Obituaries

Aug 27, 2017

Life Story for Merlyn E Amick

Aug 25, 2017

Obituary for Christine Bushlak Cartwright

Christine Cartwright (Bushlak), 57, passed away August 25, 2017 at the Evergreen Missoula Health and Rehab. She was born June 11, 1960 to Charles and Mary Cartwright in Butte. The family moved to Anaconda in 1965 where she went to public schools. When she was 27, she married John Bushlak a professional photographer from...

Aug 25, 2017

Obituary for Walter Forrest Clark

Walter Forrest Clark passed away peacefully at his home, surrounded by his family, in Clinton, Montana Saturday, August 25. He was born September 20, 1931 in Pompeys Pillar, Montana to W. Raymond and Helen (Stanton) Clark, the eldest of five children. A viewing will be held at Garden City Funeral Home and Crematory, 1705...

Aug 24, 2017

Obituary for Gunda K Vandermars

Gunda K. Vandermars passed away at the age of 87, on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula following an illness of several months. Gunda was born Signhild Gunda Karolina Stenmark on Dec. 8, 1929, in the small logging and farming village of Tallsjo in the Lapland region of northern Sweden....

Aug 24, 2017

Life Story for Thomas M Yost

Aug 23, 2017

Obituary for Garland Jeffrey Thayer

Garland J. Thayer, 48, of Missoula, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. Garland was born on May 6, 1969, in Charleston, West Virginia, to William and Brenda Thayer. After growing up and recreating in the mountains around Charleston, he went on to attend Culver Military Academy, and graduated with a bachelor's in...

Aug 23, 2017

Obituary for Jay Lebus' Powers

Jay Lebus’ Powers Jay Lebus ’Powers, of Missoula, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 23,2017 At St. Patrick Hospital. Jay was born on March 28,1955, in Crookston, Minnesota to Vincent and Thelma Powers. Jay was raised in Missoula, attending Target Range Elementary and Hellgate High School. Working as a heavy equipment mechanic for local companies...

Aug 22, 2017

Obituary for Thomas L Adams

US Army Veteran, Thomas L. Adams, 82, of Missoula, passed away at his home on Tuesday, August 22, 2017. He was preceded in death by his Parents, Lucille and John Adams and Brother, John Adams. He is survived by his wife, Pat; son Chris (Lynn) of San Diego; Sister Luci (John) Dillon of Taos,...

Aug 22, 2017

Obituary for Lois Jean Dunlap

Lois J. Dunlap, 83, of Missoula, passed away at her home surrounded by her family on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. Born to John and Helen Pozega in Anaconda on July 8, 1934, Lois graduated from Butte High School in 1952, then earned a nursing degree from Carroll College. Lois married William James "Jim" Dunlap...

Aug 21, 2017

Life Story for Otto VonGrey

Aug 21, 2017

Obituary for Albert Lester "Les" Vining

Albert Lester “Les” Vining, 96, passed away peacefully at home on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. Les was born in Billings on Jan. 20, 1921; adopted on March 20, 1922, by his parents Albert Levi Vining and Lillian Winnifred Brown in Flathead County; and raised in Havre and Whitefish, graduating from Whitefish High School...

Aug 19, 2017

Aug 18, 2017

Obituary for Jerry L Kinney

Jerry L. Kinney, 60, passed away August 18, 2017 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, due to injuries sustained in an explosion and fire in a one room cabin where he was living at the time. He was born Oct. 31, 1956 to Donnie and Dorothy Kinney in Missoula, MT. Jerry joined the Army...

Aug 18, 2017

Obituary for Barbara Lang

Life released Barbara Barr Lang on Friday morning, Aug. 18, 2017. She died in her apartment at The Springs in Missoula, following years of declining health. Barbara was born on March 2, 1932, in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, a small town 40 miles east of Pittsburgh. She was the older of the two daughters of R. Wallace...

Aug 18, 2017

Life Story for Carolyn R Surber

Aug 17, 2017

Life Story for Jackson Daniel Wesley Wiles

Aug 17, 2017

Obituary for Paul T Dwight

Paul Thomas Dwight was born on June 16, 1943 in Fargo, North Dakota to Ward and Marie Dwight. He passed away on Thursday August 17, 2017. Paul attended Great Falls High School where he was a 4-year letterman earning athletic letters in basketball, track, cross-country and golf. He then attended the University of Montana...

Aug 17, 2017

Obituary for Theodore Ray "T. Ray" Jacobs

Theodore Ray Jacobs, known to all as T. Ray, died at his Missoula home on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. This was the family home that he went to after his birth at the Thornton Hospital on Sept. 15, 1940. His wife, daughters and grandsons were with him when he died. Through his...

Aug 16, 2017

Obituary for Louis H Dryden

Louis “Lou” Dryden ,79, passed away August 16, 2017 peacefully at home with his wife Barbara at his side. Lou was born on March 28th 1938 to Gerald and Dorothy Dryden in Grass Valley, Oregon. He spent his growing up years in small towns in the Northwest where his parents were in the ministry....

Aug 16, 2017

Obituary for Marilyn Rose Pickkett

— Marilyn Rose Pickett, 15 years old, of Missoula, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. She was born on Dec. 14, 2001, in Missoula to Ralph Pickett and Amy Hout and was cared for at an early age by her sister Kishia “Kameo” Pickett. She is fondly remembered for her beautiful and loving...