John W. “Jack” Sevier, 89

John W. "Jack" Sevier, 89, passed away on Sunday, March 23, 2008, at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls. Jack was born on Dec. 27, 1918, in Windham, to Herb and Grace (Muir) Sevier. He moved to the Flathead Valley with his family as a teenager, where he attended Flathead County High School.

Jack enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he served as a photo lab technician in England. While living in England, Jack met a widow named Eleanor Riley, who had two young daughters. After being discharged from the military, he returned to England, and in 1946 he married Eleanor in London. Shortly after being married they moved to Kalispell.

Jack worked several jobs over his life time, including working as a milk truck driver, working on the building of the Hungry Horse Dam, and working at Super Foods Grocery Store; then he worked as a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Post Office until he retired.

Jack was a talented wood worker, and made many lovely items. He remodeled several of the houses they lived in.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Herb and Grace Sevier; a brother, Parker Sevier; sisters, Alice and Hazel; his wife Eleanor; a granddaughter, Sarah Johnson; and a great-great-grandson, Adler Blodgett.

He is survived by his children, Maureen Neitzling and husband Bob, Josephine Herman, Patricia Johnson and her husband Mark, Barbara Clothier and her husband Rick, and Kathleen McCollum and her husband Ron; brothers, Gene Sevier of Polson, Bill Sevier of Idaho, and Bob Sevier of Kalispell; sister, Mary of California; 13 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will he held at 1 p.m. Friday March 28, at Buffalo Hill Funeral Home. Private family urn burial will be held at C.E. Conrad Cemetery, with the United Veterans of the Flathead Valley doing military honors.

The family request donations in Jack's name be given to the Flathead Industries in Kalispell.

Buffalo Hill Funeral Home and Crematory is caring for the family.