havre resident died peacefully of natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital on Tuesday, July 10, 2007. An informal celebration of Betty's life will be held at her home at 1229 Cleveland Avenue on Friday at 11:30 a.m. Betty was born on July 19, 1923, in Waubay S.D., the youngest daughter of nineteen children, to John and Lucinda Reed. Betty was raised and schooled in South Dakota. She married Olaf Raymond Nelson in 1947, and they subsequently moved to Montana in 1949. They made their home in...

June Phyllis (Kezar) Johnson, 87, died of natural causes on Monday, July 16, 2007 at Northern Montana Care Center. Her services will be held at 10 a. m. Monday at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church with Pastor Rowlie Hutton officiating. A private family burial will be held at a later date. June was born Jan. 30, 1920, to Lee and Signa (Granell) Kezar in Havre. She was raised in Havre and Kremlin and graduated from Kremlin High School in 1939. She met Norman Johnson at a dance in Kremlin and they were married on June 3, 1939,...

Magdalena Uhlich, 92, died Friday, July 13, 2007 at Northern Montana Care Center due to natural causes. Memorial graveside services will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Harlem Cemetery. Magdalena was born on Oct. 6, 1914 in Drake, N.D. to Reinhold and Margaretha (Horning) Uhlich. The family moved to Harlem when she was young and she worked in the beet fields. Magdalena married Otto Strobel and they later divorced. She moved to California and worked in health care for a number of years. She returned to Harlem in the mid 1980s...

Lucille Frances (Schlack) Stack, 87, died on Saturday, July 7, 2007, of natural causes at the nursing home in Big Sandy. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 14, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Big Sandy. Graveside services will be 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Highland Cemetery in Great Falls. Stack was born in Fort Benton to Big Sandy farmers Fred & Jennie (Enochson) Schlack on September 25, 1919. She was the eldest of three children. Stack received her education through eigth grade at the Mount Vernon Country...

Amos First Raised, Sr., 90, a retired farmer and rancher, died Tuesday, July 10, of natural causes at the Hi-Line Retirement Center in Malta. Wake and Rosary service was at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at the Red Whip Community Center in Fort Belknap. Mass was scheduled for 10 a.m. today at the Red Whip with burial to follow in the Horn Family Cemetery, east of Fort Belknap. First Raised was born in Fort Belknap to Henry and Alice (Gone High) First Raised, Sr. On February 2, 1917. His Indian Name was Apa-eyanga, which means...

Victor Verkuehlen, 93, of Lakeside died Thursday, June 21, 2007. There will be a memorial service on Monday at 11 a.m. at the Lakeside Community Chapel. Victor was born Nov. 7, 1913, in North Dakota and attended high school in Niagara, N.D. He married Ida Crawford in May of 1941. Victor moved to Havre in 1950 and managed a grain elevator. He bought a Minneapolis Moline Dealership in 1952, and purchased the Shanty Motel in 1959, then sold it in 1968. In 1970, he managed Beaver Creek Park in the Bear Paw Mountains south of...

Gwen MacDonald, 92, died Sunday, July 1, 2007, of natural causes in Sacramento. No services are planned. Gwen was born June 4, 1915, in Big Sandy. She led a long and full life. Gwen is preceded in death by her sons, John and Conley. She is survived by her children, Carol (Bob) Erbacher, Mike (Jody) MacDonald, Jean MacDonald and David (Mariann) MacDonald; 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Memorials in the name of Gwen's son, Conley may be sent to the leukemia cancer society. Arraingments are being made by Sierra...

LILLIAN “LIL” KULBECK obituary Lillian Emma (Durand) Kulbeck, 88, died peacefully at the home of her son, Phillip, in Billings on Friday, June 29, 2007. It was Lillian's wish to be cremated. A memorial service will be held at the Big Sandy Lutheran Church at 2 p.m. Friday. Burial of ashes will follow at the Big Sandy Cemetery. Lillian was born Aug. 6, 1918, in Sheridan, Wyo. She was one of four children born to Arnold and Lucienne (Zoutte) Durand. Lillian grew up and received her education in Bozeman, graduating from hig...

Stanley George Chamberlain Sr., 83, longtime Chouteau County resident, died Thursday, July 5, 2007, of natural causes at the Sweet Memorial Nursing Home in Chinook. A public viewing will be held on Tuesday from 5 to 7 p. m. at the Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. His graveside service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Big Sandy Cemetery with a fellowship luncheon to follow at St. Margaret Mary's Catholic Church in Big Sandy. Stan was a native of Minnesota where he worked as a truck driver. Stan served in the Navy during World...

ARIZONA Mildred J. (Wigen) Blackstone, age 89, who lived & worked in Havre for 30 years before retiring to Mesa,ARIZ. Az. In 1965, then moved to the Liberty County Nursing Home in Chester in 1994, died at the rest home of natural causes on August 11, 2006. Graveside services with burial of ashes will be 2:00 p.m. Monday at the Highland Cemetery in Havre. Cremation and arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel of Chester. She is survived by her brother, Robert “Bob” Wigen of Great Falls. She was preceded in death by her hus...

Ardyce (Robison) Swank, age 91, a Chester farm wife & homemaker who moved to Great Falls in 2001 to be closer to her daughters, died May 3rd of natural causes at Benefis East Medical Center in Great Falls. A memorial service with burial of ashes will be at 11 a.m.Tuesday at the Chester Cemetery. Swank is survived by two daughters, Meredith Anderson of Great Falls and Sandra Meech of Ridgecrest, Calif.; son, Terry Swank of Chinook; sister, Nadine Larson of Havre; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. She was...

ARIZONA Mildred J. (Wigen) Blackstone, age 89, who lived & worked in Havre for 30 years before retiring to Mesa,ARIZ. Az. In 1965, then moved to the Liberty County Nursing Home in Chester in 1994, died at the rest home of natural causes on August 11, 2006. Graveside services with burial of ashes will be 2:00 p.m. Monday at the Highland Cemetery in Havre. Cremation and arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel of Chester. She is survived by her brother, Robert “Bob” Wigen of Great Falls. She was preceded in death by her hus...

Lauren Keene (dod Aug. 28, 2006) military memorial service. Military memorial services for the interment of the cremains will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, July 2 at Highland Cemetary in Havre. Lauren Curtiss "Jug" Keene died at age 82. He was born in St. Paul, Minn. To Lauren and Marie (Nelson) Keene on March 6, 1924. He enlistd in the U. S. Army Air Corp Eighth Air Force and servid in World Wal II flying 35 combat missions from England over Europe. He received the Purple Heart and the Air Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters. He...

Robert Everett Bult, Sr. Died on Saturday, June 30, 2007 at Banner Dessert Medical Center. As requested, services will be private for family. Bult was born in Armor, S.D. to Henry and Elvira (Nelson) Bult on Aug. 7, 1928. He moved with his parents to the Wessington Springs area in 1930. He graduated from the Wessington Springs High School in 1946; after which he a t t e n d e d Y a n k t o n College. Bult worked on the family farm until 1951. He was then drafted into the service during the Korean War. Upon being discharge as...

Velma Marguerite Hinebauch Stuber, 76, died Wednesday, June 27, 2007, at her home in Anacortes surrounded by her loving family. Viewing will be Friday from 3 to 9 p.m. at Edwards Funeral Home in Chinook. Services will be 10 a.m. at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church on Saturday. Stuber was born in Eastend, Sask., Canada, to Walter Earl and Martha Marguerite Hinebauch on April 26, 1931. The family moved to the Havre area in 1945 where they settled and farmed. Stuber graduated from Havre High School in 1950. She married Reinhold...