{"id":2089,"date":"2014-12-03T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T05:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:29","slug":"the-loss-of-one-of-bchas-founders-ken-ausk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"The Loss of One of BCHA&#8217;s Founders, Ken Ausk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kenAusk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2087\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kenAusk.jpg\" alt=\"kenAusk\" width=\"596\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kenAusk.jpg 596w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kenAusk-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe funeral mass for Ken Ausk will be December 13 at 11AM with prayer vigil at 10 and lunch to follow. The funeral will be at St Richard&#8217;s Catholic Church, 1210 9th Street West in Columbia Falls MT<\/p>\n<p>Phyllis Ausk (Ken&#8217;s wife)<br \/>\n3020 Middle Road,<br \/>\nColumbia Falls MT 59912<br \/>\nkhaos@bigsky.net<\/p>\n<p>Ken&#8217;s daughters who are members of Back Country Horsemen<\/p>\n<p>Keni and Ralph Hopkins<br \/>\n3115 Middle Road,<br \/>\nColumbia Falls MT 59912<br \/>\nrkhopkins@centurylink.net<\/p>\n<p>Theresa and Tom Kolczak<br \/>\nPO Bos 3255<br \/>\nColumbia Falls MT 59912<br \/>\ntkolczak@centurytel.net<\/p>\n<p>From Phyllis &#038; Family to BCHA Members<\/p>\n<p>To all the 14,000.00 members who made Ken\u2019s life so much richer by your dedication to BCH.  Many of you attended the service, sent beautiful cards and contributed to the beautiful flower arrangement.  I and all of Ken\u2019s family thank you for the kind words and outpouring of love you have shown us. Keep up the good work and have a Blessed Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funeral mass for Ken Ausk will be December 13 at 11AM with prayer vigil at 10 and lunch to follow. The funeral will be at St Richard&#8217;s Catholic Church, 1210 9th Street West in Columbia Falls MT Phyllis Ausk (Ken&#8217;s wife) 3020 Middle Road, Columbia Falls MT 59912 khaos@bigsky.net Ken&#8217;s daughters who are members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}