CLAUDIA FRANCES BEST PASSED AWAY MARCH 9TH, 2023 IN BILLINGS, MT

FOLLOWING A LONG ILLNESS.

CLAUDIA WAS BORN APRIL 21ST. 1964 IN FITCHBURG, MA. 

TO DENNIS O BEST SR. & ELEANOR F. ARMSTRONG

DENNIS SR. WAS STATIONED AT FORT DEVENS AT THE TIME OF HER BIRTH. 

HER LIFE MOTTO "I'LL LIVE MY LIFE MY WAY NO MATTER WHAT SOMEONE SAYS" (THAT SHE DID)

CLAUDIA WAS RAISED THROUGHOUT MONTANA SHE GREW UP MAINLY IN HARLOWTON AND LEWISTOWN.

SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL IN LEWISTOWN

SHE MET & MARRIED WAYNE HARTFORD IN 1982 IN LEWISTOWN, MT. THEY HAD 1 SON BRANDON HARTFORD

THEY MOVED TO PORTLAND OREGON.

ALONG WITH RAISING HER SON, CLAUDIA WOULD START HER JOURNEY TO PURSUE NURSING STARTING AS A CNA

SHE ALSO WORKED AS A HOME HEALTH AID, THIS WOULD ALSO HELP WITH

HER EDUCATION TO OBTAIN HER LPN THRU OUT THE YEARS, SHE NEVER FINISHED "FAMILY FIRST"

CLAUDIA WOULD MOVE BACK TO HARLOWTON TO LIVE AND WORK AFTER HER SON WAS GROWN.

JULY 4TH. 2003

SHE MET THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, HER HUSBAND AND SOUL MATE: MIKE LAND, CLAUDIA WOULD TAKE ON A ROLL

OF STEPMOM WHICH SHE DEARLY LOVED WITH MIKES 3 SONS, HER & MIKE WOULD WELCOME THEIR SON

JOSEPH DENNIS LAND AT 9 DAYS OLD, CLAUDIA WAS OVER THE MOON TO BE A MOM TO A BABY ONCE AGAIN.

THEY CHOSE TO MOVE TO CUSTER MT.  WHERE MIKE HAD WORK AND THEY COULD RAISE JOEY. 

CLAUDIA WAS ALWAYS TAKING IN STRAYS WHETHER HUMAN OR PET AND THEIR HOME WAS NEVER EMPTY OR 

LACKING OF LOVE, HER GIVING SOUL KEPT HER AND MIKE BUSY EVEN IF MIKE WOULD TRY T0 

PROTEST (NOT REALLY). THE SPARE TIME THEY DID HAVE WAS ON THE HARLEY GOING ON RIDES, OR POKER RUNS.

CLAUDIA LOVED BEING ON THE ROAD WITH HER TWO LOVES, MIKE AND THE HARLEY.  SHE LOVED TO TRAVEL

TO SEE FAMILY ESPECIALLY WHEN NEW GRANDKIDS WERE BORN, SUCH A PROUD GRANDMA SHE WAS, HER JOYS

WERE TIMES SPENT WITH HER GRANDKIDS.

HER HOBBIES WERE READING, PUZZLES, CRAFTS, WATCHING HER FAVORITE GAME SHOWS AND YELLING AT THE

PEOPLE FOR GETTING ANSWERS WRONG, THEY WOULD FILL HER TIME WHEN SHE COULD NO LONGER 

WORK AND THEN BECAME BED BOUND. 

HER GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS WERE HER CHILDREN (HER PRIDE & JOY) & HUSBAND

SHE LOVED HER BOYS BEYOND WORDS THEY WERE HER WORLD SHE LIVED TO SEE THEM GROW INTO GOOD MEN.

HER BIGGEST GUY HER MIKE WAS HER EVERYTHING AS SHE WAS HIS.

SHE WOULD SAY " IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT WE HAVE, I ALREADY HAVE THE BEST MAN GOD COULD HAVE GIVEN ME

HE IS A ONE OF A KIND, I FEEL HIS LOVE WHEN HE WALKS IN THE ROOM HOW BLESSED AM I HE IS MY HOME".

WE WERE GIFTED A LIFE, A DAUGHTER, WIFE, MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, SISTER, AUNT, COUSIN, FOREVER FRIEND (RENE HARTFORD)

CLAUDIA TOUCHED MANY LIVES WITH HER OPEN KIND HEART & HER FEISTY PERSONALITY.

WHETHER GREAT OR SMALL THE BLESSINGS WE RECEIVED FROM KNOWING HER WILL REMAIN WITH US ALL.

CLAUDIA IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND MIKE LAND OF BILLINGS, MT.

FIVE SONS: BRANDON HARTFORD(JASMINE) OF LEWISTOWN MT, CHRIS LAND (AMANDA) OF MOUNT HOME, ID

KYLE LAND (JANET) OF MOUNT HOME ID, BRIAN LAND OF BILLINGS MT, JOEY LAND OF BILLINGS, MT.

7 GRANDCHILDREN: LUCAS WAYNE HARTFORD, ELISE SHANNON HARTFORD, VIOLET ROSE HARTFORD

RIVER LILY HARTFORD, CARTER LAND, CARSON LAND, CINDY SUE LAND. 

SIBLINGS: DENNIS O BEST JR.  OF SEATTLE WA, SUE ELLEN BAUER(DELON) OF BEULAH, ND.  

NEIL JOHNSON OF BILLINGS, MT, EDWARD JOHNSON (SARA) OF BILLINGS, MT, LORENA ANN BEST OF BILLINGS, MT.

BROTHER IN LAWS(TIM&WAYNE) & SISTER IN LAWS(MARY&BETTY) & MIKE'S EXTENDED FAMILY. 

NUMEROUS NIECES & NEPHEWS AND GREATS, AUNT RUTH ANN BOWERS & AUNT PAULETTE DECK OF TENNESSEE 

NUMEROUS COUSINS.  HER CAREGIVER HARLEY(MIKEY)  

CLAUDIA WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS: DENNIS & LINDA BEST, EDWARD & ELEANOR ARMSTRONG,

BROTHER STEVEN RICHARD BEST, GRANDPARENTS, AUNTS & UNCLES, COUSINS, FRIENDS TAKEN TO SOON.  

"SHE FOUGHT A HARD FIGHT SHE WAS TOUGH AS NAILS" SHE WILL FOREVER BE LOVED & MISSED

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