Robert Graham
July 25, 2025
Robert Leland Graham, 90, passed away July 25th from a brief illness. He was born November 12, 1934 to Leland and Myrtle Graham in Iron Rod just south of Silver Star. The family moved to Silver Star, Mt with Bob at the age of 3. Bob graduated from Twin Bridges High School, Class of 1953. Bob's senior year, on Thanksgiving...
Lester Mark Braach
July 18, 2025
If the Good Lord has cattle on a thousand hills as the Good Book says, then His cowboys should have plenty of work. Another Ruby Valley hand was added to the crew early Friday morning, July 18, 2025 with the passing of Lester Braach.
Lester Mark Braach was born December 17, 1929 at the family ranch in Brandon, Montana to parents,...
Jeanine Babcock
July 7, 2025
Jeanine Marie Babcock,69 of Shepherd, MT, passed away at home, surrounded by her family on July 7, 2025. She was born on December 2, 1955, in Butte, MT, to John Ferriter and Patricia Beers. Gigi was raised with a strong sense of family values and work ethic. She married the love of her life, Wayne Babcock, on April 19th,1970. Together...
Steven Paris
July 6, 2025
Steven D Paris 1948-2025
Steven D Paris left this earth to return to his Heavenly Father on July 6, 2025.
Steven was born on March 5, 1948 in Elko, Nevada into a family of his father Arthur L Paris; Mother Anna Gail Cooper Paris Nielsen; one Sister CCCherrieone brother Michael. Steve and Michael were 11 months apart and were the...
Wayne Peterson
July 4, 2025
Wayne Darryl Peterson was born October 4, 1946, in Murray, Utah, to Cleone (Jensen) and Max Darrell Peterson. He passed away on July 4, 2025, in Whitehall, Montana.
Wayne was raised an "Air Force Brat" lived in dozens of states, plus 3 countries. He attended the University of Idaho (UI) and then enlisted in the Navy. Served as a...
Patricia Monforton
June 30, 2025
MONFORTON
Patricia Joan Harding
June 12, 1939 - June 30,2025
Smile because she lived
The family of Patricia Joan Harding Monforton, with profound sorrow, announces her recent passing. To know Joan was to know the essence of the original spirit of Montana. She was born to the land, a direct descendant of the first pioneers to the picturesque Ruby Valley...
Virginia Funk
June 28, 2025
Virginia Belle Funk, age 96, of Sheridan, Montana, passed away peacefully on June 28, 2025. Born in Wood River, Illinois, to Clinton and Lyda Smith, Virginia was a woman of strength, resilience, and unwavering dedication to her family.
Shortly after graduating high school, Virginia moved with her family to the Sheridan area, where she would build a life filled with...
Verna Bird
June 27, 2025
Verna Jean Bird, age 90, of Whitehall, passed away peacefully on June 27, 2025. Born on February 17, 1935, in St. Ignatius, Montana, she was the beloved daughter of Vernon Edward and Delia Eugenia (Vincent) Boucher.
Throughout her life, Verna found joy in many pursuits, including her love for cats and birds, as well as her passion for crocheting and...
Sara Dunham
June 27, 2025
Sara Nell Hyatt, was born in 1933 in Madrid, Alabama, to Eldridge Lewis Hyatt and Amanda Hinson, and she passed away June 27, 2025, in Dillon, Montana.
Sara grew up in the Dothan, Alabama area, moving to Colorado at age 19. She met the love of her life, Harry Sherman Dunham, and they eloped and were married in November 1953,...
Delores Nichols
June 21, 2025
Delores Arlene Wendland Nichols passed on June 21st, 2025. She had 10 siblings, son Liberty, and grandson Austin. Ted had a playing job at the Rockin-R-Bar, he showed up early and asked Dee what time to set up; Dee said, "You ain't playing yet?" They married in 1972. Their Band name was Change For A Dime. They played both kinds...
