Floyd Bud Mitchell

Floyd Bud Mitchell, 87, passed away Saturday, June 18, 2005, at the North Valley Hospital in Whitefish.

He was born March 29, 1918 in Bigfork to Everett and Uiva Mitchell. He was raised and educated in Bigfork.

Bud worked for the forest service for one year and then in 1938, he worked for the CCC in Glacier National Park. He then worked as a machinist in Washington.

He joined the Royal Air Force and served in England until he returned in 1942. He then served in the U.S. Army as a prison guard during WW II. After his discharge, he worked in Washington for the Forest Service, then transferred to the South Fork of the Flathead River in Montana until 1949, and then to the Libby area until his retirement in 1973. After his retirement, he was self employed as a log scaler in the Libby area until 1979. He moved to El Centro, Calif. in 1981. He spent several years with his daughter in Oregon before moving back to Montana and entered the Montana Veterans Home in 2003.

He was married to his wife Betty on June 2, 1946 in Hingham, Mont.

He was a 50-year member of the Masonic Lodge, Blue Lodge #85 in Libby, the Consistery and Algeria Shrine. Bud loved to play golf and was a member of the Cabinet View Country Club in Libby and the Barbara Worth Country Club in El Centro, Calif.

He is preceded in death by his parents, his wife Betty in 1996, and two grandchildren, Tracy and Matthew.

Bud is survived by his daughter, Charlene Paramo of Roseburg, Ore.; four grandchildren, Michelle Snyder of Roseburg, Ore., William Watt of Philadelphia, Penn., Daniel Watt of Reno, Nev., and Nicole Pegg of Nampa, Idaho; eight grandchildren; a brother, Dwayne Mitchell of Kalispell; a nephew, Daniel Mitchell; and a niece, Donna Doda.

A private family memorial service will be held at a later date.

Arrangements are by the Columbia Mortuary.