Visitation:  Sunday, July 20, 2008 from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City. 
Funeral services:  Monday, July 21, 2008 at 1:00 pm at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City.  Interment:  will follow in the family lot of the Custer County Cemetery.

     Margaret Mary Tucker- Kransky, our mother, went to be with the Lord, at age 96, on July 17, 2008.

      Margaret was born on June 2, 1912 at Straw, Montana to Carl F. and Kate (Gregory) Irish and attended grade school at Straw, MT.  Margaret married Robert Tucker in January of 1929.  To this union seven children were born.  In 1954, Margaret married Vernon Kransky and they made their home in Miles City where they owned and operated Vern’s Gardens.    In the fall of 2003 she moved to Billings, where she had made her home with her daughter Ellen. 

      Margaret enjoyed gardening, crocheting and loved to do crossword puzzles and jigsaw puzzles.  Margaret’s family was most important to her and she cherished all the time she got to spend with her children and grandchildren. 

      Margaret is survived by her daughter Ellen Ziele of Billings, son Richard Tucker of Billings, daughter Alma Miller of Bangs, Texas, daughter-in-law Gloria Tucker of Miles City and one sister Beulah Lancaster of Rapid City, SD.  Margaret is also survived by fifteen grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren, one of whom shares her birth date, and six great-great grandchildren.    She was preceded in death by her husband Vern, sons Bobby Tucker and Larry Tucker, and daughters Betty Riley and Myrna Hurick, her parents, three grandsons, two great-grandsons, one sister and three brothers.

     Visitation will be held on Sunday, July 20, 2008 from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City.  Funeral services will be held on Monday, July 21, 2008 at 1:00 pm at Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home in Miles City.  Interment will follow in the family lot of the Custer County Cemetery.  Condolences may be made to the family by visiting: www.stevenandsons.com.   

     Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of ones choice.  Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Miles City has been entrusted with the arrangements.