1 :4. Page A8 THE DAILY INTER LAKE Monday, November 23; 1998 Deaths Robert L. L. Keller, 74, of Eureka died Saturday at his home from natural causes. He was a long-time mechanic and sawmill worker.
He is survived locally by his wife, Ruth, of Eureka; sister Fay" Marsh of Kalispell; sister-in-law, Patty Keller of Eureka; stepson Jim Bowers of Eureka; step- Keller, 74, daughter Patsy Sanford of Columbia Falls; and numerous grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Eureka." Local arrangements are by the Nelson and Vial Funeral Home of Eureka. Mary Ellen Fields, 62 She was raised and educated in Havre. She was married to Jack Fields in Havre on Jan.
30, 1954. They spent their early married life living around Air Force bases. They moved to Columbia Falls in 1963. She worked at numerous jobs in the Flathead, including Columbia Falls High School, North Valley Hospital, the Montana Veterans Home, and at the Colonial Manor. She helped start the Women's Badrock Softball League in 1969 and played until the early 1980s.
She enjoyed sports very much, especially watching her children and grandchildren. She was a very caring and loving mother who was always there for Mary Ellen Fields, 62, of Columbia Falls, died Nov. 21, 1998, at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish. She was born Jan. 8, 1936 in Havre to Hilda and William Keene.
Robert W. Ruonavaara, 44 Robert W. Ruonavaara, 44, died of natural causes Nov. 20, 1998, while on a hunting trip near Dillon. He was born March 28, 1954, in Hancock, to Robert W.
and Anna Irene Ruonavaara. He attended school in Hancock, graduating from Hancock Central High School in 1972. He moved to Montana in the summer of 1973. He married Ingrid Ek on June 1, 1979, in Brush Prairie, Wash. They made their home in Kalispell.
He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing, and camping with the family. He liked restoring old cars. The fellowship of companions and friends was a great source of joy to him. He was a member and helper of the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church in He will be truly missed by all his family and many, many friends. He was preceded in death by his mother.
He is survived by his wife, Ingrid, her family. She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, and a son, Rick. She is survived by her husband, Jack of Columbia Falls; three sons, Jeff and his wife Sandy Fields of Ironton, Ohio, Jack and his wife Jana Fields of Columbia Falls, and Terry and his wife Rhonda Fields of Columbia Falls; two daughters, Penny and her husband Tim Connolly of Columbia Falls and Vickie and her husband Tom Ridings of Columbia Falls; three sisters, Helen Kastella of Whitefish, Ruth Damchen of Hungry Horse, and Beverly Winterrowd of Marysville, 18 grandchildren; one great -grandson; and numerous nieces and nephews. Visitation will be today from 1-8 p.m. at the Columbia Mortuary in Columbia Falls.
A funeral service will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Columbia Mortuary in Columbia Falls. Tom Perry of the Nazarene Church will officiate. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery. Arrangements are by Columbia Mortuary.
of Kalispell; five daughters and five sons, Melanie, Richard, Holly, Tyler, Jonathan, Stefan, Robert, Danielle, Lana, and Marcie, all at the family home in Kalispell; his father, Robert W. Ruonavaara Sr. of Kalispell; two brothers, Nils of Houghton, and David of Hancock; eight sisters, Elaine Ek of Battle Ground, Ethel Ritola of Yacolt, Annette Levanen of Hancock, Anita Jouppe Lakeside, of Lillian Hancock, Linda Macfarlane Wisti of Kalispell, and Juanita and Marie Ruonavaara of Hancock. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
today, at Buffalo Hill Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church in Lakeside. Burial will follow at Glacier Memorial Gardens in Kalispell. Buffalo Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of the arrangements.
John Edward Sudan, 78 John Edward Sudan, 78, died of natural causes Nov. 21, 1998, at Kalispell Regional Hospital. He was born Jan. 13, 1920, at Buffalo, to Edward and Frances (Dixon) Sudan. Shortly after his birth, the family returned to their homestead near Delphia, in Musselshell County.
In 1935, the family moved to a farm in the Swan River community near Bigfork. After graduating from high school in 1938, he worked for two years in the Flathead Mines. In 1941 he went to Alaska and worked on the construction at Dutch Harbor, building defense barracks for the Navy. He started as a laborer, became a carpenter's apprentice, and then received his carpenter's card at In 1934 he enlisted in the U.S. Merchant Marines, and served as a cook on board the USS Bingham and then the USS Cape Race for tours of duty in the Pacific.
