Eunice Luetta (Jacobs) Eckhart
Dec 18, 2022
Eunice Luetta (Jacobs) Eckhart was born on November 5, 1923, on the family homestead north of Vida, Montana. She was the second child born to Leonard and Luetta Jacobs. Her mother, Luetta, died 15 days after her birth from complications. She was raised in Vida, attending school at Hillcrest District 56. She dropped out of High School after the...
Helen Blomberg
Dec 14, 2022
Helen Nottingham Blomberg, 101 3/4, was born in Great Falls MT on March 4th, 1921, and was raised on a ranch in the Highwood Mountains. She passed away on December 14, 2022, in Great Falls, MT. She was the last surviving child of Orris and Ollie Nottingham and cattle rancher in the Highwood Mountains.
Helen started her...
Eileen Jeanne Nelson
Dec 11, 2022
Eileen Jeanne Nelson passed into her loving Heavenly Father’s arms on December 11, 2022.
Eileen was born to Flora (Pluhar) Ackerman and Gustav Ackerman on January 10, 1930, in Miles City, Montana. Eileen spent her growing up years with her parents and younger siblings, Gloria and Charles, in eastern Montana around her grandparent’s home outside of Cohagen,...
Eva M. Riddle
Dec 10, 2022
Eva M. Riddle, aged 88, passed away peacefully on Saturday afternoon, December 10, 2022, at her daughter’s residence in Great Falls, where she has resided since August of 2019.
Eva Marie was born on July 1, 1934, in Rock Springs, Wyoming, the oldest daughter of six children born to Emil “Michael” and Anna (Soltis) Balen. Her father...
Richard James Larson
Dec 10, 2022
Richard James Larson was born on March 2, 1941. He was the second son of Arthur James and Mary Ann (Enott) Larson. His Parents and older brother, Arthur have preceded him in death. He is survived by his youngest brother, John, and his wife Leann Larson.
Richard was known to most as Dick. He was a bright...
Clifford P. Baird
Dec 9, 2022
Clifford P. Baird, Jr., 82, died on December 9, 2022, of natural causes surrounded by family. A funeral service with military honors will be Saturday, January 7, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at the Church of the Incarnation (600 3rd Ave. N.) Cliff’s cremains are to be interred at the church’s columbarium and also at Highland Cemetery in the veterans’...
Tristan Edward Mayfair
Dec 8, 2022
Tristan Edward Mayfair was born in Plains, MT on March 3, 2003. He graduated from Charles M. Russell High School with a college welding certificate. He also attended Toole County High School in Sunburst, MT. Tristan worked at Home Depot for a while, but he was putting all his effort into enlisting in the Army.
He was...
Ruth Mary Mcclain
Dec 7, 2022
Ruth Mary McClain passed away on December 7, 2022, at the age of 84. She was born on August 28, 1938, to Harold and Marian Acord in Great Falls, MT.
Ruth graduated from Great Falls High School and married Harold McClain in 1956. They had three children. She worked at Wipple’s Hallmark Shop in the mall for...
John Philip Carlson
Dec 5, 2022
John Philip Carlson, 96, of Great Falls, passed away Monday, December 5, 2022, at Benefis Hospital.
John was born January 28, 1926, at St. Joseph Hospital in Lewistown to Alfred and Hallie Carlson, who ranched eleven miles north of Stanford. Raised on the ranch, he attended grade school at Arrow Creek. During the Great Depression, the Carlsons...
John Philip Carlson
Dec 5, 2022
A celebration of life for John Philip Carlson will take place at the Schnider Funeral Home Hospitality Room on June 17, 2023, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (1510 13th Street South in Great Falls).
Elijah Dewolfe Brown
Dec 4, 2022
Elijah DeWolfe Brown was born August 30, 2022, to Quentin Brown and Marlene Blackman. He loved being loved by his sister Aiyanna. He had the cutest little smile and chubby cheeks. He was adored by his Grandmas Chari Littledog and Toni Matt. His favorite thing to do was have a full bottle of milk and lay on his mother’s...
Kathleen Karmen Jurich
Dec 3, 2022
Kathleen Karmen Jurich, aged 63, passed away on December 3, 2022, at the Montana State Nursing Home in Lewistown.
Born in Great Falls on September 29, 1959, to Frank and Darlene Jurich, she was the third of six children and first girl in the family. Kathleen was a beautiful and complex person who...
Richard Alan Barwick
Nov 30, 2022
Heaven gained another angel on November 30, 2022. Richard Alan Barwick “Rick,” 72, of Great Falls, MT was born on August 25, 1950, to Richard and Bernadette Barwick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and destined to be a dedicated lifelong “Cheesehead” fan. In his early years, Rick owned his own gas station in Wisconsin and later decided to enlist in the...
Shelley M. Olson
Nov 30, 2022
Our amazing mother, Shelley M. Olson, of Great Falls passed away peacefully on November 30, 2022, at Peace Hospice surrounded by her loving family. While we believed cancer would take her from us, she fell and passed due to complications from that fall.
Shelley was born on October 5, 1950, in Tacoma, WA to Mason and Helen...
Louise Faye Osterman
Nov 30, 2022
Louise Faye Osterman, aged 77, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, in her home in Monarch with her husband by her side. She was born August 30, 1945, in Rolla, North Dakota to Paul and Nellie (Evans) Byre. She was the 5th of 8 children. She graduated from Kramer High School in 1963, moved to Great Falls,...
Dean Farmer Young
Nov 27, 2022
On November 27, 2022, a great lady of 95 years passed away. Dean Farmer Young was born in Highwood, MT along with her twin sister Norma on May 3, 1927, to Frank and Lora Farmer. The twins began their life together, warming on the oven door. It would be the beginning of a lifelong bond between the sisters. Dean...
Virginia "Missie" Gray
Nov 27, 2022
Virginia Beth Spitzer was born on February 4, 1930, in Great Falls MT to Eunice L. and Earl W. Spitzer. Her early years before starting school were spent with her grandparents and brother on a small ranch at Elk Creek near Augusta, Montana. She learned to ride horses and enjoy the mountains. She attended Great Falls Schools and graduated...
Larry Wayne Wolfe
Nov 27, 2022
Larry Wayne Wolfe, 83, passed away peacefully at Benefis on November 27, 2022.
Larry was born on October 12, 1939, in Columbia City, Indiana to Henry and Thelma Wolfe. Larry married his everlasting love, Pauline Rubrake, on October 22, 1960, the day before he shipped out to join the Air Force for 23 years. Larry was a...
Julie Ann (O'Rourke) Broxholm
Nov 26, 2022
Julie Ann (O'Rourke) Broxholm, 73, of Great Falls, MT, passed away on November 26, 2022.
Julie was born in Butte, Montana, on May 19, 1949, to James (Seamus) and Rita O'Rourke. She was raised in Great Falls with her siblings, Jim, Carol, John, and Danny. She was a proud graduate of Central Catholic High School, where she...
Sharon Hurley Fox
Nov 25, 2022
Sharon Hurley Fox passed on November 25, 2022, in Great Falls Montana. Sharon was born on March 15, 1950, in New York City, New York. She graduated from CMR High School in 1967, then graduated from the College of Great Falls in 1974 with a degree in Elementary Education. She was a member of the Great Falls Art Association...
