Local Obituaries for Families in Beaverhead County
Nancy Gowan
October 21, 2019
Nancy Kathleen Gowan was born January 19, 1943, in Oakland, California to Gordon and Sadie (Ford) Smith. Upon graduation, Nancy was a runway model in Oakland and San Jose often stopping traffic on many streets in town. Growing up Nancy enjoyed visiting from California and exploring the Big Hole Valley with her Special Cousin Sandra Lapham (Jackson, Montana) and doing...
Cora Hofferber
October 11, 2019
Cora LaVoie Hofferber passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on October 11, 2019. She was born on January 21, 1928 in Missoula, to Frank and Louise LaVoie. The family moved to Dillon and started the OK Tire Store. Cora graduated from Beaverhead County High School and held many jobs. While employed as a telephone switchboard operator, she met...
Joe Helle
October 8, 2019
Joe Thomas Helle, age 87, passed away in Dillon October 8, 2019. Joe was born to Harold and Alice Helle in Williston North Dakota, May 14, 1932. He spent his youth enjoying the outdoors and began his destiny in the rangelands of the West while working on the Shipstead Ranch in Scobey, MT. His adventures included chasing wild horses, herding...
Judy Hazelbaker
October 1, 2019
Loving wife, mother and Nana, Judy Hazelbaker passed away at home peacefully on October 1, 2019. The youngest of five, Hazelbaker was born to Evan and Florence Huntsman in Idaho Falls, Idaho on November 18, 1951. She moved to Armstead, Montana when she was two-years old. When the family ranch was displaced by the Clark Canyon Dam project they moved...
Allen Bradley
September 13, 2019
Allen Bradley, 95 of Dillon, Montana passed away at Barrett Hospital and HealthCare on September 13, 2019. He was born in Anaconda, Montana on March 18, 1924 to Dewey and Imperia Bradley. Allen served in WW2 and Korea, in the army 82nd Airborne Division awarded 4 Stars of Valor, he served for a total of 11 years until he was...
Dale Zink
September 10, 2019
Paul Dale Zink (81) of Dillon, Montana passed peacefully on Tuesday September 10th, 2019. Dale was born March 18th, 1938 to Paul James Zink and Esther Adele McCutcheon in Dillon, Montana at Barrett Hospital. On a side note...Dad wrote most of this obituary before his passing, and even here in his best humor he wrote the following..... “On May 21st,...
Marianne Kinzel
September 5, 2019
Marianne Kinzel passed away on September 5th, 2019. She was born in Dillon, MT on May 6th, 1936. She had 8 siblings, one being her twin sister Lu. She graduated from Beaverhead County High School. After high school Marianne moved to Oregon, then to Glendale, California to work as a nanny. While she was in California she got a job...
Lola Reidelbach
September 5, 2019
Lola Huxtable Reidelbach, 88, passed away peacefully September 5, 2019. She was born November, 4, 1930 in Casper, WY as the youngest of eight children. Lola grew up in the Casper and Glenrock area. Lola married Chester Huxtable on October 2, 1946. To this marriage, four children were born; twins Warren and Joan, Larry and Rita. Chester and Lola later...
James Marchesseault
September 2, 2019
Goodbye for Now On Monday, Sept. 2nd, 2019, one of the great cattlemen of Beaverhead County and the American West, James David Marchesseault, passed away in a fitting manner, working the Birch Creek ranch he called home for more than 50 years. He was 81 years old. Jim was born in Dillon, Montana on January 24th, 1938, the fifth in...
Janice Hamby
August 30, 2019
Janice Elaine (Houk) Hamby, 70, passed away August 30th, 2019 at Barrett Memorial Hospital from a long battle with cancer. Janice was born in Clinton, Missouri on December 19th, 1948, to Orville and Mabel Houk. She attended Deepwater High School until she met Charles J. Hamby. They were married in Brownington, Missouri on December 18th, 1965. Janice worked for Rivals...
Linda Lee-Muntzer
August 25, 2019
Linda L. Lee-Muntzer went to be with the Lord on Sunday, August 25th, 2019. She was born on April 25th, 1940 in Waukegan, IL to Roy Zigenhagen and Mary Burnum. She is preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband, Thomas H Muntzer, two stepsons, Henry “Hank” and Matthew “Matt” Muntzer, a stepdaughter, Babbett Courson, and...
Wayne Contway
August 22, 2019
Wayne Henry Contway was born November 20, 1937 in Dillon Montana to Harold “Toke” and Helene Wenger Contway. On Thursday, August 22, 2019, Wayne passed away at home with family at his side after a long battle with cancer. Wayne attended Beaverhead County High School and Western Montana College. After graduating from Western, Wayne began his career with Health and...
Albert Trafelet
August 16, 2019
Albert passed away unexpectedly Friday, August 16 following a brief illness. Albert Paul Trafelet was born March 17, 1935 in Valier, Montana to Albert and Zella Trafelet. He was the eldest of five children. Albert spent his childhood helping on the family homestead west of Dupuyer. He attended the Bisnett School during his elementary years and graduated from Valier High...
Marvin Tuffs
August 11, 2019
Marvin Ray “Marv” Tuffs, born February 8, 1947, passed away peacefully late August 11, 2019. A beloved man, born in South Dakota to Fred and Josephine Tuffs, he was a hard working man. A gathering will be held later in the Fall. If anyone knows any information of Marvin Tuff's next of kin, please contact us.
Norah Elliott
August 9, 2019
Norah Richardson Owen Elliott On August 9, 2019 Norah went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Born December 31, 1929 to Marie and Walter Richardson, she went to grade school in Bannack, Montana. Norah graduated from high school in 1947. In 1948 she married Bennett Owen. From that union five children Glen, Georgia, Peggy, Trish and...
Arthur Hopkins
August 4, 2019
Arthur Hopkins born March 15, 1942 passed away unexpectedly August 4, 2019. Worlds most giving man, friend, father & grandfather. Friends & family were everything to him & he had a great passion for gardening & nature. He was an artist when it came to floors and countertops & his craft will live on for years in most of the...
Joyce McDowell
July 14, 2019
Joyce Hirschy McDowell born August 27, 1927 passed away at her home in the Big Hole Valley on July 14, 2019 while in the company of her family, Melva McDowell, Jock and Janet McDowell, and her niece Heidi Hirschy. Joyce loved the Big Hole Valley that she called home and enjoyed a good day’s work on a horse or in...
Betty Hanson
July 12, 2019
Betty Spehar Hanson Betty was born 27 July 1933 in Sheridan, Montana to Julius and Evelyn (Hansen) Galiger. She attended schools at Robbers Roost and Sheridan before moving to Dillon with her parents and graduating from Beaverhead County High School. She worked weekends and summers for Ray Nelson in the restaurant business. In 1952 she married Charles Spehar and went...
Eddie Waldemar
June 28, 2019
Eddie Leonard Waldemar, age 67, loving husband and father passed away June 25, 2019. Ed was born April 6, 1952 in Dillon, Montana to Leonard and Mary Jo (Wenger) Waldemar. Ed lived the majority of his life in Dillon, Montana. Ed graduated from Beaverhead County High School in 1970. After high school he went to MSU for a year then...
Robert Young
June 22, 2019
Robert Smith Young, "Bob," 68, of Lima Montana returned to his heavenly home on June 22, 2019. The funeral services will be held on Friday, June 28, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the Lima High School gymnasium. The viewing will be from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. the same day at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Lima,...
