Saco News

MALTA - Phyllis "Rose" Steward, 53, a homemaker and nursing assistant who enjoyed fishing and being outdoors, died Sunday in a car crash near Saco.

SACO - Larry Dean Pippin, 64, a rancher and Army veteran who enjoyed hunting, genealogy and spending time entertaining his grandchildren, died of natural causes Sunday in Saco.

MALTA - Thomas Edward "Tom" Schoonen, 88, a World War II Army Air Corps veteran and retired heavy equipment operator, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta hospital.

SACO - Alice Korman, 76, of Saco, a retired Saco postmaster, died of complications from diabetes Sunday at Northern Montana Hospital.

SACO - James M. Caves, 79, of Saco, an Army veteran and rancher, died of natural causes Thursday at the Phillips County Hospital.

Ovidia A. Haynes, 86, a homemaker, died of natural causes on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, at the Phillips County Hospital.

SACO - Ovidia A. Haynes, 86, a homemaker and lifelong Phillips County resident, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta hospital.

SACO - Adeline Hammond, 92, a lifelong Saco resident who enjoyed animals and pets, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta medical facility.

BILLINGS - U.S. Air Force veteran and former teacher Edna Bakke, 78, of Billings and formerly of Saco, died of natural causes Saturday at St.

SACO - Mary Jane Mansfield, 68, of Saco, a retired cook and waitress, died of natural causes Thursday at her home near Saco.

SACO - Gary L. Olson, 67 of Saco, a retired meat cutter who enjoyed flying his single-engine aircraft and watching rodeos, died of a heart attack Saturday in Saco.

MALTA - I.W. "Pearlie" Taylor, 94, a nurse, rancher, farmer and homemaker, died of natural causes Wednesday at her daughter's home north of Saco.

Athletes from the big Class AA high schools frequently hog the track and field spotlight each spring, but that's not the case this year.