Helena Independent, Helena, MT, 4 Apr 1938 (Excerpt)
Second Montana Storm Death is Put on Record
The body of Ralph Fremo, 48 year-old Joplin ranch hand, was found yesterday by a searching party, bringing to two the lives taken in northern Montana's worst spring blizzard in 20 years.
Fremo walked out of a ranch house near Joplin at the height of the blizzard last Tuesday to go to an outbuilding 200 feet away. He was never seen alive again. For five days neighbors and sheriff's officers combed the country for him, their efforts hampered by the large snowdrifts that blocked them at every turn.
Yesterday Harold Jenson, Fremo's neighbor, came upon the body about three miles south of the farm house from which Fremo disappeared. Jenson was one of the party of 75 neighbors and officers who searched along a five-mile front for the missing man.
No explanation can be offered other than Fremo almost instantly lost his sense of direction when he stepped into the blinding white curtain of snow and wandered away.
A brother of the dead man, Tory O. Fremo, of St. Ignatius, arrived in Joplin Friday to help organize the search which ended with the finding of the body.
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Liberty County Times, Chester, MT, 7 Apr 1938
Ralph Fremo was born in Norway and was 49 years of age at the date of his death. August 5, 1918 he enlisted with he American Army for service over seas in the World War and was honorably discharged August 4, 1919. He homesteaded near Joplin in the early days and has been a resident of Liberty County since that time. Two sisters. Mrs. S.F. Lee and Miss Ragna Fremo of Warren, South Dakota and T.O. Fremo of St. Ignatius, Montana survive him In America and five brothers in Norway.
The funeral was held from .the Lutheran church at Chester. Military honors by Legion Post No. 88 at Chester of which he was a member were accorded him at the grave--
flowers, the colors of his adopted country, surrounded by his comrads, he was laid away with the bugle ringing over him and the farewell salvo of musketry.
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Immigration: Departed Liverpool, England, arrived in Quebec, Canada, 21 May 1909.
Second Montana Storm Death is Put on Record
The body of Ralph Fremo, 48 year-old Joplin ranch hand, was found yesterday by a searching party, bringing to two the lives taken in northern Montana's worst spring blizzard in 20 years.
Fremo walked out of a ranch house near Joplin at the height of the blizzard last Tuesday to go to an outbuilding 200 feet away. He was never seen alive again. For five days neighbors and sheriff's officers combed the country for him, their efforts hampered by the large snowdrifts that blocked them at every turn.
Yesterday Harold Jenson, Fremo's neighbor, came upon the body about three miles south of the farm house from which Fremo disappeared. Jenson was one of the party of 75 neighbors and officers who searched along a five-mile front for the missing man.
No explanation can be offered other than Fremo almost instantly lost his sense of direction when he stepped into the blinding white curtain of snow and wandered away.
A brother of the dead man, Tory O. Fremo, of St. Ignatius, arrived in Joplin Friday to help organize the search which ended with the finding of the body.
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Liberty County Times, Chester, MT, 7 Apr 1938
Ralph Fremo was born in Norway and was 49 years of age at the date of his death. August 5, 1918 he enlisted with he American Army for service over seas in the World War and was honorably discharged August 4, 1919. He homesteaded near Joplin in the early days and has been a resident of Liberty County since that time. Two sisters. Mrs. S.F. Lee and Miss Ragna Fremo of Warren, South Dakota and T.O. Fremo of St. Ignatius, Montana survive him In America and five brothers in Norway.
The funeral was held from .the Lutheran church at Chester. Military honors by Legion Post No. 88 at Chester of which he was a member were accorded him at the grave--
flowers, the colors of his adopted country, surrounded by his comrads, he was laid away with the bugle ringing over him and the farewell salvo of musketry.
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Immigration: Departed Liverpool, England, arrived in Quebec, Canada, 21 May 1909.
Helena Independent, Helena, MT, 4 Apr 1938 (Excerpt)
Second Montana Storm Death is Put on Record
The body of Ralph Fremo, 48 year-old Joplin ranch hand, was found yesterday by a searching party, bringing to two the lives taken in northern Montana's worst spring blizzard in 20 years.
Fremo walked out of a ranch house near Joplin at the height of the blizzard last Tuesday to go to an outbuilding 200 feet away. He was never seen alive again. For five days neighbors and sheriff's officers combed the country for him, their efforts hampered by the large snowdrifts that blocked them at every turn.
Yesterday Harold Jenson, Fremo's neighbor, came upon the body about three miles south of the farm house from which Fremo disappeared. Jenson was one of the party of 75 neighbors and officers who searched along a five-mile front for the missing man.
No explanation can be offered other than Fremo almost instantly lost his sense of direction when he stepped into the blinding white curtain of snow and wandered away.
A brother of the dead man, Tory O. Fremo, of St. Ignatius, arrived in Joplin Friday to help organize the search which ended with the finding of the body.
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Liberty County Times, Chester, MT, 7 Apr 1938
Ralph Fremo was born in Norway and was 49 years of age at the date of his death. August 5, 1918 he enlisted with he American Army for service over seas in the World War and was honorably discharged August 4, 1919. He homesteaded near Joplin in the early days and has been a resident of Liberty County since that time. Two sisters. Mrs. S.F. Lee and Miss Ragna Fremo of Warren, South Dakota and T.O. Fremo of St. Ignatius, Montana survive him In America and five brothers in Norway.
The funeral was held from .the Lutheran church at Chester. Military honors by Legion Post No. 88 at Chester of which he was a member were accorded him at the grave--
flowers, the colors of his adopted country, surrounded by his comrads, he was laid away with the bugle ringing over him and the farewell salvo of musketry.
--
Immigration: Departed Liverpool, England, arrived in Quebec, Canada, 21 May 1909.
Second Montana Storm Death is Put on Record
The body of Ralph Fremo, 48 year-old Joplin ranch hand, was found yesterday by a searching party, bringing to two the lives taken in northern Montana's worst spring blizzard in 20 years.
Fremo walked out of a ranch house near Joplin at the height of the blizzard last Tuesday to go to an outbuilding 200 feet away. He was never seen alive again. For five days neighbors and sheriff's officers combed the country for him, their efforts hampered by the large snowdrifts that blocked them at every turn.
Yesterday Harold Jenson, Fremo's neighbor, came upon the body about three miles south of the farm house from which Fremo disappeared. Jenson was one of the party of 75 neighbors and officers who searched along a five-mile front for the missing man.
No explanation can be offered other than Fremo almost instantly lost his sense of direction when he stepped into the blinding white curtain of snow and wandered away.
A brother of the dead man, Tory O. Fremo, of St. Ignatius, arrived in Joplin Friday to help organize the search which ended with the finding of the body.
---
Liberty County Times, Chester, MT, 7 Apr 1938
Ralph Fremo was born in Norway and was 49 years of age at the date of his death. August 5, 1918 he enlisted with he American Army for service over seas in the World War and was honorably discharged August 4, 1919. He homesteaded near Joplin in the early days and has been a resident of Liberty County since that time. Two sisters. Mrs. S.F. Lee and Miss Ragna Fremo of Warren, South Dakota and T.O. Fremo of St. Ignatius, Montana survive him In America and five brothers in Norway.
The funeral was held from .the Lutheran church at Chester. Military honors by Legion Post No. 88 at Chester of which he was a member were accorded him at the grave--
flowers, the colors of his adopted country, surrounded by his comrads, he was laid away with the bugle ringing over him and the farewell salvo of musketry.
--
Immigration: Departed Liverpool, England, arrived in Quebec, Canada, 21 May 1909.
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