Mike Dunn

Stevensville, MT - EARLY IN THE MORNING ON FEBRUARY 1ST. 2021, MIKE DUNN, LOVING HUSBAND AND DEVOTED FATHER LOST HIS BATTLE WITH CANCER AT ST. PATRICK HOSPITAL IN MISSOULA, MT. MIKE WAS BORN ON AUGUST 3RD, 1951 TO BOB AND KAY [WAGNER] DUNN IN ALEDO, ILLINOIS. A GRADUATE OF THE 1969 CLASS OF ALEDO HIIGH SCHOOL. H E WENT TO MONMOUTH COLLEGE, ILL. AND THEN TO NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, EVANSTAN, ILL. WHERE HE THEN GRADUATED IN 1974. ON THE 30th OF DECEMBER 1993, HE MARRIED ISABELLA SEDLAK. TOGETHER, THEY RAISED THEIR DAUGHTER VANESSA ELISABETH DUNN. THEY LIVED IN LIBERTY, UT. UNTIL THEY MOVED TO STEVENSVILLE, MT IN 2007 TO BE WITH FAMILY. AS AN AVID OUTDOORSMAN, MIKE TRULY ENJOYED THE BITTERROOT VALLEY IN MONTANA, AND ESPECIALLY THE NEARBY LAKES FOR FISHING. HE WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT FLY FISHING AND EVEN AMID HIS CANCER STRUGGLE WAS PLANNING HIS 2021 FISHING SEASON. HIS SMILE BECAME A LITTLE BROADER WITH A POLE IN HIS HAND, HIS TRAILER AND HIS 14 FOOT BOAT AT HEBKEN LAKE OR HENRY’S LAKE OUTSIDE WEST YELLOWSTONE. MIKE WAS AN INCREDIBLE KIND, LOVING, GENERIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE MAN. HE WILL BE TRULY MISSED BY ALL WHOSE LIVES HE TOUCHED. MIKE WAS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS FATHER BOB HIS MOTHER KAY AND NEPHEW TYSON DUNN. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE ISABELLA, HIS ONLY CHILD VANESSA [STEVENSVILLE, MT], HIS SISTER CINDY LEEVER [NEW CONCORD, KY] CAROL PARCHERT [ALEDO, IL] BROTHER MARK DUNN [ALEDO, IL.] UNCLE CHARLES DUNN [ALEDO, IL] AS WELL AS MANY NIECES NEPHEWS. COUSINS AND FRIENDS. A FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2021 AT 1:00 P.M. AT THE WHITESITT FUNERAL HOME, 314 CHURCH STREET, STEVENSVILLE, MT. 59870. THE FAMILY SUGGESTS THAT MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO THEST. PATRICK HOUSE, 501 W. ALDER STREET, MISSOULA, MT 59802, OR OUR LOCAL FOOD BANK, OR A CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE IN MEMORY OF MIKE DUNN. 

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