Garden City Funeral Home

Brooke Sargent, 44, passed away Thursday, November 30, 2023 at home. A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at Garden City Funeral Home. Friends and family are invited to join in remembering the beautiful soul that touched so many lives. Online condolences may be left at gardencityfh.com. Brooke Sargent, daughter of Steven and Suzanne (Dance) Bahr, was born January 3, 1979 in Blackfoot, Idaho. She attended schools in the Blackfoot area and graduated from Madison High School in Rexburg, ID. Brooke continued her education at Oregon Institute of Technology, obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in ultrasound. She graduated in 2003 Cum Laude and...

AC "Charles" Smid, a passionate outdoorsman, entrepreneur, and conservationist passed away on October 1, 2023, while fly fishing the Kluatantan River in British Columbia, Canada. The cause of death was heart failure. He was 73 years old. Charles was born the second of five children to Arthur C. and Mary Ellen Smid in Naperville, IL, on January 25, 1950. A distinguished alumnus of the University of Montana, he became a restaurant entrepreneur in his early professional life. He was a member of YPO, a professional organization for successful young corporate presidents and CEOs. A lifelong hunter and conservationist, Charles was a regular member of the Boone and Crockett Club, a wildlife...

William ("Bill") Fredrick Smith, 81, of Swan Lake, MT, passed away on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, of natural causes. He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, but was a Montana man through and through and spent his early days growing up in Sweet Grass, Montana. His parents Mary and George Smith ran a farm east of town and a bar, the Border Inn, in Sweetgrass where Bill would occasionally bartend and keep the peace. He was wonderfully smart and always had an entrepreneurial spirit. Bill was the first in his family to go to university, first for a year in Oklahoma, then finishing up at Montana State University studying agricultural economics. He took a trip up to Calgary after graduating and by...

Zachariah David Moeller passed away suddenly in a tragic fall at his family property in Saltese, Montana on January 28th, 2023. Zach was born on October 31,1980 in Superior, MT in the same wild mountains where he passed. Those wild mountains influenced his early adolescent years as he grew up in Montana. Zachariah graduated from Belgrade High School in 1999, where he proudly played football and ran track as a Panther. After high school, Zach started his own business, M&M Drywall. For over a decade he drywalled, taped and plastered many homes and businesses throughout the Gallatin Valley. Zach started dating his long-time friend Meggie Klotovich in 2003 and they were married on...

Thomas "Tom" Strauss Lehman, 84, of Missoula, passed-away peacefully at home on Saturday, April 3, 2021. He was born on February 4, 1937, in Chicago, IL to Lawrence and Sue Lehman. Tom was raised in Colorado and chose Montana as his best last place. He graduated from Colorado A & M in 1960 then managed the family ranch in Ennis until it sold in 1967. He then moved to Bozeman where he was involved in many successful businesses and was well known for helping Gary Tschache invent the Montana Turd Bird. Tom also wrote a great joke book with his son Randy. Tom married Judy Comstock in 1996 then moved to their retirement home in Seeley Lake in 1998 and later to Missoula in 2006. He and...