Loucks, Roger 'Dut' , Jan. 8, 1920- Dec. 4, 2014 Billings Gazette Billings, Montana 7 Dec 2014 PLENTYWOOD — Funeral services for Roger Dutton Loucks will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8. Pastor Johnette Grefe will officiate at the service at the First Congregational Church in Plentywood, with Masonic Rites at the church and interment in Redstone Cemetery. Dut died at Sheridan Memorial Hospital in Plentywood, Wednesday evening, Dec. 4. The fifth of six children of Harry D. and May (Vannice) Loucks, Dut was born in Outlook on Jan. 8, 1920, and grew up on the family farm northeast of Redstone. He graduated from Redstone High School, and had completed three years of an aviation program at Rocky Polytechnic Institute (now Rocky Mountain College) in Billings. Already an experienced pilot when World War II broke out, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was stationed at Santa Ana, Calif. After a short period in the service, Dut was medically discharged. He spent some time in the Southwest before he came home to Redstone and took over the family farm, which he operated until retirement. Dut revered the land, the cycles of nature and enjoyed his livestock. A gregarious, outgoing man, Dut never met a stranger. Always cheerful, he never complained about anything, and let his positive outlook carry him through, in spite of life’s adversities. He loved to visit and enjoyed “poking” people — but always in a spirit of fun. He lived the adage from “Solitude” by Ella Wilcox: “laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.” Dut married Jimmye Lee (Guthrie) Crist on July 17, 1963. They made their home on the farm before they moved to Plentywood. Dut was a member of the Plentywood School Board; moderator of the Congregational Church; board president of the Production Credit Association; and for over 23 years, served as a timekeeper at Plentywood School basketball events. He was a member and Past Master of the Masonic Lodge, belonged to the Scottish Rite and Al Bedoo Temple of the Shrine, and was a member and Worthy Patron of the Order of Eastern Star. After Jimmye Lee’s death in 1992, Dut was attending a Redstone reunion in Palm Springs, Calif., where he reconnected with a friend from high school days, Ada Hagan Olson — they were together in Burnsville, Minn., until her death. Eight years ago, Dut returned to Montana and has made his home at the Montana Pioneer Manor in Plentywood since. Dut is survived by his daughter Lynn and her husband, Tony Newnam, of Glendive; and grandsons Zach Anderson and his wife, Blanca, of Rosamond, Calif., and Jacob Anderson, of Sendai, Japan, and by Ada’s family. He is also survived by his younger brother Phil, and his wife, June, of Ennis; and by numerous nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, wife Jimmye Lee and companion Ada, he was preceded in death by his older siblings, Ruth, Harry, Homer and Joyce. In recent years, Dut and his good friend Orville Odegard have been inseparable. Fulkerson Funeral Home of Plentywood has charge of arrangements. Read and print the obituary, post remembrances, and send cards and flowers online at www.fulkersonsplentywood.com.