The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

Richard French, 82, passed away in Bozeman Highgate Assisted Living of COVID-19 on Saturday, January 16, 2021. He was born in Glasgow, MT on May 6, 1938, to Glen & Winifred (Hansen) French. They lived in a tar paper shack the first year. Then the family moved to Portland, OR for a few years. He enjoyed movies in Portland by paying with milk bottle lids. In 1946 the family moved to the farm in Redstone, MT. He attended a one room schoolhouse for grade school and graduated from a high school in Plentywood. He worked at a dime store there while wintering with his grandparents. He started c...