George Lawrence Hisdahl, 83, of Circle died Monday, May 1, 2023, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings. He was born on a neighboring farm on Cow Creek Road north of Circle to Bernhardt “Ben” Hisdahl and Thea (Orpen) Bjoralt Hisdahl. He spent his entire life on the family farm or in Circle. He attended Cow Creek School and graduated from Circle High School in 1958. He grew up with his parents and older siblings from his mother’s first marriage. His father died when George was eight years old and, as a teenager, he took over the farm responsibilities with his mother. In 1961, he married Iris Alexander. She was from Wolf Point, but was planning a trip with her parents to visit her brothers in Puyallup, Wash. They decided marry there and honeymoon on their way home. Together, they raised four children and recently celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary. He was a born farmer. It was in his heart and his blood — once he got in the tractor for the day, you couldn’t drag him out. He passed that love to his son. He rarely got shook up at any major breakdown or setback and would say, “well, let’s just fix one thing at a time.” He loved toy tractors and amassed quite a collection. His impressive display of tractors and other farm machinery fills the lower level of their home. Every summer, from the late 1960s until 2022, he would find time before harvest to take the family on a camping trip in the Montana mountains. The family has many wonderful memories of camping, hiking and sitting around the campfire telling stories and laughing until they cried. He was an avid pinochle

Michel James Red Dog, 29, died April 18, 2023, in Fort Collins, Colo. He was born Feb. 18, 1994, to Arden Necklace and Arnold Red Dog Sr. in Poplar. He lived in many places during his short life including Poplar; Wolf Point; Billings; Dillon; Ronan; Spokane, Wash.; Seattle, Wash.; and Fort Collins, Colo. He graduated from Montana Youth Challenge Academy in 2011 and Kicking Horse Job Corps with a degree in heavy machinery and diesel mechanics in 2013. While there, he met many great friends and the mother of his children, Diana Medina. They had two girls: Nayeli, born in 2014, and Natalia in 2015. He loved listening to music, playing basketball, playing video games and hanging out with his brothers who were always his best friends. He is survived by his daughters, Nayeli and Natalia Red Dog; mother, Arden Necklace; sisters, Renee Bear Don’t Walk and Ryan Muniz; brothers, Sioux Necklace, Arnold

Charles B. Nesbit, 95, of Billings died Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. He was born in Poplar on Feb. 10, 1927, to Ralph and Marie Nesbit. Raised on a farm in the Mineral Bench community 30 miles north of Poplar, he went a mile and a half across two wheat fields to grade school. When he graduated from eighth grade, he moved to Poplar to go to high school, living with his sister, Nellie, her husband and their two small children. In high school, he participated in almost every extracurricular activity offered — football, track, band, cheer squad — and graduated as valedictorian of his class. After high school, he enrolled in the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program as a way to attend college and went first to the University of Idaho and then, after recommendation for further schooling, to the University of West Virginia. Discharged from the Army in 1946, he enrolled at the University of Montana, where he got his bachelor degree in English and, for a year, taught, as a graduate assistant, freshman composition to other GIs, all of whom were older than he. In January 1951, he moved to Billings to teach English and moved quickly from freshmen to sophomores to juniors to seniors, and ended up teaching Honors English 12. Along the way, he earned