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The banquetPage 3

Meet the presidentPage 5

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2015 Heritage Edition& Park County Pioneer Society Banquet

A publication of The Livingston Enterprise

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The Franzen-Davis building was built as a funeral home in 1925. As the Zemans continue to make Franzen-Davis their own they have recently refreshed the interior of the building. This year the entire interior has received new paint and updated dcor. They hope to be able to refresh the exterior in the near future. To this day it remains the finest Mortuary Facility in southwest Montana. Colin has begun to increase the offerings of Franzen-Davis monument service by installing a showroom with monuments in house as well as offering 23 granite types and endless customization possibilities.

Serving the families ofPark County Pioneers for over 80 years.Franzen-Davis Funeral Home and Crematory has been caring for area families since 1925. In 2013 Colin and Hailey Zeman took over as operators. Former owner, Tom Davis and Park County Pioneer has assisted in the transition and fully supports the Zemans . In 2014 the Zemans hired on local lifelong resident Sandy (Bell) Williams as a funeral assistant. Her community involvement and wonderful demeanor have been a tremendous attribute to Franzen-Davis. At Franzen-Davis, caring for our families in their time of need is our priority. We are committed to providing you with unparalleled service and compassion and are available to answer your questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

By Jasmine Hall Enterprise Staff Writer

The 79th annual Pioneer Ban-quet got underway promptly at 6 p.m. Saturday. Genera-tions of Park County families were in attendance as the historical evening of honoring members, con-

necting with friends, dining with family and remem-brance com-menced.

If you dont believe in mira-cles, look around, Larry Lovely, president

for the past year, joked to the crowd. It is a miracle, with me as president, that this ban-quet is even this close to coming off.

While Lovely joked with the crowd, miracles certainly were apparent as generations of families attended, served, socialized and dined with one another. Those in attendance ranged in age from under 10 to 99.

Special guestsThe evening began with a reading

of special guests over the age of 85 by Bill and Judy Harris. Among those names were Kathryn Arthun, 99, and Pearl DEwart, 98, who have attended banquets throughout the years.

Special guest and Pioneer member Kathryn Arthun was in attendance with her family. Arthun said she lives in Wilsall, where she has resided since 1946.

Ive been attending (the banquets) for at least 10 years, Arthun said. But I havent kept track.

If it wasnt for her family, and son Chris, Arthun said she would not have been able to attend the banquet.

Lifes been generous with me, she said. Im thankful for being here tonight.

When recalling past banquets, Art-hun said not much has changed and that attendees still speak about the past.

Its remained the same, she said. (Members) all still talk over the old times.

Special guest and member Pearl DEwart also said her family was important in her attendance.

They talked me into it, DEwart said of her familys convincing her to attend.

Although DEwart was reluctant at first, she was happy she decided to come to the banquet.

Its nice to see all the people I havent seen in while, she said. Its also nice to see some young people.

When asked what has changed since her first banquet in 1972, DEwart said the size of the event has grown.

We used to meet in the Civic Cen-ter and now its (at the Park County Fairgrounds), she recalled. Its bet-ter because its quite bigger than it was.

While the banquets size has changed, DEwart said some things are still the same.

The first time I came, the OHairs were working, she said. And now the OHairs grandchildren are work-ing.

Generations of serversYoung generations of the OHairs

served drinks alongside the Dodges and Pierces, while the Livingston Sis-ter City group served the roast beef dinner.

Bonnie (OHair) Francis said the OHair family has been attending the Pioneer banquets since 1878 and she has personally attended since 1970.

Francis remembers how the ban-quets used to be smaller because of age restrictions.

It used to be very strict, Francis said. You used to have to be 21, but weve opened the doors since then.

Francis said the family still serves at the event because the children enjoy it and some use the time as community service.

Ten-year-old McKade Payne was one refreshment server at the event.

Its fun to help the community, McKade said. Its fun meeting people and getting what they need.

McKade who has served at the ban-quets before, said he couldnt remem-ber exactly how long he had been serving.

Its been a long time, he said. Since I was little.

Historic displays

Aside from the generations of Pio-neers in attendance, history also was apparent in the displays around the

building. Pictures of past presidents, articles on the society, genealogical records of members and cars were part of the evening.

