Obituaries

POLSON — Ida Rose Lytton passed away on Nov. 20, 2018, at the Pines of Mission in St. Ignatius. She was born on Oct. 22, 1926, in Moorcroft, Wyoming, to Walden and Peggy (Roberts) Blakeman. Ida Lytton was a person of integrity and beauty. Her heart was always about giving to others and she showed that side of her all throughout her life. She always loved teaching and would put dolls on the stairs of her childhood home and would teach to them. She was one of 13 in her family and the only one to go to college. Ida studied to be a teacher and started teaching upon her graduation in a little oneroom schoolhouse near Sheridan, Wyoming, where she lived on the ranch with Jack, her husb...

NELSON, NEBRASKA — Nelson, Nebraska, resident, James R. “Pete” Weber, 75, passed away on Monday, May 20, 2019, at Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings, Nebraska. He passed away on May 20, 2019. There will be no services, no viewing or visitation. Pete was cremated. Pete was born o...

POLSON — Mike Burke passed away peacefully in his hometown of Polson on May 5, 2019. He was 71. Son to Paul and Eleanor “Tally Burke,” he was born March 6, 1948, in Kansas City, Missouri. Mike, a helicopter pilot in the US Army, was honorably discharged December of 1970 as a Chief War...

POLSON — Jean Steilen passed away this winter at her daughter’s home in New Jersey. There will be a memorial service held on May 20 at 11 a.m. at the Masonic Temple and will be followed by lunch. All are welcome to remember Jean and to share your stores.  

BIGFORK — Daniel K. Phipps, 70, sailed into the night sky March 3, 2019, perhaps on the wings of the snow angel his daughter made outside his sunny window at the Lakeview Care Center, Bigfork. He was an airplane pilot, a live-aboard sailor, and a San Francisco gourmet. Night sailing with him between th...

MISSOULA — William Tremper, well known businessman and community leader in Polson and Missoula, died May 7, 2019, at age 94  of natural causes. Services for him are: vigil service at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, at St. Anthony’s Church in Missoula; funeral at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 17...

RONAN — Frank passed away on May 5, 2019, at the hospital in Ronan. Frank was born in Lindsay, Nebraska, on June 4, 1936, the son of Peter and Violet Zacek. The family moved and resided in Niobrara, Nebraska, where his father ran the family business, Sanitary Meat Market. Frank graduated from Niobra...

HELENA — Former Polson resident Richard C. “Dick” Lippincott passed away on April 29, 2019, in Helena, at the age of 87. Born Aug. 1, 1931, in Pennsylvania, Dick graduated from Radnor High School outside of Philadelphia in 1949. He then attended the University of Colorado, where he stu...

POLSON — Jane Ann Johnston of Polson passed away on March 30 at her home, surrounded by family and friends. Jane was born on May 18, 1941, in Toledo, Ohio. Preceding her in death was her mother, Sophie; her father, Carl; her sister, Joan; her brother, Don; her husbands, George Moon and Bud Johnst...

ST. IGNATIUS — Emma Lorraine Acciavatti, 85, of St. Ignatius passed away on Thursday, May 2, after an extended stay at The Pines of Mission. She was the sixth of seven children born to Mildred and Orie Ivie in Mackay, Idaho, on July 15, 1933. Her family lived in Utah before moving to Alaska. There s...