BENJAMIN LODGE obituary
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HAYS - Benjamin Paul "Benito" Lodge, 78, whose Gros Ventre Indian name Na-Gya-Nee-Da-Ya means Cloud Chief, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2003, at a Havre hospital due to natural causes.
A funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in St. Paul's Recreation Center with military burial honors at Roadside Cemetery. A wake and rosary will begin today
at 7 p.m. in St. Paul's Recreation Center.
Ben was born on Jan. 1, 1925, at Fort Belknap Hospital to Fred and Pauline (Big Horse) Lodge. He attended schools in Oklahoma and graduated from Chemewa High School in Chemewa, Ore.
Ben served in the U.S. Army...
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