Teresa Renee Cargill, 46, passed away at her home, surrounded by her family, on Sunday, July 17, 2016, after a courageous battle with AML leukemia.
Teresa Renee Cargill was born Aug. 25, 1969, in Modesto, California, to Tommy and Joyce Deshields-Cargill, where she was welcomed by her brother Stephen and her sister Ulinda Cargill. Teresa graduated from Oakdale High School in California in 1987.
Teresa became a mother on May 4, 1994, to her beautiful baby girl Destinee May Gilmore.
Teresa moved to Chicago in 2002, and moved again to Las Vegas in 2005, where she graduated from the University of Phoenix with honors.
She met and married Milton Overton in 2010 in Las Vegas. Teresa moved to the Flathead Valley in 2013 to be near her family. She was employed at the Daily Inter Lake, where she made many friends.
Teresa enjoyed cooking, crafts, nature and family.
“Teresa was reunited with her grandmother at the time of her passing.”
She is survived by her husband, Milton Overton, of Kalispell; daughter, Destinee Gilmore, of Las Vegas; father, Tommy and wife Karen Cargill, of Silver Springs, Nevada; mother, Joyce Herdt, of Modesto; sister, Ulinda and husband David Owens, of Waterford, California; brother, Stephen Cargill, of Modesto; nephew Derek Suarez, niece Lindsey Wilson, and numerous friends and loved ones.
Please join us for a celebration of life service and potluck at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 24, at Heaven’s Peak Lodge in West Glacier