DWIGHT HARSHMAN obituary

Dwight Harshman, 90, longtime

Montana Methodist minister,

died Monday, June 12, 2006,

at Northern Montana Hospital

due to natural causes.

A memorial service will be

held at 2

p.m.

Tuesday in

Van Orsdel

United

Methodist

Church.

Dwight

was born at

Flora, Ind.,

April 3, 1916,

to Albert

and Anna

(Brovont)

Harshman.

The Harshman family moved to

Montana the fall of 1927, and

lived in Chinook, except for two

summers and one winter.

Dwight finished grade school in

Chinook, and graduated from

high school in 1935. During his

high school years, Dwight

worked on farms in the Chinook

area, and then in W.H.

Campfields Grocery-Clothing

store, and later at Ed's Food

Store.

Dwight and Beth Cromley

married July 27, 1941, and took

an apartment in Chinook. He

was drafted for military service

Sept. 14, 1942, and was discharged

at Camp McCoy, Wis.,

on March 23, 1946. He served

with a medical detachment near

San Antonio, Texas, in A Co.

311th Infantry Regiment, the

78th “Lightening” Division, in

the Rhineland of Central

Europe.

He graduated from Northern

Montana College in 1948, and

Rocky Mountain College in

Billings in 1950. He attended Iliff

School of Theology in Denver

from 1950 to 1953, graduating

with a master of theology

degree. He remained at Iliff one

more year in graduate study.

Dwight served the Methodist

Church at Parker, Colo., then in

Montana at Billings Grace,

Glasgow-Opheim, Lewistown-

Winifred, Sidney and Geraldine.

He retired at Geraldine the end

of June 1981. He and Beth then

moved to their home south of

Lakeside. On June 14, 1990, they

moved to Eagles Manor in

Havre.

Dwight was preceded in

death by his brothers, Vernon,

Herbert and Burvil; and sisters,

Zelpha Weidner, Helen Easbey,

Gladys Daugherty and Mildred

McIntyre.

Survivors include his wife,

Beth Harshman, of Havre; son,

Dallyn Harshman of Austin,

Texas; daughters, Wilda Reyes

of Bastrop, Texas, Deborah

Harshman of Longbeach, Calif.,

and Kaoni Miller of Austin,

Texas; brothers, Clark

Harshman of Great Falls,

Maurice and Donald Harshman,

both of Chinook; sister, Miriam

Tucker of Great Falls; 11 grandchildren;

and 12 great-grandchildren.

Arrangements are by

Edwards Funeral Home of

Chinook.