Vera Janiak Biggar, 79

Vera Janiak Biggar, 79, of Eureka, died Sunday, Oct. 16, 2005, at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish. She was born June 16, 1926, in Mishawaka, Ind., to Charles and Frances Barkley Janiak. She came to Montana in October 1930 where she lived with her mother and grandparents in the North Fork of the Flathead.

Her mother married James Sinclair, the Canadian customs officer, in 1931. Vera attended her first eight years of school in Columbia Falls. In 1941, the family was moved to Roosville. She attended high school in Eureka and graduated from Lincoln County High School in 1944.

She worked at the shipyard in Portland as a bookkeeper until the end of World War II. She met and married Mark Tex Russel. To that union, one son was born. They divorced, and she met and married Hugh Biggar in 1949 in Kalispell.

She enjoyed reading, crocheting, crossword puzzles and her dog. Her parents, husband and a son, Gene, preceded her in death.

Survivors include daughter, Annette Biggar, and husband, Neil, of Boston; daughter-in-law, Ellen Biggar of Eureka; grandchildren, Wesley Biggar of Belgrade, Tina Morgan and husband, Brandon, of Eureka, and Leslie Biggar of Kalispell; four great-grandchildren, Kionna, Preston, Cassidy and Rylee; and a sister, Jeanette Ferris, of Eureka.

Private family services will be held.

Arrangements are by the Nelson and Vial Funeral Home in Eureka.