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Kathy lost her battle to cancer on July 20, 2021. Kathy was born September 13 1962 in Kellogg Idaho to Jack and Jeanette(Brumley) DuPuis. After her dad passed away her mom relocated the family to Utah. When Kathy was a teenager she met the love of her life Elton W Jones. They were married December 12, 1980 and shortly after they were joined by three children. Kathy opened her heart and home to many of the neighborhood kids, she brought joy to everyone she met. Kathy is proceeded in death...

Carolyn was born to Charles Reich and Edna (Kallner) (Reich) Doyle in 1953 in Whitefish and died 7-11-21 at the age of 68 in Kalispell. She is preceded in death by her Mother and Father and is survived by sisters Charlene Webber (Kalispell), Lorena Reich (Belgrade) and brother Jim (Judy) Doyle (Belgrade). She graduated from Whitefish High School in 1971 and around 1990 graduated with a degree in History and English Teaching from Montana State University. Carolyn was an active learner and...

Ada Louise (Lust) Johnson passed away at Immanuel Lutheran Home in Kalispell, Montana on July 10, 2021. She was born on January 31, 1931, to George and Lydia Lust, and grew up in a log house in the Birch Grove Community north of Kalispell. She attended Birch Grove School and Flathead High School. At the University of Montana, where she majored in Biology, Ada met Bruce Johnson, of Homestead, Montana. They were married on June 5, 1952, and lived in Medicine Lake, Montana. Their son Clifton...

Kyle Douglas Gardner Kyle Douglas Gardner, 31, a beloved son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin, and friend, went to be with his Heavenly Father June 21, 2021, in Columbia Falls, Montana. Kyle was born September 30, 1989, in Great Falls, Montana to Maureice and Stephanie (Zubatch) Gardner. Kyle graduated May 11, 2017, with his Aeroplane and Power Plant Mechanic (A&P) degree from West Memphis, Arkansas. Kyle won Gold in his division in SKILLS, USA and received a full-ride college...

Elmer Leroy Bastrom, age 91, of Whitefish, passed away on Sunday, July 20, 2021. Elmer was born on August 2, 1929 in Ritzville, Washington, the youngest son of Henry and Henrietta (Harding) Bastrom. Although he only went through the 8th grade for a formal education, he was self-educated and never gave up an opportunity to learn a trade or further his knowledge of politics. Elmer was united in marriage to Donna Hines on June 10, 1950. Elmer and Donna had two children, son Ronald and...

On Friday, June 18th, 2021 Lois Lorraine (Hanson) Phillips went to be with her Savior, Jesus Christ at the age of 93. Lois was born in Spokane, WA on May 15, 1928 to Hilmer and Mae Lillian Hanson. Later that year, her family moved to Kalispell, MT. After her mother died of tuberculosis in 1933, Lois lived with foster parents Charles and Anna Bates of Kalispell. Lois attended Creston School, Kalispell West Side School, and graduated in the Flathead High School Class of 1946. She then went on...

Lois Ann was born on June 29, 1925, in Detroit. She grew up the beloved only child of Minnie and Leo Lockwood and the youngest of many adoring cousins. She entered the University of Michigan at the end of World War II where a handsome young veteran studying architecture caught her eye. She and Raymond Thon were married June 11, 1949. After their studies were completed in 1950, they moved to Ray’s hometown of Kalispell where he would start his architectural firm and they would raise four...

CAROLA THERESA MANN SIRUCEK Passed away on the eve of what would have been her 69th Wedding Anniversary to her beloved husband Edgar, of natural causes, at Expressions Memory Care in Kalispell, Montana. Carola was born on October 12, 1929 in St. Anthony, North Dakota, a small community founded by German Catholics in 1890. Her grandparents Klein and Mann both immigrated there from Illemetz, Austria in 1891. Carola was the fourth of ten children of John and Elizabeth (Klein) Mann. She...

Jimmie J. Blickenstaff 74 passed away June 1, 2021 with his wife by his side at KRMC and hospice care. Jimmie was born in Hagerstown, Md. Son of Anna Mary and Joseph M. Blickenstaff. He graduated from North Hagerstown High School in 1964 and attended classes at Hagerstown Junior college. He went to work for Mack trucks. In 1966 he enlisted in the Navy where he became an electrician aboard a ship and was honorably discharged from the Navy. While in the service he married Sue Bartles July 27,...