Great Falls Tribune, Montana
November 8, 1972
Henna L. Waltari, 80,
dies; funeral Friday
Henna L. Waltari, 80, 3506 2nd Ave. N., died Tuesday in a local hospital after an illness of several months.
Funeral services will be Friday at 11 a.m. at Croxford & Sons Chapel. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Mrs. Waltari was the widow of Isaac E. Waltari. She was born in Finland Jan. 28, 1892, and came to the United States with her parents when she was three, and later to Great Falls. She married Waltari here Dec. 31, 1909. The couple lived in Sand Coulee a year and then homesteaded east of Great Falls in the Salem community. They farmed there until Waltari's death in 1954. Two years later Mrs. Waltari moved to Great Falls.
She was a member of Gold Star Mothers and the Lutheran Church.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. J. S. (Elsie W) Murphy, and sons, John E., Charles E., and Wayne E., all of Great Falls, and Arthur W., east of Great Falls; 17 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren; sister, Ann Porch, Elsie McIlney and Ida Gray, all of Great, Marie Engleburt of Chesapeake, Va., and Ellen Mitchell of Lewistown, and brothers, John Palo, Fort Shaw, and Elmer Palo, Lewistown, Idaho.
Great Falls Tribune, Montana
November 8, 1972
Henna L. Waltari, 80,
dies; funeral Friday
Henna L. Waltari, 80, 3506 2nd Ave. N., died Tuesday in a local hospital after an illness of several months.
Funeral services will be Friday at 11 a.m. at Croxford & Sons Chapel. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Mrs. Waltari was the widow of Isaac E. Waltari. She was born in Finland Jan. 28, 1892, and came to the United States with her parents when she was three, and later to Great Falls. She married Waltari here Dec. 31, 1909. The couple lived in Sand Coulee a year and then homesteaded east of Great Falls in the Salem community. They farmed there until Waltari's death in 1954. Two years later Mrs. Waltari moved to Great Falls.
She was a member of Gold Star Mothers and the Lutheran Church.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. J. S. (Elsie W) Murphy, and sons, John E., Charles E., and Wayne E., all of Great Falls, and Arthur W., east of Great Falls; 17 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren; sister, Ann Porch, Elsie McIlney and Ida Gray, all of Great, Marie Engleburt of Chesapeake, Va., and Ellen Mitchell of Lewistown, and brothers, John Palo, Fort Shaw, and Elmer Palo, Lewistown, Idaho.
Family Members
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Marie Lempi Palo Engleburt
1895–1986
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John Emil Palo
1899–1997
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Anna Elmina Palo Porch
1900–1997
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Ellen Katherine "Murph" Palo Mitchell
1905–1994
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Matt Arthur Palo
1907–1970
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Eric Walfred Palo
1908–1959
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Elsie Elvira Palo McIlnay
1910–1991
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Elmer Charles Palo
1914–2001
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Jacob Anner "Jack" Palo
1916–1964
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Ida Louise Palo Gay
1919–2015
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