Obituaries

Dennis Ray Marks was the second child born to Montana Mae Goakey Marks on 2-20-1945. His father is Charles Joseph Marks. He had eight siblings: Terry, Robert, Kay, Bill, and Dave. His father passed away when Dennis was five and later his mother married “Cowboy” Krone.

Dennis graduated Hysham High School in 1965. In 1966 he entered the Army. He was stationed in Korea during the Vietnam War. He was honorably discharged in 1969 as a Sgt. E5 with an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Korea); National Defense Service Medal; Sharpshooter (Rifle).

On the night of December 6, 2020, Starr passed away in Rosebud, MT. He was 65 years old.

Alan Richard James passed away peacefully on December 11, 2020 at Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana due to complications of COVID-19. He was surrounded by the Savior’s love and watched over by his wife and daughters, as they could not be in the room with him.

Dr. Henry Andrew Stokke was born March 5, 1929, in Columbus, MT, to Samuel and Mildred (Reinecke) Stokke. He passed peacefully in his sleep on November 8, 2020, at the age of 91. Being raised in the Roscoe area on a homestead, he spent much of his time at the Lazy EL Ranch with his father “Eskimo Sam”, a ranch hand and Norwegian immigrant. In his younger years, his father started the Horseshoe Inn, which later became the Roscoe Bar then the Grizzly Bar. He attended grade school in Roscoe and was always looking for ways to make money. He was paid a bounty for magpie eggs and also trapped skunks to skin and sell to fur buyers (his teacher would send him home when smelled too badly of skunk). He graduated high school in Absarokee, MT. During his high school years, he packed in and planted fish eggs in Snow and Phantom Lake, located in the East Rosebud drainage where 40 years later his son possibly found the original fish egg box.