Hazel Angeline Johnson

Hazel Angeline Johnson passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 23, 2007 surrounded by her loved ones.

Hazel was born to Charles and Jeannette Halsey on August 2, 1918 in Dore, N. D. She was the oldest of seven children and lived on the family homestead across the state line in Fairview, Mont.

In 1928, Hazel moved with her family to Libby and graduated from Libby High School in the class of 1936. She completed a post graduate geology class from Professor Asa Wood and hiked to the high lakes and glaciers to study rock formations.

Hazel loved to walk and identify interesting rocks. She also enjoyed bird watching and picking the first wild flowers of spring. Hazel graduated from Kinman Business College in Spokane, Wash. in 1938.

She was preceeded in death by husbands: Thomas Baxter, James Sanders and Wilfred Johnson and her son Douglas Sanders and grandson Wayne Maki. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Jeannette and Terry Maki; her three grandchildren; Michelle and Russ Hartly and family of Lake Oswego, Ore., Suzy Rios and family of Libby and Terry Jr. and Delaine Maki and family of Baker, Fla. She has 12 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great granddaughter. She is also survived by brother Ron Halsey of Libby and sister Grace Graeber of Kingman, Ariz., sister-in-law Hazel Halsey of Libby and numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation is at 10 a.m. on Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Interment services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.