Raymond Robert Sorenson

COLUMBIA FALLS — Raymond Robert Sorenson was born in Malta on Dec. 9, 1940 to Richard R. and Mary Craft Sorenson and died on April 20, 2020. He went to school in Malta until he was fifteen years old and then left home with suitcase in hand and traveled west to Columbia Falls where he lived with extended family, John and Lola Craft. After a short stay with them, he was on the road again. He worked as a “gandy dancer” on the railroad and a carnie for Oakey Norton shows and traveled from Montana to Mexico and back by the time he was eighteen years old.

At the age of twenty-one he joined...