Dedication honoring Hagener set for Tuesday

Press release

In honor of Antoinette “Toni” Hagener, Bullhook Blossoms Garden Club is holding a dedication ceremony Tuesday at 2 p.m. by the sundial, plaque and bench in front of Hagener Science Center on the Montana State University-Northern campus.

Hagener, a charter member of Bullhook Blossoms, arrived in Havre in 1948 with her husband, longtime Northern science professor Lou Hagener, and became an active member of the community as well as a scientist in her own right. She served on the Hill County Commission and in the state Legislature and was active in many groups and volunteered for events for most of her life before dying in March 2017.

A plaque and bench area on the south entrance to Hagener Science Center in honor of Lou Hagener, also a longtime advocate of the sciences and history at Northern Montana College, now MSU-N, is also nearby for viewing.

The public is invited to attend with refreshments and a viewing of the Hagener Artifacts Museum at Northern’s Vande Bogart Library following.