Raymond ‘Skip’ Henry Patrick

Raymond 'Skip' Henry Patrick

Raymond "Skip" Henry Patrick, 89, died peacefully on the morning of Jan. 7, 2011, at the Care and Comfort Home in Havre, Mont.

He was born on the Swift Place, just south of Goldstone, Mont. — ninth in a family of 16 children — to Charles Richard and Sadie Ina (Gale) Patrick, on June 18, 1921. He attended rural school in the Goldstone area, graduating from Rudyard High School in 1939.

He spent his entire life farming and ranching on the prairies of the Montana Hi-Line. He loved God, his family, the land and every season of birth as he spent hours delivering calves,...