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Clarence "Bisco" Spotted Wolf
Funeral services for Clarence “Bisco” Spotted Wolf were Monday morning, July 11, 2011, at St. Labre School with interment in the St. Labre cemetery in Ashland.
Arrangements were in the care of Dahl Funeral Chapel.
Mr. Spotted Wolf died quietly at the home of his daughter, Jean and Larry Emmons in Billings, on Wednesday, July 6, 2011.
He was a long time rancher in the Ashland community. He worked for the KP Ranch in Sheridan, Wyo., and toured the rodeo circuit during the early years of his life.
Mr. Spotted Wolf and his wife, Adeline, had one daughter by marriage, Jean Marie Spotted Wolf Emmons, who has two daughters, Candy and Marlyss Gordan. They also have six great-grandchildren, Michael Gordan, CJ Gordan, Olivia, Laurence, Patrick and Vivian Mae Seminol. Mr. Spotted Wolf and his wife also raised Pam for 15 years and she has a daughter, Andrea and son, Matthew Feliz.
Mr. Spotted Wolf worked at St. Labre Indian Mission as a maintenance worker for a number of years. He had a passion for the Northern Cheyenne tradition, which he spoke of to family, friends and acquaintances.
Mr. Spotted Wolf was preceded in death by his wife, Adeline, of 66 years; and his grandson, C.R. Stewart, whom the couple raised his whole life.
Melow Worel
Word has been received of the death of Melow Worel, 85, of Regina, Saskatchewan, brother of Lillian Gierke of Miles City.
He died Monday, July 11, 2011.
Funeral services are pending in Canada.
Lois Irene Kuhn
Word has been received of the death of Lois Irene Kuhn, 82, of Forsyth on Monday, July 11, 2011, in Miles City.
Cremation has taken place.
Private family services will be held at a later date.
Bernice O. Sickler
Bernice O. Sickler, 87, of Billings, formerly of Miles City, passed away July 6, 2011 in Billings.
She was born Nov. 24, 1923 in Forsyth, the daughter of Link and Bess Anshutz Taylor.
The third of four children, she grew up and received her education in Colstrip, graduating from Colstrip High School in 1941. Following her education, she lived and worked in the Colstrip area, until moving to Miles City in 1948.
Bernice married
John Olson Jr. on April 4, 1953 in Miles City, where the couple made their home until his passing in 1985.
She married
Phil A. Sickler on Aug. 12, 1988 in Miles City. The couple then made their home in Billings. Phil and a stepdaughter, Sandra Humphrey, preceded Bernice in death.
Bernice was a member of the Eagles and VFW Auxiliaries. She enjoyed drawing, painting, the needle arts, and had assembled numerous collections of antique bottles and other items, which gave her great joy when sharing their history with others.
Her brothers, Kenneth Taylor of Helena, Harold “Hoot” Taylor of Jerome, ID, her sister, Hazel Alice Ellison, of Livingston, and her parents who were early southeastern Montana homesteaders also preceded her in death.
Survivors include her nephew, Larry (Linda) Ellison of Bozeman, her niece, Adair (Jim) Speer, of Alliance, NE, and their families, as well as stepson Clay Sickler and stepdaughter, Diane Larson of Billings and their families.
Family and friends will gather at the Miles City Bullis-Graves Memorial Chapel at 11:30 a.m. Monday July 11th and proceed to the Custer County cemetery for interment.
Bullis-Graves Memorial Chapel of Miles City has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Angelo Chris Sakelaris
Angelo Chris Sakelaris, 93, of Miles City died Thursday, June 30, 2011, at Friendship Villa.
Mr. Sakelaris was born on Feb. 17, 1918, at Crow’s Maternity Home in Roundup, the son of Chris and Hazel Didelot Sakelaris. He grew up and attended school in Lavina before moving to Ismay in 1930. He and his brother, Harry, worked at the Met Café in Miles City as young boys.
In 1935, Mr. Sakelaris started working for the Milwaukee Railroad as a sectionman at Ismay.
He and Lurenne V. Egeland were married
on Feb. 18, 1939, in Miles City, and from this union two daughters were born, Linda Lorene and Patricia Angela.
In 1956, Mr. Sakelaris and his family moved to Ryegate where he continued to work for the Milwaukee Railroad until his retirement in 1978. After retiring, he enjoyed going camping and fishing with family and friends.
In 1992, Mr. and Mrs. Sakelaris moved to Miles City.
Mr. Sakelaris is survived by his daughter, Pat Sakelaris of Miles City, and his nephews and niece, Alvin (Sandy) Smith of Parkman, Wyo., Chris (Shirley) Sakelaris of Baker, Ed (Loree) Cumming of Columbia, and Jewell Doty of Lolo.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Harry and George; a sister, Hazel; his wife, Lurenne in 1996; and a daughter, Linda in 2011.
