Maxine E. 'Max' Norgaard, 56

Maxine E. "Max" Norgaard, 56, died Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, at her home in Whitefish. She was born in Spokane on April 25, 1953, to Bill and Marty Armstrong and came to Whitefish with her family in 1965, where she attended school, graduating from Whitefish High School in 1971.

She married Melvin Norgaard July 12, 1980, in Glendive.

She had worked as cashier and manager at the Glendive Mini-Mart from 1982 to 1988 and returned to Whitefish in 1989. For the past 11 and a half years, she had worked at the Town Pump in Whitefish.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Eli and Alta Jones, and Donald and Elin Armstrong; as well as aunts, Maxine Jackson and Lellian Kalerea; and brother, Gordon Armstrong.

She is survived her husband, Melvin, and her parents, Donald "Bill" Armstrong and Margaret "Marty" Armstrong, all of Whitefish; her children, Jenny Swinehart of Belgrade, and Holli Norgaard, Michael Norgaard and Ryan Norgaard, all of Whitefish; a granddaughter, Elizabeth Norgaard, and grandson, Dalton Carpenter; sisters, Debra Armstrong of Roosevelt, Utah, Gail Shepard and Shorty of Whitefish, Linda Hutchins and Joe of Columbia Falls, and Donna Bruner of Whitefish. She is also survived by brothers, Ronald Armstrong and Magdalina of Aloha, Ore., Donald Armstrong and Susan of Ogden, Utah, and Randall Armstrong and Leslie of Columbia Falls; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Whitefish, with Rite of Interment following at Glacier Memorial Gardens. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, followed by a parish vigil at 7 p.m., at the Austin Funeral Home.