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Mary Ann Roberts
Mary Ann Roberts, 53, died of an aneurism on Friday, October 6th. Services will be Tuesday, October 10th at 2 p.m. at First Lutheran Church in Glasgow with Reverend Martin Mock officiating and with burial in Highland Cemetery. Bell Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
She was born in Glasgow in 1947 to Thomas Mullen and Amanda Hopstad Mullen. She was raised and attended schools in Glasgow and then attended Eastern Montana College in Billings. In 1964 she married Sherril Brooks White in Glasgow. Later South Dakota married Mike Roberts of Glasgow, in 1971. She was Director of the Gateway House in Billings for 13 years. She was the Victim Witness Liaison for Phillips and Valley County for 13 years.
On August 3rd she had an aneurism and died of complications from it.
She loved reading, old movies and playing with her grand-daughter. She received the Degree of Honor, was a member of the Lutheran Church, Womens Resource Center, and was on the board of the Friends of the Pioneer Museum.
Survivors include her mother, Amanda Mullen of Glasgow; 1 son: Jim White of San Jose, California; 1 daughter: Jane Brooks of Sun Valley, California; 1 grand-daughter: Bodhi Rose Brooks; 4 sisters: Sue Herson, Patsy Wilson and Karen Hanvold, all of Glasgow, and Yvonne Cole of Houston, Texas; 2 brothers: Richard Mullen of Glasgow and Michael Mullen of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Leland Smelser
Leland Smelser, 69, died of cancer at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow on October 7th. Services will be Wednesday, October 11th at 2 p.m. at the Faith Lutheran Church in Glasgow with Reverend George Draper officiating and with burial in Highland Cemetery. Bell Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
He was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1930 and was raised and lived in the area and later in Bremerton, Washington, before moving to Miles City where he graduated from high school. He went to work with his dad at the Pacific Hide & Fur company in Sidney. He married Lucille Entzel in 1952 in Sidney. They moved to Great Falls where he worked for Pacific Hide & Fur in Great Falls from 1954-59. They then moved to Glasgow where Leland managed Pacific Hide & Fur until retiring in 1986.
He was a member and Past President of the Faith Lutheran Church and Board of Elders, served on the District Missouri Board of the Missouri Synod and the Extension Fund Board, served as Chairman of the Republican Central Committee, on the Valley View Nursing Home Board of Directors for 9 years, 6 years as Chairman, and on the Pacific Hide & Fur Board of Directors for 18 years. He was also a charter member and past president of the Glasgow Wranglers Kiwanis Club and received Boss of the Year from the Glasgow Chamber in 1978. He also was very proud to be a recovered alcoholic for over 40 years.
Survivors include his wife, Lucile Smelser of Glasgow; 1 son: Paul Smelser and his wife Joann of Glendive; 2 daughters: Tamara Larson and her husband Michael of Billings, and Theresa Smelser McDaid of Billings; 6 grandchildren: Megan Smelser, Nathan Smelser, Vanessa Larson, Christopher Larson, Brittany Larson and Morgan McDaid; 3 sisters: Beverly Becker of Polson, Montana; Frankie Morrison of Laurel, Montana; Anna Mindt and her husband Delton of Polson, Montana; 2 brothers: Jim Smelser and his wife Shirley of Power, Montana; and William Smelser and his wife Sharon of Sidney, Montana.
Alfred Olai Akre
Alfred Olai Akre, 90, died on October 4th of natural causes at Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow. Services were Monday, October 9th, at the First Lutheran Church in Glasgow with Reverend Martin Mock officiating and with burial in Highland Cemetery. Bell Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Alfred was born in Montrail County, North Dakota, in 1910. He lived in Plaza, North Dakota, and moved to Dooley, Montana. There he worked on farms. Alfred came to Fort Peck to work on the dam construction. He worked on the dredge Maddison, and later worked on the power house construction. He married Gladys Esther Carlson at Wolf Point in 1936. In 1940 they bought their first half section west of Fort Peck. They farmed until retiring in 1982 at age 72. They stayed on the farm until 1994. Alfred moved in to Nemont Manor in 1995 and has lived at Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow since 1997.
Alfred served on the board of directors of the Valley Electric Cooperative for 18 years. He also served on the school board for many years. He enjoyed hunting and puttering in the shop and loved to play pinochle.
Survivors include: 2 sons: Richard Akre and his wife Ilse of Federal Way, Washington, and Gerald Akre of Lewistown; 2 daughters: Judy Carr of Graham, Washington, and Janil Hofman of Hampton, Virginia; 5 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, 1 sister: Mabel Jorgensen of Kenosha, Wisconsin; 1 brother: Helmer Akra of Billings. He was preceded in death by his wife Gladys in 1984, 4 sisters and 1 brother.
June Hillman Cook
June Hillman Cook, 81, died October 3rd at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow of natural causes. Memorial services will be held during the 2001 Milk River Days in Hinsdale this coming summer. Cremation has taken place. Adams Funeral Home & Crematory of Malta is in charge of arrangements.
June was born in 1919 in Modina, Minnesota, and came with her parents to Hinsdale in 1927 and graduated from Hinsdale High in 1936. For several years she worked for her dad at the Fisrt National Bank of Hinsdale until 1956, then moving to California and working for the Crocker Angleo Bank in Fremont, where she became the first female officer of the Crocker Banks and later became the first manager. June was the first president and charter member of the American Business Women's Association in Fremont.