Pioneer member Jim Hunt, 79, was asked to bring his 1923 Model T Ford Roundabout for the display. Hunts vehicle was part of Park County his-tory. He described the historical sig-nificance of his vehicle. He spoke of the Fourth of July races that used to take place from Wilsall and Livings-ton.

It was a real drawing car during the races, Hunt said. Racers came from all over the country.

Hunt said he has had family roots in Livingston since 1956, when he moved to the town to be with his great-uncle.

He was a brick maker here for some of the old buildings downtown, Hunt recalled.


Hundreds gather for 79th annual Pioneer Society Banquet

Enterprise photo by Hunter DAntuono

Martha Schablegger sings the Montana state song with other attendees at the annual Pioneer Society Banquet held at the Park County Fairgrounds, Saturday evening.

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Although Larry Lovely has been the Pioneer Society president for the past year, and although hes a multi-generation Shields Valley

rancher, and although hes a pivotal member of the famous local band the Ringling 5, he doesnt take himself, or life, too seriously.

Not long into a conversation with Larry, 62, youll find him either mak-ing a joke or poking fun at himself.

Case in point: Asked recently what his wife, Valerie, who owns and runs the popular Vals Deli in Wilsall, thinks about him being in a famous band, Larry laughed, She ignores the noto-riety, because she knows who we are.

Every time I go in (to the deli), she says, What are you doing in town? he cracked.

He doesnt visit often, but when he does, I always pay, he laughed again.

Growing upLarry was born in Livingston and

grew up on his parents Norma and Wendell Lovelys ranch about nine miles east of Wilsall, and in the house he and Valerie live in today.

Larry attended high school in Wil-sall, graduating in 1971 with the likes of Ron Arthun, a former senator in the Montana Legislature and a one-time member of the Ringling 5, and Nels Swandal, former District Court judge and current senator in the Legislature.

There were 15 students in Larrys graduating class, 11 of them boys.

We had four (girls), and one of them was married already, Larry joked during a recent interview at his ranch home.

We went to Livingston to chase women, he laughed again, till we got run out of there.

Larry worked on the ranch in high school and during college when he was wasnt in school. He attended college at Montana State University, but stepped away from school to raise a family, not graduating until 17 years later.

I went back and finished up the last eight credits in 1988, Larry said.

FamilyValerie took a few minutes from her

busy day at Vals Deli recently for a phone interview.

She said she and Larry met at MSU when they were introduced by Larrys sister.

I thought, oh, hes a rancher, hes not what I was looking for, Valerie

humorously recalled.But of course she changed her mind,

and in 1973 she and Larry were mar-ried.

The couple have two children Bryan and Kurt. Bryan and his wife, Lisa, and their two children live in Washington state. Kurt and his wife, Jenny, and their infant son live in Arkansas.

Early music

From the beginning, Larrys life has been a blend of ranching and music.

Larrys earliest musical influence was the family of his mother, Norma (Busby), who came from Missouri. The family, who lived on Six Mile Creek near Emigrant, was large Norma was one of 10 children and very musical. They played traditional western music at local dances, Larry said.

In fact, one of the songs on the Ring-ling 5 album, Talent Worth Thousands of Dollars, is about Norma, called Moms Song, which Larry wrote.

Larry, who plays guitar and sings, started his musical career in high school when he formed a rock band at age 14. The band played songs by the

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Pioneer Presidents story

See Lovely, Page 10

Larry Lovely a life of ranching

and music

Enterprise photos by Hunter DAntuono

On the cOver: Larry Lovely is pictured on his Shields Valley ranch with his 12-string guitar, which he plays during con-certs with the Ringling 5. AbOve: Lovely stands in front of cattle on his ranch, where he runs a yearling operation.

Photo courtesy of Larry Lovely

Valerie and Larry Lovely are pictured several years ago while on a vacation.


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banquet photos

Members of the Park County Pioneers enjoy dinner at the annual Pioneer Society Banquet at the Park County Fairgrounds, Saturday evening.

Honor Guard John West leads the Presentation of Colors at the Pioneer Society Banquet, Saturday evening.

Larry Lovely, Pioneer Society president for the past year, speaks at the annual banquet, Saturday evening.

Pioneer banqueters are viewed through the back window of an antique Chevy during the banquet.

Scenes from the Pioneer BanquetEnterprise photos by Hunter DAntuono


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The band then graduated to playing school events.

