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2f Sunday, January 1 5, 2 SOS IKde pcvpevt Record CityState wwwJielenairxorn AreaDeaths Dolores (Dee) Hilkka (Jennings) Collier Dolores (Dee) Hilkka (Jennings) Collier died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006, in Portland. Ore. She was born in Turku, Finland on Bette Bohlinger Everything Bette Did, She Did Beautifully Bette Bohlinger died on Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, at St Peter's Hospital in Helena.

She was 70. Bette was born June 23, 1935, in Forsyth, to Joe and Hazel Cobetto. Her family moved to She is survived by her children; sisters, Betty Ann (Tom) Dorsey of Puyallup, Jeannie (Steve) Cape lias of Vancouver, and Margaret (Rick) Garcia of Lake Oswego, several nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, many friends and former husband, Steve Matteson. She was loved and will be greatly missed by all. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m.

on Monday, Jan. 16, at Saint Paul's United Methodist Church with burial following at Resurrection Cemetery. A reception will follow at St Paul's United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Family prefers memorials to the Susie Bryant Memorial Educational Fund, CO Wells Fargo Bank, 350 N. Last Chance Gulch, Helena, MT 59601.

Hagler-Anderson Funeral Home was entrusted with local arrangements. Susan Patricia Bryant Susan Patricia Bryant, a loving mother, sister and aunt, passed away on Jan. 10,2006, at the age of 39. She was born in Helena on Feb. 23, 1966, to the late Charles and Harriett Bryant.

She attended local schools and graduated from Helena Capital High School in 1984. She briefly attended the University of Montana, returning to Helena to work at various places of employment. In September 1993, Susie married Steve Matteson in Helena, and they had 3 children, Kaila, McKaulie and Holter. Susie and Steve later divorced. Susie was preceded in death by her parents; twin brother, Eddie; paternal grandparents, CT.

and Iso-bel Bryant; maternal grandparents, Edward and Margaret Sullivan; uncle, Fr. J. Sullivan and aunt, Becky Schneckloth. She taught at St Ann's Grade School and East Junior High in Butte for many years and was active in Aldersgate Church Guild Dolores loved to travel and after retirement, she visited many places throughout the world. Following her husband's death in 1972, Dolores moved to Portland in 1985, there she quickly became active in the local community by volunteering thousands of hours at the Providence Sl Vincent Medical Center.

She also volunteered teaching English as a second language at local schools. Dolores was preceded in death by her husband; parents; and brother, Richard, and three of her children, Carole, Robert and Addison. Her sister, Mariann (Ralph) Heany of Butte, and brother, Charles (Pat) of Kellogg, Idaho, and numerous grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, great-great grandchildren, nieces and nephews also survive her. Her many grandchildren include Bettyjane Pouchers' children, Dolores Eustice, Becky (Buck) Buckmaster, and Leny (Myrna) Mason, all of East Helena. A celebration of Dolores' life is to be held at Aiders-gate Methodist Church, 1621 Thornton in Butte on Tuesday, Jan.

17, at 11 a.m. Her family requests remembrances to Aldersgate Methodist Church or to the Colstrip, Montana Bicentennial Library. creativity, along with her gardening, gourmet meals, works in stained glass, watercolor, ceramics and writing. She got great joy out of making her home lovely and caring for all those who entered it She also loved to travel and keeping up with her husband was not always easy. Among her favorite spots were Big Sky, anywhere in Italy, the Provence region of France, and Manzanillo, Mexico.

Wherever they traveled, it was their "favorite spot" and she met many a lifelong friend along the way. Bette also had a love for all music, including the Billings Symphony, any honky tonk bar band, and the music she played for herself on the piano. She also loved Montana and experienced it through skiing, fishing, hiking and backpacking. Bette was active in the Billings community. She was a member of Junior League, PEO and the HOST reading program at Newman School.

She served as a docent at the Yellowstone Arts Center, served on the Saint Patrick's Parish Council, on the foundation board for St. John's Lutheran Home and the board for the Parmly Billings Library. She also loved her friends and time spent at her book club, her stock club and her cancer coalition group. Bette was committed, even in her last days to help give encouragement to the thousands of people who need bone marrow donations. She hoped that her illness could help bring hope to others suffering a similar disease, and she saw the bone marrow drives as a great legacy to her fellow man.

"How wonderful it would be to save someone's life." Services for Bette Bohlinger will be held in Billings and Helena. A Service of the Word will be held Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 2 p.m. at the Cathedral of St. Helena in Helena.

Letters and cards can be sent to the Bohlinger family at the following: Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger, P.O. Box 200801, Helena, MT 59620-0801. Funeral arrangements are being made by Miche-lotti-Sawyers Mortuary in Billings.

