Donald C. HOBSON

HOBSON, JOHNSON, WIMER, BRANDT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/17/2006 at 11:02:56

Donald C. Hobson, 84, of Terry, died at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Helena, MT on Monday, March 21, 2005. Born Nov. 5, 1920, in Eagle Grove, Iowa, he was the son of Clinton and Edith Johnson Hobson. He attended schools in Wisconsin and moved to California.On Oct. 7, 1944, he entered the United States Army, during World War II, where he served until his honorable discharge on June 4, 1946. He returned to California where drove truck for many years. In 1950, he went to the Chicago Motive Trades Institute where he completed the Body and Fender Rebuilding training. For the last 12 years, he worked for the F.M.C. Company. On Sept. 3, 1987, he and Kay Wimer were married in Portland, Ore. They moved to Terry in June 2004. Mr. Hobson is survived by his wife, Kay of Terry; his son, Donald Hobson of St. Cloud, Minn.; two daughters, Addie Mae Hobson of Terry and Linda G. Brandt of San Jose, Calif.; four children; three great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; and a special nephew, Nick Hobson of San Jose, Calif. He was preceded in death by his parents, five brothers and a sister. Funeral services will be Monday, March 28, 2005, at 11 a.m. in the LDS Church in Miles City. Interment, with full military honors, will follow at the Eastern Montana Veterans Cemetery in Miles City. If desired, memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice.

Miles City Star [MT] 24 March 2005