Alfred R. "Muck" Short, 65, of 2011 1st Ave. S., a retired employee for Montana Waste Management and an Army and Vietnam veteran, died of natural causes Thursday at a local hospital.
Funeral Liturgy is 11 a.m. Tuesday at Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, with burial with military honors in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Survivors include his daughters, Mary Alice Bradford of Missoula, Monica Bigby of Fort Belknap, and Mona Cole, Jewell Laverdure, Shane Short and Tawnie Arevalos, all of Great Falls; a son, Duke (Michelle) Short of Great Falls; sisters Carol Begay of Billings, and Linda, Patsy and Pam Short, all of Sacramento, Calif.; brothers Larry and Donald Short of Havre, and Robert Short of Great Falls; 22 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Alfred Roy Short was born in 1943, in Sacramento, Calif. He attended schools in Rausin, Calif., and Dunseith, N.D., elementary school and Lincoln High School in Sacramento, and Rigby High School in Rigby, Idaho.
Shortly after high school, he started work in cotton fields in Arizona with his brothers, sisters and father. He later worked as a miner in New Idria, Calif., as a sawyer for Greilech Cattle Co. in Plymouth, Calif., and a bricklayer for Poitra Construction in Belcourt, N.D. He worked in the beet fields in Burly, Idaho, the potato fields in Menan, Idaho, and bucked hay for Harris Land and Cattle Co., in Highwood, Mont., as well as the surrounding ranches from Augusta to Fairfield to Fort Benton. He was an all-around hard worker who loved his fishing and hunting, and knew the lakes and streams around western Montana well. Holter Lake was one of his favorites.
Alfred worked as an explosive technician for Zook Construction and also worked for the missile sites for Morris Knutson in North Dakota and Montana. He worked for the Anaconda Smelter Co., as a truck driver for Greens Refuge Service, and retired from Montana Waste Management.
He was an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa band of Indians.
He was drafted in 1965, went to boot camp at Fort Ord, Oakland, Calif., later A.I.T. training at Fort Benning, Ga., then was with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles, went onto the 173rd Airborne at Fort Cambell, Ky., and did a tour of Vietnam before being honorably discharged in 1966, after earning a Purple Heart.
In 1964, he married the love of his life, Carol Jean Delorme. She preceded him in death in 2001.
Funeral Liturgy is 11 a.m. Tuesday at Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, with burial with military honors in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Survivors include his daughters, Mary Alice Bradford of Missoula, Monica Bigby of Fort Belknap, and Mona Cole, Jewell Laverdure, Shane Short and Tawnie Arevalos, all of Great Falls; a son, Duke (Michelle) Short of Great Falls; sisters Carol Begay of Billings, and Linda, Patsy and Pam Short, all of Sacramento, Calif.; brothers Larry and Donald Short of Havre, and Robert Short of Great Falls; 22 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Alfred Roy Short was born in 1943, in Sacramento, Calif. He attended schools in Rausin, Calif., and Dunseith, N.D., elementary school and Lincoln High School in Sacramento, and Rigby High School in Rigby, Idaho.
Shortly after high school, he started work in cotton fields in Arizona with his brothers, sisters and father. He later worked as a miner in New Idria, Calif., as a sawyer for Greilech Cattle Co. in Plymouth, Calif., and a bricklayer for Poitra Construction in Belcourt, N.D. He worked in the beet fields in Burly, Idaho, the potato fields in Menan, Idaho, and bucked hay for Harris Land and Cattle Co., in Highwood, Mont., as well as the surrounding ranches from Augusta to Fairfield to Fort Benton. He was an all-around hard worker who loved his fishing and hunting, and knew the lakes and streams around western Montana well. Holter Lake was one of his favorites.
Alfred worked as an explosive technician for Zook Construction and also worked for the missile sites for Morris Knutson in North Dakota and Montana. He worked for the Anaconda Smelter Co., as a truck driver for Greens Refuge Service, and retired from Montana Waste Management.
He was an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa band of Indians.
He was drafted in 1965, went to boot camp at Fort Ord, Oakland, Calif., later A.I.T. training at Fort Benning, Ga., then was with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles, went onto the 173rd Airborne at Fort Cambell, Ky., and did a tour of Vietnam before being honorably discharged in 1966, after earning a Purple Heart.
In 1964, he married the love of his life, Carol Jean Delorme. She preceded him in death in 2001.
