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Lloyd Frank "Crickett" Crowder, age 58, passed away on March 2, 2023, at Big Sandy Medical Center from cancer. Crickett was born May 21, 1964, to Allan J. and Rhoda (French) Crowder. He was the seventh of nine children. Crickett attended school in...

Norma Jean (Opp) Petersen was born in Hebron, ND on November 23rd , 1934 to Simon and Marie (Ketterling) Opp. She grew up on the family farm, south of Hebron. Norma graduated from High School in 1952, and started teaching in a rural school that...

Robert J. Schlieve went to be with the Lord on February 16, 2023, in Yuma, AZ, after a stroke. Born October 19, 1933, in Malta, MT, to Art and Etta Schlieve. Bob attended Malta and Whitewater schools, graduating from Whitewater, MT. Bob married...

Cleo May Phillips, 83, passed away at Phillips County Hospital Wednesday, February 22, 2023. Wilderness Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. A celebration of Cleo’s life will take place at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in...

Irene Alice (Kalkman) Stout was born Feb. 21, 1927, in her folks' home 10 miles South of Climax, Sask. She and her sister Ethel went to school about four miles from home until her folks moved to Turner, MT in 1939. They then graduated from Turner Sch...

Anna Mae Lundstrom "Nan," age 68, passed away Thursday, December 15, 2022. Anna and Carl "Buddy" Lundstrom were married in April of 2007 and were looking forward to exploring life together. In 2013, Anna was diagnosed with small lung cancer and went...

Harvey W. Smith, 93, a retired farmer passed away on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow, MT, of natural causes. Harvey was born on September 10, 1929, to William John "Jack" and Edna Fry Smith. He was raised on his...

Donna Lee Dyrdahl passed away unexpectedly at her home on January 18th, 2023. Born in Deming, New Mexico to Arvid Dyrdahl (Steele County, Minnesota) and Lora McNeil Dyrdahl (Lockridge, Oklahoma) on September 28th, 1943. She was baptized June 9th,...

Eugene "Gene" Lewis Mendel was born to William and Alvina Mendel on November 8, 1925, and he passed on January 15, 2023. He was one of six children and lived on the family homestead in Winifred until his senior year of high school when the family...

Janice Rene Holzhey Abrahamson, 62, passed away quietly on January 21, 2023, at the Billings Clinic. Janice was born on August 23, 1960, to Raymond Don and Delores Diane Holzhey. She was their anniversary baby. Janice attended Sun Prairie School and...

On June 27, 1976, the biggest Dallas Cowboys fan entered the world at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls SD. After graduating from Shenandoah High School in 1994, Janelle lived in New York and Arizona before settling in Council Bluffs where she...

Travis Mitchell Scheffelmaer, 26, passed away on January 11, 2023. A service will be held on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 11 a.m. at the Wilderness Funeral Home in Malta, MT. The services will be followed by a graveside service in Dodson and...

Betty L. Munson, age 90, passed away on Sunday, January 15, 2023, at Northern Montana Care Center in Havre, MT. She was born October 27, 1932, in Culbertson, MT to William Schwenke and Theresa Mischke Schwenke. She still enjoyed doing meal making...

Darlene Fay Flesche, 77, of Malta passed away peacefully on Monday, January 2nd, 2023, at her son's home in Hamilton, Montana. Born July 16th, 1945, Mom spent her entire life in Malta, working many different jobs. She worked at the local Gambles...

Anneliese Harms Moore, age 86 passed away at the Logan Health Care Center-Shelby on January 1st, 2023, of natural causes. Cremation has taken place and a graveside service will take place at the Malta cemetery in early summer when the flowers are in...

Robert (Bob) White passed away at the age of 85 after a long battle with Alzheimer's Dementia. He passed away with his loving family, his wife of 42 years, Felicitas (Fritzy) White, daughters, Jody Popejoy and Sierra White, by his side. His...

Marilyn (Sweetie) Stolem Mattfeldt became our guardian angel on January 2nd, 2023. She left this world from the Malta Hospital of natural causes. Sweetie was born in Glasgow, MT in 1941 and was raised on the family farm in Hinsdale, MT, a place her...

Louise Ann (Halverson) Uphaus died on December 20, 2022, at home with her husband, Bill, at her side. Louise was born in Hamilton, Montana on December 6, 1937, to Irvin and Ann (Schilke) Halverson. The oldest of three, she was raised on the family...

MALTA – Darlene Fay Flesche, 77, of Malta passed away peacefully on Monday January 2nd, 2023 at her son's home in Hamilton, Montana. Born July 16th, 1945, Mom spent her entire life in Malta, working many different jobs. She worked at the local...

Beatrice Louise "Bea" Kruse, age 62, of Polson, Montana, passed away on Monday, November 28, 2022, at St. Luke Hospital surrounded by her family. She was born on October 25, 1960, in Glasgow, Montana, the daughter of Francis and Belva (Emeline) Morin...

Barbara Ann Messerly Cebulski, 91, of Seeley Lake, passed away on Sunday, November 13, 2022, at her home in Seeley Lake. Barbara was born on July 8, 1931, the first of ten born at the family ranch house on Beaver Creek, near Zortman to Pete Messerly...

Georgene Ann Robison of Great Falls passed away on November 16, 2022, at the age of 76. She was born on August 28, 1946, to Dorothy C. and Everett A. Hanson. She attended Saco High School and Montana State University where she received her...

William J. Crowder (Bill), 88, passed away on November 10, 2022, at St. Vincent Hospital, in Billings, MT. A Celebration of Life will be held later in the spring of 2023. Bill was born on December 24th, 1933, in Fourchette Creek to Earl and Pauline...