A graveside service will be held on Thursday, July 14, 2011, at 1 p.m. at the Lavina cemetery.
Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home of Miles City has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Fred Martin Nordahl
Fred Martin Nordahl, 86, of the Lower Musselshell River, Winnett and Jordan area died Thursday, June 9, 2011, at the Garfield County Health Center in Jordan.
Mr. Nordahl was born to Knute and Pearl Gibson Nordahl on Jan. 9, 1925, at Melstone. His grade school years were spent at the little country school of Ross. He started his first year of high school in Winnett, but soon quit to go back to help on the family ranch.
He lived almost all his entire life along Calf Creek near the mouth of the Musselshell River. Mr. Nordahl grew up on his parents’ ranch helping them through the years, later taking it over. Growing alfalfa seed and hay along with raising cattle and horses.
Mr. Nordahl enjoyed fishing, hunting, riding, music, dancing, working on the ranch and just being home, playing cards or cribbage, with family and friends.
For only a brief time was Mr. Nordahl was away from his beloved Lower Musselshell Valley area.
On June 22, 1944, he was inducted into the United States Armed Service during World War II, spending his boot camp time at Fort Douglas, Utah. PFC Fred Nordahl served in the 11th Armored Tank Battalion as a Medium Tank Crewman under the command of General George A. Patton, landing on foreign soil the day of his 20th birthday, Jan. 9, 1945. He was an expert rifleman on an M-1 Carbine.
Battles and Campaigns were served at Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe, mainly Austria, earning him decorations and citations, those being the American Theater Operations, and European African Middle Eastern Service ribbons as well as the Good Conduct, Victory and German Occupation medals. Upon being discharged from the Army, and returning home, Mr. Nordahl mentioned “he would not care if he never left the mouth of Calf Creek on the Musselshell River again, ” which he seldom did.
In 1991, Mr. Nordahl moved to his cabin in the hills of the family ranch. In 2007, he moved to Winnett and in 2010, he moved to Jordan to be near his niece and family.
Mr. Nordahl spent a couple of months in the Garfield County Health Center before he died.
His survivors include his sisters, Evelyn Marks of Quartzite, Ariz., Clara Miller of Stevensville, Kay (Ralph) Clark of Musselshell and Rose Neuman of Bullsbrook, West Australia; several nieces and nephews; and several great- and great-great-nieces and great- and great-great-nephews.
Preceding Mr. Nordahl in death were his parents; brothers-in-law, Richard Lambert, Kern Marks and Roy Miller; and great-nephew, Jacob Miller.
A Funeral Service will be Saturday, July 9, 2011, at 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in Winnett. Interment will be in the family cemetery.
Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home of Miles City is in charge of the arrangements.
Rose Virginia Cain-Schoof
Rose Virginia Cain-Schoof, 74, of Miles City died Thursday, June 30, 2011.
She was born on May 14, 1937, to parents Mike B. Cain and Wreatha Bidwell Cain in Broadus. She was the oldest of seven children, Jim, Richard “Dick, ” Charles “Butch, ” William, Louise and Jerry “Jerk.” She grew up on the banks of the Big Pumpkin Creek and attended Loesch school in the 1940s. She also attended Broadus High School and got her GED at a later time.
She met and married
Brian Schoof. She worked at the 10 Spot Café, where she cooked and waitressed. In the 1970s she transferred to Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Schoof worked for the government, in the oil fields, and for the USGS Conservation Diversity.
In 1977 her hobby of jewelry became a full time occupation, and she worked for Cape Diamonds. She retired in 1997 to Miles City. She was a member of the RR, CMA, Daughters of the Nile, was chief of the Range Riders kitchen, and directed traffic for Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home.
With the many extraordinary talents she possessed, she had numerous hobbies. These hobbies included cooking, sewing, crafts, entertaining, being a care-taker of family and friends, jewelry, collecting elephants, making Alaskan clay pottery dishes, gardening and canning and jarring preserves. She was happiest in the kitchen and her sewing room, always surrounded by her family and friends. Her pride and joy were found among her dogs, who were like her children: Mitzi, Mo, Tess, Blacky, KC, Tuck, Nip and Meeka. She loved with all her soul. She was strong-willed, spoke her mind, told it how it was, was very fair, was always busy, looked after her family no matter what age they were, and loved a good time.
Her survivors include her husband, Brian; step-daughter, Dana; siblings, Jim (Ella) Cain of Broadus, Butch (Barb) Cain of Miles City, Willy (Cheryl) Cain of Miles City, Louise (Ray) Locke of Roberts and Jerk (Ruby) Cain of Volborg; a sister-in-law, Maria Cain of Texas; numerous nieces and nephews; and her dogs, Nip, Tuck and Meeka.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Mike and Wreatha; and her brother, Dick (Maria) Cain.
