Obituaries

Bradley B. Parrish

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Bradley B Parrish, 80, died Monday, Nov. 4, 2019 at Central Montana Medical Center of natural causes.

Bobbie R. Catron

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Bobbie R. Catron, 96, of Lewistown died Tuesday morning, April 14, 2020 at his home of natural causes. He was born July 30, 1923, the son of O.H. (Bob) and Fern (Clark) Catron on a homestead in Carter County, what is called Long Pines. He was the third of six children and the oldest son.

Dorothy Mae (Dusek) Diekman

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Dorothy Mae (Dusek) Diekman, 89, of Lewistown passed peacefully at home of natural causes, surrounded by her three daughters.

She was born Feb. 5, 1931 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Lewistown one of four children to Anthony T. and Mary (Schanilec) Dusek. She lived her entire life in Lewistown. Her grandfather Vaclav Dusek and his three brothers came to Montana from Bohemia in 1903, being the first to enter the Judith Basin in an emigrant car on the Jawbone railroad. He, many times helped others get started on their new life in this area as well.

Gerald A. Roppe

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Gerald A. Roppe, 91, of Lewistown died Sunday evening, July 26, 2020, in Valle Vista Manor of natural causes. He was born June 10, 1929 in Windsor, Vermont, the son of Gerald F. and Harriett (Smith) Roppe. He received his education in Vermont, graduating from high school in 1947.

Anna Ruth (Fink) Horack

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Anna Ruth (Fink) Horack passed away on Sunday, July 26, 2020. Anna was born in Salt Creek, Wyoming on Nov. 2, 1926, and moved with her parents, Alvah and Anna Fink to Roy, Montana before the start of the depression.

She attended Roy High School but did not graduate because of the start of WWII. Anna married Dick Horack in 1946 and they had nine children together. They moved to California in 1953 where they lived until their deaths.

John Stephen Gilpatrick

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John Stephen Gilpatrick, 85, was born on March 10, 1935, in Lewistown, Montana, to Stephen George Gilpatrick and Helen Mary (Nellie) Deffinbaugh Gilpatrick. It was a recordsetting cold day. He passed from this life on Aug. 4, 2020. He was a member of the First Christian Church in Lewistown.

Donnis Doman

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Donnis Doman, 72, of Winnett, Montana, peacefully passed away on Sunday, July 26, 2020 at the Central Montana Medical Center in Lewistown after a long battle of COPD.

Reese Hilt

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Reese Hilt was born Oct. 12, 1928 in Abington, Virginia to Harrison and Alice (Warren) Hilt and passed away on July 25, 2020 at his daughter Kathy’s home in Jackson, Alabama.

Karl ‘Chris’ Anderson

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Karl "Chris" Anderson was born Feb. 11, 1963.

Erik Mickelsen

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Erik Mickelsen, 82, of Lewistown, Montana, loving father, husband and grandfather passed away peacefully at his home on Sunday, July 26, 2020 of natural causes. Erik was born March 26, 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Gunnar and Esther (Shain) Mickelsen.

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