Sarah Elizabeth Knapp
June 18, 2025
Sarah Elizabeth Knapp, born March 3, 1995, passed away June 18, 2025, from complications during childbirth. She is survived by a beautiful infant son, Theodore (Theo - whose name means Gift From God), the love of her life, Austin; brothers Andrew and Thomas, sister Anna Skjei (Logan), father Phil Knapp (Yelena) and mother Elizabeth Weidow (Vern) in-laws Juliette and Kent,...
Mac Reed
June 13, 2025
Mac W. Reed, 82, peacefully passed away June 13, 2025, at Spring Creek Inn, Bozeman Montana.
Mac was born August 29, 1942, in San Francisco, California to McKinley W. and Bertier (Krupp) Reed. He grew up in Santa Cruz, California where he was an avid surfer, football player and outdoorsman.
Mac joined the Navy in 1960 and was deployed to...
Peter Rugheimer
June 7, 2025
Peter MacGregor Rugheimer, 65, passed away on June 7, 2025. He was born on September 24, 1959, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Norman MacGregor "Mac" Rugheimer and Hallie Barbee Rugheimer.
Pete grew up in Montana and graduated from Bozeman High School in 1977. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University in 1990.
A brilliant and...
Robert Leonard Laumeyer
June 3, 2025
Robert L. Laumeyer died peacefully in his sleep on June 4 after speaking with his children and repeating his desire to to "share some tea with his mother." He had a tremendous zest for life and he will be missed by many who love him.
He was born on Aug 31, 1932 in Wolf Point Montana, the youngest of Rose and...
Regina Faye Rutherford
June 2, 2025
Regina Faye Rutherford was born in Closplint, Kentucky on September 3rd, 1932, to Alexander Rutherford and Ethel Sasser Rutherford. She had two brothers, Robert Edward Rutherford and Charles William Rutherford and one sister, Betty Lou Halcomb. She spent her growing up years living between Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. As a child of the depression era, in her own words, her...
Joan Catherine Burwell
May 27, 2025
Joan Burwell was born July 31, 1933 to Joseph and Cecile (nee LaGrandeur) Wahman in Pincher Creek, Alberta Canada. She joined a brother Graham Neville. The family moved to Oldenburg, Indiana before Joan was a year old. Joan received her education at the Holy Family Grade School and graduated high school from the Immaculate Conception Academy in Oldenburg, Indiana.
After graduation...
Nelva Maude Sears
May 21, 2025
Nelva Maude (Secor) Sears recently passed away peacefully in her home in Whitehall, MT. She was 97 years old. Nelva was born to Allen D. and Maggie Jane Secor in Bozeman, MT. She joined brothers Walter, Lyle, Thomas, Leonard and Lester and sisters Aldean and Margaret. Nelva graduated from Gallatin County High School with the class of 1945.
Nelva married Kenneth...
Nolan James Murphy
May 19, 2025
Nolan James Murphy was born on January 12, 1947 in Whitehall, Mt. at Dr. Hill's hospital. Parents were Terence and Genevieve Watson Murphy. He attended grades one through eight at the one room Eureka School in the Milligan Canyon area of Jefferson County. Grades nine through twelve he was a student at Willow Creek High School. In 1969 Nolan graduated...
Clyde William Brunzell
May 18, 2025
Clyde William (Mickey) Brunzell passed away on the evening of May 18 at The Tobacco Root Mountain Care Center in Sheridan.
He was born in Sundance, Wyo on June 29, 1943 to William and Alice Brunzell.
He grew up on the family ranch in the Upper Ruby, and those days of wading the river to get to school and digging up the...
Pearl Marie Edwards
May 16, 2025
Pearl Marie Woods was born in Butte, Montana on July 29, 1925. She was the first child of Earl Woods and Grace Weingart Woods and was raised on the Weingart Ranch in Silver Star. She attended the one room school house until that school consolidated with Twin Bridges. She graduated from TBHS at 16 in 1942 along with her classmate,...
