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Robert Thompson Colver

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Robert Thompson Colver

Birth
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
Death
1 Jan 1982 (aged 72)
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 63, A-3
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Robert T. Colver, 73, died Friday on vacation at Phoenix, Arizona. He was born December 26, 1909, at Seattle, to Robert C. and Florence (Dickenson) Colver, and attended school at Bend, Oregon.

In 1928, he moved to the Gallatin Valley, and in 1930 he married Johanna Verwolf at Bozeman. The couple farmed in Manhattan from 1948 until 1952, when they moved to Shepard. He returned to Bozeman in 1960 and worked as a bus driver for the Bozeman School District until his retirement in 1973.

Survivors include his wife of Bozeman; two sons, Richard of Billings and Robert of Glendale, Arizona; two daughters, Lorraine Fenter of Butte and Arlene Colver of Phoenix, Arizona; a brother, Henry of Alhambra, California; two sisters, Mrs. Sarley (Virginia) Elliot of Bend, Oregon and Mrs. Edwin (Margaret) Wick of Billings; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Dokken-Nelson Sunset Chapel. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Park.

Printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle ~ January 4, 1982
Robert T. Colver, 73, died Friday on vacation at Phoenix, Arizona. He was born December 26, 1909, at Seattle, to Robert C. and Florence (Dickenson) Colver, and attended school at Bend, Oregon.

In 1928, he moved to the Gallatin Valley, and in 1930 he married Johanna Verwolf at Bozeman. The couple farmed in Manhattan from 1948 until 1952, when they moved to Shepard. He returned to Bozeman in 1960 and worked as a bus driver for the Bozeman School District until his retirement in 1973.

Survivors include his wife of Bozeman; two sons, Richard of Billings and Robert of Glendale, Arizona; two daughters, Lorraine Fenter of Butte and Arlene Colver of Phoenix, Arizona; a brother, Henry of Alhambra, California; two sisters, Mrs. Sarley (Virginia) Elliot of Bend, Oregon and Mrs. Edwin (Margaret) Wick of Billings; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Dokken-Nelson Sunset Chapel. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Park.

Printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle ~ January 4, 1982


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