Longtime Boulder Resident Ona A. Howey passed due to illness on Dec. 12 at St. Peters Hospital in Helena.
Ona was born on July 3, 1963, a twin, to Bert Howey and Betty Jean Robson in Sheridan, MT. An avid horsewoman, she followed her love of horses to the racetracks of Montana, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Jersey, Kentucky and Nebraska, where she worked as a groom and hot walker.
Ultimately she returned to Boulder, always saying that she had seen and done everything she’d hoped to following the racehorses, and that Montana was home. She worked diligently for Red’s Distributing in Boulder since the late 1980s. Prior to that she was a bartender and Keno caller in Boulder.
