Billings Gazette Billings, MT 23 Jul 2007 Sebastian Stroh FAIRVIEW - Mass of the Christian Burial for Sebastian "Seb" Stroh, 90, of Fairview, will be at 10 .m. Wednesday, July 25, at St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Fairview with Father Greg Staudinger as presider. Wake services are 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, at the Fulkerson Memorial Chapel. Interment will be in the Fairview Cemetery under the direction of the Fulkerson Funeral Home of Sidney. Sebastian "Seb" Stroh was born Jan. 15, 1917, to Raphael and Klementina (Keller) Stroh. He was raised on a farm west of Manning, N.D., with nine other siblings. On Jan. 25, 1943, Seb and Tillie Jordan were married at Hirshville, N.D. To this union two children were born, Marlene and Raymond Adam. Seb used to stucco houses around the Killdeer, N.D. area until they moved to Igloo, S.D., where he worked at an Army Depot. They later moved to Fairview and he became a sharecropper with Ole and Alvina Sundheim. Seb and Tillie later moved into Fairview where Seb worked as a mechanic for Booke Automotive. Two years later he became a bartender for Orville and Christine Martin at Martin's Bar. Seb purchased the bar from the Martins in 1957, which became know as Stroh's bar, today being Waterhole #3 in Fairview. Seb and Tillie owned and operated the bar until 1977, when they retired. Seb started a saw sharpening business out of his garage and did some handyman work for friends and St. Catherine's Catholic Church until his health deteriorated. Seb and Tillie had two grandchildren, Lisa and Michael. He also has a great-grandson, little Sebastian, who was in Seb's eyes, the best great-grandson that anyone could ever have. Seb and Tillie belonged to the square dancing club, which was a mutual enjoyment for both. Seb belonged to the C.C.C.'s from 1937 through 1939, located at the north entrance of Roosevelt Park. He was a member of St. Catherine's Catholic Church, a 4th Degree Knights of Columbus, and the Fairview Lion's Club for 37 years earning him the Melvin Jones Fellow Award for dedicated humanitarian service. He spent many years working on the planning of the Fairview Festival and was a councilman for the city of Fairview. Seb died on Wednesday evening, July 18, 2007, at the Sidney Health Center Extended Care Facility. Seb is survived by his daughter Marlene (Arthur) Frank of Sidney; granddaughter, Lisa of Billings; grandson, Michael (Kelly) of Anchorage, Alaska; great-grandson, little Sebastian of Anchorage; brothers, Martin and Peter; sisters, Josephine, Eleanor, Louise, and Eva, all of Dickinson, N.D.. Seb was preceded in death by his wife Tillie; son, Raymond; his parents, one brother and two sisters.