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Benjamin Matthew Lukes
May 26, 2023
Benjamin Matthew Lukes, “Ben”, age 88, passed away in Bozeman on May 26, 2023, of congestive heart failure. He was born September 15, 1934 in Reynolds Township, Long Prairie, MN, the fourth son of Anton J. and Sylvia E. (Brooks) Lukes. He attended district 15 grade school in Gutches Grove and graduated from Long Prairie High School in 1952. He...
Gregory Robert Wiedeman
May 25, 2023
Heaven gained another amazing fisherman on May 25,2023. Greg Wiedeman, 59, of Manhattan, MT, passed away unexpectedly while getting ready for work. Greg was born in Wausau, Wisconsin on October 1, 1963 to Bob and Faith Wiedeman. His family moved to Montana in the early seventies. Greg graduated from Manhattan High School in 1982. He then moved back to Wisconsin...
John Kasmirz Greever
May 25, 2023
John Kasmirz Greever, 68, of Bozeman, passed away May 25th. Per his request no services are planned. Cremation has been entrusted to Dahl Funeral & Cremation Service.
Nancy Wood
May 18, 2023
In the early morning hours of May 18, 2023, Mom passed peacefully in her sleep. She was in the loving care of her family at her home in Bear Canyon. She was 89.
Nancy was born in Bozeman, MT, on April 1, 1934, to John Roscoe Wheat and Laura Lasater Wheat. In 1937, her mother married Earl Pierce and three more...
Byron Richard Blackwell
May 18, 2023
Byron Richard "Dick" Blackwell, 84, of Bozeman, Montana, passed away on May 18, 2023. Per his request no services are planned. Cremation has been entrusted to Dahl Funeral & Cremation Service.
He was born on October 10, 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Byron Wayne and Josephine Flygare Blackwell. Dick grew up in San Francisco and graduated...
Gordon Lee Smith
May 17, 2023
Gordon Lee Smith passed away May 17,2023, in Sherman, Texas, where he was living with his youngest daughter and her family. He was 91 years old.
He was born to good parents, Lee and Lydia Scasta Smith, on April 20,1932, in Bryan, Texas. He grew up in Bryan and graduated from Texas A&M University, class of ’53. He married Glenda...
Marc Keyes
May 15, 2023
Marc Dayton Keyes, 74, of Bozeman passed away on May 15, 2023. Cremation has been entrusted to Dahl Funeral & Cremation.
Marc was born on January 29, 1949, in Ellensburg, WA to Wendell and Lois (Kaynor) Keyes. Raised with three other siblings in a tight family, he would go on to join the military shortly after high school.
Marc was a Vietnam...
Maxine Byler
May 10, 2023
Maxine Byler, 93, of Sheridan, MT, passed away May 10, 2023, at the Tobacco Root Mountains Care Center.
Maxine was born in Corvallis, Oregon, the oldest of the five children to Ernest and Doris (nee Michaelson) Hunter. She married Gene Byler in 1948, and they spent time in Oregon and British Columbia before moving to Montana. Maxine and Gene had five...
Zachary Joseph Quigley-Stepanik
May 9, 2023
Zachary Quigley-Stepanik, 39, of Bozeman, MT, passed away May 9, 2023. A full obituary is forthcoming and a Celebration of Zach's LIfe will be held this Summer.
Edward M Wrzesinski
May 4, 2023
Edward Merle Wrzesinski was born on October 27, 1945, to Casimer and Blanche (Spearin) Wrzesinski and raised on the Wrzesinski family homestead in the Snowy Mountains of Montana. He passed on to the next great adventure on May 4, 2023.
In 1963, he joined the United States Navy in the early days of the Vietnam War and served two tours...
Donna Ventura
Apr 29, 2023
Donna Ventura, 64, of Belgrade, MT, passed on April 29, 2023, with her loving family at her side. Born in St. Louis, MO, to Richard and Ruth Stelmar, she was one of five children. She earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Missouri, followed by a Master’s Degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC. Her first job was...
Steven Kenneth Fisher
Apr 24, 2023
Steve was born July 25, 1947, in Bozeman, MT. He attended Belgrade and Bozeman schools and graduated from Bozeman Senior High School. Shortly after graduation in June 1965, Steve enlisted in the Marine Corps and headed to MCRD San Diego, CA for boot camp. Steve served two tours in Viet Nam which changed him forever. He was exposed to Agent...
Roselyn J Azure
Apr 19, 2023
Roselyn Azure, 76 years of age, peacefully passed on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at the Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.
Roselyn was born August 19, 1946, in Browning, MT to Francis and Annie Wall. She was the second youngest of eight children. Roselyn was educated in the Browning, MT school system. She graduated high school at 17 years of age.
After high school Roselyn...
Betty Mae Harvey
Apr 17, 2023
Betty Mae (Monger) Harvey was born February 17, 1931, and died at age 92 on April 17, 2023, in Manhattan (MT). In between, she led a generous, lovely life.
Mom was born in Bozeman, the second of four children of Joe and Dorothy (Nelson) Monger. She grew up in Belgrade.
Her grandparents on her mother's side were Swedish immigrants who farmed...
Orville "Phil" Rostad
Apr 13, 2023
Phil Rostad, 93, long-time cattleman from Martinsdale, passed away on April 13, 2023, in Bozeman.
Phil was born in Harlowton, Montana, on November 2, 1929, to Orville Peter and Pearl Virginia (nee Blevins) Rostad. The Rostads ran cattle on a ranch headquartered on the Bozeman Fork of the Musselshell River in the north end of the Crazy Mountains near Lennep. He...
Hilda Bertha Harper
Apr 11, 2023
The evening of April 11, 2023, Hilda B. (Schaak Harper), 93, left this world as she had lived her life: with determination and faith. She had begun that day by telling her daughter, Amy, that she had asked God to let her die that day — and He answered her prayer. Among Hilda’s last words were, “Please God, be with...
Dorothy Kathryn Roeder
Apr 10, 2023
Dorothy Kathryn Roeder, 103, passed away peacefully on April 10, 2023 with her adoring daughters at her side.
Dorothy was the youngest of seven children born to Jacob and Anna Marie (Henrickson) Thomas in Wheatland, IA on the first of February 1920. She was raised in the town of Clinton, IA where she would graduate high school and then worked...
Jan Van Dam
Apr 10, 2023
Jan Van Dam, of Bozeman, MT, went to be with the Lord on April 10, 2023, after 93 fully lived years. He was born in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 29, 1929, to Marinus and Albertina (Wals) Van Dam.
Jan had the unique experience to live under Nazi occupation between the ages of 11 and 16, and worked with the Dutch...
Jamie Michael Johnson
Apr 8, 2023
Jamie Michael Johnson, 50, of Bozeman, MT passed away on April 8, 2023. No services are planned at this time.
Jamie was born in Las Vegas, NV on February 16, 1973 to Carl and Colleen Johnson. He was born with a kind heart and soul, and was always concerned about others. Friends and family are what brought him the most joy....
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