The Ekalaka Eagle - Your Community Builder

Joseph "Joe" Patrick Carey, 82, was born in a log house on the Carey Homestead in the Chalk Buttes near Ekalaka, MT on May 16, 1938. His parents, Joseph Hugh Carey and Mildred Kortum Carey, his two sisters, Mary Ellen and Joan, thrilled to have a boy in their family. Sadly, his father Joe Carey passed away on the ranch of a sudden heart attack just eight days later. Mildred's parents Walter and Iva Kortum and Mildred's siblings helped her with the children while she was educated at Kinmann Business School in Spokane, Washington. After her graduation she moved to Miles City, Montana and went...