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Raymond E. Austby | Service:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
2:00 PM
Break Forth Bible Church
Glendive, MT
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| | | Raymond E. Austby, age 86, passed away Friday, April 11, 2008 in the Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 15, 2008 in the Break Forth Bible Church in Glendive, Montana with Pastor Larry Phalen officiating. Interment will follow in the Dawson Memorial Cemetery in Glendive. Silvernale-Silha Funeral Home of Glendive is entrusted with arrangements.
Ray was born on June 10, 1921 in Glendive, Montana, the son of Ed and Esther (Peterson) Austby. He was raised and educated in Glendive, graduating from Dawson County High School with the class of 1939. Ray married Fern Casey on December 4, 1943 in Glendive. They ranched near Glendive on Belle Prairie and raised their family there. Later they moved south of Glendive and then they moved to the Powder River where they ranched for seventeen years and then to Marmarth, North Dakota. Ray and Fern then moved to Wibaux in 2001 and continued to stay active in ranching until the time of his death.
Ray was involved in the Makoshika Riders in his younger years and the Little Missouri Saddle Club in Marmarth. He enjoyed hunting, carpentry, cards and dancing. Ray particularly enjoyed spending time with his children and their families.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Robert "Jake".
Raymond is survived by his wife, Fern of Wibaux; daughter, Judy Howard and her husband Jess of Wibaux; sons, Darry and his wife Candy Austby of Glendive and Gene and his wife Madelon Austby of Rhame, North Dakota; one brother, Donald Austby of Wibaux; 12 grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren.
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