Individual Details

Clarence Keith "C.K." Drew

(25 Oct 1954 - 25 Feb 2007)

Visitation: Thursday, March 1 at Clayton StevensonMemorial Chapel in Circle from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m.
FuneralService: Friday, March 2, 2007 at 10 a.m. at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Churchin Circle
Interment:Riverview Cemetery, Circle
Clarence Keith “CK” Drew, 52, suddenly passedaway at his residence and went home to be with the Lord and Savior on theevening of February 25,2007.
CK was adevoted father, brother, neighbor and a friend to many.  He lived 52 yearsand left us too soon after a long-fought battle with heart disease and diabetes.
CK was born October 25, 1954, in MilesCity, Montanato Martha Ann Drew Hance Corrow & Keith Drew.  He was raised on hisgrandmother May Pain’s sheep ranch near Weldon, Montana and graduated fromCircle High School in the Class of 1973.  He played football andbasketball and during his senior year managed the body shop at FrontierFord.  He spent several years drilling oil in Montana and theDakota’s.  He also worked for the county road department in the legendarywinter of 1978-79 and then went on to start and own his own body shop CircleBody Works which he ran for 20 years.  For seven of those years he ownedand managed the Corner Bar in Circle with his long-time friend, mentor andformer father-in-law WoodyHawkinson.   CK enjoyed the outdoors and Fort Peck Lake. He loved to camp, fish, hunt, and later excelled at gold panning.  He alsoloved taking trips to Puerto Rico with his friend Jim Bryan.
CKmarried his first wife,Gina Hawkinson, in Sturgis, South Dakota in 1978.  They had two children of which only onesurvived.  They were later divorced.  He married his secondwife, Denise Olson, in December of 1998.  Out of this union one child wasborn.  They were later divorced. 
CK issurvived by his special friend, Mona Sult, of Billings, Montana; son, Cody Woodrow Drew ofCircle, Montana; son, Weldon Naveron Drew of Richey, Montana; mother,Martha Ann (Erwin) Hance Corrow of Circle, Montana; his biological father,Keith Drew of Red Oaks, Texas; five brothers, Jim (Darlene) Hance of Gillette,Wyoming,  Kevin (Cheryl) Hance, Mark (Peggy) Hance, Flint (Jana) Hance,all of Billings, Montana  and Brett Hance of Circle, Montana; threesisters, Dallas Curtiss of Phoenix, Arizona, Kitty (Jim) Sorlie, and JenniferWaller, all of Billings, and many special friends throughout the world.
CK waspreceded in death by his son,CJ Drew, his brother, Bob Hance, his nephew, Kory Hance, his stepfatherGeorge Hance and his mentor of several years Woody Hawkinson. 
May thesun shine upon his face, may the wind be at his back, and may he be three daysin heaven with the Lord before the devil knows he’s dead.  We will misshim very much and “I love you dad.”
 

Events

Birth25 Oct 1954Miles City, Custer, Montana
Marriage30 Dec 1975Sturgis, SD - Gina Claire Hawkinson
MarriageDec 1998Denise Olson
Death25 Feb 2007Circle, Mc Cone, Montana
DivorceDenise Olson
DivorceGina Claire Hawkinson

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