Leah Rae Tihista 1934 – 2021

Leah Rae (Hensrud) Tihista (86) passed away on August 11, 2021, in Richland, Washington due to complications from a stroke. Known as “Lee-Ray” to family and friends she was born in Scobey, Montana in 1934. Her parents, Ephraim and Audrey Hensrud, were farmers near Flaxville, Montana before moving to the boom town of Wheeler, Montana where Ephraim worked on the construction of the Fort Peck Dam.

In 1940 the family moved to Nashua, Montana where her father opened a reta...