The family will receive friends Tuesday, July 5, 2011, from 1 to 6 p.m. at Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Funeral services will be Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at 10 a.m. at the Valley Baptist Church in Miles City. Committal services will follow at 2 p.m. at the Forsyth cemetery.
Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Mary Borron Daniels Diercks
Mary Borron Daniels Diercks of Gordon, Nev., former Birney resident, died peacefully at Countryside Care in Gordon on Friday, July 1, 2011.
She was born March 28, 1923, in Red Lodge to Lee and Pauline Niethammer Borron. When she was less than a year old, she and her family moved to Hay Springs, Neb., where her father operated the Hi-Way Filling Station. During the Depression, Mrs. Diercks remembered seeing the steady stream of people from eastern Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri who stopped at the filling station on their trek to the West Coast.
Born from that experience, she had the life-long ability to use and re-use items, whether it was food, furniture or clothes. She could fix most anything, which usually involved duct tape, baling wire and lots of imagination and she did it quickly and with finality.
She recalled her growing up years in Hay Springs as wonderful and she loved to dance.
After graduating from Hay Springs High School in 1941, she enrolled in Chadron State College. When President Roosevelt declared war that December, it was announced in an assembly at college. She completed her freshman year and recalled, “There were so few boys left, none of us girls wanted to stay in college! We all thought it was the ‘patriotic’ thing to do, to get a government job.”
She worked as a secretary at Ft. Robinson, Neb., where she met Colonel Edward Daniels, the Chief of Remount and commanding officer and in charge of the K-9 Corps that trained thousands of dogs for war duty. While Colonel Daniels was serving overseas during World War II, she moved to New York City where she was employed by American Airlines as a Flight Operations Inspector.
After the war, Colonel Daniels retired from the Fifth Army and he and Mary were married
in Sheridan, Wyo. They bought a small ranch near Birney and named it the 5A, where they raised Line One Hereford cattle and a huge garden. She was a founding member of the Northern Plains Resource Council, a grass roots organization dedicated to support and protect family farms and ranches. Her dear friends in Birney recall her with many fond, loving and oftentimes funny stories.
Though she and her husband had no children of their own, they enriched the lives of three special children — Greta, Ann and Vince Stevenson — and she often said “the little people” were their greatest joy. These now grown children cherish the memories of sharing tea parties, Sunday dinners, birthday celebrations and so much more with Mr. and Mrs. Daniels on the ranch up East Fork of Hanging Woman.
After Colonel Daniels died, she attended an all class reunion in Hay Springs and renewed her friendship, and love, with an old high school beau — Franck Diercks. So, in 1993, after 43 years on the ranch, she and Mr. Diercks were married
and moved to Gordon, circling back to the land that held her roots.
Instead of managing a ranch, Mrs. Diercks busied herself with managing her rental properties with the help of two special friends, Cheryl Genkins and Maureen Hess. She volunteered as a receptionist at a doctor’s office.
After Mr. Diercks died, Mrs. Diercks volunteered at Little Lambs Day Care in Gordon where she found solace and delight in the presence of young children.
She enjoyed the kind people of Gordon from the waiters at the Italian Inn to the clerks in the grocery store, the merry (Mary) widows, St. Leo’s Catholic Church community and all people with whom she came in contact.
She is survived by her “family” and cousins, Mike (Karen) Stevenson in Miles City and Greta, Ann, and Vince; her sister-in-law, Margaret Diercks in Gordon; a niece, Kathy Rose in Hemet, Calif., and nephew, John (Molly) Rose in Houston, Texas. In addition, she is survived by more cousins, nieces and nephews and a multitude of friends who hold her in a special place in their hearts.
Preceding her in death were her parents; four sisters, Clara, Helen, Katherine and Josephine; two brothers, Charlie and Edwin; husbands, Col. E.M. Daniels and Franck Diercks.
She will be interred next to her mother and father at a private graveside service in the Hay Springs cemetery. Chamberlain-Pier Funeral Home in Gordon, Nebraska is in charge of services.
Memorials may be given in Mrs. Diercks’ name to St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Gordon Volunteer Rescue Squad or Little Lambs Daycare in Gordon.
Betty Fern Sieler
Betty Fern Sieler, age 85, of Plentywood, Montana formerly of Miles City and Baker, passed away on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at the Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home in Plentywood.