Townsend Ranger District to hold open house The Townsend Ranger District will host an open house on Thursday, Jan. 19, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Townsend District office to discuss the proposed Cabin Gulch Vegetation Treatment project located in the southern end of the Big Belt Mountains. Forest Service personnel will be present to visit about the project as well as explain maps and photos. The forest is proposing management activities in these areas to restore and maintain the health of these fire-dependent ecosystems, including increasing the resistance and resilience of these areas to disturbance from large fires andor disease and insect outbreaks.

Outcomes of the proposed project will result in the area becoming more resistant to high-intensity wildfires; salvage harvest of dead trees; maintaining the areas old-growth; the promotion of whitebark pine and aspen stands; reclaiming grassland and shrubland communities, reducing sediment to the West Fork Cabin Gulch stream and enhancing the areas lynx forage. Proposed treatment methods include 2,100 acres of thinning, 325 acres of patch cutting (removal of trees from areas ranging between 1 and 25 acres), and pre-scribed burning. Prescribed burning will include mixed severity burns and underburning in the dry forest types followed by thinning. Logging systems will include a combination of cable or skyline logging, tractor logging and helicopter logging. Detailed information about the proposed action, treatment methods as well as maps and pictures of the project area are available on the Forest's Web site at www.fs.fed.usrlhelenaprojectscabin gulch.

Comments may also be sent via email through the Web page. Send written comments to the Townsend Ranger District, 415 South Front Street, Townsend, MT 59644. For more information contact project team leader Sharon Scott at 495-3943. Billings when she was young, and her father established a grocery store there. Bette enrolled in Bohlinger Fratt School.

She graduated from Billings Central Catholic High School in 1953. She attended Eastern Montana College, and eventually earned her Ph.D. in life. Bette and her four children married John Bohlinger in 1963. The Bohlingers were blessed with two more sons in 1964.

They made their home in Billings until John was elected lieutenant governor in 2004. With Bette as second lady of the state, they made their new home in Helena. Bette loved her family. She is survived by her husband Lt. Gov.

John Bohlinger; her children, Jeanne Cox (Bruce Baty) of Missoula; Jan Aileen Osborne (Douglas) of Billings; Mark Joseph Bohlinger (Teri) of Cheyenne; JoLynn Sommers (Chuck) of Billings; Nicholas Bohlinger (Kamala) of Gig Harbor, and John Bohlinger (Sherrie) of Nashville; 14 grandchildren, one greatgrandchild and her dog, Sophie. She valued these relationships above all and was teaching, mentoring, encouraging, guiding, and leading by example right up to the time of her death. Her abilities as a mother and wife were strengthened and framed by her very strong faith. When the kids started school, Bette went to work for the family business, Aileen's, where Bette was the fashion director and inspiration for the successful clothing store. The store was a favorite outlet for her Garnette E.

Cleary Pryce CHEYENNE, Wyo. Garnette E. Cleary Pryce died Jan. 9, 2006, at a Cheyenne Hospital of complications from a fall. Garnette was born on March 21, 1918, in Chappell, to Altine and Lucille (Jacobs) Maus.

She was the youngest of four girls. She grew up in Parco (Sinclair), and graduated from Rawlins High School in 1937. She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Ned Cleary and Earl Pryce, sisters, Ecie Het-trick, Mildred McClenahan and Lavina Allen. Garnette is survived by Nov. 24, 1913, to Nicholai and Anja Heikkila.

She and her mother immigrated to Butte in 1915 following her father, they later took Collier the name of Jennings. Dolores was an avid reader and news buff her entire life. Education was enormously important to her. She attended the Montana School of Mines for one year and then transferred to and graduated from the University of Denver. Dolores became a lifelong member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority.

While in Denver, she played violin in the city's symphony orchestra. On July 6, 1939, Dolores married Charles W. Collier in McAllister. They had seven children, Charlene (Dan) Stansbury, Corinne Martinell, Claire (Tom) Hoffman, Addison (LeAnn) Collier, all of Portland; Carole (Charlie) Speake of Col-strip; Robert (Willene) Collier of Seattle; and Bettyjane Poucher of East Helena. Betty Ann Carney On Dec.

30, 2005, Betty Ann Carney, our "California girl," left us to join her creator in eternal peace. At the time of her passing she was a resident of Helena. She is sur vived by her three loving Carney sons and their wives, Michael Warren and Marjorie Brass of Newport, Paul Francis Brass of Helena and Eric Gerard and Miki Brass of Helena; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Francis (Quinlan) McKeany; two husbands, Warren Elwood Brass and Richard (Sarge) Eugene Carney. An only child, Betty was born in Los Angeles on Jan.

