FRANK H. POTTERF, Obituary, Fergus Co., MT

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Lewistown paper 2-1986


Funeral services for Frank H. Potterf, 75, will be held Thursday at 2 p m 
at the Creel-Morrison-Retz Chapel with Rev. Gordon E. Parke. Interment will 
be in the Lewistown City Cemetery

Potterf died Monday morning at his residence in Lewistown after battling 
cancer for nine months.

The family preferred memorials to the Rocky Mountain Cancer Center of 
Billings, or the Hospice of Lewistown. The memorials can be left at the 
funeral home

The son of Oscar and Anna Potterf, he was born Nov, 14, 1910 in Raymond, 
IL. He came to the Roy area with his parents in 1914 when they homesteaded 
north of Roy.  After his schooling he worked on various ranches in the Roy 
area for several years prior to going to work for the Milwaukee Railroad.

Potterf married Lillis M Housel Sept. 10, 1937 in Great Falls. After his 
marriage they lived in Roy far several years until 1942 when he went to 
work for the ASCS. In 1946 he moved back to the Central Montana area and 
worked on several ranches in the Lewistown area

He moved into Lewistown in 1953 and went to work for the Montana Elevator 
Company, working for them for 22 years He retired from the elevator and has 
worked since for the Lewistown News-Argus and was presently employed by 
them at the time of his death.

Survivors including his wife of Lewistown, two sons, Andrew J. "Jack" 
Hemsing of Billings and Richard F Potterf of Red Lodge; one grandson, Jon 
E. Hemsing of Trandheim, Norway, and one sister, Alice Mae Canon of Ponca 
City, Okla.