LeRoy Allen Delger passed away May 11, 2020, from Parkinson’s Disease. This kind, gentle man was well-known for his infectious smile and compassionate spirit. LeRoy was born in Portland, Ore., on May 16, 1943. His father, Frank Delger, and mother, Edna Schutt Delger, had moved the family from Wolf Point, Mont., to support the war effort. After the war, they returned to Wolf Point where LeRoy attended elementary and high school. His father was an Undersheriff for Roosevelt County and his mother worked at the JC Penney store. As a child he loved watching the trains (Great Northern and BNSF) cross the Hi-line, sparking a lifelong interest in model trains. LeRoy was best known in high school for his athletic ability. He was a track and basketball star and helped propel the Wolf Point Wolves to several state championship events. LeRoy attended Montana State University in Bozeman on a basketball scholarship before going to work in Facility Services at MSU. He ultimately became the supervisor of the Paint Shop, responsible for maintenance on classrooms and dormitories. He especially enjoyed supervising students who worked with the summer crews. He married Marilyn Gibson from Helena in 1964. Marilyn was an elementary school teacher and principal in Bozeman. LeRoy was a great support for her career, doing many volunteer building and landscaping projects for the Bozeman schools. In the last few years he especially loved helping her PEO chapter with the annual Flathead Cherry fundraiser! After 32 years at the university, he retired and started a new career working as a lighting-control and low-voltage technician for Black Box Design. During this time, he worked with amazing people who became lifelong, steadfast friends. Throughout his life, he enjoyed doing odd jobs for friends and family. He created beautiful wood-working projects with his hands! He loved being challenged by building projects and built five homes in the Gallatin Valley for his family. LeRoy and Marilyn have two children, Darren and Heidi, whom he adored. He spent many hours volunteering to support his children’s activities such as building sets for Nutcracker performances, working concessions at Midget Football and handing out water bottles at bicycle races. LeRoy loved opportunities to be of service to his family, friends, and community. He was a member and officer of the Gallatin Empire Lions Club and the Sourdough Lions Club for over 35 years. LeRoy was a volunteer for many other community organizations including the Sourdough Rural Fire Department, the Bozeman Schools and Bozeman’s Sweet Pea Festival. He spent many hours “behind the scenes” helping lay the groundwork to assure things ran smoothly. Friends and family meant the world to LeRoy. He was a proud founding member of “The Thursday Club,” a group of friends who have met monthly for over 35 years! He loved entertaining and friends will always remember his amazing Bloody Marys! LeRoy was an avid Nascar fan and loved attending races. He also loved riding his Harley and boating on Flathead Lake. He had a great interest in eagle watching and, as his physical health declined, a favorite pastime was watching the Eagle Web Cam livestreamed from Decorah, Iowa. LeRoy fought a courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease for 18 years and was an inspiration to all who knew him. The Covid-19 Pandemic greatly impacted his last weeks of life. During the torment of isolation, he spent hours watching his beloved eagles. The family wishes to thank all of those who cared for LeRoy at The Springs during his final days; we are forever grateful. LeRoy was preceded in death by his parents and his brother and sister-in-law, Duane and Coral Jean Delger. He is survived by his wife and best friend, Marilyn; son, Darren (Jeanne) Delger and their children, Taylor, Chase and Grace of Kansas City, Mo.; daughter, Heidi (Dean) Blackford of Billings, Mont., and their children, Kendra (Jeff) Price of Scottsdale, Ariz., Danielle (Mitch) Saylor of Vancouver, Wash.,Braden Blackford of Vancouver, Wash., and Alyssa and Emily Blackford of Billings, Mont.; two great-grandchildren, Bennett and Cooper Saylor; and his sister, Marlene (Richard) Funk of Puyallup, Wash. A private family interment and celebration of life will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Sourdough Lions Club, 1201 Highland Blvd, D109, Bozeman, MT 59715 or your favorite charity. Arrangements are in the care of Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service. www.dokkennelson. com. (Paid Obituary)

Marie “Doris” Kveseth, 91, passed away May 15, 2020. Marie “Doris” Kveseth was born on June 6, 1928, in the Florence Crittenton Home in Helena, to Dorothy Dedic. Dorothy named her Leatrice. She was adopted by Christ and Elise Paulsen and raised in Dane Valley, north of Culbertson, with her older brother, Richard. She would wait until her parents passed and then search for her birth mother. She found Grandma and “Grandpa” Albert Dedic in Great Falls and went on to have a wonderful relationship with them for years. Mom and Dad (Clayton) married in 1948 and set up a home in Froid. Mom worked hard all of her life, first as a homemaker with three small children. When we moved to Wolf Point and all of us kids started school, she started her professional life. She worked as a florist at Wolf Point Floral and Gifts, as a secretary in the Clerk and Recorder’s office and retired from the state as the secretary for the Roosevelt County Commissioners. She was always busy — cooking, baking, sewing, crocheting and doing family research. She wrote a history of the Elton family and collected together three books full of Kveseth/Paulsen history. She loved to be busy and she was so creative. She still had unfinished projects at her death and one of the last conversations we had was about finishing the blankets for family before she left. Mom is survived by her oldest son, Arthur (Delaina); her daughter, Leatrice (Anthony); and her very loved daughter-in-law, Corrine. Our little brother and Corrine’s husband, Lorin, passed one and a half years ago. Daddy passed in 2010. Mom loved her grandchildren, Anthony Jr., Lorin, Chris, Talon, Griffen, Zen and Carlie. She had three great-grandchildren. Michelotti-Sawyers is in charge of cremation. There will be a small family service at the end of May and she will be buried by Daddy and Grandma and Grandpa Paulsen in the Dane Valley Lutheran Church Cemetery at a future date. We love you, Mom, and I remember … You want In the Garden sung at your service. I won’t forget. Condolences may be made at www.michelottisawyers. com. (Paid Obituary)

Evelyn Strand Stensland Casterline, 86, died May 12, 2020. She was born Dec. 4, 1933, in Big Timber to Albert and Elsie Strand, the fourth of their six children. She graduated from Big Timber High School and attended Montana State, where she was a member of the Kappa Delta Sorority and the Women’s Student Body President. After graduating in 1955, she married her college sweetheart, Gerald Stensland. They had four boys, Gary, Mark, Paul and John. Jerry died in 1963. She married Bill Casterline in 1967 and they made their home on a farm east of Culbertson. Together, they finished raising their four boys as well as hogs, cattle, chicken and crops. Bill died in 2006. She loved to cook and bake. In the late 1950s, she even had her own live TV cooking show in Great Falls. She loved cooking traditional Norwegian foods. For several decades, she served as foods judge at county 4-H fairs across northeastern Montana. She could make anything grow and always had a bountiful garden, bright flowers in the yard and house plants that somehow never died. She loved to read and had a lifelong love of books. When there wasn’t a book in her hands, she was working on some craft. She made beautiful pieces of needlework and quilts and has the purple ribbons to show for it. She especially loved the challenge of Hardanger, an intricate Norwegian form of needlework. She was very active in the Culbertson community, serving on the school board and hospital board. She loved her service with Women’s Club, where she served as local president, state president and national officer. She loved the extensive traveling that came with those jobs and the wide expanse of friends she made from across the country. There was never a time when she was not active in her faith in Jesus. She was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church and Trinity Lutheran Church for the last 60 years, where she taught Sunday school, led Bible studies and gave an occasional sermon. She is survived by her sons, Gary, Mark, Paul and John; seven grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and sisters, Doris McDonald and June Gunnerson. There will be celebration of life at a later date. Burial will take place in Hillside Cemetery in Culbertson.