MONTY CHARLES HART

Memorial services for Palmer resident Monty Charles Hart, 66, will be on Saturday at 3 p.m. at St. John Lutheran Church in Palmer with Rev. Jonathan Rockey officiating.

Monty died March 30, 2010, at Providence Alaska Medical Center of natural causes. He was born Feb. 29, 1944, in Yakima, Wash. He worked in the family grocery business in Washington from 1962 to 1967. He came to Alaska in 1967 and worked for various grocery stores in Anchorage from 1967 to 1974. He then worked at Barnhardts Mall in Palmer from 1974 to 1980. From 1980 to 1994 he worked for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District and retired from there in 1994.

He belonged to St. JohnsLutheran Church. He enjoyed fishing and hunting. According to his family, “Monty loved the great outdoors, especially his cabin at Ravine Lake. He liked nothing better than to have the whole family gathered there and watch the grandchildren catch fish.”

Monty was preceded in death by his parents, Walter and Agnes Hart; brothers Ward and Doug Hart; his son, William Hart; and his grandson, Brandon Dallmann.

Monty is survived by his wife, Ophie Hart of Palmer; four daughters and sons-in-law, Mona and Sam Stroud and Jill and Patrick Monroe, all of Palmer, and Jan Hart and Kish Clausen of Portland, Ore.; grandsons, Andy and Adam Stroud and Connor Monroe, all of Palmer; granddaughter, Alyssa Dallmann of Palmer; great-grandchildren, Hayden, Kaelie, Trinity, Allie and Abby, all of Palmer.

Monty’s ashes will be scattered in the Jim Creek and Pioneer Peak area.

Arrangements by Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel and Crematory, Wasilla Chapel. www.akheritage.com.