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Ann M. Dohrmann
GLENDIVE – Ann M. Dohrmann, 79, died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000, at the Glendive Medical Center.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Zion Lutheran Church with burial in Dawson Memorial cemetery. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home is in charge.
Antoinette H. Elliott
CODY, Wyo. – Antoinette H. Elliott, 85, died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000, at the Wet Park Long Term Care Center.
Private services will be held Tuesday at Valley cemetery.
Gary LaVern Green
VOLBORG – Gary LaVern Green, 64, died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000, at his home near Volborg.
Visitation will begin Wednesday and a prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, both at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Grace Bible Church with burial in the family lot of the Custer County cemetery.
Donna M. Mueller
SHERIDAN, Wyo. – Donna M. Mueller, 76, died Friday, Sept. 29, 2000, at Westview Health Care Center.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Sheridan Municipal cemetery. Kane Funeral Home is in charge.
Leo Pinnick Sr.
A dear brother, father and grandfather, Leo Pinnick Sr., 82, passed away Friday, Sept. 29, 2000, at the Valley Nursing Home. He had been in poor health for several years.
Survivors include two sons Charles and Leo Jr. and families, daughter Linda and family, a brother Roy and family, and a sister Gladys Rennick and family. Leo was preceded in death by his wife Monyeen, a sister Ruby Jansma and a brother Fred Pinnick.
Leo was born in Edgar, Mont., and moved to Billings as a youngster with his family by covered wagon. As a youth he worked for his father at the City View Dairy. Milking 93 cows, delivering milk by horse and wagon and going to school kept him busy. After graduating from Billings Senior High and working in Colorado, he was called to the Pacific and WW2. Leo received three Purple Hearts with Oak Clusters for his brave participation in battle. Leo returned to Billings and worked for Billings Dairy, Briggs Distributing, and Bench Water. We will miss him, his dry humor and sharp wit.
Mary Z. Skupa
RED LODGE – Mary Z. Skupa, 93, of Red Lodge, died Monday morning, Oct. 2, 2000, in St. Vincent Hospital & Health Center in Billings.
A native of Red Lodge, Mary was born here on June 26, 1907, a daughter of Anthony and Kathryn Whalen Castagne. She was raised and educated in Red Lodge.
During World War II Mary worked for the Office of Price Administration (OPA) enforcing price controls. In Red Lodge she worked as a waitress and cook, at Romersa Drug and at the Ben Franklin Store.
Mary was employed for several years in Yellowstone Park before becoming a house parent at Beta House in Billings. While in Billings she graduated from Acme Beauty College and later operated a beauty salon in Red Lodge.
On Aug. 31, 1951, she married
John Skupa in Columbus. Mr. Skupa died in 1977. She was also preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters; a grandson, Leonard Walker, and a granddaughter, Vickie Hoffman.
Mary was a member of St. Agnes Catholic Church and the American Legion Auxiliary. She enjoyed playing bridge, needlework and crafts, and visiting with her family and friends.
Survivors include two daughters, Marguerite Bottroff and Betty Lindell, both of Laurel; seven grandsons and 17 great-grandchildren.
Vigil services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in St. Agnes Catholic Church. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday in the church. Rite of Committal will follow in the Red Lodge cemetery, with Olcott Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be given to the charity of one’s choice.
Mae ‘Etta’ Strobbe
Mae Strobbe, 96 of Billings, died Sunday Oct. 1, 2000, at Eagle Cliff Manor.
Mae was born March 23, 1904 at Grandin, Mo., to John Riley Helton and Dora Belle Edgmond. She came to Montana with her uncle Bill Edgmond in early 1920, settling in the Huntley Projects.
She met Maurice Strobbe and they were wed Nov. 21, 1921, at St. Patrick’s Co-Cathedral in Billings. They lived on the Huntley Project until 1936 when they moved to the St. Xavier area. They later moved to Shepherd and then the Billings area.
Mae worked at Vaughn Ragsdale, Hart Albin’s, Mildred Hazels and JC Penney as an alteration woman. Sewing, flowers, cards and Bingo were her hobbies, which she really enjoyed. She was a member of the Catholic Church and the Catholic Daughters.
Survivors include five sons, Adolph (Ethel) of Cottageville, W.V., Rudy (Gwen) of Billings, August (Jeanette) of Lewistown, Bob ( Helen) of Philipsburg and Dr. Richard Strobbe of Philadelphia, Pa.; a daughter, Mrs. Joseph (June) Kratochvil of Billings; daughters-in-law, Betty Ann Strobbe of Worden and Dorothy Strobbe of Billings; son-in-law, Jake Soelter of Nev.; a brother, James Helton of Breshear, Mo.; sister, Eunice Allman of Salem, Mo.; sisters-in-law, Elsie Zupan of Ark., Ruby Strobbe of Pompeys Pillar and Ann Walker of Lancaster, Calif.; 28 grandchildren; 51 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; 13 step-great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, brothers Emery and John Helton, sisters Nettie Cross and Iva Enloe Harper, twin sons Harry and Harold Strobbe, daughter Doris Soelter and one grandson Michael Soelter as well as numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Vigil services will be 7 p.m. Wednesday and Funeral Mass 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Bernard’s Parish. Rite of Committal will be 2:30 p.m. at Pleasantview cemetery, Ballantine.
Memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice.
Michelotti, Sawyers & Nordquist has charge of arrangements.
Evelyn Thorson
Evelyn Thorson, 95, of Bilings, formerly of Williston, N.D., passed away Oct. 1, 2000. She is survived by her daughter, Marjorie Sinclair, two granddaughters, Kelly Martinson and Tracy Leiker, a special son-in-law, Clayton Martinson, all of Billings, and one great-grandson, Robert Leiker of Phoenix, Ariz.
