George Kenneth Jasper, 68, of Maricopa, Ariz., formerly Culbertson died Feb. 19, 2024. He was born May 17, 1955, to Robert and Pauline Jasper in Glasgow. He grew up hunting, playing football and working with his dad and farmers around Culbertson. After graduating from Culbertson High School in 1973, he worked at the safflower- crushing plant. He was always known as an incredibly hard and smart worker and quickly took on more and more responsibility at the plant. His last years at the plant, he served as superintendent. Having only one job never seemed enough to keep him busy. He also worked with Gary Rassmussen towing vehicles, Kevin Martin farming and his dad moving entire houses, a skill he used to move his own house into town. After leaving the safflower plant, he also taught high school shop and worked in the oilfields driving trucks and managing a salt water

Clara “Janie” Mercier, 74, died Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, at the Sidney Health Center in Sidney. She was born on May 5, 1949, in Sidney to Maria (Bender) and Fred Lowry. A nurse by trade, her heart shined with love and caring. Through all the tragedy she suffered, she truly lived life with an inner peace that most never know. She still loved life — loved living it. She loved her family most of all — her children being her greatest joy. Some of her happiest times were spent in her little cabin at her son Gary’s outside of Helena. She just loved being in nature and watching the animals. It was her “little piece of Heaven.” And she watched over it and us with a devotion and protectiveness that was second to none. Much of her time in that cabin was spent with her great-granddaughter. Gary often referred to his mom as “the warden” because she would sit up on her deck and watch the happenings going on at the property.