Alfred R. "Muck" Short, 65, of 2011 1st Ave. S., a retired employee for Montana Waste Management and an Army and Vietnam veteran, died of natural causes Thursday at a local hospital.
Funeral Liturgy is 11 a.m. Tuesday at Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, with burial with military honors in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Survivors include his daughters, Mary Alice Bradford of Missoula, Monica Bigby of Fort Belknap, and Mona Cole, Jewell Laverdure, Shane Short and Tawnie Arevalos, all of Great Falls; a son, Duke (Michelle) Short of Great Falls; sisters Carol Begay of Billings, and Linda, Patsy and Pam Short, all of Sacramento, Calif.; brothers Larry and Donald Short of Havre, and Robert Short of Great Falls; 22 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Alfred Roy Short was born in 1943, in Sacramento, Calif. He attended schools in Rausin, Calif., and Dunseith, N.D., elementary school and Lincoln High School in Sacramento, and Rigby High School in Rigby, Idaho.
Shortly after high school, he started work in cotton fields in Arizona with his brothers, sisters and father. He later worked as a miner in New Idria, Calif., as a sawyer for Greilech Cattle Co. in Plymouth, Calif., and a bricklayer for Poitra Construction in Belcourt, N.D. He worked in the beet fields in Burly, Idaho, the potato fields in Menan, Idaho, and bucked hay for Harris Land and Cattle Co., in Highwood, Mont., as well as the surrounding ranches from Augusta to Fairfield to Fort Benton. He was an all-around hard worker who loved his fishing and hunting, and knew the lakes and streams around western Montana well. Holter Lake was one of his favorites.
Alfred worked as an explosive technician for Zook Construction and also worked for the missile sites for Morris Knutson in North Dakota and Montana. He worked for the Anaconda Smelter Co., as a truck driver for Greens Refuge Service, and retired from Montana Waste Management.
He was an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa band of Indians.
He was drafted in 1965, went to boot camp at Fort Ord, Oakland, Calif., later A.I.T. training at Fort Benning, Ga., then was with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles, went onto the 173rd Airborne at Fort Cambell, Ky., and did a tour of Vietnam before being honorably discharged in 1966, after earning a Purple Heart.
In 1964, he married the love of his life, Carol Jean Delorme. She preceded him in death in 2001.
Funeral Liturgy is 11 a.m. Tuesday at Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, with burial with military honors in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Survivors include his daughters, Mary Alice Bradford of Missoula, Monica Bigby of Fort Belknap, and Mona Cole, Jewell Laverdure, Shane Short and Tawnie Arevalos, all of Great Falls; a son, Duke (Michelle) Short of Great Falls; sisters Carol Begay of Billings, and Linda, Patsy and Pam Short, all of Sacramento, Calif.; brothers Larry and Donald Short of Havre, and Robert Short of Great Falls; 22 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Alfred Roy Short was born in 1943, in Sacramento, Calif. He attended schools in Rausin, Calif., and Dunseith, N.D., elementary school and Lincoln High School in Sacramento, and Rigby High School in Rigby, Idaho.
Shortly after high school, he started work in cotton fields in Arizona with his brothers, sisters and father. He later worked as a miner in New Idria, Calif., as a sawyer for Greilech Cattle Co. in Plymouth, Calif., and a bricklayer for Poitra Construction in Belcourt, N.D. He worked in the beet fields in Burly, Idaho, the potato fields in Menan, Idaho, and bucked hay for Harris Land and Cattle Co., in Highwood, Mont., as well as the surrounding ranches from Augusta to Fairfield to Fort Benton. He was an all-around hard worker who loved his fishing and hunting, and knew the lakes and streams around western Montana well. Holter Lake was one of his favorites.
Alfred worked as an explosive technician for Zook Construction and also worked for the missile sites for Morris Knutson in North Dakota and Montana. He worked for the Anaconda Smelter Co., as a truck driver for Greens Refuge Service, and retired from Montana Waste Management.
He was an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa band of Indians.
He was drafted in 1965, went to boot camp at Fort Ord, Oakland, Calif., later A.I.T. training at Fort Benning, Ga., then was with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles, went onto the 173rd Airborne at Fort Cambell, Ky., and did a tour of Vietnam before being honorably discharged in 1966, after earning a Purple Heart.
In 1964, he married the love of his life, Carol Jean Delorme. She preceded him in death in 2001.
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