ALENE WALEN, Obituary

Alene Ritchie Walen, 89, died Saturday, March 9, 2002, of natural causes at a Havre care center.

Vigil services will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Holland and Bonine Funeral Home. Funeral services will be Thursday 10 a.m. at the St. Jude Catholic Church. Father Grosch will officiate.

Alene was born July 15, 1912 in Havre to Chester B. and Jean Seeley. She attended schools in Havre.

Alene married O.R. Walen, Jr. on Jan. 27, 1930, in Havre. They had three daughters and two sons. They moved the family to the homestead farm southeast of Havre in 1946 and lived there 54 years.

They wintered in Mesa, Ar...