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Kalispell, MT Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Kalispell, MT, Flathead County & Surround Areas
Donald Milam
May 3, 2013
Donald B. Milam passed away Friday, May 3, 2013, following an extended illness. His memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Friday, June 14, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Kalispell. A private burial will precede the service. Donald was born April 21, 1927, in Stockham, Neb., to Glover and Albertina Milam. He grew up in Nebraska and attended school there....
Mike Kao
May 2, 2013
Mike Kao, 58, passed away on May 2, just days after learning he had been living with lung and liver cancer. While his presence will be missed by many, his family is thankful he did not have an extended period of suffering. Mike was born on Aug. 24, 1954, in Kalispell. As a kid, his family remembers him being the...
Marion Titus
May 1, 2013
Marion Lorraine Titus, 84, passed away Wednesday, May 1, 2013, in Kalispell of metastatic breast cancer. Marion was born on Aug. 12, 1928, in Chicago, where she graduated from high school. She then attended the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in home economics (child development). She married Ross Titus in 1952, in...
Linda Molina
Apr 30, 2013
Linda Lee Molina, 65, passed away on April 30, 2013, at her home in Bigfork. She was born on Feb. 10, 1948, as baby girl Stephens in Helena. She was adopted by Joan and William Friedrich of Bigfork. She grew up on the family's Rocky-Bar-O Ranch, attending Bigfork Schools, and later went to high school at Holy Names Academy in...
Donald Leach
Apr 30, 2013
Donald Arthur Leach "went to be with the Lord" on April 30, 2013, following a courageous 13-year battle with Parkinson's disease. Donald passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family. He was born on October 28, 1920 at home in Detroit, Mich., to the Rev. Arthur and Marie Leach. The family moved several times during his childhood and teenage years...
Rich Habeger
Apr 29, 2013
Rich Habeger "went to meet his Lord and Savior" after losing his battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) April 29, 2013. Rich was born to Richard D. and Maryhelen C. Habeger on Sept. 10, 1955, in Havre. He attended schools in Havre, graduating in 1974. He worked for the Burlington Northern in varying capacities, ultimately becoming an engineer and working...
Barbra Mcintyre
Apr 27, 2013
Barbra Winogene N. McIntyre passed away peacefully under hospice care on April 27, 2013. Her husband of 69 and a half years and son were at her side. Winogene was born on May 9, 1921, in Sioux Falls, S.D. She was the sixth of six children. She became a talented pianist in high school and went to the University of...
William Bundt
Apr 24, 2013
William Bundt, 96, passed on April 24, 2013, at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls. "There is a special place in Heaven for Bill." He was born on Jan. 27, 1917, in Manfred, N.D. Bill was the oldest child of Emil and Minnie Bundt of Westby. He attended school in Westby, and later attended college in Seattle. He served...
Roy Sauerbier
Apr 20, 2013
Roy "Buster" Sauerbier "went home to be with his Lord" April 20, 2013, at his home. He was born Aug. 21, 1945, in Kalispell to his parents Lynus and Cordelia Sauerbier. He was the youngest of their children. He grew up on the family farm in the Swan River area. He lived there most of his life, except when he...
Barry Kefauver
Apr 17, 2013
Barry Lynn Kefauver, 65, passed away at his residence in Kalispell from cancer on April 17, 2013. Barry was born July 10, 1947, in York, Pa., to Walter and Olive Kefauver. He grew up in Maryland and attended school there. He worked as a heavy mobile equipment mechanic. Barry married Nancy Jean May 20, 1980, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. They...
Jody Reedy
Apr 16, 2013
Jody was born in Omaha, Neb., on Jan. 1, 1964, and died in Marietta, Ga., on April 16, 2013. Jody graduated from Flathead High School in 1983 and joined the Navy shortly thereafter. He was very proud of being a medical corpsman and his time spent serving his country. The knowledge he gained during that time served him well through...
John Sturgis
Apr 16, 2013
John "Jack" R. Sturgis, 78, passed away suddenly from a brain aneurysm April 16, 2013, at Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Kalispell, surrounded by his family. Jack was born Jan. 6, 1935, to Harold and Mabel (Clark) Sturgis in Kansas City, Kan., joining brother Harold R. Jr., and half sister Mary Jane Sullivan. Jack grew up in Kansas City where...
Amos Svennungsen
Apr 15, 2013
Amos Walter Svennungsen was born to the Rev. David and Kari Svennungsen, on January 18, 1921, in Dazey, North Dakota, and died on April 15, 2013 in Kalispell. He was 92. The eighth of nine children, Amos attended elementary schools in Northfield, MN and Big Sandy, MT and graduated from Big Sandy High School in 1939. After high school, Amos...
Diana Twet
Apr 14, 2013
Diana Twet passed away on April 14, 2013, at Kalispell Regional Medical Center. She was born Sept. 17, 1944, in Lewistown. Her family moved to Billings where she graduated from Billings Senior High. Diana met Steven Twet and they were married in 1962. They had been married 50 years when she passed away. In 1970, they moved to Kalispell where...
Reesa Downs
Apr 7, 2013
Reesa R. Downs, 42, passed away on Sunday, April 7, 2013, at Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Kalispell. She was born on Sept. 17, 1970, in Macon, Ga., to Reese and Brenda (Meadows) Downs. Reesa was raised in Tallahassee, Fla., where she attended schools, graduating from Lincoln High School. After high school, Reesa received her Associate of Arts degree from...
Margaret Nash
Apr 6, 2013
Margaret Ann (Sereday) Nash, 89, died at her home in Kallispell on April 6, 2013. She was born Aug. 19, 1923, in Wayne, Mont., between Great Falls and Belt, at her grandparents' home, to John Sereday and Suzie (Mital) Sereday. She was raised in Lehigh, and near Schilztown, a coal mining town. She grew up on a dry land farm....
Bruce Stewart
Apr 4, 2013
Bruce I. Stewart passed away on April 4, 2013, at the Immanuel Lutheran Home, of natural causes. Bruce was born on Dec. 13, 1920, to Robert Fulton Stewart and Rosa Grace Tucker in Spokane. When Bruce was a small child the family moved to Havre, where they raised five children in town during the school year and on a ranch...
Clifford Anzjon
Apr 3, 2013
Clifford M. Anzjon, 92, passed away peacefully at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Cliff, the youngest of three sons of Severe and Petren Anzjon, was born in Jamestown, N.D. During his high school years he worked at the local Ford garage where, through the generosity of a flight instructor and fellow employee, he learned...
Leonard Holcomb
Apr 2, 2013
Leonard M. "Bud" Holcomb, 89, passed away on April 2, 2013, at the VA Hospital in Columbia Falls. Bud was born Feb. 24, 1924, in Colburn, Wis., and raised on the North Fork above Polebridge. Bud served in the Army Air Force during World War II as an airplane armorer - gunner 612, flying out of England. Bud owned and...
Harriet Sklany
Mar 31, 2013
Harriet Gladys (Heabel) Sklany, 75, passed away March 31, 2013, in Kalispell. She was born April 13, 1937, in Hinsdale, Ill., and raised in Justice, Ill. On June 23, 1956, she married Steve Sklany Jr. in Argo, Ill. They had been married for 50 years. A homemaker, Harriet was also an active member of the Birch Grove Willing Workers for...
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