(July 26, 2004)
Memorial services will be conducted Tuesday, Aug. 3 at 2 p.m. at the Union Presbyterian Church in Powell for Hubert Ernest Hart, 91, who died Monday, July 26 at Powell Valley Health Care Center.
He was born May 19, 1913, in Garland to Shoshone Project homesteaders Frank George and Theresa Brechwald Hart. He was a Powell High School graduate with the Class of 1931.
On Oct. 19, 1935, he married Wanda Schacht in Powell.
He managed lumber yards in the Rocky Mountain area his entire working life.
He was a member of the Royal Arch Masons, Past Master of Absarokee Lodge and Past Worthy Patron of the Order of Eastern Star.
His hobbies included travel, fishing, gardening, woodworking/carpentry and teaching his basset hound "tricks."
Survivors include his wife, Wanda, at the Heartland in Powell; a son, Hubert E. Hart, Jr., (Joyce) of Cody; two daughters, Marjorie Ness (Don) of Williamsburg, Va., and Celia Hart of Seattle, Wash.; a sister, Clara Mae Laddusaw of Billings, Mont.; four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Stephan Brechwald Hart; two brothers, James A. Hart and Howard L. Hart; and one sister, Mildred Huggins.
Miratsky-Easton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.