Mary Zanto

Mary Zanto, mother, widow, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend left us peacefully on April 21, 2018, at the age of 91.

Mary Katherine Eloff was born in Great Falls, Mont., on July 18, 1926, to Tom Eloff and Kate Wolf Eloff. Mary grew up as a farm girl in Pleasant Valley near Fort Benton. She met her husband to be, Jim Zanto, at the Fort Benton hospital where he was recovering from an appendectomy. They were married on December 1, 1945, and were blessed with three sons as they began their farm life on the Square Butte Bench. They later moved into the community of Geraldine where the boys...