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Dana Nichols Hansen
Tuesday, October 7th 2008
Dana Nichols Hansen
Nov. 15, 1962 - Oct. 3, 2008
Dana Patrice Nichols Hansen was born in Wolf Point, Mont., to Arden R. and Carol (Holtberg) Nichols. She attended grade school in Frazer, Mont., and graduated from high school in 1981 in Glasgow, Mont. She earned a degree in Cytotechnology from the University of North Dakota.
She worked in several labs over the years including; Bismarck, North Dakota, Billings, Montana, Redding, California, Bozeman, Montana, and most recently Corvallis, Oregon.
On January 20, 1996 she married William Hansen in Glasgow, Montana. She enjoyed music, games, family, watching nascar and football with Bill and their two dogs, Basil and Pepe, and she was a devoted auntie.
Dana is survived by husband Bill Hansen of Albany; father Arden and wife Myrlee Nichols of Glasgow, Montana; brothers Bryce and wife Lorraine Nichols of Lustre Montana, Harlan and wife Colleen Nichols of Billings, Montana; sisters Allison Nichols of Glasgow, Montana, Beth and husband Hank Flynn of Oswego, Montana, Jeanine and husband Tom Beckley or Renton, Washington, Andrine and husband Jeff Johnson of Fort Peck, Montana, and Jan and husband Erik Gresseth of Seattle, Washington; mother-in-law Kay Hansen of Williamsburg, Virginia; brother-in-law Tad Hansen of Missoula, Montana; three nieces; nine nephews; five great-nieces and three great-nephews.
Dana was preceded in death by her mother, sister Nancy Nichols and sister-in-law Kathy Hansen.
A celebration of life will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to Relay for Life in care of Andi Johnson, PO Box 172, Fort Peck, Montana, 59223. AAsum-Dufour Funeral Home is handling the arrangements (www.aasum-dufour.com).
A Memorial Service is pending in Glasgow at a later date.
Christine E. First (Acheza Yapi Win) "Crying Girl"
Tuesday, October 7th 2008
NAME: Christine E. First (Acheza yapi Win) “Crying Girl” Age: 75
DATELINE: Fort Kipp, Montana
DATE OF DEATH: Sunday, October 5, 2008
CAUSE OF DEATH: Natural Causes
PLACE OF DEATH: Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana
WAKE SERVICE: Thursday, October 9, 2008 7P.M. at Black Dog Community Hall in Fort
Kipp, Montana
FUNERAL SERVICE: Friday, October 10, 2008 2P.M. at Black Dog Community Hall in Fort
Kipp, Montana
MORTUARY IN CHARGE: Bell Mortuary of Glasgow, MT.
Christine E. First was born August 4, 1933, the daughter of the late Nina and Jerome Sr. She attended the country day school in Fort Kipp. In the eighth grade she attended Brockton schools graduating in 1953. Christine went to Cook Christian Training School in Phoenix, Arizona for 3 years.
Christine met and married David Gone and later divorced him. She was the first student to go on relocation. Christine lived in Los Angeles for 8 years. While attending LPN training, she played women’s basketball, bowled, and softball. She returned home to take care of her parents until they went to the spirit world (1974 and 1976).
Christine worked at various office jobs and Head Start for 10 years. She attended Dawson College for 2 years for “police science”. Christine was one of the founders of Fort Peck Community College and won a contest in naming FPCC. She also worked in Fort Yates Schools as a clerk for 3 years, before returning to Fort Peck to retire. She then started working the “Green Thumb” now called Experience Works for over 10 years.
Her hobbies included attending/camping at PowWows to watch her grandchildren dance. She sewed with her mother as a young lady making star quilts, baby star quilts, winter quilts, block, and satin. She wrote the history of star quilts in a contest with the Montana Arts Council in Helena, winning first place. Christine enjoyed traveling and also sang in the Dakota Choir. She spoke Indian to her grandchildren and her family could read the Sioux language. She was good at making fry bread and (ga too to) top bread.
While married in Harlem she showed the ladies how to make star quilts and stitch. Also in Fort Yates she taught the ladies how to make satin star quilts. She respected her family and relatives trying to help in any way she could. She respected her cousins as brothers and sisters.
Ivan Lewis Zimdars
Monday, October 6th 2008
Ivan Lewis Zimdars
Glendive native Ivan Lewis Zimdars, a World War II Army Veteran and retired employee of the Fort Peck water treatment plant, died of natural causes at his home in Fort Peck on October 4, 2008. Ivan was 82 years old.
Services will be held at the Faith Lutheran Church in Glasgow on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. Interment will take place at the Highland Cemetery with a reception to follow at the VFW. Bell Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Ivan was born on February 21, 1926, in Glendive, Montana, at a midwife’s home to Henry Adolph “Hank” and Mary Elvinia (Bush) Zimdars. Ivan was the “sandwich” child: the fourth of seven born to the couple. Ivan’s parents were among the first to settle in the Bloomfield, Montana, area where he was raised and educated at a one-room school house until attending high school in Glendive. While going to school in Glendive, he lived with the Buck family until his sophomore year, when he enlisted in the Army.
Ivan joined the Army in 1944 and served with the 102nd Infantry during World War II as a clerk and as a cook while stationed in California, Hawaii and Japan. He was honorably discharged in 1946 with a rank as corporal. After the war he returned to the Glendive area where he married Helen A McCormies on September 15, 1948.
Ivan worked for the railroad for a time but was “bumped” by former railroad employees returning home from the war. He went to work as a mechanic at the Chevy garage in Glendive until his dad needed him back on the farm for planting in April of 1949.