After the war, he signed on for another tour of duty in the Atlantic, which took him from New York to Argentina. On Aug. 1, 1946, he married Mae Croskrey in Columbia Falls. They resided in Kalispell, and to this union five children were born. He continued his career as a carpenter, which included among other projects the construction of the powerhouse at Hungry Horse Dam, the remodeling of Kalispell businesses on Main Street, the construction of the Essex bridge after the 1964 flood, and the reconstruction of the Kalispell and Bigfork sewage treatment plants.
He was the superintendent of construction for the Kalispell Junior High School. In 1961 he and his wife bought the farm in the Swan River community 4 from his father. They lived there for :37 years, until recently moving back to Kalispell. He was a 50-year member of Car- penters Local 911. He was the business agent for the union during the construction of Libby Dam.
He also served on the Bigfork High School board, and was chairman during his term on the Swan River school board. He liked to fish and hunt, throw horseshoes, and play cribbage. He loved being on his farm and raising his Herefords. He was also a great storyteller. 4- He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother Leo, his sister Margaret, and his grandson, Timothy Jamieson.
He is survived by his wife, Mae, of Kalispell; stepmother Annie Sudan of Bigfork; sister Jean Parker MacDonald of Spokane, five children and their spouses, Joseph and Wanda Smith Broadus, Patrick and Wilma Siemens of Bigfork, Marvin and Kathleen Sudan of Kila, Stanley and Cindy Sudan of Lafayette, and Norman Sudan of Moscow, Idaho; 15 grandchildren, Jody Michael Jamieson of Lebanon, Todd Jamieson of Broadus, Misha Siemens of Bozeman, Mikel, Marcel and Marissa Siemens of Bigfork, Kimberly and her husband Bill Morrison of Kila, Tracy and Travis Sudan of Kila, Abram and Tara Sudan of Lafayette, and Merinda, Robin, Ashley and Breann Sudan of Whitefish. Memorials may be sent to Bigfork Quick Response Unit, attention Vern Childers, 810 Grand Bigfork, MT 59911. Visitation will be today from noon to 6 p.m. and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to.
noon. The funeral service will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Johnson Mortuary in the chapel. The Rev. Ron Pierce will officiate.
Burial will follow at Glacier Memorial Gardens. Arrangements are under the direction of Johnson Mortuary and Crematory. Diabetics! Special care for your feet F. Wide Walkers 1612 Kalispell Hwy. 35 E.
men women's wide width shoes 752-SHOE (7463) Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Closed Sunday Storage unit burglars steal tools, guns Flathead County sheriff's deputies said Sunday someone broke into a storage unit on East Edgewood drive near Whitefish, taking $2,269 in items, including generators, tools, a Remington 12-gauge shotgun and another 410 shotgun. A cooler outside a business on U.S. 93 north of Whitefish was vandalized. Deputies helped quiet down a disturbance at the airport. On Saturday, a Jellison Road resident said someone was threatening to harm him.
A man reported the loss of a 12- gauge Mossberg shotgun he left on the top of his car when he drove away from 1 the highway bridge on Montana 40. Someone put four bullet holes in a pickup parked along the North Fork road. A 12-pack of beer was stolen from a convenience store on U.S. 2 in Evergreen. Deputies counseled persons in a domestic dispute on Montford Road.
Columbia Falls police on Saturday night went to a domestic disturbance in the 700 block of First Avenue West. A man, 30, was charged with misdemeanor partner assault, and a 30-year-old woman was charged with felony partner assault. She was taken by city ambulance to North Valley Hospital where she was treated and released. A man, 46, was charged with family member assault for allegedly hitting his father at a home on Third Avenue East. Officers found the driver of a hit-and-run car who damaged another car near the post office.
He was charged as a hit-and-run driver. On Sunday, officers cited two boys, ages 16 and 18, for engaging in a speed contest after a complaint they were racing on U.S. 2. An unwanted man at a Martha Road home left before officers arrived. Whitefish police said a Wisconsin Avenue resident complained of a violation of privacy in communications on Saturday.
The incident is under investigation. F. J. Law enforcement A 13-year-old boy reported missing from a Central Avenue house returned home before a search started. A briefcase was stolen from a business on U.S.
