Obituary - Lea Ann Salomon Larson

Lea Ann Salomon Larson was born on March 10, 1966, a little tow-headed girl to Raymond and Darleen Salomon.  She attended Pablo grade school and the Ronan school district. She joined the Pablo Pine Needles 4-H club when she turned 9.  After graduating from Ronan High School, she attended Dawson Community College, where she completed an associate's degree in agricultural business and met her husband Edward Larson.  The two married Aug. 31, 1986, in Ronan, Montana.  She was blessed with a daughter, Patricia, and two sons, Stephen and Thomas.  The family settled in Helena, Montana, for 19 years. There she raised her family, was active in the school system, the Red Cross, National Grange and introduced her children to 4-H.   Through the 4-H she touched countless people's lives as a leader.  In 2010, Lea Ann went back to college at Montana State University in Bozeman to get her bachelor's degree in agricultural education.  She became a county extension agent in Hill County, Montana, fulfilling one of her life-long dreams. In 2012, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She continued to work as an extension agent in Hill County until she passed away on Jan. 27, 2015, in Billings, Montana.  She went to our Lord peacefully in the early afternoon surrounded by her family and friends. She is remembered as a loving and dedicated wife, mother, sister and daughter.

She showed us that family is not just your immediate family, but is meant to be the entire community you belong to. She was dedicated to serving the community she lived in and always strove to improve it any chance she saw.  She was particularly focused on childhood development and truly understood what it meant to be a mother, how to connect with children and helping them succeed in new ways. She never saw any obstacle as too large or too intimidating to overcome.

 In everything she did, she did it with passion, conviction and love.