Larry Albert Seitz, 89, of Great Falls, passed away at Peace Hospice on Thursday, August 7, 2025, surrounded by his loving wife and family.

Larry was born on June 30, 1936, in Missoula, Montana to his birth father, Albert and Eva Hochhalter. His father sadly died from pneumonia a short time before Larrys birth. After several years of raising two children during the middle of the Great Depression, his mother married John Seitz who immediately adopted both Larry and his older sister, Doreen. Larry grew up in Missoula and graduated from Missoula County High School in 1954. He then joined the Navy serving from 1954 to 1957, where he was a Sonarman aboard two destroyers, the U.S.S. Black, and later the U.S.S. Shelton.

Upon his honorable discharge, he attended Montana State University earning

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