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Carter County High School students finally had a chance to attend their 2020 prom after it was originally canceled due to COVID-19. The outdoor prom was held on August 1 at Rowley Field....
Roger Arpan, age 63 of Spearfish and Alzada MT, died Friday, July 3, 2020 at the Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls. Services will be held 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 10, 2020 at Leverington Funeral Home of the Northern Hills in Belle Fourche. Visitation will take place at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, with a 6 p.m. family service for the public. Interment will take place in Pine Slope Cemetery. The service will be live-streamed on the obituary page on...
Yvonne Adair Kortum, the fourth of nine children, was born February 24, 1945 to Bud and Edith Kortum. Her short but brave fight with cancer ended with her family and loyal dog, Spud, by her side in Melstone on May 22, 2020. Yvonne spent her childhood roaming the Chalk Buttes and graduated from Carter County High School in 1963. She married Homer Meade in September of 1963. In this marriage, Yvonne shared two sons, Buddy Flynn and Billy Ray. Yvonne, Homer, and the boys spent...
I have written about “Bud” Asbury, including some information on his parents (Elmo & Bessie), his education, graduation from Carter County High School in 1928 and a small amount on his love for ranching, riding bucking horses and bulldogging. The short article in “Shifting Scenes” about Bud mentions nothing about his marriage to Edna, but there is a lot of information on her family, where they lived, her education, teaching time, and yes, her marriage to Bud and some of their life on the Asbury Ranch. Let’s share her artic...
Southeast Electric Cooperative encourages students and members to always be learning. Scholarship funds are always a good way to help with this goal. In the last 10 years Southeast has awarded over $50,000 in scholarships. The cooperative considers it an investment in its future. Four scholarships are offered each year. The Southeast Electric Essay Scholarship for $1,000, The Basin Electric Power Cooperative Scholarship for $1,000 and the Vern Emery Memorial Lineman...
Edward "Bub" Stuart passed away peacefully at Monument Health Hospital in Rapid City, SD on April 30, 2020. Ed or Bub (as he was sometimes referred to) was born at the home of Susan Kerr in Ekalaka, MT., to Walter and Alta Stuart. He graduated from Carter County High School and joined the Navy. After his time in the service Bub married Virginia Melum on May 23, 1954. To this union five children were born Jim, Rusty, Darla, Mary and Bill. Bub worked various jobs in his lifetime...
Funeral services for Leroy "Whitey" Jardee, 73, of Ekalaka will be 2 p.m., Friday May 1, 2020 at Stevenson Funeral Home of Ekalaka. Due to COVID-19, social distancing guidelines will be in practice. For those unable to be seated in the main area, there are speakers outside. The service will be livestreamed on the Stevenson Funeral Home Facebook page on Friday. Burial will follow at the Beaverlodge Cemetery of Ekalaka. Family will be receiving friends on Thursday, April 30...
In my search for another article I came upon a couple of interesting families in “Shifting Scenes,” and after reading some of these family histories, I have decided to share. This couple each has their own article with information about their parents, origin, families and ranch life. Upon reading, I realized how activities and life have changed from that time until now. The couple was Harold “Bud” Asbury and his wife Edna Asbury. I will introduce Bud to you with information about his life mostly here in Carter County....
Leah Zoe Waldren, age 93, passed away January 8, 2020, at Dahl Memorial Nursing Home in Ekalaka. Zoe was born in Baker, on May 20, 1926, to Arthur E. "Big Kid" and Gladys Speelmon Dague. She attended school in Ekalaka and graduated from Carter County High School in 1943. She worked for Ray Nickerson in the Carter County Clerk and Recorder's office for a few months after graduation. She left Ekalaka with friends of her parents for San Francisco, CA, and worked as a secretary fo...
Delbert Lee Justice, 89, of Ekalaka died Friday, April 10, 2020, at his home. He was born February 16, 1931, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, to James Richard Justice and Hilja Adrianne Jeremiason-Justice. He graduated from Belle Fourche High School in 1949. Delbert later attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, studying electrical engineering, and, as a member of the South Dakota National Guard, was called into service by the U.S. Army during...
Tamara Ann "Tammy" Meade, age 71, of Ekalaka passed away peacefully on Monday, April 13 at Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City. Tammy was born on August 16, 1948 in Baker, Montana the youngest of five children. She grew up in Ekalaka where she attended grade school and high school. Tammy loved playing baseball as a child and pitched better than most of the boys her age. She often said that if she could have played one sport, it would have been baseball. At the age of 10,...
Note: This article is the final in a series about the founders of the Carter County Geological Society and museum. Each story features a founder, their story and items they have donated. Without the vision, intellect and orderly mind of Walter H. Peck, The Geological Society might have just become caretakers of collections of unidentified fossils and artifacts. His curiosity and love of natural history compelled him to not only collect, but to understand the history behind...
My memories article this time will be a little different as I will write about several individuals who I knew, played sports with, or who brought back memories of years ago. The past articles in the Eagle about "Carter County Greats" was great, informative and I agree. Those people triggered names of individuals that I would like to share with you, including the Eagle article about George Yelloweyes. I remember when I was a basketball referee and he came with the Miles City...
Diana Dee Kirby passed away at her home on March 23, 2020 with her daughter, granddaughter and best friend Baby Dog. Diana was born August 27, 1931 in her grandparents' house in the community of Ridgway, Montana. She grew up there with her grandparents, Carl & Lola Burch and her mother Crystal Palmer. Her parents later divorced and remarried and to these unions she gained two brothers and two sisters. Her grandad Carl, known as Papa was a big influence on her life. She...