Betty was born in Baker, Montana on October 29, 1925, the daughter of Harry and Millie Wildish. She grew up on the family farm south of Baker. Her favorite childhood memory was her pet lamb who followed her everywhere. When her four brothers joined the service, she was the only one left to help with chores on the farm. She helped her dad with hay bales and her dad said that she was the best worker. Betty’s family nickname was “Baby.”
She graduated from 8th grade then moved to town and worked at the Grangers Café where she met Emanuel Sieler. They were married
on June 14, 1948 in Plevna. They operated the telephone exchange office in Plevna until 1953. Betty followed her husband’s jobs to Hysham, Miles City, Forsyth and then Billings where Betty worked at a bank until 1963 when they moved to Rapid City, South Dakota.
In 1964, they returned to Baker where she helped her husband open up his upholstery shop, Seat Cover Center. They ran that until Emanuel’s passing in 1974.
Still having five children at home, she went to work at the motel in Baker. In 1978, she moved to Miles City to be closer to her mother and brother. She was employed at the Sagebrush and the Super 8 until retiring in 1996.
Betty’s whole life revolved around her eight children and her grandchildren. She loved country music and loved to dance. She enjoyed playing cards with her family and friends, was devoted to her pets and was kind to everyone she met. Betty’s place was a home away from home for anyone who gathered there. Everyone she met just loved her.
Betty is survived by three sons: Kenneth (Ilse) of Fargo, ND; Walter (Darcie) of Salt Lake City, UT; John (Kim) of St. Charles, IL; four daughters: Gloria (Larry) Chamberlain of Billings, MT; Marie (John) Kemp of Plentywood, MT; Cathy (Steve) Stokes of Billings, MT; and Janice (Tom) Custer of Belfield, ND; a son-in-law, John (Beverly) Stoler of Billings, MT; one brother, Gary Wildish of Baker, MT; seventeen grandchildren, six great grandchildren and one on the way and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents Harry and Millie Wildish; her husband, Emanuel Sieler; a daughter, Beverly Stoler; a son, Thomas Sieler; three brothers: Darrell, Rolland and Allen Wildish; four sisters-in-law, and four brothers-in-law.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City with family to receive friends from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Funeral Service services will be held on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. Interment will follow on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at the Community Union cemetery in Plevna.
Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Miles City is in charge of the arrangements.
Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice.
Devin Lee Denson
Devin Lee Denson, 18, of rural Broadus, died Tuesday June 28, 2011, from an accident while swimming.
Devin Lee Denson was born on Aug. 11, 1992, in Great Falls. On Aug. 24, 1992, at the age of 2 weeks, Devin blessed Mike and Lynell Denson by coming into their lives., He attended school in Broadus and graduated from Powder River County High School this past May 2011.
Devin loved target shooting and was becoming quite an avid firearms collector. He also enjoyed spotlighting, coyote hunting and fishing. Devin belonged to Monday Night Live, UPA – Power Lifting Assoc., PRCDHS Wrestling program, as well as FFA and 4-H for a time. He wrestled for three years in high school, lettering all three years.
Devin was awarded the Mike Washington Memorial Buckle his junior year in high school, received the most improved wrestler award his sophomore and junior years and won the sportsmanship award at the Hardin wrestling tournament his junior year. He played football his senior year where he lettered and received the most improved player award. As a freshman he received the Greenhand Degree in FFA.
In 2004, Devin won a trip to Space Camp in Huntsville, AL. He made two trips to Michigan to stay with family and friends and enjoyed spending time at Six Flags. Devin liked spending his summers branding, fencing and working with his neighbors, listening to music and working on his pickup. He also enjoyed time with his cousins and his many adventures. Devin was especially proud to have joined the Marine Corps.
His survivors include his parents, Mike and Lynell (Howard) Denson of Broadus; his grandparents, Dan and Barbara Denson of Sheridan, Wyo.; his aunt and uncle, Wyatt and Denise Howard of Riverton, Wyo.; his uncle, Lynn Howard of Salt Lake City, Utah; his aunt, Judy Denson Keller of Sheridan, Wyo.; and cousins, Stacy and Justin Eadus of Gillette, Wyo., Matt and Chelsie Howard of Shoshoni, Wyo., Katy Snapp of Casper, Wyo., Belinda and Luke Forman of Billings, Dawn Keller of Red Lodge, Cody Howard of Salt Lake City, and Kyle and Cassie Howard of Bemidji, Minn.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Les and Norma Howard of Miles City.
Funeral Services will be Saturday, July 2, 2011, at 10 a.m. at the Powder River County High School Gymnasium in Broadus. Interment will follow in the Valley View cemetery in Broadus.
Stevenson and Sons Funeral Home of Broadus is in charge of the arrangements.
Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the Powder River County High School Wrestling and Weight Room or to the charity of one’s choice.
