24 February 2022

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Marlin Namyniuk

Marlin Namyniuk


Marlin Namyniuk, 61, of Hebron, N.D., passed away on Jan. 28, 2022, after a brief illness. Marlin was born on Oct. 13, 1960, to Elko and Martha (Malkowski) Namyniuk and was the youngest of their five children. He grew up on the family farm and graduated from Belfield High School in 1978. He played basketball, football and was a track star for the Belfield Bantams. He played college football for Dickinson State College and studied auto-body repair at Bismarck Junior College. He played in the pool league for Grassy Butte. Then the oilfield called, and he worked his way up, eventually starting MGN Oil Field Consulting Services, LLC. Marlin finally retired in 2013. He had a lot of oilfield brothers and friends that he still kept in touch with. Marlin was married to Camille Driver and later divorced. Then, he met Julie Todd of Frazer in 1994. She was his partner, his best friend and the love of his life, and they were married on Aug. 28, 1999. They lived on the family farm until purchasing their own farm northwest of Hebron, where they found many good neighbors and friends. Marlin loved to joke and tease with family and friends. He was a loyal friend and a kind neighbor, always ready

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Summer Theatre Adds ‘Patsy’ To 2022 Season

Summer Theatre Adds ‘Patsy’ To 2022 Season


Fort Peck Fine Arts Council executive director Jennifer Fewer told the Northern Plains Independent that Always… Patsy Cline will make a return to Fort Peck Summer Theatre, completing the 2022 line up. The production will run two weekends only, July 15 and July 24. “A runaway hit from Fort Peck Summer Theatre’s 2015 season, the musical is based on a true story about Patsy’s friendship

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Raquel Lohe

Raquel Lohe


Raquel Evelyn “Cal” (Davis) Lohe died Jan. 30, 2022, at her home in Las Vegas, Nev. She was born in Circle, the youngest daughter of Floyd and Clara Davis. When her father’s fourth term as sheriff ended the family moved from Circle to the Redwater Valley where she rode horseback to attend the Hilger school, a one-room schoolhouse named for her mother’s family. Salutatorian of her Richey High School class, she graduated from the MT Deaconess School of Nursing and became a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nursing Corps at Fort Lewis, Wash. Upon discharge she worked in a defense plant, first helping to build torpedoes, and later in its dispensary in Washington. After the war, she worked as a registered nurse in Memphis, Tenn., Wolf Point and in the VA hospital at Fort Harrison, where, just for fun, she learned to fly a Piper Cub, and where she met and married her husband, Robert “Bob” Lohe. The couple bought a jewelry store in Ronan, where they lived with their two daughters for seven years before moving to Butte after buying a jewelry store there. She enjoyed operating the jewelry stores with Bob, but when “Lohe’s Jewelry” closed its doors in 1965 she cheerfully resumed her nursing career, as an office nurse. A catholic, she loved attending church with her family and she and Bob shared a love of bowling, playing cards, dancing and a little gambling, along with a love of animals. They spent many weekends camping, boating, swimming and waterskiing with their children and grandchildren and traveling,

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Go Indians!

Go Indians!


Poplar’s cheerleaders provide team spirit during the boys’ basketball game at the District 2B tournament in Glasgow on Saturday, Feb. 19. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)
17 February 2022

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Wolves Fall Short Against Scobey

Wolves Fall Short Against Scobey


Wolf Point’s boys’ basketball team couldn’t recover from a cold spell in the third quarter and fell to Scobey, 40-39, at home on Saturday, Feb. 12. A drive by Kelby Bauer and a three-pointer by Corey Martell put the Wolves ahead 24-23 midway into the third quarter, but Scobey struck for nine of the last 11 points of the quarter for a 32-26 advantage. Wolf Point’s only points during the