Mary Pearl BREEDEN

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• Fact: Daughter of Jacob Breeden and Flarrie Reed
• Census: 1930, Living with father, Jacob Breeden, in Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Montana
• Census: 1940, Living with father, Jacob Breeden, in Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Montana

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Mary P. "Pearl" Schlechten, 91, of XXXXXXXXXXXXX, a longtime Bozeman resident, died of natural causes Tuesday in a local nursing home.

Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Central Christian Church to which she belonged in Great Falls. Burial will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Sunset Hills Cemetery at Bozeman. O'Connor Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials are suggested to any charity.

Born on Jan. 17, 1901, at Oyer, Mo., she grew up and attended school there before moving to Montana in 1917 to live near Fairview.

She moved to Bozeman in 1918 and married Vern Vian there in 1922. The couple divorced.

She married Alfred Schlechten in 1943 in Townsend.

While living in Bozeman she worked for Gallatin Laundry and Montana State University.

Her husband died in 1970 and she moved to Great Falls in 1971.

Survivors include a daughter, Grace Hackler of Great Falls; a son, Joseph Schlechten of Puyallup, Wash.; eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Great Falls Tribune, Wednesday, April 8, 1992

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Mary married Verne Edward VIAN on 19 Oct 1923, and was divorced before 1929. Verne (son of Frank VIAN and Ida Arabella SLAWSON) was born on 27 Jul 1894 in Brooten, Stearns Co., Minnesota; died on 4 Nov 1974 in Great Falls, Cascade Co., Montana; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade Co., Montana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Alfred SCHLECHTEN on 30 Mar 1944 in Montana. Alfred was born on 24 May 1877 in Bern, Switzerland; died in Nov 1970; was buried in Sunset Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Montana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, Living with mother in Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Montana
• Census: 1940, Living with mother in Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Montana

Esther married Louis Flemmon HACKLER on 10 Jun 1946 in Bozeman, Montana. Louis was born on 2 Apr 1915 in Tampa, Marion Co., Kansas; died on 3 May 1973 in Great Falls, Cascade Co., Montana; was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade Co., Montana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1930, Living with mother in Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Montana
• Census: 1940, Living with mother in Bozeman, Gallatin Co., Montana

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Vian Dies; Third Victim of County Highway Accidents

Robert Vian, who had been in critical condition at the hospital here following an automobile accident early Sunday morning in the Gallatin canyon, died yesterday morning.

Vian 25, suffered severe chest and other injuries when the car in which he and Donald G. Peterson were riding rolled over on the highway abut 28 miles south of Bozeman. Peterson was killed outright in the accident.

The son of Mrs. Alfred Schlechten, XXXXXXXXXX, Vian had been employed at the Golden Krust bakery.

The death of Vian brought to three the number of Bozeman men who died as the result of highway accidents here Sunday. The third person to lose his life was Conrad A. (Shorty) Gustafson, killed in a Huffine lane accident Sunday night.

They were among ten who died in traffic mishaps throughout Montana last weekend.

Funeral services for Vian had not been completed last night. The body is at Dokken, Nelson and Kippen's.

Services for Peterson will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at Dokken, Nelson and Kippen's.

Final rites for Gustafson will be Thursday at 2 p.m. from the Dahl Memorial Home.

Vian was born in Bozeman Nov. 1, 1926 and had lived here all his life with the exception of two years in the Army during World War II. He attended grade and high schools in Bozeman and lettered in football at Gallatin high.

He entered the Army in 1944 and served overseas with the Seventh Division during the war and with the same division doing occupation duty in Korea until his discharge in December, 1946.

He was engaged to Phyllis Jones, RN, who received her nurses training here and has been at Memorial Hospital, Butte.

Survivors, in addition to his mother, Mrs. Albert Schlechten, and his stepfather, include: A brother, Joe Schlechten of Bozeman; a sister, Mrs. Esther Hackler, Colville, Wash.; maternal grandfather, Jacob R.. Breeden, Bozeman; an aunt, Mrs. Nellie Vian of Fort Benton; his uncles, John, Marion, George and Charlie Breeden of Bozeman and Edgar of Livingston; an aunt, Mrs. Albert J. Arlint of Charlo, and a number of other relatives.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Wednesday, July 30, 1952

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