Myrtle Claire Brugman
Oct 2, 2017
Born to Isabelle and Goldie Bruce Thompson in Lima, MT on February 26, 1932. Mert was educated in Lima, Anaconda Jr. High and graduated from Eighth Grade in the one room school house at Gregson. She attended Butte High and Anaconda High School. Her family came to Anaconda when her dad went to work for the Intermountain Transportation Co. Through...
Patricia "Patsy" Marie Lathrope
Oct 2, 2017
Anaconda native Patricia (Patsy) M. Lathrope, 90 of 1101 West Third Street passed away on Monday afternoon, October 2nd at her residence. Mass of the Resurrection will be Thursday at 10:30a.m. with visitation beginning at 9:30a.m. at The Holy Family Catholic Community. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery followed by a luncheon at Holy Family. She was born May...
Anthony Jon Bjorkman
Sep 24, 2017
Anthony Jon Bjorkman,64, of Anaconda, died Sunday, September 24, 2017 at his residence in Philipsburg. Services are pending.
Janice H. Palakovich
Sep 24, 2017
Janice Palakovich passed away Sunday, September 24, 2017 at home, surrounded by family. She was 84. She was born February 9, 1933 in Anaconda Montana to Harold and Helen (Ness) Higgins. She graduated from Anaconda High School in 1950. After graduation, she worked at the Anaconda telephone office before moving to Minneapolis, MN where she attended flight school. She returned...
Margaret "Peggie" Franz Pahrman
Sep 20, 2017
Margaret "Peggie" Pahrman died September 20, 2017 at her residence in Philipsburg. Peggie was born in Cheyenne, Wyo. to Lee and Paula Franz. She spent her early years in Colorado and then two years college and two years in England. She was a florist for over 40 years. She spent many years in Great Falls, and in Missoula. Her last...
Tim Mccarthy
Sep 20, 2017
Timothy J. (Tim) McCarthy April 25, 1951-September 21, 2017 Timothy J. (Tim) McCarthy, Anaconda, MT native, and resident of Seattle, WA, passed away unexpectedly on September 21st. He was born April 25th, 1951, and was the son of Thomas and Isabel (Tracy) McCarthy. Tim was the 7th of 12 children raised on Birch Street. Tim (Timmy to his siblings) was...
Clay Olson
Sep 13, 2017
Clay Olson, 63, of Helena and formerly of Philipsburg, passed away Wednesday, September 13, 2017 in Helena. Clay was born in Casper, Wyoming on October 20, 1953 to Raymond Byron and Mary Violet (Broman) Olson. He received his education in Helena, graduating in the class of 1971. Following graduation, he enlisted in the US Army, serving for 13 years and...
Margaret Ziegler
Sep 13, 2017
Mass of the Christian Burial for Mrs. Margaret Ziegler, 100, will be celebrated from Holy Family Catholic Church, Saturday, September 23rd, at 10:30 a.m. There will be one hour of visitation prior to the service. Margaret passed away at her daughter and son-in-law's (Mary and Tim Magness) Billings home where she had resided since Christmas 2016. She was with Mary,...
Paul E. Ackerman
Sep 9, 2017
Paul Eugene Ackerman passed away on September 9th, 2017 while in the North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Montana. He had been living in Columbia Falls, Montana for the last five years, with his daughter Janelle. Paul was born September 12th, 1939 in Webster, South Dakota, to Adelbert Paul and Laura Mae Ackerman. Paul spent his early years in Watertown, South...
Cathy Lynn (Scholler) Kostad
Sep 6, 2017
On September 6th an amazing daughter, wife, mother, grandma and best friend graduated from this temporal world to her eternal home with her Savior Jesus. Cathy (Scholler) Kostad was a very gifted woman. She enjoyed painting ceramics, doing flower arrangements, baking, cooking and decorating. She enjoyed doing the paper routes with her co bear, Cody. She looked forward to doing...
Ethel Marie Skiles
Aug 31, 2017
Ethel Marie Skiles passed away peacefully in her sleep August 31, 2017, at the Community Nursing Home of Anaconda, where she had been a resident the last few years. She was 89 years old and was married for 66 years to Frank Lewis Skiles, who pre-deceased her in 2013. Marie's childhood began in Southern Cross, Montana, where her Father, Michael...
Arline M. Mickelson
Aug 27, 2017
Arline Marie Smyth Mickelson came into this world on May 21, 1937 born to two Butte Irish, Andrew Smyth and June McKenna Smyth. She was soon joined by a sister Nancy and brother Andrew. A true Butte girl, she was a wonderful dancer and figure skater and her career ambition listed in her yearbook was telephone operator. She soon met...
Nellie Utahna Kennedy
Aug 24, 2017
Nellie Utahna Meason Kennedy, 16 May 1921 - 24 Mar 2017 Nellie Utahna Measom Kennedy, at a seasoned age of 96, passed away August 24, 2017 in Philipsburg, Montana. She, as her mom, was born in the home of her Grandmother, Nellie Taylor, whose name she bears, May 16, 1921, in Salem, Utah, to Thomas & Vera (Taylor) Measom. She...
Virginia "Ginny" O'Brien
Aug 20, 2017
VIRGINIA "Ginny" O'BRIEN, 68 Ginny died Saturday, August 20, at the Deer Lodge Care and Rehab Center after a long battle with cancer. Ginny was born in Anaconda on August l0 th, 1949, to Gerald and Thelma (Weir) O'Brien. She attended Anaconda schools and graduated from Anaconda Senior High in 1967. After graduation, she attended Butte Business College. She began...
Helen "Regina" Connor
Aug 17, 2017
Regina Connor died peacefully at her home on August 17, 2017 at the age of 98. She was born on September 2, 1918 in Anaconda, MT. Having grown up on a ranch near Lost Creek, she had a love for all animals but especially her horses and her Sheltie dogs. She was an avid gardener and she loved to read....
Lonette L. Peltier
Aug 13, 2017
Lonette was one of the kindest people one could have the pleasure of knowing, and privilege of calling a friend. With a heart of gold, she was the type of person who would give you the shirt off her back. She was preceded in death by her brother, Shawn Dennis DeMers, her beloved nephew, Vince Allen DeMers, and her grandparents,...
Robert M. Longenecker
Aug 11, 2017
Robert Longennecker, 87, of Anaconda, died Friday, August 11, 2017 at the Community Hospital of Anaconda. Services are pending.
Bonnie Fay Gee
Aug 8, 2017
Bonnie F. Gee, 72, passed away August 8, 2017 at home surrounded by her family that loved her. She was born August 22, 1944 in Anaconda, MT to Stanley and Beth Glovan. She grew up in Anaconda and graduated from A.H.S. "Class of ‘62". She married John "Mick" Gee on December 27, 1962. In the past, she enjoyed golf, bowling...
Alice Joan Finnegan
Jul 30, 2017
Alice Joan Finnegan passed away in her home, embraced by her loving husband and son, on July 30, 2017. Born, raised and educated in Anaconda, second of fourteen children, along with her parents Albert and Alice (Kelly) Clark, generated the constant hum in and around the family home which still continues to this day. Within eight months after high school...
James Ward Clark
Jul 30, 2017
James was welcomed into the loving arms of the Good Lord and his parents, James and Marie Clark, on Sunday, July 30, 2017 in Anaconda, MT at the age of 74. James was born July 6, 1943 in Anaconda, MT to James and Marie Clark, the third of six children. He went to St. Paul's School and graduated from Anaconda...
