Local Obituaries for Families in Beaverhead County
Rawl Robinson
June 4, 2017
Rawl Allen Robinson, 70 passed away in the comfort of his home, surrounded by his family and loved ones. Rawl was born May 14, 1947 in Belle Fourche South Dakota to Rawl Oliver Robinson and Hilda Wagner Robinson. Rawl grew up on a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming at the base of The Devils Tower. Rawl was known for his way...
Timothy Mosolf
May 30, 2017
Timothy George Mosolf, 70, of Dillon, Montana, died May 30, 2017. Tim was born Jan. 25, 1947 in Carmel, CA, to George and Bess Mosolf. He graduated from Carmel High School, where he played football. He later studied at Monterey Peninsula College. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1972, based out of Sheppard Air Force Base...
Mark Simkins Jr.
May 30, 2017
Mark James Simkins Jr. 1995 – 2017 A tragic accident took the life of Mark James (M.J.) Simkins Jr. of Dillon on May 30 , a day after he turned 22. Born May 29, 1995 in Dillon, M.J. was passionate about his faith, family, football, community and education. M.J.’s participation in athletics began on the corner of Bannack and California...
Lucyann Lienesch
May 28, 2017
Lucy Ann Lienesch, AKA Lucyann Lienesche, 88 Lucy Ann Alexander Lienesch passed away peacefully in Dillon, Montana on May 28, 2017. She was born on March 25, 1929, in Los Angeles, California to Charles Lienesch and Lucy Axtell Lienesch, both of Montana pioneer families. Her great grandfather, George D. Thomas of Illinois, saw Montana while on military duty, and in...
Joseph Wellborn
May 24, 2017
Ned passed away May 24, 2017. He was born to Rela A. and Hattie (Calloway) Wellborn on June 19, 1926 at their homestead in Johnson Gulch up Medicine Lodge. He lived there for a few years with his parents, his older sister June, and his younger brother Bill. They later moved to Armstead and he attended schools there and in...
Clyde Smith Jr.
May 18, 2017
Clyde Robert Smith Jr., 92 of Dillon, Montana passed away at his home on May 17th, 2017. He was born at the family homestead on September 14, 1924 to Clyde Hunter and Madge Suzannah Ray Smith in Dillon, Montana. He was the fifth of a family of eight. In 1928, the family moved to a ranch 9 miles north of...
John Lecoeuvre
April 23, 2017
John Frank Lecoeuvre, 76 “Lodgepole John” as he was known to most passed away at his home on April 23, 2017 his good friend Hester Hildreth, attending him throughout his final illness, was at his side. He was born on July 22, 1940 in Worchester, Massachusetts to John and Marilyn Brodeur Lecoeuvre. He will be greatly missed. At his request...
Peter Miller
April 22, 2017
Peter Gordon Miller died on April 22, 2017, at his home in Dillon. He was 79 years old. He was born December 3, 1937, in Dillon, to George Walter Miller and Mary Katherine White Miller. His very early years were lived in Denver, Colorado, and Fremont, Nebraska. When he was about 4 or 5 years old, the family moved back...
Virginia Scalzone
April 19, 2017
Virginia “Big Mom” Scalzone was born August 27, 1919 in Philadelphia, PA to Italian immigrants. She was the oldest of nine kids and went to work to help support the family when she was 14 during the years of the Great Depression. With the start of WW II, Virginia worked at the Philadelphia Navy Yard building airplanes – Virginia was...
Lei Johnson
April 13, 2017
Lei Lani Johnson (Brown) 79 passed away peacefully, April 13, 2017 at Barrett Hospital in Dillon, MT. Lani was born July 29, 1937 in Banning, CA to Walter H. Brown and Helen Daisy Brown (Rawlins). She moved to New York State, where she learned to swim in a pond at 4 years old. She attended grade school in Othello, WA...
Helen Brown
April 11, 2017
Longtime area resident Helen Brown passed away April 11, 2017 at Parkview/Kindred Care Center. Helen was born to Danish immigrants Nels and Maren Christensen in 1922. Helen attended local schools and graduated from Beaverhead County High School in 1941. After her marriage to Fred W. (Buster) Brown in 1946 Helen moved to the Brown Ranch on the Blacktail where she...
Donna Potter
April 7, 2017
Donna Geneva Burton Potter passed away April 7, 2017. Donna was born to Orson and Theo (Rasmussen) Burton on October 12, 1930 in Greendale, Utah. She married Von "Skip" Potter in Green River, Wyoming on November 4, 1947. Donna was proceeded in death by her husband Skip, grandchildren Eddy and Tana, parents Orson and Theo, sister Reva, brothers Earl, Gareth,...
Carl "Bud" Meier
March 24, 2017
Carl W. Meier of Dillon, Montana passed away March 24, 2017, at Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation - Parkview. Bud, as he was affectionately known, was born on August 21, 1920 in Duluth, Minnesota. In 1935 Bud and his family moved to Alaska to settle in the Matanuska Valley. He worked on the family Dairy Farm, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and...
Phyllis Burwell
March 20, 2017
Phyllis Davis Burwell died March 20, 2017 at the age of 91. She was the second of twin girls born to William and Rhoda Stutsman Davis on a farm on the East Bench in Dillon on April 25, 1925. She attended Dillon schools and graduated from Beaverhead County High School in 1943. After graduation, she worked at the Beaverhead County...
Mary Lockyer
March 16, 2017
Mary Joyce, Ward, Miller, Lockyer of Dillon, MT Born March 6th, 1930 - Died March 16th, 2017. Mary so greatly enjoyed life and has went to be with her lord and savior Jesus Christ. She will be greatly missed by her dear friends and loving family. Mary was born in Austin, MInnesota lived in Grant, Mt moved to Lima, Mt...
Shirley Davis
March 9, 2017
Shirley Bea Toland Davis was born October 4th, 1935 to Dillard McClenney Toland and Gyona Almeda Scott Toland in Texas. She died unexpectedly on March 9th, 2017 in Dillon, Montana. Shirley Married Asa Edwin Davis on February 27, 1954 in Bredckenridge, Texas. They had three children, Steven Walter (Susan) Davis, Kirk Edwin (Marilyn) Davis, and Gail Lynn Davis (Joe) Barnhart....
Joseph Rebich
March 8, 2017
Joseph George Rebich Jr. (Nonie), son of Mary (Malesich) and Joseph G. Rebich, passed away on March 8, 2017. Joe was born on the family ranch south of Dillon on February 3, 1934. He ranched his entire life, enjoying all of the farming. He served in the Army from 1956-1958, stationed in the South Carolina. Joe never married but was...
Charles Dishno
March 8, 2017
Charles Edward "Chuck" Dishno was born August 4, 1934, in Bly, Oregon. Chuck was very proud of the fact that he was 4th in his high school graduation class...of four; he like to say he was the top of the lower 25%. Although Chuck came to Dillon from Oregon, via California, he came with genuine Montana bon a fides. His...
LoyDean Piper
February 25, 2017
LoyDean Piper, age 83, passed away on February 25, 2017. She was preceded in death by her husband John Piper and her sister Marlys Ricks. She is survived by brothers James (Elaine) Munday and Russell (Sonja) Munday, son Randy Piper, and numerous nieces and nephews. LoyDean was a 25-year employee of Safeway. Because of her top-tier checking service in no-look,...
