Carol Buckles 1946 – 2024

Carol Marie Buckles, age 78, of Scobey, Montana passed away on December 28, 2024. After three weeks at the Billings Clinic, she was transported back to Scobey (her birthplace) for her last days and passed away at the Daniels Memorial Hospital, a place where she had worked for nearly a third of her life.

Carol was born in March, 1946 to Earl and Mildred Brackee of Richland, MT. She was the third child and only daughter. Her older brothers, Delroy and Monte, gave her the nickname “Sweetie Pie” as she was a spoiled princess with rag curls and dresses while they had to do all the farm chores. She had a lifelong fear of birds, stating they were lizards with feathers and hated chickens, probably from her time on the farm.

Carol graduated from Opheim High School in 1964. Her yearbook ambition was “to find some happiness somewhere, somehow, and someplace.” She attended bookkeeping school at the Great Falls Business College.

While in Great Falls, she met Shelby Ray Crump, an airman...