Liberty County Times, Chester, MT, 6 Jul 1988
Elmer Bolma, 85, oil driller, died Saturday in Lewistown. Born in Duluth, Minn., Bolma came to Montana as a child with his parents and was raised on their homestead in the Haystack Butte area. As a young man he worked on the Bourne, Hamilton, and Strode ranches, and trapped in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. He worked most of his life in the oil fields in the Whitlash area as a cable tool driller.
Survivors include brothers, Albert of Forest Grove, Ore., and Ray of Underwood, Minn.; sister, Mabel Johnson of Vancouver, B.C.; and daughter, the former Angie Bolma of Kalden, B.C.
Funeral services at Burns Funeral Home in Shelby. Burial in Whitlash Cemetery.
Elmer Bolma, 85, oil driller, died Saturday in Lewistown. Born in Duluth, Minn., Bolma came to Montana as a child with his parents and was raised on their homestead in the Haystack Butte area. As a young man he worked on the Bourne, Hamilton, and Strode ranches, and trapped in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. He worked most of his life in the oil fields in the Whitlash area as a cable tool driller.
Survivors include brothers, Albert of Forest Grove, Ore., and Ray of Underwood, Minn.; sister, Mabel Johnson of Vancouver, B.C.; and daughter, the former Angie Bolma of Kalden, B.C.
Funeral services at Burns Funeral Home in Shelby. Burial in Whitlash Cemetery.
Liberty County Times, Chester, MT, 6 Jul 1988
Elmer Bolma, 85, oil driller, died Saturday in Lewistown. Born in Duluth, Minn., Bolma came to Montana as a child with his parents and was raised on their homestead in the Haystack Butte area. As a young man he worked on the Bourne, Hamilton, and Strode ranches, and trapped in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. He worked most of his life in the oil fields in the Whitlash area as a cable tool driller.
Survivors include brothers, Albert of Forest Grove, Ore., and Ray of Underwood, Minn.; sister, Mabel Johnson of Vancouver, B.C.; and daughter, the former Angie Bolma of Kalden, B.C.
Funeral services at Burns Funeral Home in Shelby. Burial in Whitlash Cemetery.
Elmer Bolma, 85, oil driller, died Saturday in Lewistown. Born in Duluth, Minn., Bolma came to Montana as a child with his parents and was raised on their homestead in the Haystack Butte area. As a young man he worked on the Bourne, Hamilton, and Strode ranches, and trapped in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. He worked most of his life in the oil fields in the Whitlash area as a cable tool driller.
Survivors include brothers, Albert of Forest Grove, Ore., and Ray of Underwood, Minn.; sister, Mabel Johnson of Vancouver, B.C.; and daughter, the former Angie Bolma of Kalden, B.C.
Funeral services at Burns Funeral Home in Shelby. Burial in Whitlash Cemetery.
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