Olive Juanita Sargent, 93

Olive Juanita Sargent was born April 4, 1922 at Thermopolis, WY, to John E and Blanche (Brown) Hammett, Sr. and she died February 4, 2016 at the Avera Gregory Hospital in Gregory at the age of 93 years.
She was the oldest of six children. At the age of five her family moved to Upper Lodge Grass Creek near Lodge Grass, MT. Her father, John, was a cowboy and worked on various large ranches. They moved often to various cow camps. Olive attended several country schools while growing up. She attended Lodge Grass High School in Lodge Grass, MT. On December 12, 1940, Olive married Hollis Wayland Sargent at the Baptist Church in Hardin, MT. They traveled to Dixon to visit Hollis’s mother, Adelein and step-father, William Moore and family.
In 1947, Olive and Hollis moved to Bonesteel where they worked on a ranch. In 1958, they moved to Gregory where they farmed until 1961, then moved to Burke where they continued to farm. They later sold out and purchased a home in Burke where she continued to live after the loss of her husband.

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