Hazel Louise Tait

Visitation: will be held on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 from 9:00am to 5:00pm

Vigil Service: will be held at 7:00pm at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Forsyth.

Mass of Christian Burial: held on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 11:00am at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Forsyth.

Interment: Forsyth Cemetery

Hazel Louise Tait, age 97, passed away November 23, 2010 at the Rosebud Health Care Center.

Hazel was born October 27, 1913 at Orinoco in Rosebud County to Harold Walter and Edith Mae (Jackson) Finch. She grew up on the family ranch and attended grade school at Orinoco and high school at Forsyth and Colstrip.Hazel and Howard C. Tait were united in marriage on February 3, 1934 in Forsyth. Most of her adult life was spent in Forsyth where she worked for the local locker plant as a meat wrapper and was a cook, eventually head cook, for the Forsyth schools. She retired in the early 1980s. She worked part time as curator at the Rosebud County Pioneer Museum in Forsyth and could answer most questions put to her regarding Old Timers as her family has been in what became Rosebud County since the 1870s. Hazel enjoyed cooking, traveling, going to coffee with her friends, embroidery, playing cards and most of all her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 50 years, Howard Tait and two brothers Walter and George Finch.Survivors include a sister, Lavina Edgell of Forsyth, a sister-in-law, Dorothy (Tait) Spannagel, three sons Jack (Sharon) Tait of Westminster, CO, Harold (Annette) Tait of Mandan North Dakota, Howard Allen (Candy) Tait of Greenacres Washington and one daughter, Lavina (Jim) Hall of Forsyth.

She is also survived by 18 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 from 9:00am to 5:00 pm in the chapel of Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Forsyth. A vigil service will be held at 7:00pm at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Forsyth. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 11:00am at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Forsyth will burial next to her husband following in the Forsyth Cemetery.

Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the Rosebud County Pioneer Museum or the charity of choice.Funeral services are under the direction of Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Forsyth and condolences may be sent to the family by visitingwww.stevensonandsons.com