Betty Kesler

Malta native Betty Kesler, 90 years old, of Choteau, Mont., passed away at an assisted living facility in Great Falls, Mont., on Friday, Friday, 18, 2018. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, May 25 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Choteau.

Betty Lou (Blunt) Kesler was born in Canton, Ill., on June 15, 1927. When Betty was six-months-old, she came by train with her parents Carl and Lora Blunt to the Malta, Mont., area. As a child, Betty drove her horse "Ol' Beauty" hitched to a buggy to a one-room schoolhouse to attend first grade and then moved up to a four-room schoolhouse in the va...