Douglas Hahn
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Douglas Hahn
RONAN — Douglas Jerome Hahn, 81 passed away Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024, at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. He was born on Dec. 31, 1942, in Helena, the son of Ralph Kaiser and Elizabeth Grace (Horner) Hahn.
In 1959, Doug went to work for Bill and Ada Gould, horseshoeing and breaking horses. In 1963 he married Laurie Jean Davis, after which he moved to the ranch, and he continued to work for the Goulds for a while. In the summer of 1964, they moved to Polson to be by her folks, and he worked for her father (Walt Davis) building docks. In 1965 he went to work for Aspen Tree company clearing tree limbs from power lines.
Doug was inducted into the service on Jan.12, 1966. During the lineup the of the recruits the Marines took Doug. He was overseas in the Vietnam War. He received an Honorable Discharge on Jan.11, 1968. After returning home from the service, he and some of his other family members purchased a gas station and garage in Troy. During this time Doug purchased a bar and dance hall west of Troy called The Little Opery.
Doug’s daughter, Korinne Leanne Hahn (Cannon), was born on Feb. 1969 in Polson. Around the first part of the 1970s he went back to work for the tree trimming company in Washington, which was contracted to work in several states. He became a professional tree trimmer. He and Laurie were divorced in Oct.1975.
While working on the coast in 1977, Doug met his second wife, Shirley Gebhart, and they were married that same year out at the ranch. His daughter Monica Rae was born in 1978 in Tacoma, Washington. The next year they moved to Kalispell, as he was clearing trees there with the same company. They were divorced in July 1981.
Doug met his soulmate Pamela Bossemeryer Boone in 1981after his divorce from Shirley. Doug and Pam were married in June 1987, in Ronan. Doug gained two stepdaughters with this marriage and accepted them and raised them just like his own. They loved him very much. Doug had moved back to Ronan to take over running the ranch for his parents in 1985/86. Doug lost his wife, Pam, in 2010 and has struggled with being alone all these last years, and he was extremely lonesome.
Doug was a BIG MAN with a BIG HEART. He was a jokester and storyteller; he had a memory like an elephant. He was a very honest man, and you always knew where you stood. He had lots of friends, and all the children really loved their uncle Doug.
Doug loved working with the animals and worked with many horses breaking and training them throughout most of his years while physically able. He also loved hunting and fishing. He was a very social person and liked his regular, what he called (safety meetings), at the Valley Club in Ronan with a few of his friends. He loved the ladies and was always going to get married tomorrow, but of course tomorrow never came (because the next was always today).
Doug was preceded in death by two premature sisters; a nephew, Thomas Seibert; his father, Ralph Kaiser Hahn; mother, Elizabeth Grace (Horner) Hahn; his wife, Pamela, nephew, Henry Seibert; brother, (Jay) Ralph James Hahn; sister, Anita Rae Hahn Seibert; brother, Louis Brainerd Hahn; a niece, (Bette) Elizabeth Seibert Hawkins; and grandson, Liam Jackson.
Doug is survived by his daughters, Korinne Hahn Cannon (Vinton) of Delta, Colorado, and Monica Hahn, (Dustin VandenBos) of Conrad; stepdaughters, Erica Boone Anderson, (Eric) of California, and Marcy Boone Jackson (Nigel) of Canada; granddaughters, Amanda Hahn and Andrea Russell; step-granddaughters, Somer Cannon (Matt), Paige Cannon Hebert (Beau), Skylar Anderson, Heather Jackson McKinley (Micah), and Naomi Jackson; step-grandsons, Patrick Jackson (Colette), Colin Jackson (Sydney), and Vinton Cannon, Jr. (Shelby); great-step-grandsons, Conner Cannon, Ryggin, Cash, and Wesley Douglas Jackson; great-step-granddaughters, Kenleigh, Evelynn, Paisley, and Elaine Remington Jackson; great great-granddaughter, Shauna; his oldest brother, Marion Franklin Hahn (Mickie) of Roy, Washington; his sister, Nyla Grace Rubia of Polson; sister, Dora Ann Mannen of Shelby; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins that loved him dearly.
A graveside service with full military honors will be held on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, at 1 p.m. at Ronan Cemetery. Messages of condolences may be shared with the family online at: www.shriderthompson.com.
Arrangements are under the care of Shrider-Thompson Funeral Home.
