Every winter when they were kids, Anna Ruby and Jason Johns would hop in their dad’s truck and drive to downtown Kalispell with a trunk full of wreaths and garlands.

The trip was always made in the evening; the sun had gone down and only streetlights illuminated the falling snow.

Anna and Jason’s father, Daniel ‘Dan’ Johns, was a coach and president of the local Pee Wee Baseball league. He brought along his kids and a few other teammates to walk up and down Main Street, dressing the city up in holiday spirit.

“It was really magical,” Anna Ruby remembered. “We were doing something special.”

To those who knew him, giving was the attribute that best embodied Dan Johns, 79, who died Sept. 3 in Hillsboro, Oregon. Born and raised in Kalispell, Johns was an active member of the community for

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