Local Obituaries for Families in Beaverhead County
Paul Nathaniel Hutchinson
July 24, 2024
We are absolutely heartbroken to learn this news, and our hearts go out to the Houchins family. It is good to know that they will at last be able to find the closure that they deserve. Our own family was already reeling from dealing with Paul's suicide. In 24 years of marriage there was never any hint that something like...
Connie Jane Null
July 23, 2024
Connie Jane (Confer) Null passed away at Barrett Hospital & Healthcare on July 23, 2024. She was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Russell William Confer and Thelma (Sieler) Confer on July 18, 1949. She was the eldest of three siblings.
When Connie was two her dad was transferred to Gypsum, Colorado where she attended grade school. Her dad...
Richard Dwight McLaren
July 20, 2024
Richard Dwight McLaren
October 6, 1954-July 20, 2024
Richard Dwight McLaren passed away on Saturday, July 20, 2024 after an extended illness.
Rick was born to Arley C. and Carol V. (Giudici) McLaren in Pocatello, Idaho. He was the second of Arley and Carol’s four children and joined his sister Susan on October 6, 1954. The young family moved back to Dillon where...
Wade Edward McCord
July 16, 2024
Wade Edward McCord passed away on July 16th from prostate/bone cancer. Wade was born in Dillon, Montana on June 15, 1953 to LaVerne and Dorothy (Seybold) McCord. He attended school in Virginia City and Whitehall, Montana. He participated in 4-H, wrestling and high school rodeos. After high school he and his best friend Terry Olind sheered sheep, worked on the...
Sarah Elizabeth McEldery
July 15, 2024
Sally McEldery passed away peacefully at BeeHive Homes in Dillon, MT on Monday July 15, 2024, at the age of 96 ½ yrs. old. She was born Sarah Elizabeth McGuire to John Francis (Frank) and Mary Leonora Elliott McGuire on January 8, 1928, at Sappington, MT.
Sally's dad had different jobs living in various places in Montana. She attended eleven schools...
Rose Darlene Brown
July 12, 2024
Rose Darlene Peterson was born on April 15, 1937, to Peter Daniel "Bus" Peterson and Tina Belle Downing. She spent 80 of her 87 years in Lima and passed away peacefully on July 12, 2024.
Darlene attended Lima public schools through the 8th grade and was a lifelong member of Lima Community Church. She always cherished the dream of...
Linda Johnson
July 10, 2024
Linda Kathryn Johnson passed away on July 10, 2024, at the age of 76 after a long battle with dementia. Linda was born January 10, 1948, in Exeter, California to Garley Edward and Francis Jean Houghton Doty. She was the youngest of three daughters and often told stories of growing up in CA, attending summer camp and getting into mischief....
Kermit Curtis Lawver
June 28, 2024
Kermit Lawver, age 85, passed away with his wife Norma by his side on June 28, 2024, due to complications from Parkinson's disease.
Kermit was born in Wessington Springs South Dakota to parents, Alvin and Sylva Ellen (Cook) Lawver, and raised in Gann Valley. He graduated from Northern State University in Aberdeen, with a bachelor's degree in education. He taught for...
Jean Alicia Gleed
June 21, 2024
Jean Alicia Gleed
February 6, 1926 - June 21, 2024
Jean was born to William and Mae Gleed of Lima, MT on February 6, 1926. She attended school in Lima until her senior year when she came to Dillon and graduated from B.C.H S. Living on the Red Rock River, where her dad taught her and her younger sister Bernie how tofish,...
Frances Josie Zeman
June 15, 2024
Frances (Fran) J. Zeman, Age 77. of Dillon Montana passed away on June 15th, 2024 in Butte Montana.
Fran was born on September 24, 1947 in Wilmington Delaware to Frances (Frank) and Louise Robinson.
She is survived by her daughter Cheri Fennell, of Maine, 6 grandchildren, Tony Rose (Morgan) of Virginia, Audria Nickerson (Damien) of Maine, Cecily Rose (Haze), of Colorado, Evelyn,...
Valera Fay Billings
June 14, 2024
In Loving Memory
Valera Fay Billings
6/14/2024
Valera was born in Eureka Springs, Arkansas on 8/22/1930 to Mike and Ruby Miller.
She was the oldest of her 3 siblings, all brothers, who have preceded her in death.
After graduating high school, she married Robert Billings. They had a long happy marriage until he passed in July of 2001. She...
"Boots" Gladys Lake
June 3, 2024
"Boots" Gladys Lake
October 5, 1942 - June 3, 2024
Boots Lake peacefully passed away in Dillon, MT on June 3, 2024. She was surrounded by her husband, children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
Boots was born on October 5, 1942, in Poplar, MT to Albert and Eva (Belgarde) Longie. She had five brothers and four sisters.
Boots was a member of the Turtle Mountain...
Clifford Frederick Beil
May 28, 2024
Clifford Beil
August 28, 1953 - May 28, 2024
Clifford Frederick Beil, passed away on May 28, 2024, in his beloved state of Montana. Born on August 28, 1953, in Greenville, Pennsylvania, Cliff was the youngest son of George and Martha (Vonnie) Beil.
Hard work, outdoors, great friends, and adventure defined his young life: Summers on his grandparent's farm, checking traps early in...
Lowell Sterling Hildreth
May 25, 2024
Lowell Sterling Hildreth passed away May 25, 2024 in Dillon, Montana, surrounded by his family. He was born March 24, 1930 to Bessie and E.W. (Bob) Hildreth, the fourth of six sons born into a family that ranched in the Medicine Lodge Valley of Beaverhead County. He was very close to his parents and brothers, Pat (Trudy), Bill (Gisela), Gene...
Walter John VanDeren
May 18, 2024
Walter Van Deren, 89
Walter was born on August 3, 1934, in Flagstaff Arizona at the Butler home, to Earl and Leah (Seip) Van Deren. He passed away at Renaissance Southside in Dillon, MT on May 18, 2024, surrounded by his family. At Walter's request, he was cremated, and his ashes will be spread in a private ceremony on the...
Ruth Helen Barnes
May 17, 2024
Ruth Helen (Sproul) Barnes, a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, passed away peacefully with her husband and children by her side on Friday, May 17, 2024. Ruthie was born on December 19, 1951, in Whitefish, Montana, to Frank and Florence Sproul, joining her older brother Richard and later welcoming sisters Jenny and Jolene.
The Sproul family made their home at...
Steven Ross Miller
May 14, 2024
Steven Ross Miller
Feb 10, 1945 - May 14, 2024
Steve danced his last dance at his ranch, "The Last Dance" in Dillon Montana. In his final days he was surrounded by love and spent a glorious day under the sunny Montana sky, with music, flowers and family.
Born in Tremonton, Utah to Boyd Ross and Leone Oyler Miller....
Margaret Mary Woodard
May 13, 2024
Beloved wife, mother, and grandmother Margaret "Margy" Woodard passed away Monday, May 13, 2024 at her home in Dillon, Montana.
Margaret was born on October 6, 1947 in Long Beach, California. The first child of Robert and Patricia Schuveiller, she grew up in Long Beach with her eight brothers and sisters. After graduating from St. Anthony's High School, she received a...
Frank Austin Fowler
May 13, 2024
Frank Fowler was embraced by family and friends as he passed away on May 13, 2024, at Barrett Hospital in Dillon, Montana. He was 92 years old.
Frank was born on May 5,1932 in Washington D.C. to Wallace William Fowler and Helen Peabody Marsh. Frank was the youngest of eight, preceded by Bruce, Ella, Earl, Hazel, Daniel, William, and...