Leland (Lee) D. Morrison, aka Bendy during his youth, passed away in Chandler, Arizona on February 16, 2020. He was 78 years old. Born and raised in Ekalaka, Montana, he graduated from Carter County High School in 1959 then moved to Homer, Alaska where he hired on with the airline industry. Job opportunities took him took Seattle and finally Phoenix in 1973 where he retired in 2001 after 36 years in the airline industry. He loved traveling and visiting with family and...
A HONOR ROLL (3.5 GPA or higher) Tegan Diede Seth Kennedy Kari Kittelmann Kendall Kittelmann Whitney Kittelmann Wyatt Kittelmann Hannah LaBree Heather LaBree Heidi LaBree Brynn Loehding Tylee Loehding Nicole O'Connell Mick O'Connor Tyra O'Connor Jaden Pardee Jared Pardee Rose Rychner Ryan Rychner Darin Schallenberger Travis Schallenberger Jennifer Schmid Grace Tooke Kendra Tooke Kenzie Tooke B HONOR ROLL (3.0 - 3.49 GPA) Grafton Bonsell Brayden Bucholz Ryker Carroll Caiden...
As the coronavirus spreads throughout the world and country, the threat of the virus has made significant local impacts. Last Thursday, Montana Governor Steve Bullock declared a state of emergency. On Friday night the Montana High School Association (MHSA) announced that the remainder of all state basketball tournaments would be canceled, ending the Carter County High School Lady Bulldogs' season after a semi-final loss at the Class C Tournament in Missoula where several fans...
One junior high team and two high school teams traveled to Miles City to compete in the annual Academics Olympics meet recently. Gracie Tooke, Jared Pardee, Turner Tooke, and Sean Wolenetz placed eighth in the oral rounds. Rose Rychner, Mick O’Connor, Ryan Rychner, Darin Schallenberger and Jaden Pardee won 2 rounds and lost 2 rounds in the oral competition. CCHS students did well on the written test: Gracie Tooke place 6th for Seniors, Jared Pardee placed 2nd for Juniors, Ryan Rychner placed 4th for Juniors, Darin S...
Note: This article is the third in a series about the founders of the Carter County Geological Society and museum. The museum will host a meeting at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month through April, featuring a founder, their story and items they have donated. The Founders Day celebration of the CCGS slipped quietly into being shortly after the death of Walter Peck. At the January meeting Mrs. Jessica Hunt read a tribute to Peck, Cady and Hall, the three men credited...
Joe and Marj Schallenberger Joe continues his Shifting Scenes article with the statement: “in 1933 Mother passed away and with Floyd and Mildred married and Clyde working outside, he, his dad, and Etola stayed on the ranch.” Hard, tough years: “1934 caught us out of feed both in the stack and on the ground and we along with the majority were forced to sell our stock to the Government. Good cows brought $20.00 each and the poorer ones $16.00. They had to be delivered to the railroad at Marmarth, North Dakota — about seventy...
On February 28, a retirement party for Robin Markuson, County Executive Director at the USDA Farm Service Agency, was held at Carter County Events Center. Markuson started with the FSA in 1984 as a temporary employee, then became a full time program technician, spent 17 years as a loan officer and has spent the last five and a half years as the executive director. The party featured a sit down dinner served by Carter County High School FCCLA members, cake and refreshments. It...
Editor's note: Following is the fourth and final article in our series about the top ten greatest Carter County athletes of all time, as voted on by our readers. 1) Robert "Bob" Lasater 2) B.J. Padden 3) Ivan Teigen 4) Karen (Markuson) Kreitel 5) TIE - John Ward 5) TIE - Pat Hansen 7) Jesse Barnes 8) Christian "Chris" Bentz 9) Helen (Frye) Blutt: Helen Blutt graduated from Carter County High School in 1939. During her time at CCHS, she was a member of 'C' Club for two years...
Funeral services for Sharon Schwartz, 66, of Baker were held February 29 at the American Lutheran Church, Baker, with Pastor Scott Kiehn officiating. Sharon passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at Fallon Medical, Baker, MT. Sharon Schwartz was born January 18, 1954 in Roundup, MT, to Houston and Nellie (Adams) Lakey. The family eventually settled in Terry, MT where Sharon's parents operated the Texaco Station. Sharon attended school there, graduating from Terry High Schoo...
During the dry Depression years, my parents, Lee and Mildred Coons Lavell, traveled all over Montana, Idaho and Washington looking for work for my dad. The only thing predictable about our lives was another brown-eyed-baby born every two years. Finally, early in 1944, when I was 7, they bought a house at Ekalaka. It was the 34th move in their 11-year marriage. The house had three small rooms and was built into the side of a hill across from the cemetery. The day we moved in, we children burst in to explore, of course, and...
The Carter County High School National Honor Society chapter is hosting a cornhole tournament on Tuesday, March 24 at the school. Check-in time for the fundraiser is 5:15 p.m. The tournament will begin at 5:30 p.m. Sign-up sheets will be posted around town at Stompin’ Grounds, Dawg House Pub, Fruit Service, Branson Grocery, Community 1st Credit Union, Summit National Bank, the post office and the high school. Buy in is $20 per team, payable at check-in. Four games will be played at a time during the tournament and brackets w...