After their first child was born, Ivan and Helen moved from the farm back to Glendive and he was hired on with the city at the water filtration plant. They moved to the Corps of Engineers dam town, Fort Peck, in 1956 and Ivan began his career as a government employee. He worked full-time as a garbage man and part-time at the filtration plant in Fort Peck. When the job at the filtration plant didn’t become full-time, Ivan transferred the family to Great Falls and worked as a civilian on the missile sites for Malstrom Air Force Base. In 1962 Ivan returned to Fort Peck and became a full-time employee of the water plant. He retired from the government in 1985, but returned to work for the City of Fort Peck shortly after, when the town was sold by the Corps of Engineers and incorporated by its residents into a town. He worked mowing lawns, shoveling snow and doing whatever his boss, Daryl Keys, needed him to do.
Family was important to Ivan and Thanksgiving was the famous event of the year. It was cherished by everyone except Ivan, who hated the noise and loved it when we left! He loved tinkering; there wasn’t anything he couldn’t fix, from plumbing to electrical to carpentry. His repairs are very famous, including the screw in the roaster pan and the 30-pound grill (new pipe handles). His carpentry projects -from the toy boxes to the three-foot jewelry boxes - are everlasting and cherished.
Ivan enjoyed playing cards and was a master B.S.er who loved to kid and tease. His smile was infectious, and anyone who knew him will tell you. As he was one of the “Old Guard, ” the town of Fort Peck won’t be the same without him. We will miss him.
Survivors include his wife Helen of Fort Peck; sons, Rocky Zimdars of Glasgow and Dennis (Diane) Zimdars of Gillette, Wyo.; daughters Penny (Lee) Murch of Glasgow, Debbie (Ray) Thares of Helena and Lori (Kevin) Huff of Butte; two sisters, Phoebe Malkuch and Dorothy Meidinger; two brothers, Ray Zimdars of Bloomfield and Dick Zimdars of Beach, North Dakota; 13 grandchildren, Jenny, Chas, Danelle, Michelle, Preston, Neven, Raelene, Joe, Quin, Katie, Zimmy, Darby and Dawson; and 11 great-grandchildren, Taylen, Chance, Jacob, Dominik, Janeil, Colton, Breanna, Carter, Eliza, Zane, and Lauren.
Ivan was preceded in death by a son, Douglas Wade Zimdars on March 20, 1975.
Memorials are suggested to:
Benefis Healthcare Foundation “Gift of Life”
P.O. Box 7008
Great Falls, MT 59406-7008
Faith Lutheran Church of Glasgow
909 8th Ave. No.
Glasgow, MT 59230
Jay Tyler "Swede" Bellon
Monday, October 6th 2008
NAME: Jay Tyler “Swede” Bellon AGE: 34
DATELINE: Glasgow, Montana
DATE OF DEATH: Saturday, October 4, 2008
CAUSE OF DEATH: automobile accident
PLACE OF DEATH: East of Hinsdale, Montana on Highway 2
SERVICE: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 2P.M. at Bell Chapel in Glasgow, Montana
INTERMENT: Highland Cemetery in Glasgow, Montana
MORTUARY IN CHARGE: Bell Mortuary of Glasgow, MT.
BORN: January 1, 1974
PARENTS: Ingrahm and Faye Bellon
Jay Tyler Bellon, better known to his friends as “Swede”, was born January 1, 1974. He and his brother George Wade came to live with their new parents Ingrahm and Faye Bellon on their farm at Nashua, Montana.
Swede attended Nashua Public Schools. In 1998 he graduated with honors from Wyoming Technical Institute. He has always been interested in mechanics and at age 8 his grandfather gave him a 2 hp. gas engine and told him he could have it if he could make it run. The next time his grandfather came down Swede had it running and mounted on his little red wagon, which he ran around the yard.
Upon graduation from Wyoming Tech, he went to work in Salt Lake City for a business that fabricated and mounted 4 wheel drive units on ambulances and busses that would be used in snow country emergency and rescue vehicles, even improving on their designs.
In 1999 his father Ingrahm passed away and Swede came back home. He later open a mechanic shop in Nashua and there designed a special oscillating axle system that allowed him to climb up on huge rocks and even up walls; this and a lift kit designed by him was added to his 1948 Willy’s Jeep; a few adjustments to the motor with a touch of “purple” paint, and another creation by Swede.
Swede’s first motorcycle was a 50 c.c. Indian, then on to dirt bikes, and finally his Harley which he designed and built himself. He has also designed and built custom bikes and trikes for customers out of his place of business, The Chopper Shop.
He was also a self taught artist and had a painting displayed in the Capitol in Helena, Montana.
In January 15, 2005 Swede’s house burned down along with all his possessions. He was badly burned on his face, arms, and hands rescuing his son Trevor from the flames. Swede suffered second degree burns and Trevor suffered smoke inhalation. Again, in 2007, the apartment they lived in burned. Thankfully there were not at home at the time, but again losing almost all of their possessions.
He was a member of the Search and Rescue and was about to finalize his qualifications as a first responder EMT.
In July 2008 he held his 5th Annual Bike Show in Glasgow.
Swede was married to Michelle for a short time, they were later divorced. He is survived by his son Trevor James Bellon of Glasgow, his mother Faye Bellon of Nashua, a brother George Bellon of Korea, Uncle Milo and Aunt Shirley Zemliska of Billings, MT., a niece Nicole and nephew Calem Bellon of Ober Wildflecken, Germany, several cousins and many friends.
