married:
Harry Hammett, 10 Aug 1908, Belt, MT
Thomas Benoy, 1 Dec 1938, Lewistown, MT
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Great Falls Tribune (MT), 9 Nov 1962:
Mrs. Benoy Dies, Rites on Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Belle Benoy, 73, 1506 Central Ave., will be Saturday morning at 11 from Maguire-Payne Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, with Rev. James Robbins officiating.
Burial will be in the Belt Cemetery.
The well-known Belt matron died Thursday morning in a local hospital following a lingering illness.
Born in Bismarck, N.D., Sept. 11, 1889, Mrs. Benoy moved from Neihart as a 12-year-old girl when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thorson, homesteaded in the Little Belts.
She married Howard Hammett in 1914 and together they owned and operated Hammett Brothers Ranch on Cora Creek until Hammett was killed in an auto accident in 1935.
Mrs. Benoy moved to Belt in 1936 and in 1938 she married Thomas Benoy. In 1954 she moved to Great Falls and lived with a sister, Mrs. A. L. Martin, who preceded her in death in Jan. 1961.
She had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke in 1956.
Survivors include a brother, Ben Thorson of Chelan, Wash.; two nieces, Mrs. Walter Ranta of Belt and Mrs. H. A. Johnson of Great Falls; two nephews, Ben Thorson of Seattle and Jack Martin of Great Falls; and 12 grandnieces and grandnephews.
Harry Hammett, 10 Aug 1908, Belt, MT
Thomas Benoy, 1 Dec 1938, Lewistown, MT
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Great Falls Tribune (MT), 9 Nov 1962:
Mrs. Benoy Dies, Rites on Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Belle Benoy, 73, 1506 Central Ave., will be Saturday morning at 11 from Maguire-Payne Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, with Rev. James Robbins officiating.
Burial will be in the Belt Cemetery.
The well-known Belt matron died Thursday morning in a local hospital following a lingering illness.
Born in Bismarck, N.D., Sept. 11, 1889, Mrs. Benoy moved from Neihart as a 12-year-old girl when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thorson, homesteaded in the Little Belts.
She married Howard Hammett in 1914 and together they owned and operated Hammett Brothers Ranch on Cora Creek until Hammett was killed in an auto accident in 1935.
Mrs. Benoy moved to Belt in 1936 and in 1938 she married Thomas Benoy. In 1954 she moved to Great Falls and lived with a sister, Mrs. A. L. Martin, who preceded her in death in Jan. 1961.
She had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke in 1956.
Survivors include a brother, Ben Thorson of Chelan, Wash.; two nieces, Mrs. Walter Ranta of Belt and Mrs. H. A. Johnson of Great Falls; two nephews, Ben Thorson of Seattle and Jack Martin of Great Falls; and 12 grandnieces and grandnephews.
married:
Harry Hammett, 10 Aug 1908, Belt, MT
Thomas Benoy, 1 Dec 1938, Lewistown, MT
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Great Falls Tribune (MT), 9 Nov 1962:
Mrs. Benoy Dies, Rites on Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Belle Benoy, 73, 1506 Central Ave., will be Saturday morning at 11 from Maguire-Payne Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, with Rev. James Robbins officiating.
Burial will be in the Belt Cemetery.
The well-known Belt matron died Thursday morning in a local hospital following a lingering illness.
Born in Bismarck, N.D., Sept. 11, 1889, Mrs. Benoy moved from Neihart as a 12-year-old girl when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thorson, homesteaded in the Little Belts.
She married Howard Hammett in 1914 and together they owned and operated Hammett Brothers Ranch on Cora Creek until Hammett was killed in an auto accident in 1935.
Mrs. Benoy moved to Belt in 1936 and in 1938 she married Thomas Benoy. In 1954 she moved to Great Falls and lived with a sister, Mrs. A. L. Martin, who preceded her in death in Jan. 1961.
She had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke in 1956.
Survivors include a brother, Ben Thorson of Chelan, Wash.; two nieces, Mrs. Walter Ranta of Belt and Mrs. H. A. Johnson of Great Falls; two nephews, Ben Thorson of Seattle and Jack Martin of Great Falls; and 12 grandnieces and grandnephews.
Harry Hammett, 10 Aug 1908, Belt, MT
Thomas Benoy, 1 Dec 1938, Lewistown, MT
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Great Falls Tribune (MT), 9 Nov 1962:
Mrs. Benoy Dies, Rites on Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Belle Benoy, 73, 1506 Central Ave., will be Saturday morning at 11 from Maguire-Payne Chapel of Chimes Funeral Home, with Rev. James Robbins officiating.
Burial will be in the Belt Cemetery.
The well-known Belt matron died Thursday morning in a local hospital following a lingering illness.
Born in Bismarck, N.D., Sept. 11, 1889, Mrs. Benoy moved from Neihart as a 12-year-old girl when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thorson, homesteaded in the Little Belts.
She married Howard Hammett in 1914 and together they owned and operated Hammett Brothers Ranch on Cora Creek until Hammett was killed in an auto accident in 1935.
Mrs. Benoy moved to Belt in 1936 and in 1938 she married Thomas Benoy. In 1954 she moved to Great Falls and lived with a sister, Mrs. A. L. Martin, who preceded her in death in Jan. 1961.
She had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke in 1956.
Survivors include a brother, Ben Thorson of Chelan, Wash.; two nieces, Mrs. Walter Ranta of Belt and Mrs. H. A. Johnson of Great Falls; two nephews, Ben Thorson of Seattle and Jack Martin of Great Falls; and 12 grandnieces and grandnephews.
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