Joseph L. Joe Bellerose, Jr., 66

Joseph L. Joe Bellerose, Jr., 66, died Jan. 13, 2010, at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls. Joe was born at Burien, Wash., to Joseph and Gladys (Zetterburg) Bellerose on Sept. 3, 1943, and was raised and educated in Burien and remained in the greater Seattle area for a time following school. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1963, serving until his honorable discharge in 1965. He had been an excellent journeyman machinist, working in that field for an extended period of time. A person of many God-given talents, he had been a photographer, painter, musician, fly fisherman and skydiver, and he built fishing rods as well as fly-tying. Later in his life, he had attended and graduated from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He had been a resident of the Flathead Valley for the past 25 years, and had recently been a resident at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls. He is survived by his wife, Tammy; and brothers, Jerry Bellerose of Chillicothe, Ohio, and Kerry Bellerose of Auburn, Wash.; as well as good friends living in the Flathead Valley. Services will be Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Columbia Mortuary Chapel; visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday morning and continue until service time.