Harold Hal Draper, 89

Harold Hal Draper passed away peacefully Sept. 8, 2010, in Kalispell. He was born Aug. 18, 1921, in Red Lodge. Hal spent his early years traveling between Red Lodge and Kalispell, and graduated from Flathead County High in 1939. During high school he worked at his family s drugstore, Fitch Drugs, located on Main Street in Kalispell. In 1941, Harold left Montana for New York City where he worked on radios and communications for the war effort. By 1944 he was in the Army in Europe as the war wound down. Harold returned to Montana to finish his bachelor s degree at Montana State University. He started his teaching career in Roberts, Mont., moving to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1952. In Fairbanks, he met Nadyne Fleming, and they were married in 1956. He and Nadyne both received their master s degrees in teaching from San Jose State the year after they were married. They returned to Fairbanks where Harold taught math and woodworking at Fairbanks High School, until retiring in 1976. Harold loved gardening, photography, traveling and, most of all, woodworking. He and Nadyne traveled between their cabin which they homesteaded at Lake Minchumina, Alaska, to Fairbanks, and to his family home on Flathead Lake. They thoroughly enjoyed their travels to Europe and Australia. Harold would brag of the family s numerous trips over the Alaska Highway beginning in 1952. Harold was preceded in death by his wife, Nadyne; brother, Richard; and sister, Gayle. He is survived, and will be missed by his sister, Virginia Fleming; son, Charles Draper; daughter and son-in-law, Tobi and Patrick Campanella; granddaughter, Cori; great-granddaughter, Chloe; grandson, Christopher; and his nieces and nephews. Harold s family would like to acknowledge and thank his friends and care givers at Buffalo Hill Terrace and the Immanuel Lutheran Home in Kalispell.