Dixon Kress
Sep 1, 2022
Dixon Kress, 69, passed away on September 1, 2022, at his home surrounded by his loved ones. Dixon was born September 24, 1952, in Powers Lake, North Dakota. From an early age, Dixon was an enthusiastic athlete who participated in Special Olympics. He loved playing basketball and baseball, especially when someone else was chasing the ball. He also enjoyed dancing,...
Donna Torres
Sep 1, 2022
Donna Torres passed away peacefully on September 1, 2022. Donna was born in Connellsville, PA on October 30, 1948. She is the daughter of John D. and Doris Chambers. When she was five years of age, Donna and her family moved to San Diego, CA where she grew up. She lived there until her graduation from high school. She married...
Mary V. Jones
Sep 1, 2022
Mary V. Jones passed away peacefully at her brother’s home in Great Falls on September 1, 2022. Mary was the daughter of William and Ruth Van Hyning, born March 1, 1945, in San Diego, California. The Van Hyning family moved to their ranch south of Lewistown on Casino Creek in 1946. Mary was a cheerleader at Fergus High, runner up...
Charles Jerome Marlen, M.D.
Aug 31, 2022
Charles Jerome Marlen, M.D., 84, of Great Falls passed away Aug 31, 2022, at the Peace Hospice in Montana. Charles was a long-time radiologist at Montana Deaconess Hospital (now, Benefis Hospital) in Great Falls before retiring. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on December 4, 1937, to Norma May (Rose) and Thomas Winfield Marlen, a pharmacist.
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Albert A Bunko
Aug 30, 2022
Albert A Bunko passed away on August 30, 2022. Al was born on February 20, 1946, in Lewiston, MT to Albert and Rose Bunko. Al was raised in Great Falls and always called it his home. He was very proud to be a native Montanan.
He served in the US Army in 1968. He was a combat...
Leroy "Bill" Williams Larson
Aug 29, 2022
LeRoy “Bill” Williams Larson was born January 6, 1937, to LeRoy Williams and Marie Sorensen Larson in Kansas City, Missouri. He was their second child, born three years after his sister, Barbara Lee. His early years were spent on dairy farms near Olathe, Kansas and Elburn, Illinois. The family settled in Holdrege, Nebraska where he spent his junior and senior...
Helen A Bailly
Aug 28, 2022
Helen A. Bailly, 82, was born in 1940 in Fort Benton, Montana to Aloys and Helen Diekhans. She attended school in Choteau and Great Falls graduating from Central Catholic High School in 1958. Helen married George J. Bailly on September 3, 1960, in Great Falls. They moved to Fort Shaw to begin farming and ranching. They soon moved to...
Marianne (Lalonde) Birkenbuel
Aug 27, 2022
Marianne (Lalonde) Birkenbuel, 83, of Great Falls, passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 27, 2022. She was a graduate of Anaconda Central High School and Western Montana College and received her degree in Elementary Education. She taught at McKinley Elementary and Opportunities Incorporated. She eventually left teaching to become a real estate agent.
Marianne was born to...
Dale Glen Hallock
Aug 26, 2022
Dale Glen Hallock, beloved husband, father, brother, grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend, passed away and entered the presence of his savior Jesus at age 80 on Friday, August 26, 2022, at Benefis Hospital. He was surrounded by his wife and children.
Dale was born on September 26, 1941, in Glasgow, MT to Glen and Mildred Hallock. He was...
Dale D. Ost
Aug 24, 2022
Dale D. Ost, 91, of Great Falls passed away of natural causes at Peace Hospice on August 24, 2022. Dale was born January 13, 1931, in Beulah, North Dakota. He married Leona Miller in Fairview, Montana in 1949. Dale retired from Great Falls Public Schools and later drove the school bus for Our Lady of Lourdes School. He loved...
Colette K. Messman
Aug 24, 2022
Colette K. Messman of Great Falls, Montana was called to the Lord on August 24, 2022, at Peace Hospice at the age of 75. She requested no services and cremation has taken place. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.
Colette was born on January 7, 1947, in Shelby, Montana. She later moved...
John Theodore Borgreen
Aug 20, 2022
John Theodore Borgreen, aged 84, passed away on Saturday, August 20, 2022, at Peace Hospice due to complications of a prolonged illness. A memorial service is planned for Friday, August 26, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at Hillcrest Lawn Memorial Chapel with a reception immediately following at the Scottish Rite Building next door. Given the increased local transmission rate of COVID,...
Ruby J Kvarness Strom
Aug 16, 2022
Ruby was a gem. If you knew her, you loved her. Born on a farm near DeLamere, ND, growing up during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the Dirty 30’s shaped the way she lived her life: You don’t waste anything! She reused, repurposed, recycled, composted, or gave it away because “someone could use it”.
Ruby...
Mary Lynne Crowell
Aug 13, 2022
Mary Lynne Crowell was born June 17, 1947, to John and Cecil Wills in Great Falls, Montana. Mary went home to her Heavenly Father’s arms unexpectedly on August 13, 2022. There will be a memorial celebration of life on August 25, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at the Ulm Church in Ulm, MT.
Mary graduated in 1965 from...
Katherine Alice Gillespie
Aug 13, 2022
Katherine Alice (Gibbons) Gillespie, a.k.a. Mike, was born in Lewistown in September of 1932 to Jim and Ruth Gibbons. Mike was number 4 of 9 children (Margaret, Laura, Doris, Mike, Ellen, Nancy, Marion, Jim, and Tom). She attended school north of Winifred at the Gibbons’ Whiskey Ridge Ranch until 4th grade, and then the family acquired a winter home...
Frances Mae Jorgensen "Fran" Wylder
Aug 13, 2022
Frances Mae Jorgensen “Fran” Wylder, aged 91, of Great Falls, passed on Saturday, August 13, 2022, at Benefis Grandview Cottages in Great Falls due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease and COVID-19.
Fran was born August 3, 1931, in Great Falls, Montana, the first child of Robert F. and Frances J. Burleigh Jorgensen, both of whom were also...
Mary Scott
Aug 11, 2022
With regret and sadness, the family of Mary K. Scott announces her sudden passing on August 11, 2022, at the age of 81. Mary will be fondly remembered and dearly missed for her wit, sense of humor, unwavering support to the Denver Broncos, and her great pride in her Irish heritage.
Mary was raised in Glasgow working...
Diane Lynn Hansen
Aug 11, 2022
Diane Lynn Hansen passed away on August 11, 2022, leaving us heartbroken. She was an incredible fighter until the day God took her.
Diane was the daughter of Arlene and Ernie Grasseschi and grew up in Black Eagle, Montana. She married Wayne “Bubba” Hansen in 1980 and they had their son Jeff Douglas Hansen in 1986. Jeff...
John William Shaw
Aug 10, 2022
John William Shaw passed away unexpectedly on August 10, 2022, in Great Falls, MT at the age of 71.
John was born on January 1,1951, in Havre, MT to Delores Miller Shaw and Roy R. Shaw. Born number two out of eight children, life was never dull. There were many family events over the years with weekends...
Richard "Dick" Monroe
Aug 10, 2022
Richard "Dick" Charles Monroe passed away at the age of 87 in Great Falls, MT on Wednesday, August 10, 2022.
A vigil service will be held at St. Francis Catholic Church in Valier at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. The Funeral mass will be held at St. Francis Catholic Church on Wednesday, August 17, 2022...
