Malta News

MALTA - Phyllis "Rose" Steward, 53, a homemaker and nursing assistant who enjoyed fishing and being outdoors, died Sunday in a car crash near Saco.

SACO - Larry Dean Pippin, 64, a rancher and Army veteran who enjoyed hunting, genealogy and spending time entertaining his grandchildren, died of natural causes Sunday in Saco.

Jones beat out current mayor Byron Ereaux, who received 259 votes as a write-in candidate, in the Republican primary.

Hinsdale native Ernest 'Ernie' Grant, 87, of Great Falls, a former janitor at the Phillips County Courthouse in Malta, died of natural causes Sunday at a local care facility.

MALTA - Thomas Edward "Tom" Schoonen, 88, a World War II Army Air Corps veteran and retired heavy equipment operator, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta hospital.

SACO - James M. Caves, 79, of Saco, an Army veteran and rancher, died of natural causes Thursday at the Phillips County Hospital.

DODSON - Frank Ereaux, 81, died of natural causes Saturday at a Malta hospital. His funeral is 3:30 p.m. today at Dodson High School, with burial in Beaver Creek Long Knife Ereaux Cemetery on Beaver Creek.

SACO - Ovidia A. Haynes, 86, a homemaker and lifelong Phillips County resident, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta hospital.

SACO - Adeline Hammond, 92, a lifelong Saco resident who enjoyed animals and pets, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta medical facility.

HAVRE - Ranching interests sharply criticized a private grassland preserve in northeastern Montana as well as a new federal initiative in which new free-roaming bison herds could be established in the West.

BILLINGS - U.S. Air Force veteran and former teacher Edna Bakke, 78, of Billings and formerly of Saco, died of natural causes Saturday at St.

SACO - Mary Jane Mansfield, 68, of Saco, a retired cook and waitress, died of natural causes Thursday at her home near Saco.

BICKNELL - Daughter born Friday to Jodi and James Bicknell of Great Falls. FAHSHOLTZ/CONKLIN - Son born Friday to Heather Fahsholtz and Richard Conklin of Great Falls.

HAYS - Harold "Bazoo" Werk, 77, of Hays, a rancher, died of natural causes Saturday at his residence.

MALTA - Bernard W. "Bud" Hasler, 83, of Malta, a World War II Army veteran and retired city engineer, died of natural causes Friday at his home.

MALTA - Bernard W. "Bud" Hasler, 83, of Malta, a World War II Army veteran and retired city engineer, died of natural causes Friday at his home.

Adyline Nora Rummel, 94, of Great Falls, a retired employee of the Green Thumb program, died of natural causes Wednesday at a local nursing home.

MALTA - Longtime Waterbury, Conn., resident Robert Francis Phelan, 86, a World War II Army veteran and retired fireman, died of natural causes Wednesday at a Malta hospital.

Malta's 100th birthday celebration continues with a grand ball on Aug. 15, hosted by members of the Malta Dirt Daubers Garden Club and the Phillips County Historical Society.

Big beasts under the big sky are the focus of the second annual Dinosaur Day celebration in Bynum and Choteau on Sunday.