Piocos County Attorney Job Remains Open (Photo by James Walling) The Roosevelt County Commissioners held their regular meeting Tuesday, Jan. 26. Commissioners Gordon Oelkers, Gary Macdonald and Duane Nygaard were in attendance. Bill Juve and Clay Peterson attended the meeting remotely. The commissioners approved an updated 10-year management plan for the Weed district. Department

Lana Lee (Sargent, Lambert) Mikkelsen, (Jingle Dress Woman), 47, of Brockton died Jan. 16, 2021, in Billings. She was born to Annette “Ann” Lambert and Wyman Sargent on Aug. 6, 1973, in Poplar. She was also mainly raised by her grandparents Bernard “Barney” Lambert Sr. and Sybil (Bighorn) Lambert. As she got older, she attended both Poplar and Brockton schools, graduating from Brockton High School in 1991. After a brief stay at Rocky Mountain College, she graduated with multiple associates degrees from Fort Peck Community College. In her short life, she held multiple positions, both formal and voluntary. She mainly loved working with and for people and being a youth advocate. Among these many jobs include the numerous years at Fort Peck Housing Authority in different positions and, most recently, as the recruitment officer at Fort Peck Community College. In 1998, she married Lars-Inge Mikkelsen and, one year later, welcomed their first child, Joseph John Lewis, on Nov. 1, 1999. Shortly after, Lars started wishing for a baby girl and his prayers were answered when they were blessed with their twin girls, Jacie Payton Jo and Kristina Irene Marie, on Dec. 8, 2001. She could not wait to be a grandmother and she got her wish when her son welcomed his daughter Oct. 23. Her family and friends will always remember her as a strong-willed, compassionate, respectful, hardworking person who always did everything she could to help those in need. She was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Avery Mikkelsen. She is survived by her husband, Lars Mikkelsen; children, Joseph Mikkelsen, Jacie and Kristina Mikkelsen. Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 25, at Red Eagle Church in Fort Kipp. Interment was at Fort Kipp Cemetery. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel assisted with the arrangements.

Anna Steppler was the winner of the 2021 Culbertson School District Spelling Bee Wednesday, Jan. 20. (Submitted photo)

Marie Lou Bidegaray, 80, of south Brockton died Jan. 7, 2021, at Billings Clinic. She was born Marie Louise on Sept. 18, 1940, to Louis and Catherine Poutcou in Mendive, France, in the Basque region of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. She married Jean Pierre Bidegaray on April 1, 1964, and started her new life as a farmwife, mother and partner with her husband and later with her sons. They started farming and ranching in the Yellowstone Valley in Sidney and then moved to the Charlie Creek area south of Brockton farming and ranching along the Missouri River. For the next 54 years, she raised six children, many a bum calf and harvested and shared the bounties of her orchards, gardens and her chickens. She was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Jean Pierre in 2012; and siblings, in France, Jeanne, Jean, Jean Charles, Jean Louis. She is survived by her children, Josy McLean of Great Falls, Jeanine Granada of south Brockton, Patrick Bidegaray of Culbertson, Gabriele Powell of Mount Pleasant, S.C., Claude Bidegaray of south Brockton and Remi Bidegaray of south Brockton; brothers, Jean Pierre, Joseph and Jean Baptiste, all of France; and youngest sister, Gracie of France. Following her wishes, she has been cremated. A funeral mass will be held later this summer at St. Bernard’s in Charlie Creek. Clayton Stevenson Memorial in Wolf Point is handling funeral arrangements.