21. 1925. She attended Manu- al Arts High School in Los Angeles and was a student at the University of California for two years, before she met and married 1st Lt. Warren Brass in 1945. There after she mnveH with her husband to his hometown of Helena to assist in his new joint family venture, the Brass Poultry Farm on Birch Street.

The marriage lasted 13 years during which three sons were born. Betty was employed by the Montana State Department of Public Instruction. Later she went to work for the law firm of Luxan and IP if 1 Murfitt where she took pride in her career as a legal secretary. In 1964 she married retired Army Sgt. Major Richard (Sarge) Carney.

They enjoyed 32 years of marriage together until 1996, when Carney passed away. She especially loved her doting father, "Mac" and was proud of her Irish heritage. She had especially fond memories of the beaches of California, in particular Her-mosa Beach. Summer vacations at Leisure Lodge, See-ley Lake became her favorite getaway place in Montana. We will miss her hearty laugh and sense of humor.

In recognition of her devotion to the Catholic faith, memorial Mass will be at the Cathedral of St. Helena on Tuesday, Jan. 17 at noon. Interment will immediately follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery, where her ashes will be laid to rest next to her beloved Carney. Reception will follow at the Paul Brass residence at 3330 White Rock Road.

Services are under the direction of Retz Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials in Betty's name to the Alzheimer's Association, Montana Chapter, 3010 11th Avenue North, Billings, MT 59101, or to the Cathedral of St. Helena, 530 N. Ewing, Helena, MT 59601. For she is with You and shall remain so forever.

She remains within me, for we are all in You together. The cord that binds us one to the other cannot be cut, Surely not by death. HAGLER Funeral Home Funeral Notices MONDAY BRYANT, Susan "Susie" age 39, of Helena. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Monday, Jan. 16, from St.

Paul's United Methodist Church, 505 Logan, with burial to follow at Resurrection Cemetery. Family prefers memorial to the Susie Bryant Memorial Education Fund, CO Wells Fargo Bank, 350 N. Last Chance Gulch, Helena, MT 59601. Hagler-Anderson Funeral Home 442-8520 Big Sky Cremations her daughters, Jean (Clarence) Applegate of Helena; Sharon Groh of Walnut Creek, and son, Ed (Jan) Cleary of Cheyenne, Wyo. Also surviving are grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Rod Applegate, Sharon (Gordon) Eslick and children, Katie and Jordan of Helena; Colleen (Jeff) Lauer and children, Meghan and Brady of Concord, Calif; Shannon (David) Meranda and son, Lucas of San Francisco; Edward Lee (Justine) Cleary and children, Edward Christopher and Emily of Fort Collins, and Kristin Cleary of Phoenix, Ariz.

Services will be held at a later date in Rawlins, Wyo. Chapel would like to give a otevev Reception Area Anderson, all our brothers to those special people ot runerai services 2 West Main East Helena 227-2241 Helena Funeral Funeral Services 07ie ib'MizmfliiioiM kcife A notices MONDAY O'FALLON, Georgia, 73, of Helena, died Jan. 13, 2006, at St. Peter's Hospital. Rosary services will be held today, Jan.

15 at St. Mary's Catholic Church at 7 p.m. Mass of Christian burial bee be Monday, Jan. 16, at 10:30 a.m. Helena Funeral Chapel, 442-1234 MONDAY T.AWI.OR- Martraret Vieurino hnnrs hetrin at nrwin Wishes to thank the staff of Hagler-Anderson Funeral Home and all our friends, neighbors and co-workers.

A special thank you to Evangelist Tom and Glenda today with vigil service at 7 p.m. at Retz Funeral Home. Funeral Mass will be at the Cathedral of St. Helena at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan.

16. Cremation will follow the Mass. The interment will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Montana State Veterans Cemetery. TripenAv Anderson, Andy and Dee and sisters in Christ, and I may have forgotten.

Mary O'Leary, Jann Colbert, Agnes LaRue and Debbie Morgan from lanns Hair Styling Salon BIG THANK YOU to all our special ladies and Thank you to Dr. Buswell, Dr. Paustian, Dr. Sietz, Dr. Paul Eodice, Dr.

John Smith and Dr. Mest for your loving care. God Bless 77iin and 'zFamtftj CARNEY, Betty Ann, 80, passed away Dec. 30, 2005. Funeral Mass will be at noon Tuesday, Jan.

17, at the Cathedral of St. Helena. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Retz Funeral Home 442-1550 gentlemen for all the years of friendship and coming to the salon. We WILL miss you all XX-.