John Ebing

John Addison Ebing, 82, passed away Monday, July 26, 2004, at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls.

John was born Sept. 13, 1921, in Grasmere, Wash., to John Otis and Helen Faye (Siket) Ebing. The family lived in Washington and various places in Alaska, where he grew up and graduated from high school.

He and his dad fished commercially until John joined the Army. He served in the Pacific, and, after World War II, in the Army Reserves, where he trained equipment operators and pilots.

After the Reserves and a couple family jobs, he was running heavy equipment as a crane operator on the Grand Coulee Dam when he met Sylvia Evensen, a medical secretary, in Spokane, Wash. They were married June 28, 1952, and not long after moved to the Flathead. He worked as a crane operator building the Anaconda Aluminum Co. plant, where he worked until retirement in 1982.

John particularly enjoyed the water—fishing, boating, skiing and even building boats. He loved golfing, gadgets and coffee with his friends. He was a lifetime member of the Moose.

John was preceded in death by his wife Sylvia, brother Charlie, sister-in-law Dorothy and his parents.

He is survived by his daughters and their families, Sue Ebing and Jim Zielanski, of Bigfork; Karen and Larry Yerian, of Columbia Falls, and grandsons Paul and Levi Yerian; and a sister and family, Alice and Jack Ferguson, of Roach, Mo.

No services will be held at his request. He has been cremated, and inurnment will be with Sylvia at the Conrad Memorial Cemetery, Kalispell.