Tammen, Pat Montana was born March 22, 1937 in Missoula, Montana to Victor Anderson and Margaret Anderson (Quirk) and passed away May 27, 2024 after years of coping with congestive heart failure. The family returned to High Landing, Minnesota shortly after Pat was born. Pat's mother died when Pat was ten and her father was usually absent. Her grandmother raised Pat and her sister but died when Pat was twelve. Later Pat suffered child abuse and ended up in Gillette Children's Hospital for ten months at the age of fifteen with severely damaged hips in the days before hip transplants. The doctors repaired her to the point where she made many trips into the Boundary Waters in her adult years. Pat worked herself through Mayville State Teachers College and then went to Bemidji State University for her master's degree. She taught for a couple of years in Minnesota and then accepted a teaching position in Nenana, Alaska where she married Dean Larson who was killed in a car accid