OBITUARIES

Mar 24, 2019

Timothy Leskosky, age 59, passed away at his home in Bigfork. Timothy was born on November 11, 1959. Services are currently pending at this time. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home and Crematory is caring for the family.

Mar 23, 2019

Robert A. Fleming, age 82, passed away peacefully at his home in Kalispell on March 23, 2019. Robert was born on July 11, 1936 in Eureka, MT to Maurice and Maxine (Doble) Fleming. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home and Crematory is caring for the family.

Mar 22, 2019

Laurence (Larry) E. Redfield passed away on March 22nd, 2019 at Renaissance Assisted Living in Kalispell, MT at 73. He was born August 8th, 1945, in Lakeside, MT, the youngest child of Art and Dorothy Redfield.

He was educated in the valley and graduated from Flathead High School in 1963. Larry graduated from Rocky Mountain College...

Mar 22, 2019

Liam Patrick Turner was born and passed away on March 22, 2019. He is survived by his parents Patrick and Brittney Turner. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home and Crematory is caring for the family.

Mar 21, 2019

Suzanne Hazel Hoskins Sullivan, age 82,  departed this life on March 21, 2019 in Kalispell, Montana. She lived an amazingly accomplished life, being one of the first women to graduate from Northwestern University School of Business and among the first to be approved as an Episcopal priest. For her Master of Divinity degree, she attended the Church Divinity Schools...

Mar 21, 2019

Luther Gerhard Wachholz, age 89 of Kalispell, son of Arthur R. Wachholz and Minnie Benson, was born on July 2, 1929 in Saint Paul, MN.  He grew up in Minnesota , Wisconsin, and Kansas, graduating from Wilson High School in Wilson, KS. in 1947. He attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, graduating with a BA degree in 1951. He...

Mar 20, 2019

Kenneth Eugene Hardman age 92, passed away on Wednesday March 20. 2019 at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish. Kenneth was born on January 4, 1927 in Pablo, Mt.  to Russell and Mildred (Moore) Hardman. Kenneth grew up in the  Long Beach, CA. area and graduated from Long Beach Poly High . On December 1945 he married LaDon Linton in Washington...

Mar 19, 2019

Jeanne (Hatten) O’Neil of Columbia Falls, 78, passed away into God’s loving arms on March 19, 2019, in the presence of her husband, Jerry O’Neil. Jerry’s children were blessed to adopt her into their family on Sept. 6, 2000, when she and Jerry were married in Dallas, Texas.

Jeanne was one of 11 children. She...

Mar 18, 2019

Jack L. Creek, 90, passed away at his home on March 18, 2019, after a short illness.

Jack was born in Great Falls on Nov. 29, 1928, to Jack (Sr.) and Loretta Marion Creek. He grew up in Great Falls and as a young man served in the Navy stationed in the San Francisco Bay area on...

Mar 18, 2019

Ronald Wayne Price, age 83, passed away in Kalispell on March 18, 2019. Ronald was born on July 17, 1935 to Charles and Mildred (Bates) Price in Oxnard, CA. Services are pending at this time at this time. Buffalo Hill Funeral is caring for the family.

Mar 17, 2019

Richard A. Kuhl died on March 17, 2019, in Kalispell after several months battling amyloidosis.

Richard was born April 10, 1938, in Three Bridges, New Jersey, the son of Margaret Wieland and William V. F. Kuhl.

He is survived by his wife of 38 years, Marylane Pannell, daughter Kendra Pannell Kuhl (Luke Oltrogge),...

Mar 17, 2019

Kenneth V. Garfield age 74, passed away on March 17, 2019 in Kalispell, Montana. Kenneth was born on June 28,1944 to Richard and Grace (Purvis) Garfield,  in Glendive, Montana .

Kenneth joined the army where he earned his GED and was stationed In Fort Lewis before heading to Vietnam for a period of time. He met and...

Mar 16, 2019

Daniel Edward Harmon, 77, passed away on Saturday, March 16, 2019, in Kila.

Dan was born on the family farm in Plum City, Wisconsin, on May 30, 1941, to Irene and Andrew Harmon. The family moved to Chester, Montana, several years later to farm near Gilford and eventually south of Chester. Dan graduated from Chester High School...

Mar 16, 2019

Gerene Clark Little has passed from our worldly sphere (March 16, the day of her mother’s birth). Her abundant energy, creative talent and bold ventures touched all the lives of those fortunate enough to know her – friends and family alike. Gerene was an icon in the Flathead valley having lived here nearly her entire life. She was lucky...

Mar 16, 2019

Gerene Clark Little age 85, passed away on March 16, 2019 at her home in Kalispell, Gerene was born on December 23, 1933 in Columbia, Missouri to Clifton C.  and Eloise (Mays) Clark.

Mar 16, 2019

Vincent Louis “Vince” Grillo, 83, of Bigfork, passed away in the comfort of his own home surrounded by his family on March 16, 2019.

Vince is survived by his wife, Virginia, of 61 years, daughters Pamela, Melanie and Tara, and son Vinny, brothers Joseph and Melchoir, five grandchildren, a great-granddaughter, nieces, nephews and extended family....

Mar 16, 2019

Bruce Michael Witt, age 7, passed away in Kalispell on March 16, 2019. Bruce was born on July 21, 1947 in Vancouver, WA to Noble and June (Davenport) Witt. There are no services planned at this time. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home and Crematory is caring for the family.

Mar 16, 2019

On Saturday, March 16, 2019, our beloved Christopher Sean David passed from this life surrounded by his family at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.

He was born on Dec. 13, 2000, in Reno, Nevada, to Christine Mattingly Hesselman. On June 27, 2004, he and his mother married Charles David. The family moved to Trona, California, and then to...

Mar 14, 2019

LaVerne (Bruyer) Fredenberg, 85

LaVerne E. Bruyer was born April 4, 1933, in her Grandmother Bauer’s house on Whitefish Stage.  She was the oldest child of Ben Bruyer and Erma (Bauer) Bruyer, both of whom were born in the Flathead to pioneer families north of Kalispell. She left us March 14, 2019, after a relatively brief battle...

Mar 13, 2019

Florence N. Hungerford, age 66, passed away at Health Center Northwest in Kalispell on March 13, 2019. Services are pending at this time. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home and Crematory is caring for the family.