93 South. A caller reported pulling car from the river at the Columbia Street bridge on Sunday. Officers later located the car and the driver who was walking and refused any help. A house on Columbia Avenue was egged and hit with garlic. Columbia Falls ambulance and officers on Sunday went to an apartment in the 700 block of Seventh Street West, where two boys reportedly took large doses of 1 No The 14-year-old boy was taken by city ambulance and the North Valley Hospital advanced life support team to NVH, where he was treated and released.
The incident remains under investigation. Kalispell police said a burglary was reported early today at a home in the 100 block of Fourth Avenue East. On Sunday, a man, 21, was charged with DUI after being stopped in the 900 block of Second Avenue West. A house in the 400 block of Fifth Avenue West was egged. Officers charged a girl, 14, with theft for allegedly shoplifting at Claire's Boutique at Kalispell Center Mall.
A gas theft was reported at a store on East Idaho Street. Officers arrested a man, 20, and a woman, 19, on warrants for failing to appear and failing to pay court contracts. Alarms Whitefish ambulance went to a construction site on Ridgecrest Court to take a man who was ill to North Valley Hospital Saturday. The ambulance went to a traffic accident on the bridge at Montana 40 Sunday to take a patient to North Valley Hospital. Whitefish fire department helped utility crews at a gas leak Judge throws out evidence from drug dog BILLINGS (AP) In a ruling that could change how police pursue suspects in drug cases, a District Court judge in Billings has thrown out some evidence in the drug case against two Billings men.
District Judge Maurice Colberg Jr. ruled that a Billings police officer was wrong to have a police drug dog inspect a car simply because one of the car's occupants had a history of drug related arrests. Because of the ruling, drugrelated of charges against Mark Best and Rae L. Trotchie may be dismissed. "What we're apparently being told here is that no matter what you know about this guy, you can't do anything unless he's flashing his drugs out in the open," said Billings police Lt.
Larry Reinlasoder, head of the department's training. "It's my opinion that the judge is uniformed in the realities of search and seizure." Best, who was arrested in June and again in September on other drug-related charges, was a pas: senger in a car that was pulled over March 9 because the rear: license plate wasn't illuminated. The arresting officer said he didn't see or smell drugs in the car, and that the occupants didn't appear intoxicated, but called in a drug dog anyway. A search of the car turned up metham- Fat LiCK Get Your Lift at FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 752-7488 540 S. Kalispell phetamine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Colberg found the only reason for calling in the drug dog was the officer's knowledge that Best had possessed drugs in the past. "It is inappropriate to find that the fact that a person who has previously possessed illegal drugs is sitting in an automobile creates a particularized suspicion that illegal drugs would be located in the automobile," Colberg wrote. Reinlasoder said the department will probably follow the ruling in future cases, as long as Colberg's ruling stands. He said the department would encourage the Yellowstone County attorney's office to appeal the order to the Montana Supreme Court. DAILY INTER LAKE Vol.
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opened one diamond. North-South vulnerable. It is odd that in this highly touted NORTH event, which included most of the A top players in the United States 103 and Canada, only one North-South AQ72 pair thought enough of their cards KQ Q1092 to undertake a game contract. But WEST EAST even at their table something peQJ1075 culiar occurred, since the bidding K876 7 Q94 J4 10 9 North East South West J4 A76 14 Pass Pass SOUTH 3 Pass 3 92. 3 Pass 3 NT Pass A52 4 NT Pass 5 Pass K8653 6 South bid three hearts to invite The bidding: North to bid three notrump if he North East South West had a spade stopper.
But North Pass 1 Pass obviously misunderstood the call Pass Pass Pass and never did let go until six diaOpening lead queen of spades. monds was reached. This deal occurred in the Inter- A heart lead, of course, would national Team Trials in Dallas in have sunk the slam, but unfortu-. 1964. The hand was played at nine nately for West, he was dealt a tables, and you'd think that at most nice, safe, top-of-a-sequence spade of them, the final contract would lead.
5. have been five diamonds. But the Declarer won the queen of fact is that at eight of the tables, spades with dummy's ace and, afthe final contract was simply a ter drawing trumps and forcing partscore in diamonds. out the ace of clubs, finished with At three tables, the North- 12 tricks for a score of 1,370 points. South pairs stopped in two dia- This was more than the total at the monds, at three tables in three other eight tables combined, where and at two tables the various North-Souths scored four diamonds.
Some of the North either 150 or 170 points in their players opened one club; others diamond partscores." Tomorrow: Deja vu. 1998 King Features Syndicate, Inc. LAS VEGAS 3 Nites Airfare $20100 862-6790 755-1587.