She married Clifford Blockhus in 1942; they divorced in 1960. She married Edward Ned Cook in 1962 in Reno, Nevada; he died in 1979.
She was a member of the Riverview Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in Hinsdale and was the Past Worthy Matron. She enjoyed traveling, photography and flowers.
Survivors include 2 sons: Curtis Blockhus of Copporopolis, California, and Jon Blockhus of Hinsdale; 2 brothers: R.E. Bud Hillman of Hinsdale and Orval Hillman of Jamestown, California; 1 sister, Rosanne Cox of Canada; 4 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Louis Phillips
Former Glasgow resident Louis Phillips died Friday, September 22nd, near Leesville, Texas, in a semi-truck accident. Services were September 25th at the Hixson Brothers chapel in Pineville, Louisiana, with burial in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Pollock, Louisiana.
He was owner and operator of Louis E. Phillips Trucking Company and was a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean Conflict, and a member of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Pollock. He was stationed at the Glasgow AFB in the early 1960's and then returned when he retired from the Air Force and bought a farm west of Glasgow in 1972. He returned to Louisiana in 1980.
Survivors include his wife, Eloise Garlington Phillips of Pollock; 1 daughter: Linda Dianne Mellon of Deville, Louisiana; 2 sons: Steven L. Phillips of Denton, Texas, and Tim Phillips of Glasgow, Montana; 3 stepdaughters: Darla Peavy of Pineville, Karen Thompson of Pollock and Lori Hawthorne of Alexandria, Louisiana; 3 stepsons: Dell Durand III of Pineville, Brian Keith Durand of Whitehouse, Texas, and Darian Durand of Pollock; 4 sisters: Bertie Prestridge of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Irene Burrough of Waterford, Louisiana; Eva Phillips and Myrtle Sanders of Pollock; 1 brother: Archie Phillips of Fresno, California; 23 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, 171 Pleasant Hill Road, Pollock, Louisiana, 71467.
Elsa Quast Neslon (09/29)
Funeral services for Elsa Quast Nelson, age 93, of Richland will be Monday, Oct. 2 at the Opheim Lutheran Church in Opheim. Rev. Mark Koonz will officiate services. Burial will take place at Lawndale Cemetery in Opheim, MT. Bell Mortuary of Glasgow is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Nelson passed away Friday, September 29 at Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow.
Elsa went from country school to Glasgow High School. She started college in Dillon, later Normal School in Billings in the first class that opened there. Her teaching career went from Avondale, North Bench, and then to Glentana. Elsa gave her teaching warrants to a young farmer. Clinton traded them for horses. Following the horse trade, Clinton and Elsa were married in 1937. After one year of Fort Peck Dam employment, Clinton traded the house for a bobsled and life began for them on their beloved farm on the North Bench. Their lives were filled with hard work, wonderful neighbors and four children, Gretchen, Doris, Carl and David.
Elsa was preceded in death by her son Carl, brother Werner, sister Alice and nephew Wayne Nelson. She is survived by her husband, Clinton Nelson of Glasgow; son David and (Lynnette) Nelson of Richland; daughters, Gretchen and (Bill) Westby of Opheim, Doris and (Hoyle) Moore of Lewistown, 12 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.
Allan Watterson (9/25)
The former manager of Wolf Point radio stations KVCK AM & FM, Allan Watterson, died yesterday (Sunday 9/24/00) in Williston, ND. He was 52.
Watterson had been involved in a number of businesses in Wolf Point and northeast Montana since the late 1960’s. He took over management of the radio stations in October of 1995 and ran the operations until his cancer diagnosis forced him to retire this spring.
In addition to his duties with the radio station, Watterson was well known as a member of a country rock band "Tucson Ned" which played across the region. And he also donated countless hours to the Wolf Point High School Swing Choir, assisting them with their sound system.
He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Jocelyn and Barry Watterson-Woods and two grandsons of Gresham, Oregon; by a son Jeremy Watterson, a student at the University of Montana in Missoula; and by his fiancÈ Celina Brien and her son and daughter of Wolf Point.
A memorial service to celebrate the life of Allan Watterson will be held Wednesday (9/27) at 7pm at the Wolf Point High School Auditorium.
Kenneth "Bud" I. Stolem
Kenneth "Bud" I. Stolem, 85, died at his home in Malta from natural causes on September 17th. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, September 22nd, at the Hinsdale Lutheran Church, with burial in the Hillview Cemetery at Hinsdale. Adams Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Bud was born in Tampico in 1914 to Knute and Ida (Moen) Stolem. He attended grade school in Tampico and graduated from Hinsdale High in 1933. He farmed and ranched, and married Elsie Watson in 1940 in Glasgow. He retired because of poor health in 1996 and they moved to Malta.
Bud enjoyed playing the fiddle with his neighbors and friends and played for many dances, weddings and funerals. He was a member of the District 5 Fiddlers Association for many years.
He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church and was a member of the Hinsdale Lutheran Church.
He was preceded in death by 2 brothers and 1 sister.
Survivors include his wife Elsie of Malta; 4 daughters: Marilyn Stolem, Myrdis Stolem and Myran Cummings, all of Malta, and Meredith Marshall of Miami, Florida; 4 grandsons, 5 granddaughters and 5 great grandchildren. Family was his life and he was a very devoted father and grandfather.