Later, in college, Larry started another band the Jack Down Cats with friend Don Seifert, playing the soft rock of the 70s.

The Ringling 5In the mid-1970s, Larry started yet

another band with Seifert the Cra-zy Mountain Express, which Larry still plays in today along with the Ringling 5.

In the meantime, separately, the Ringling 5 was starting to form, but they needed instrument players all they had was vocalists so soon Lar-ry and Seifert joined them.

At first, the Ringling 5 sang covers of other bands songs, mostly pop country like the Oak Ridge Boys and Stantler Brothers. Their out-of-coun-ty gigs included Good Sam Club con-ventions in Calgary, Canada.

Then, in the late 1980s, the Ringling 5 began writing their own songs, with Larry and Seifert penning many of them, a number of which included tunes about ranch life and its strug-gles.

In 1988, the Ringling 5 produced their first album, which was on cas-sette yes, cassette with two or

three original songs, including the now famous song, Pantyhose, about a rancher wearing pantyhose to keep warm while riding his horse. The band literally finished the song on the way to the recording studio, Larry said.

(It) was a career launcher, he not-ed.

In 1993, the band produced its first album of all original songs, PT Bar-num Was Right.

In all, the now six-man group comprised of Larry, Seifert, Don Oberquell, Chuck Dallas, Ken Art-hun, Les Arthun and often, drummer Don Scott has produced seven albums. The band plays all over the region, including their biggest gig, the Norsk Hstfest in Minot, North Dakota, which is attended by 140,000 people over the course of four days, Larry said.

How has being part of the Ringling 5 affected his life?

(It) gives me a lot of pleasure playing music, Larry said, adding it improves your mood.

It helps make him ready to go back on the ranch, he said, noting hes met an incredible number of great people over his years of play-ing in the band.

Larrys heritage

The ranch Larry grew up on has been in his family a long time. It was homesteaded in 1889 by his great-

grandparents, Moab and Jennie Lovely. Moab came to the area with his father, John Lovely, in a wagon train.

Moab met Jennie here. Jennie, who was in the first graduating class at Montana State College, was Moabs eighth-grade teacher he was older than she was.

Moab helped organize the Livingston city band and helped create the band shell that stands in Livingstons Miles Park today.

Larrys grandparents Bryan and Clara Lovely took over the ranch from his great-grandparents. Clara, of Norwegian descent, was from Min-nesota. The couple had five children Kenneth, Orvis, Joan, Patsy and Larrys father, Wendell.

Larrys parents, Wendell and Nor-ma Lovely, had two children in addi-tion to Larry Jan and Cheryl.

Wendell was inducted into the Mon-tana Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2013.

Valeries heritageValerie grew up in Benchland, west

of Lewistown, where her parents, Chet and Gay Johnson, farmed.

Farmers there are known as stub-ble jumpers to ranchers in these parts.

Larry joked that even though Valer-ie was born a stubble jumper, she turned into a very good ranch hand.

Asked if it was difficult adjusting from farming to ranching in the Shields Valley, Valerie responded, No, it was almost exactly the same.

She did say it took a little getting used to having cattle, but I really enjoyed showing cattle at the fairs and stuff like that.

Valeries ancestry is German and Bohemian. Her grandmother on her

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Lovely, from Page 1


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I call her a German bohunk, Lar-ry joked.

Valerie, who has done a lot of oil painting, quilting and gardening, is a musician as well. After she and Larry raised their children, she joined the Crazy Mountain Express which she is still a part of as a keyboard play-er and vocalist. When the ranch econ-omy got tough, she worked in Liv-

ingston financial institutions.Then, about 15 years ago, she

opened Vals Deli.She works awfully hard running

the restaurant by herself, Larry said.

Changes, communityOn the ranch, Larry single-handed-

ly runs a yearling operation that is, he buys calves in the winter, fattens them in the summer and sells them in the fall. In fact, he was planning to brand the day after the interview

with The Enterprise.The biggest change Larry has seen

over the years in Park County is the introduction of machinery into ranching.

Mechanization has been huge, Larry said, explaining that years ago, No one in their right mind would have tried to run this ranch by them-selves.

Its something he does now with no hired help.

Im sure the way we manage the land has changed quite a bit, with modern technology and plant breed-ing, Larry said.

Still, some things never change.Success as a rancher every year

comes down to old Mother Nature, he said.

