Clarence Russel Blunt

Clarence Russel Blunt Phillips County has lost the last member of a pioneer family. Clarence Russel Blunt, 89, died November 24, 2020, of natural causes complicated by the COVID-19 virus. He was born July 27, 1931, on the Blunt homestead in Regina, Montana, to parents Alfred F. Blunt and Pansy Robinson McNeil. He joined four older McNeil half-sisters: Laura (Dyrdahl), Nina (Brundage), Velma (Bean) and Dorothy, who had lost their father and two uncles to the flu pandemic of 1918. The family grew to include the four Blunt children, Grace (Helman), Marie (Wasson), Alfred F. Blunt, Jr., and...