Obituaries

Donald F. Duval passed away on December 30, 2020. He was born on February 8, 1938 in Santa Cruz, Ca. Don served in the U.S. Army and National Guard from 1961 to 1967.

Donald Dean Brewer was born to Opal and Clell Brewer in Exeter, CA on October 15, 1945. He was the youngest of five children. He served in the military during the Vietnam War. He was stationed in Germany. He married Dodie Brewer and they had three children together while livingin Oregon. Schatzi, Vincent (Dawnette) and Miranda (Ben). Later, Don and Dodie divorced and he moved back to CA where he worked in Sequoia National Park. In 1993 he moved to Montana to work. It was while he was working there that he met Lorinda Dribnenki and within a year they were married. (That was 26 years ago). After a couple of months living in western Montana, they returned to Big Timber where they made their home from then on. Don went to work for Yellowstone National Park where he worked for several years and made many new friends. Sterling was born 6 years into their marriage. Don left his job in the park to be closer to Lorinda and Sterling. It was then that he started his Landscape / Lawn Care business that he continued up until his time of passing.

Raymond George “Ray” Kunda of Big Timber, MT passed away peacefully on November 22, 2020 at the Pioneer Medical Center. He was born February 7, 1937 to Edward Joseph Kunda and Victoria Knapkiewicz in Wibaux, MT.

William Hardy Heaney—an anthropologist, fisherman, and photographer who always wanted “just one more” photo of his family, “just one more” book, “just one more” cast in a river’s fading light—died Wednesday, November 25th, in Billings, Montana. Bill, as family and friends knew him, bravely fought COVID-19 for four weeks before he succumbed. He was 75.