In a great community like the one he lives in, Its easy to find someone to look up to, Larry said.

He said friends in the Shields Val-ley tight-knit community push each other to be better people.

Asked what advice hed give a young couple starting out in ranching today, he said, its tough to make a go of it, adding, If this hadnt been a family place, I wouldnt be on a ranch.

Earlier, like after World War II, all one had to do to make it on the ranch was work hard, he said.

Its a tougher world these days, the rancher noted.

But not so tough you cant pause and enjoy the music.

During the interview, Larry dragged out the old 12-string guitar he plays in Ringling 5 concerts the same one that fell off his pickup truck years ago, broke into pieces and that he somehow had patched up and strummed a couple snatches of songs.

And as the music filled the ranch house in the middle of the Shields Valley, the world did not seem such a tough place after all.

Lovely, from Page 10

ABOVE:Pictured in this

photo taken prob-ably in the 1890s

is the original homestead estab-

lished nine miles east of Wilsall by

Larry Lovelys great-grandpar-ents, Moab and

Jennie Lovely.

RIGHT: Larrys par-ents, Norma and Wendell Lovely,

are pictured with their young chil-

dren, from left, Cheryl, Larry and

Janice around 1954.

Photos courtesy of Larry Lovely

Success as a rancher every year comes

down to old Mother Nature.

Larry Lovely

See more Lovely photos, Page 12


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Photos courtesy of Larry Lovely

Larrys grandparents Bryan and Clara Lovely and their grandchildren are pictured in this photo tak-en in the mid-1950s. Larry is at far left.

Pictured from left are Larry, his father, Wendell, and Larry and Valeries son Bryan at cattle shipping time around 2011.

Lovely holds his 12-string gui-tar in the dining room of his and Valeries ranch home. The guitar is partially covered by a large pair of underwear, a gag from Ringling 5 performances. After a past show, one of the band members said they had DVDs for sale, as well as BVDs. Over time, friends autographed the pair in this photo, and Larry said he kept it as a darn nice covering for his guitar and for the memo-ries of the band and friends.Enterprise photo by Hunter DAntuono


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Hunt was accompanied by his wife, Florence, and other family members. He also has attended banquets over the past years.

Its funny, Hunt said. Its the 79th year of the event and Im 79.

Hunt was happy to be at the event, and was also happy to reconnect with old friends.

(My favorite part) is seeing people that I havent seen in many years, he said. Sometimes this is the only time I get to see them.

Evening comes to a close

The evening continued with enter-tainment by Swedish accordion band Smograsbandet, which kept the crowd laughing while performing songs and telling funny stories. Crazy Mountain Express also performed songs during the evening.

Pioneer Society election results were read by Dennis Dodge. Bill Harris, the only candidate on the ballot for the posi-tion of president, was elected. Although his election might have seemed like a sure thing, Harris was still nervous before the results were announced.

Im hopeful, he said. You never know how its going to go.

Dick Juhnke was elected vice presi-dent, and Lou Ann Skattum will contin-ue as secretary treasurer. Helen Cassi-dy, Jack Munro, Jim Sarrazin and Joyce Sarrazin are honorary presidents.

Election results were followed by the unveiling of past years President Larry Lovelys picture, although he might not have been ready to see it.

Im scared to death to see mine, he said before its unveiling.

Also read was the roll call of the deceased members. Names of the deceased included Brenda Adams, Doris Bailey, Marie Becker, Virginia Cain, Mildred Carter, Lorene Davis, Nancy Gaustad, Don Holland, Mavis Johnson, Barbara Klontz, Dorotha Lambert, Helen Milam, Gertrude OConnor, Cliff Olson, Helen Osen, Eldonna Pierce, Russell Robinson, Wil-liam Strong, Edna Trentman, Aileen Ward, Margaret Weimer and Chloris Zimmerman.

Kathryn Arthun, 99, was one of the oldest members in attendance at the annual Pioneer Society Banquet at the Park County Fairgrounds, Saturday evening.

Lights covered in knitted wagons decorate the entryway at the annual Pioneer Society Banquet.

McLian Payne, 12, navigates a sea of Pioneer Society members during the banquet.

Joe Parriott checks out some of the antique cars at the Pioneer Society Banquet.

Scenes from the Pioneer BanquetEnterprise photos by Hunter DAntuono

Banquet, from Page 3


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