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Alfred Johansen
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A funeral service for Alfred Johansen will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Monday, June 1, 2009 at Nathanael Lutheran Church near Dagmar.
Pastor Betty Mawbey will officiate and burial will be at Nathanael Cemetery. Alfred, 86, died at Sheridan Memorial Hospital on Thursday
evening, May 28, 2009.
Alfred was born June 30, 1922 a son of Viggo and Carrie (Johnson) Johansen at the family farm southeast of Antelope. He grew up as
the only living son in a family of 12 sisters. He attended Lew Wallace School and worked on the family farm until 1941 when he began
working in Reserve at the International Harvestor Company.
On December 23, 1943 he married Vivian DeTienne in Bainville, Montana and they made their home in Reserve until the spring of 1945,
when they moved to Dagmar, Montana. Alfred became the first manager of the newly organized Farmers Union Trading Company until
1947, when they moved to Flaxville, Montana, where they purchased the Flaxville Variety Store. They lived in Flaxville for sixteen years and
during that time Alfred continued to help his Dad farm in Antelope. While in Flaxville Alfred and Vivian owned and operated the first
launderama in Scobey and Alfred was a substitute mail carrier on a rural Flaxville route.
In 1958 Alfred and Vivian were able to purchase his grandparent's homestead southeast Antelope and in 1963 they moved to the farm
permanently. During the 1970's Alfred drove an Antelope school bus until the school burned down and then continued to drive the
children to school in Plentywood.
In 1985 Vivian suffered a heart attack, which led to a series of strokes and she passed in June of 1986. On June 26, 1988 Alfred
married Louise Wirtz Mount from the Outlook area. They were married in Plentywood and continued to live on the farm until October of
2006, when they moved to Plentywood.
His passion for farming was only surpassed by his love of dancing and playing cards with family and friends.
Alfred is survived by his wife, Louise of Plentywood, children: Judy Pitts of of Omaha, Nebraska, Yvonne Richardson and her husband
Tim of Plentywood, Victor of the family farm in Antelope, Sharon Powell and her husband Lloyd, Glenn Mount and his wife Wendal, Scott
Mount and his wife Joan, all of the Seattle area. He is also survived by his thirteen grandchildren, twenty-three Great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are his sisters: Elaine (Eiler) Johansen, Florence Espano, Elvira McCarty, Shirley (Louis) Hoffarth, Gladys (Robert)
Robertson, Zelda (Don) Fink and Arliss Heisler. He is preceded in death by his parents, first wife Vivian, his brother Elmer and sister
Lydia Francis, Dora Kanning, Minnie Johansen, Jane Popescu and Ruby Peterson.
Fulkerson Funeral Home of Plentywood is in charge of arrangements.
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A funeral service for Alfred Johansen will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Monday, June 1, 2009 at Nathanael Lutheran Church near Dagmar.
Pastor Betty Mawbey will officiate and burial will be at Nathanael Cemetery. Alfred, 86, died at Sheridan Memorial Hospital on Thursday
evening, May 28, 2009.
Alfred was born June 30, 1922 a son of Viggo and Carrie (Johnson) Johansen at the family farm southeast of Antelope. He grew up as
the only living son in a family of 12 sisters. He attended Lew Wallace School and worked on the family farm until 1941 when he began
working in Reserve at the International Harvestor Company.
On December 23, 1943 he married Vivian DeTienne in Bainville, Montana and they made their home in Reserve until the spring of 1945,
when they moved to Dagmar, Montana. Alfred became the first manager of the newly organized Farmers Union Trading Company until
1947, when they moved to Flaxville, Montana, where they purchased the Flaxville Variety Store. They lived in Flaxville for sixteen years and
during that time Alfred continued to help his Dad farm in Antelope. While in Flaxville Alfred and Vivian owned and operated the first
launderama in Scobey and Alfred was a substitute mail carrier on a rural Flaxville route.
In 1958 Alfred and Vivian were able to purchase his grandparent's homestead southeast Antelope and in 1963 they moved to the farm
permanently. During the 1970's Alfred drove an Antelope school bus until the school burned down and then continued to drive the
children to school in Plentywood.
In 1985 Vivian suffered a heart attack, which led to a series of strokes and she passed in June of 1986. On June 26, 1988 Alfred
married Louise Wirtz Mount from the Outlook area. They were married in Plentywood and continued to live on the farm until October of
2006, when they moved to Plentywood.
His passion for farming was only surpassed by his love of dancing and playing cards with family and friends.
Alfred is survived by his wife, Louise of Plentywood, children: Judy Pitts of of Omaha, Nebraska, Yvonne Richardson and her husband
Tim of Plentywood, Victor of the family farm in Antelope, Sharon Powell and her husband Lloyd, Glenn Mount and his wife Wendal, Scott
Mount and his wife Joan, all of the Seattle area. He is also survived by his thirteen grandchildren, twenty-three Great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are his sisters: Elaine (Eiler) Johansen, Florence Espano, Elvira McCarty, Shirley (Louis) Hoffarth, Gladys (Robert)
Robertson, Zelda (Don) Fink and Arliss Heisler. He is preceded in death by his parents, first wife Vivian, his brother Elmer and sister
Lydia Francis, Dora Kanning, Minnie Johansen, Jane Popescu and Ruby Peterson.
Fulkerson Funeral Home of Plentywood is in charge of arrangements.
Remembering Alfred