Burt Volin, 85

Burt “Bill” Oscar Volin, 85, passed away on Nov. 30, 2013, in Silverton, Ore., after a brief illness.

He was born in Kalispell Feb. 25, 1928, to Bradford C. and Hestell McGee Volin.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.

Burt worked in various trucking jobs, including the Mayflower Moving Company, that took him across the U.S, Canada and into Alaska. He worked construction in Nevada and California, but eventually settled in Fallon, Nev., where he worked for the Truckee Carson Irrigation District for 20 years before retiring in 1990.

After his wife Nora passed away in 1992, he met Kathleen King and together they lived in the Kalispell area where they enjoyed boating on Flathead Lake. They began traveling together by motor home throughout the Pacific Northwest, summered in Oregon and wintered in Arizona.

Burt was preceded in death by his parents, Bradford and Hestell Volin.

He is survived by his two brothers, Leonard M. Volin and wife Janet of Stillwater, Minn., with nieces Angela (Volin) Jacob and husband David, and niece Lindsey (Volin) Grandits (now deceased), and nephews Douglas and wife Noelle, and Brett Volin; and brother, Dr. Raymond B. Volin and wife Betty of Yuma, Ariz., with niece Hailey (Volin) Olson. He is also survived by eight grandnieces and -nephews, including Andrew and Alex Olson, Sam, Luke, Lilly, Levi and Seth Jacob and Anna Lindsey Volin.

Burt's desire was to be interred at the Veterans Cemetery in Portland.