Miles City Star

It's with a heavy heart that we announce the death of Patrick "Pat" Bergman. Pat passed away in the evening on October 18th in Seattle, WA at age 57. One of Pat's most identifying attributes was his "unique and dry wit," as one of his closest friends put it. He was incredibly optimistic and had a way of bringing humor to all things mundane. Pat was driven in everything he did, especially when it came to football and business. He was confident in himself and a force to be reckoned with in many ways. Pat was born in Lincoln, NE on July 20, 1965, and spent the majority of his childhood growing up in Miles City, MT. Pat graduated college from Montana State University in Bozeman where he...

In the early morning of July 16th, 2021 Evelyn Kay (Johnson) Hauge merged with the infinite, passing in her home in Billings, MT, surrounded by family and friends, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Deeply rooted in her Christian faith, she calmly accepted her fate knowing that she would be reunited with passed loved ones. Evelyn was 71 years old. Evelyn was born to Grant Ludwig Johnson and Bessie (Davies) Johnson on August 8th, 1949 in the town of Glendive, MT which, they say, is located somewhere between Miles City and Savage, MT. She was raised on a beet farm in the hardscrabble badlands of Eastern Montana, close to the Yellowstone River, near the Dawson and Richland county...

In the early morning hours of November 19, 2020, our family lost, but heaven gained, a bright and shining North Star. Morris Robert Van Campen was born in Columbus, Montana, on January 2, 1939. His proud parents were Alice (Guthrie) and Marion Van Campen. He joined his older brother James, and the family was surrounded by a loving number of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and life-long friends, each nurturing the others through good times and bad. The young family lived in Reed Point, Montana, and ranched out on Countryman Creek, where the young boys, along with numerous cousins and friends, enjoyed roaming the surrounding hills and valleys along the beautiful Yellowstone River. It...

Elizabeth "Betty" Katherine May Dolan Monforton, 92, passed away November 12, 2019. She was born in Ismay, MT on June 12, 1927 to Sarafica "Sadie" and Paul May. Betty graduated from Ismay High School in 1945 and moved to Miles City to work for the Ma Bell Telephone Company. On November 1, 1947 she married Donald E. Dolan and they had two sons, Donald C. and Robert D. They moved to Bozeman and she worked for the telephone company again until 1972. Don passed away November 1974. Betty retired and married Jack Monforton on December 26, 1981 to 2005. Betty loved her family and sitting on her swing watching the world go by. She enjoyed puzzles, watching The Price is Right every day, Molly...