Julia J. Vermandel
Julia J. Vermandel, 89, died Saturday evening, Sept. 30, 2000, at Aspen Meadows of natural causes. Julia was born April 11, 1911, in Aspelare, Belgium, to Henry and Sophie DeNeve.
Julia moved to United States with her family at the age of four. They came directly from Ellis Island, N.Y., to homestead at Pompeys Pillar, Mont.
Julia married
Major Vermandel Nov. 28, 1931, and moved to a ranch southeast of Billings where they raised their family of four girls.
Julia was member of the Catholic Church. She devoted her life to her family by raising her brothers after her mother died, raising her own family and then helping raise her grandchildren. She loved to cook, go to church and especially enjoyed music, singing, iris flowers and yellow rose bushes.
Her husband, Major, and daughter, Bonnie, precede Julia in death. Surviving members of her family include three daughters, Virginia George, Irene Atraqchi and Genevieve Dilley and husbands, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Vigil services will be held at Smith’ s Downtown Mortuary at 7:30 Tuesday, Oct. 3. A funeral mass will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Cyril & Methodius Church at Ballantine. Visitation will be held Tuesday, Oct. 3. Burial will be in the Pleasantview cemetery.
Floyd Borntrager
GLENDIVE – Floyd Borntrager, 91, died Saturday, Sept. 30, 2000, at the Glendive Medical Center Extended Care.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, at the Red Top Mennonite Church in Bloomfield with burial in the Red Top Mennonite cemetery east of Bloomfield. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home is in charge.
Eva Bumgardner
MILES CITY – Eva Bumgardner, 79, died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000, at Holy Rosary Health Center.
Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home with burial in Custer County cemetery.
Robert F. Cullison
MANDERSON, Wyo. – Robert F. Cullison, 72, died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2000, at Washakie Medical Center in Worland of a heart attack.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Hyattville School. Cremation will follow. Veile Mortuary in Worland is in charge.
Mary Elizabeth Dunphy
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Mary Elizabeth Dunphy, 79, died in Las Vegas, on Monday, Oct. 2, 2000, after a brief illness. The daughter of Thomas and Ann Gallagher, Mary was born in Bangor, Maine, July 9, 1921. She married
James T. Dunphy Jr. of Providence, R.I., in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1943. After a brief stint in the Navy during World War II, James and Mary headed west; first to the oil fields of Wyoming and then in 1949 to Billings, when the Continental Oil Refinery became operational.
During the 1950s and ’60s, they raised their family of seven children in Billings and were particularly involved in St. Pius X parish activities, Democratic Party activities and union work. Mary was a very busy mother with two sets of twins. She was an accomplished homemaker, seamstress, knitter and cook.
A change of jobs took James, Mary and family to Boulder City, Nev., in 1969.
Survivors include her daughter Mary Catherine Dunphy of Miles City, Mont.; daughter Jeanne Ensign and husband John and grandchildren Audrey and James of Miles City; daughter Connie Dunphy and husband Rick Fredericksen of Anchorage, Alaska; daughter Janice Calixto and husband Fidel and grandson Joseph Palmieri of Las Vegas, and James T. Dunphy III of Boulder City.
Mary was preceded in death by her husband of 29 years in 1973. Mary was also preceded in death by two of her daughters Caroline (1959) and Theresa (1996). Mary was married
to George Kimmet of New Mexico in 1986 through 1994.
Cremation has taken place and a funeral mass will be held on at 1 p.m. Oct. 5 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, 1811 Pueblo Vista Drive, Las Vegas. In lieu of flowers, please send memorials in Mary’s memory to St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, P.O. Box 60100, Boulder City, NV, 89006-0100.
Cordie F. Granlie
GLENDIVE – Cordie F. (Steelman) Granlie, 73, died Monday in a Great Falls hospital.
Cremation has taken place. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Zion Lutheran Church in Glendive. O’Connor Funeral Home in Great Falls is in charge.
William S. ‘Bill’ Hart Sr.
William S. Hart Sr., 62, of Billings, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000. William was born on Dec. 22, 1937, to George and Lydia Reiter Hart. He was raised south of Laurel and attended Byam and Laurel schools.
In 1954 he moved to Laurel with his family. He and his father were engaged in ranching at Ryegate. In 1957 he moved with his family to the ranch southeast of Laurel, where he lived until 1989. He also was in the trucking business while on the ranch. William married
Ellen Gail Messerly on June 12, 1967, in Lodge Pole, Mont. There were five children born to this union. William was employed with G.D. Eastlick, Drivers Services (beet hauling), Timberweld and presently employed with Gary Printz of Livingston for the last six years.
Bill is survived by his wife Gail; five children, Bill Jr. (Dilene) Hart and their children Brittany and Isaac of Lake City, Fla., Dolly (Troy) Darkenwald and their children, Joey and Jesse of Park City, Lisa (Kent) Mende and their children Calvin, Corben, Connor and Carley of Billings, George (Shona) Hart and their children, Heather, Brandi and Tyla, of Laurel, and Shawn of the family home in Billings; a brother Tom (Pat) Hart of Laurel, and a sister Darlene Hart Kohl of Billings. He is preceded in death by his grandparents and his parents.
His grandchildren brought him much joy and happiness; they lovingly called him Poppo!
“Dad, words can’t say how much you’ll be missed. We will always love you and remember how you loved us.”
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 6, at Smith’s West Chapel, 304-34th St. W. Visitations will start 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Helen B. Johnson
SHERIDAN, Wyo. – Helen B. Johnson, 82, died Thursday, Sept. 28, 2000, at Westview Nursing Home.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Champion Funeral Home with burial in the Odd Fellows section of Sheridan Municipal cemetery.
