Obituaries
YUMA, ARIZONA — Virginia (Patterson) Dolezal, 95, left the farm for a better place on Dec. 10, 2019. She was born on Feb. 15, 1924, in Havre, Montana, the daughter of homesteaders, George Patterson and Evelyn (Eva) Baugh, hailing from Oskaloosa, Iowa. She spent her childhood racing to farmland on her horse to work the fields with her family. Virginia graduated from Havre High School in 1942. After high school, Virginia attended Northern Montana University where she studied business and later worked for Buttery’s and Citizens Bank in Havre and then served as the Hingham City treasurer. Virginia married Donald (Dewey) Dolezal on her birthday in 1946. After marriage, sh...
POLSON — Julius (Jules) Clavadetscher, a former automotive executive, one-time mayor of Polson, and most importantly a loving husband and devoted father, died Dec. 15 from complications of progressive supranuclear palsy and Parkinson’s syndrome. Montana has lost a dignified, thoughtful citizen an...
POLSON – Imogene G. Repke, age 93, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, at her residence. Memorial services for Imogene will be announced at a later date Arrangements are under the direction of The Lake Funeral Home and Crematory.
POLSON – Julius James “Jules” Clavadetscher, age 76, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019, at his residence. There are no services for Jules at this time. Memorial services will be announced at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of The Lake Funeral Home and Crema...
MISSOULA — Daniel Leo Ryan was born Dec. 16, 1946 at St. Patrick’s Hospital. He died there Dec. 12 of small cell lung cancer. His family farmed and ranched west of Missoula, on both sides of North Reserve and up over the North Hills. Prior to the I-90 interstate, his parents, Francis and Dorothy ...
POLSON — Eleanor Zimmerman-Keyser went to be with her Lord and Savior on Dec. 7, 2019. Eleanor was born on June 18, 1936, in Dillon to Elmer and Mable Pilon. She married Henry “Mike” Zimmerman and had two daughters, Michele Zimmerman and Heidi Roy. Eleanor graduated from Western in Dillo...
MISSOULA — William (Willie) Keith Lovell son of Bernadine (Bernie) Lovell passed from this life to be with his Lord Jesus on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, at 2:30 p.m. He was met by his dad, Daniel L. Lovell; his brother, Leslie and his sister, Patsy Faye Golden; his grandparents Fred and Jen...
RONAN — Early on July 24, 2019, you decided it was time to grace us all with your presence, Grayson. You came out crying like any other baby and when your grandma first spoke to you and held you, you stopped crying and looked at grandma and cuddled in. Grayson Jesse Mitchell was born at 12:33 ...
POLSON — Donna Marie Lovich Rowold passed, as she said, “from the arms of a loving family to the arms of a loving Savior” on Dec. 5 in Polson, Montana. Born in Lorain, Ohio on Oct. 4, 1952, she attended Concordia Junior College in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Concordia Teachers College in River ...
KALISPELL — Harold “Herb” Herbig, 88, of Kalispell, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Arrangements are being made by Johnson-Gloschat Funeral Home and Crematory in Kalispell.
