ORDWAY RAFTER obituary

CHINOOK - Ordway Clinton "Bud" Rafter, died Saturday, May 29, 2004, at the central Montana nursing center.

Burial will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Wing Cemetery with the funeral to follow at 11 a.m. at the American Lutheran Church in Hogeland. Visitation will be at the Rafter farm east of Hogeland on Wednesday.

Bud Rafter was born on Oct. 18, 1913, in Harlem to William and Elsie

(Hogaboam) Rafter.

Bud spend most of his life on the family farm near Hogeland. He went his first eight years of school at Wing School, which was

located two miles from the farm. He attended high school in Harlem, bo...