Independent-Observer, Conrad, Montana Page 7 Our 113th The Year Thursday, January 31, 2019 MEMORIAL SERVICE Evelyn Oriene Speer A Memorial Service for Eve- the family on Evelyn's memorial lyn Orlene Speer will be held at page at www.oconnorfuneralPondera Valley Lutheran Church home.com. on Feb. 2 at 2 p.m. A full obituary was published Condolences may be left for in the Jan. 24 issue of the 1-0.
LaVonne (Otness) Hastings LaVonne June (Otness) Hastings went peacefully to her heavenly home on Jan. 25 with her family surrounding her at the PMC Care Center. She was 88 years old. LaVonne was born in Conrad to Ede and Helen Otness on June 11, 1930. She joined a family of two older brothers.
Birdeen and Kenneth Otness. LaVonne was a member of the class of 1948 at Brady High School and graduated as Valedictorian. In September of 1948 she married David H. Hastings and joined him at MSU as a college coed and later they moved onto the family homestead farm. To this union LaVonne gave birth to seven children.
She loved the family farm. gardening. driving the combines and tractors, and in her zest for life. started the East community 4-H club. the Sollid Pioneers.
She was also involved in Farmers Union. Extension Homemakers, NFO, and was a cook at the Farmers Union Camps and catered many events in the community. She started a jewelry business with her longtime friend. Joyce Copenhaver, and worked at Sun Canyon Lodge with dear friends, Lee and Sue Carlbom, and along with Bev Petersen, they laughed, cooked and packed in meals to hunters. After being widowed in 1986, LaVonne dove into her passion of quilting, and with her daughter Kathy Hager, thus Triangle Squares Quilt Guild was started, which is still thriving in Shelby.
She enjoyed many quilting retreats with her daughters Kathy and Judy. She touched many lives with her kindness and desire to teach new quilting ideas. She won a national quilting contest and got to spend a week in Elcanor Burn's quilt studio with 4 other quilters from around the US. All of her kids and grandkids and most of her great-grandkids are blanketed in her quilts and her love. LaVonne is preceded in death by her husband, David; her son, Thomas; and her granddaughters, Marena Steele, Lynda and Stacy Hager, her brothers, Kenneth (Peggy) and Bud (Adeline) Otness; and her lifelong friends, Bev Petersen and Lucille Petersen.
She is survived by her 6 remaining children, Kathy (Darell) Hager of Conrad, Judy (Rob) Goudette of Stevensville, Mark (Peggy) Hastings of Weatherford, Texas, Diana (Cory) Krumm of Billings, Carol (Sam) McCormick of North Pole, Alaska, and Elizabeth Hastings of San Jose, 18 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. She will be sorely missed and was greatly loved by her whole family and all she touched. Services were held 29, at Pondera Valley Church. Burial followed in side Cemetery. Condolences can be to LaVonne's memorial at www.asperfh.com.
Donald E. Gray Donald E. Gray, 71. of area and formerly of Whitefish, passed away on Dec. 29, 2018 after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease.
Memorial services will be held Feb. 16, at 11 a.m. at Golden West Lutheran Church, 23 miles east of Conrad. Don was born on Feb. 8, 1947 in Whitefish.
He was a 1965 graduate of Whitefish High School and enjoyed playing the trumpet in the high school band. Don was inspired by the musical talents of his Uncle Willy and Aunt Dorothy Schwartz. Don worked as a mechanic and fuel delivery driver for his in-laws, George and Esther Stacey, at Stacey Oil Company in Whitefish. His smile greeted customers daily for over 40 years. Don was an avid hunter and enjoyed elk hunting in the Middie Fork with his good friend.
Terry Nelson. In his younger years, he loved taking his kids on horseback into the Bob Marshall Wilderness. He was a long-time member of Christ Lutheran Church in Whitefish and currently a member of Golden West Lutheran Church. Don was loved and will be greatly missed by his high school sweetheart and loving wife of 52 years, Elaine Gray, currently of Conrad, and his four children, John (Jamie) Gray of Kalispell, Stacey (Drew) Pike of Big Arm, Jim (Nicole) Gray of Columbia Falls, and Jerry (Jessica) Gray of Great Falls. He will be greatly missed by his eight grandchildren, Julia (Clayton) McDaniel, Joel (Avalon) Gray of Cut Bank, Kaylee (Makenzy) Gray of Polson, Meghan (Cory) Gray of Columbia Falls, Brandon Gray of Great Falls, Jacob (Haley) Gray of Kalispell, Kennedy Gray and Abigail Gray both of Great Falls; three great-grandchildren, Harper, Kendrick, and Madoc; and step great-grandchildren, Nocahna, Mila, and Dacian.
