Obituaries

Sep 11, 2017

The Life of a most Gracious Lady

Shirley May Burton was born at home on May 19th, 1934 in the small, Montana town of Musselshell. Due to an unfortunate bout of scarletina, Lorene Burton was asked not to come to the hospital in Roundup and was, instead, met at home by the local doctor for Shirley’s delivery....

Sep 8, 2017

Mary T. Duenow passed away peacefully on the morning of Sept. 2, 2017, after a rapid decline in health caused by a rare and fatal condition called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Mary was born to Bill and Agnes Kisling on Dec. 9, 1940, in Hutchinson, Minnesota, the youngest of six children. She graduated from Hutchinson High School. She married...

Sep 6, 2017

JoAnn (Taylor) Driscoll, age 73, passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 3, 2017. JoAnn was born in Ephrata, WA on October 19, 1943 to Duane and Catherine (Lynch) Taylor. She attended elementary school in Connell, WA and graduated from Walla Walla High School in 1961. She attended Washington State University and completed Seattle Dental Assistants Technicians School in 1962....

Aug 31, 2017

In the late evening of Aug. 29, 2017, our loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother peacefully passed away. Evelyn J. Funk was born Dec. 30, 1930, and raised on the family farm west of Billings. The daughter of George and Eva Staley, she was also sister to Helen, Lil, George and Harry.

Evelyn attended both Elder Grove and...

Aug 30, 2017

Marge was born on March 17, 1933, to Edward and Maria (Schutz) Kraft in Beulah, North Dakota. Marge was the youngest of seven children. Her parents moved to the St. Xavier, Montana area, where Marge grew up and attended school.

While attending confirmation, Marge met the man who would become her husband: Albert "Al" Schmidt. They were...

Aug 30, 2017

Jeffrey James Grenfell, born Dec. 26, 1969, in Iron Mountain, Michigan, to Tom and Irene Grenfell, went to be with Jesus and the angels on Aug. 23, 2017.

Jeff grew up in Michigan and, shortly after high school, moved to Montana to be with his sister and her family. He loved his nieces very much.

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Aug 29, 2017

Irene L. Deines passed from this life on Aug. 26, 2017, in Billings. She was born on April 29, 1921, in Logan County, North Dakota, the second of six children. Her parents, John and Matilda Lachenmeier, moved the family to Hardin in 1931.

Irene farmed and ranched her entire life, starting with hoeing beats 12 hours a...

Aug 26, 2017

LAUREL - Thomas William Prill, 79, of Laurel, passed away Aug. 23, 2017. He was born March 14, 1938 in Jamestown, North Dakota, to George and Viola Prill. He served in the United States Air Force in the Air Police, Canine unit, stationed in Étain, France and Aviano, Italy, and was honorably discharged in 1960. He earned a degree...

Aug 24, 2017

Sophia P. Smith, 103, of Billings, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017.

Sophia was the youngest child of the late Alexander and Dora Poblieski. She was born in Anaconda in 1914. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to Great Falls. Sophia lived there until she moved to Billings in 1942, where she worked as a hairdresser until...

Aug 24, 2017

Our beautiful angel, Olivia Renee Johnson, joined her grandmother Gwenda Heimbichner and her grandfather Thomas Johnson in heaven on Aug. 17, 2017, at 4:21 p.m. She was born absolutely perfect at 7 ounces and 8 1/2 inches long. She was born surrounded by family with so much love and support.

Olivia is survived by her father, Brett...

Aug 23, 2017

Esther Rose Hegel, of Billings, passed away on Aug. 19, 2017, at the age of 86.

Esther was born in Billings on Oct. 12, 1930, to John and Lydia Uhrich of Acton. She graduated from Billings Senior High in 1948. She married Vally Hegel on Jan. 25, 1949. She worked at the JC Penney store in Billings...

Aug 23, 2017

Dorothy Irene (Carter) Stieg passed away at the Valley Healthcare Center in Billings on July 5, 2017. Dorothy was born on April 2, 1940, in Belle Fourche, SD. She lived with her parents, Ethan and Mary Carter, and her sister, Jane, at her parents' ranch in the Long Pines of Carter County. Dorothy had fond memories of growing up...

Aug 21, 2017

Surrounded by her loving family, Shelly Rae Hjelvik Link passed peacefully from this life on Aug. 17, 2017, at Billings Clinic. Although blessed with excellent health and having no symptoms of illness, 13 days after complaining of a headache, she was overtaken by Stage IV Melanoma.

Shelly met the love of her life, John G. Link IV,...

Aug 21, 2017

Melvin P. Johnson, 96, of Vida, passed away Aug. 21, 2017, at Billings Clinic Hospital. He was born April 21, 1921, in Vida, the third child of M. Pete and Minnie Johnson.

Melvin attended Rose Valley Elementary School and had a heart and love for farming and ranching that actually began in eighth grade. Melvin noted that,...

Aug 21, 2017

Theresa "Terry" McGlinchey Berlinger was born to James and Hannah McGlinchey in Glencolmcille, County Donegal, Ireland, on April 25, 1933. She came from a family of eight girls and four boys.

Theresa came to the United States on June 18, 1953, and worked in New York until coming to Montana in August 1954. While in Montana, she...

Aug 19, 2017

Liam Tiberius Fullington came into this world an angel on August 19, 2017. He is survived by his mother, father, brother, sister and grandparents. Liam was an amazing little boy. For the 37 ½ weeks he was with us he connected us to so many people. His loss is not solely ours; it has reverberated within our family both...

Aug 18, 2017

Judge Robert Walter Holmstrom, 89, died Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, at his home in Billings, following a fall. He was born on March 29, 1928, in Garden City, Kansas, the son of Walter and Martha Holmstrom. He attended a one-room country school near Red Oak, Iowa, for six years, then completed grade school and high school in Redmond, Oregon,...

Aug 15, 2017

Angela Helen Lucien, 67, passed away suddenly from a heart attack at her home in Fort Myers, Florida on Aug. 15, 2017. Born Jan. 10, 1950, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings, to the late Kenneth P. Lucien, Sr. and Mary Jeanne Lucien, she was their first daughter and second of three children. Angela "Angie" grew up in Billings...

Aug 14, 2017

Georgia Ann Tuss, age 83, of Billings passed away August 4, 2017 at St. John's Lutheran Home. She was born to Mary Biegler Rose (deceased) and Dwight "Bud" Rose (deceased) on November 30, 1933 in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She married Bernard "Bernie" Tuss (deceased) on September 16, 1955 in Moore, Montana. Georgia grew up in Lewistown with her family...

Aug 14, 2017

"My Mother…she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her." - Jodi Picoult

Janice Hale White lost her short battle with cancer early in the morning on Saturday, August 12, 2017. She left us the way she lived, with courage, fight...