Richard
A. "Dick" Harwood, 86, of Conrad, a longtime Pondera and Toole County- area
farmer, died of cancer Tuesday at a Conrad hospital.
Visitation is 1 to 8 p.m. today at Whitted Funeral Chapel in Shelby. His funeral
is 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral chapel, with burial in Mountain View
Cemetery. A lunch will be held at the Shelby Senior Center after the burial.
Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Genevieve Harwood of Conrad; a daughter,
Janis Elaine (Leonard) Lundby of Manchester; sons Richard Thomas (Linda) Harwood
of Devon and John Allen (Carol) Harwood of Joliet; sisters Elizabeth Beth
Applegate of Oregon, Bernice Chapman of California and Ariel Croxford and April
Sliwoski of Great Falls; brothers Robert James Harwood of Seattle and Benjamin
Harwood of Renton, Wash.; 10 grandchildren, Christine, Tara, Michael, Curtis and
Craig Harwood, Colleen Wohnoutka, Kimberly Wielenga, and Kirk, Kara and Kendra
Lundby; and two great-grandchildren, Audry Wielenga and Natasha Wohnoutka.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, David Harwood.
Dick was born Aug. 4, 1921, in Langdon, N.D., to Ernest and Bernice (Gerrie)
Harwood. When he was 10, his family moved to Fairfield, where they bought the
last available homestead. The family created a group called "the Virginia
Reels," which would perform and travel from town to town, entertaining and
showing movies.
Dick and his brothers did electrical work in the area for a time before he
attended Vo-Tech College in Billings. In 1939, he bought a farm near Conrad and
married Genevieve Tenney on Nov. 12, 1943. In 1960, the couple bought a farm
near Devon. Although they moved to Conrad in 1983, he still remained active with
the farming operation until his recent illness.
Dick was very handy, and in the 1960s devised what is known as the Harwood
Hook-up - a means by which you hook two two-wheel drive tractors together to
make it into a four-wheel drive unit.
He enjoyed woodworking, photography, playing cards and fixing and rebuilding old
radios. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Republican Party.
The family suggests that memorials be given to AWARE Inc., a group home where
grandson Craig Harwood resides, at 205 E. Park, Anaconda, MT 59711.
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