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Priscilla Mae Hockett Combs

Birth	:	24 Apr 1918 Vallejo, Solano County, California, USA
Death	:	1 Sep 2017 Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA
Burial	:	Manchester Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade County, USA
Coordinate	:	47.5307999, -111.4535980
Description	:	Great Falls — Priscilla Mae Hockett Combs was died on Friday, September 1, 2017 at the home she has lived in for the last 70 years. Priscilla was born on April 24, 1918 to parents Waldo and Ruth Wight Hockett in Vallejo, CA, where her father was a chemist at the Navy yards during WWI. She was the oldest of six siblings, (three sisters and two brothers). When Priscilla was four years old, the family moved to Oskaloosa, IA, where they lived until she was 16 years old. She remembered their move to Montana in 1934, with her dad... Read More	Great Falls — Priscilla Mae Hockett Combs was died on Friday, September 1, 2017 at the home she has lived in for the last 70 years. Priscilla was born on April 24, 1918 to parents Waldo and Ruth Wight Hockett in Vallejo, CA, where her father was a chemist at the Navy yards during WWI. She was the oldest of six siblings, (three sisters and two brothers). When Priscilla was four years old, the family moved to Oskaloosa, IA, where they lived until she was 16 years old. She remembered their move to Montana in 1934, with her dad and the two boys in an old battered truck and her mom and four girls following behind in a Model A Ford in what "must have looked like a gypsy caravan." Her mother wanted to arrive at their destination in Hall, MT at night so nobody would recognize them. They lived there in an old eight room log house on the family ranch. Priscilla graduated from Drummond High School in 1936 and began nurses training at Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls, MT, in August of that year. There she made many lifelong friends with her sincere, loving, and warm personality and her fine sense of humor. Priscilla began her 30-plus year nursing career in Ogden, UT, and then worked as a nurse at the Cascade County Convalescent Hospital. In the final 16 years of her career she was a county public health nurse serving Cascade County schools and two Hutterite Colony schools. She was remembered fondly by many school secretaries, teachers, and principals as an outstanding school nurse. While in nurses training she met a very special young man, Harley Combs. He was tall and good looking, and he drove a Lafayette. They married February 9, 1940. Their marriage remained a secret when Priscilla started her first nursing profession in Ogden, Utah because, at the time, women could not be married and be in the nursing profession in Ogden. In 1941, they returned to Montana, living in a 12-foot trailer, one of only two dwellings on Gore Hill. Harley and Priscilla's union lasted 57 years and 7 months. They were blessed with and are survived by three children, 4 grandsons and a surrogate grandson, and 6 great-grandchildren. Priscilla played an active and pivotal role in the lives of her grandchildren. Priscilla was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Mary Madden, Carol Walter, and Walene Buob; brothers, Steve and Jim Hockett; and son-in-law, Skip Fabian. As a young mother, Priscilla was active in Franklin School PTA, serving as president in 1958. She taught 3rd grade Sunday School students, including current church members Lana Fayler Entzminger and Vanette Nelson Nagamori, and worked with the MYF at Westside United Methodist Church. She was camp nurse at the Methodist Youth Camp in Neihart, MT, and a Girl Scout leader when her daughters were in Girl Scouts in the 1950s. She was also active in the Cascade County Extension Service Home Makers and the League of Women Voters. Priscilla had a deep and abiding love for all people of the Westside United Methodist Church where she was a member for over 70 years. Complete obituary published in Great Falls Tribune on Sept. 10, 2017

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Priscilla Mae Hockett Combs death on 1 Sep 2017 in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA
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Latitude: 47.5307999
Longitude: -111.4535980

Family Members:

Parent

Ruth Wight Hockett

(1891 - 1993)

Spouse

Harley Homer Combs

(1911 - 1997)

Siblings

Steven W. Hockett

(1919 - 2007)

James Stanley Hockett

(1924 - 2006)

Walene Hockett Buob

(1926 - 2008)

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14. Sunrise Presbyterian Church Columbarium
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Coordinate: 47.4656000, -111.2512000

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Coordinate: 47.5024000, -111.2295000

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22. Memory Gardens Pet Cemetery
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23. Fort Shaw Military Cemetery
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