Richard Lynn “Dick” Craig, passed away on June 22, 2026, at the Sidney Health Center at the age of 84. He was the son of Lester and Grace Craig, born in Opheim, MT on April 6, 1942.

Dic grew up on the family farm southeast of Opheim. He had one brother and one sister.

At the age of seventeen he proudly joined the US Navy in and was stationed in Subic Bay in the Philippines. Dick served as a diesel mechanic on a ship in the Pacific Fleet that replenished frozen food to ships all over the Pacific Ocean. He served from January 1960 until he was honorably discharged in March of 1963 at the Rank of EN-3.

After the service Dick worked as a mechanic at Markles in Glasgow, MT and Crighton Distributions in Fairview, MT. Dick had a radio TV business in Sidney and later worked for Richland County for five years before joining the Montana Department of Transportation as an equipment operator for 25 years.

Dick loved to work on equipment from lawn mowers to old tractors. He kept up the family farm after his mother and father passed hoping to move back one day.
Dick’s many friends and working acquaintances will miss him.

He was preceded in death by his parents Grace and Lester and his brother James.

Dick is survived by his sister and 2 daughters.