He is preceded in death by his parents and survived by two sisters. Asper Funeral Home is handing the arrangements. Schedule for Veteran a Service Officer 3 DO County E0 930 am. IT a Coaty 12:30 and Trails: What are fish doing these days? By Bruce Auchly, cies, think burbot, are no longer Montana FWP confined to cold water pockets as in the summer and may range Ever wonder on a cold, snowy more widely. Other species, such winter day what fish are doing as bluegills, may do the oppounder the ice? site that is, hang out and not The short answer is: about the expend much They can energy.
same as the rest of the year. 1. They accomplish this by not eating breathe, eat and try to avoid being for weeks or months. Generally, eaten. There are, however, some however, everything underwater differences in winter.
slows down, and life continues First, it's important to re- just swimmingly, thank you, as member that freshwater fish long as there's oxygen. Ah yes, like reptiles and amphibians are oxygen. coldblooded. (Scientists prefer In an average winter, ice and the more precise word, poikilo- snow form a lid on a lake or therms, but we'll forgive them.) reservoir. If that lid is too thick, That means their body tem- it prevents light penetration thus peratures are controlled through shutting down oxygen production external means, in this case, from photosynthesis by aquatic water temperature.
They do not plants. In addition to producing maintain a constant body tem- no new oxygen, the existing perature like us. aquatic plants die. Close to 80 percent of human Microbes at the bottom of the energy goes towards heating our lake decompose the organic matbodies to a stable temperature. ter, the dead aquatic vegetation.
For fish, this is not an advantage. If the lake is too shallow and the For one reason, their source of winter too long, those microbes food, often insect I based, is lim- will use up all the oxygen breakited in the winter. In Montana, ing it down. The result can be too the winter temperature of water little oxygen to support a lake's that doesn't freeze usually is in fish, and they die. the 30s or low 40s.
To raise an In deeper lakes or mild winorganism's body temperature to ters, most fish survive. Plus, fish 98.6 in that cold environment have adapted to slow down in would require a tremendous the winter, as being too active amount of food, which just isn't would burn through their oxygen there for fish. reserve. Rather than devote large Then, as water warms under amounts of energy simply to heat the spring sun, ice-out occurs. up their bodies, fish have adapted insect life increases, and a fish's to the cold rather than adopting metabolism rises just in time to a "central heating system" like a take advantage of the increasing mammal.
food. And what a magnificent adap- Until then, fish mostly hang tation. A warm-blooded animal out in the same spot and wait for requires five to ten times as much spring and open water. food as a cold-blooded animal of For now, for all of us, warm the same size and build; so, water and summer sun are cold-blooded animals just a dream. are better at surviving in barren environments, though Jan.
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Schedules and Events is on Bible Study 10 a.m. www conradmissionchurch.com Sunday pendroychurch.org Cross Training 9:30 a.m. Christian Reformed Church Sunday School for all ages 2nd Ave. N. Virginia Worship Service 10:45 a.m.
278-5846 278-7809 or Tuesday Pastor Chris Kostelansky Celebrate Recovery 6:30 p.m. Sunday Worship 10 a.m. 8 5 p.m. Wednesday Sunday School 11.15 a.m. AWANA for K-6 pm Jr.
High Youth pm Gospel Chapel Ministries High School Youth 6.30-8.30 pm 601 8th Ave. S.W. 278-5888 Contact the church office for more into Pastor Ralph Bouma on Bible Studies, Small Groups, etc. WE ARE ON LINE! Fill the void in your heart with CHRIST! Subscribe to our Pondera Valley Lutheran Church weekly sermon, daily devotions by email 6th Ave. S.W.
Delaware 271-3934 www.sermonaudio.com/gospelchapel Pastor Drew Nelson Sunday Worship 9 a.m. Conrad Baptist Church (S.B.C.) Radio Ministry 110 N. Wisconsin 271-3145 96.7 Pastor Coby Bennett Sunday Worship -9 a.m. Sunday School 9 a.m. Sunday Worship 10 a.m.
Wednesday Kingdom Kids 6 7 Golden West Lutheran Church p.m. Solid Road, 23 miles east of Conrad Bible 6 7 Thursday Study p.m. Pastor Drew Nelson 627-2131 Sunday Worship 11 a.m. New Life Fellowship 106 S. Delaware 271-3303 Brady United Methodist Church Pastor Dave Ginther Sunday School 9:15 753-2253 a.m.
Pastor Zach Bechtold Worship Service 10 a.m. Services 1st 3rd Sundays Evening Service 6.30 p.m. Sunday Worship 9 a.m. Bible Stories St. Michaels Catholic Church Wednesday Adult Bible Study 7 p.m.
Fr. Tim Moriaty Fr. John Abutu Youth Group Prairie View 7 p.m. Fr. Yovin Shayo http://www.newilfeconrad.org/ 110 S.
Maryland 278-7517 House of Saturday Mass 5.30 p.m. 208 S. Colorado Prayer 278-7022 Sunday Mass -9 a.m. Fellowship 9:30 a.m. First Presbyterian Church Prayer 10:30 a.m.
123 4th Ave. S.M. 278-3043 Services every Sunday 11 a.m. Rev. J.
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