Martha M Dighans[1]
1924 - 2002 (77 years)Person ID: I4238 "Gjerde/Monsen" |  Last Modified: 5 Apr 2021
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Name Martha M Dighans Gender Female Birth 20 Apr 1924 Died 3 Mar 2002 Buried Daniels County Cemetery, Scobey, Daniels County, Montana, USA Martha M Hersel -
Family
Husband Edwin Hersel (ID:I4223)
b. 17 Apr 1928, Tioga, Williams County, North Dakota, USA
d. 31 Mar 2015, Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana, USA (Age 86 years)Marriage 1 Jan 1949 Peerless, Daniels County, Montana, USA Children + 1. Living (ID:I4254) + 2. Living (ID:I4252) + 3. Living (ID:I4253) + 4. Leonard Joseph Hersel (ID:I4251)
b. 11 May 1953
d. 2 Aug 2018, Scobey, Daniels County, Montana, USA (Age 65 years) -
Event Map
Marriage - 1 Jan 1949 - Peerless, Daniels County, Montana, USA Buried - - Daniels County Cemetery, Scobey, Daniels County, Montana, USA = Link to Google Earth : Address : Location : City/Town : County/Shire : State/Province : Country : Not Set -
Source Citations
- [S14] Other Sites, https://www.genealogybuff.com/mt/valley/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/47.
MARTHA M. (DIGHANS) HERSEL
Martha M. (Dighans) Hersel, former Peerless resident, died at age 77 at Deconess Hospital in Billings on March 3rd. Prayer service will be March 8th at 7 a.m. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on March 8th at St. Phillips Catholic Church in Scobey, with burial in the Scobey Cemetery.
Martha was born in 1924 in Borderland, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Peter and Magdalena Dighans. At the age of one and a half years, they moved to her childhood home north of Peerless, Montana. She attended school in Peerless and graduated in 1943. After graduation she worked for the Western Union in Washington state, then moved to Washington D.C. where she worked for the Secret Service.
In 1949 she married Edwin L. Hersel at Peerless. To this union were born 4 children. Martha and Ed farmed and ranched in the Peerless and Richland areas until they moved to Billings in 1998.
Martha was a member of the Saint Ann’s Altar Society and American Legion Auxiliary. She enjoyed her grandchildren, cooking, embroidery, quilting, taking care of her farmyard animals and listening to ball games on the radio.
She is survived by her husband, Edwin; 4 children: Bernard of Billings; Aquina and her husband Garry Beck of West Fargo, North Dakota; Leonard and his wife Linda of Scobey; Andrew and his wife Marjorie of Scobey; 10 grandchildren: Brett, Michelle and Megan Hersel; Darin, Jennifer Beck; Dennis, Jonathon and Niel Hersel; Terry and Roxanne Hersel; and one great grandchild, Jared Beck; 3 sisters: Christina Taylor, Mary Dighans, and Francis Hagen; 5 brothers: John, Anton, Peter, Bernard and Jim; many nieces and nephews.
Her parents, 2 sisters: Elizabeth Dighans and Agnes Sheets, 2 brothers: Henry and Alfred Dighans, all preceded her in death.