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Ruth Hecht
Feb 11, 2013
Ruth Neilson Hecht, age 99, died Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta, Colo., where she had been a resident for the past five years. When her health began to fail in 2000, she moved to Denver, Colo., and eventually to Delta, Colo., to live with her daughter, Betty until she entered the care center. Ruth was...
Sandra Rae Adams
Feb 10, 2013
Sandra Rae (Sage) Adams died Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 in her home at the Manor on Marston Lake in Lakewood, Colo., after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 64 years young. She began her life on Dec. 7, 1948 in Lincoln, Ill. She was born to Robert and Edna Mae Sage. Sandra was the oldest of three children....
Alma Jean "Cookie" Seeley
Feb 10, 2013
Alma Jean “Cookie†Willams Seeley died Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 at her home in Powell, in the arms of her husband, Walter Duane Seeley, Sr. She was 78. She was born in Green River on March 16, 1934, to William Henry Lewis Williams and Ellen Ann “Lala†Sloan. Cookie was a loving wife and mother, a woman of warmth, strength,...
Milton Ray "Bud" Clifton
Feb 5, 2013
Milton Ray “Bud†Clifton, was born on Dec. 8, 1946, in Powell, the fourth of nine children, to Carl W. and Evelyn A. Clifton. He died Feb. 5, 2013 in Mesa, Ariz., surrounded by his family, after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 66. The Clifton family moved from Montana in the mid-1940s and Bud was the first...
Marian Clare Jorgensen
Jan 30, 2013
Marian Clare (Smith) Jorgensen died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 at the Powell Valley Care Center from natural causes. She was 92. Marian was born June 11, 1920 to J. Fred and May (Hennen) Smith in Minneapolis, Minn. She attended Catholic school and graduated from St. Margaret’s Academy for Girls in 1938. While working in a law office in Minneapolis, she...
Dorothy Ann Hilton
Jan 29, 2013
Dorothy Ann Hilton (April 17, 1938 - Jan. 29, 2013) Dorothy Ann Hilton, of Powell, died Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at St. Vincent Hospital in Lancaster County, Penn. She was 74. Dorothy was born April 17, 1938 to John J. Todd and Mary E. Sturgis. She graduated from high school and married Harold Hilton Aug. 25, 1956. She was a...
Marvin C Gimmeson
Jan 20, 2013
Marvin C. Gimmeson, 74, of Casper, died Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 at the Shepherd of the Valley Care Center in Casper.
Marvin was born Sept. 12, 1938 in Powell to Williard Gimmeson and Margaret McPherson Gimmeson. He attended elementary, junior high and high school in Powell where he enjoyed participating on the PHS football and basketball teams. He also...
Nancy Bonner
Jan 12, 2013
Funeral services will be conducted Friday, Jan. 18 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in Powell for Nancy Milliken Bonner, 96, who died Jan. 12 at the Powell Valley Care Center. Father Ron Lytle will officiate at services and burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. Nancy Milliken was born Jan. 31, 1916, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Herbert E....
Beverly B Bernatchy
Jan 12, 2013
Beverly Beryl Bernatchy, 87, died Jan. 12, 2013 in Powell. Her death came one week before her 88th birthday. Beverly was born Jan. 19, 1925 in Indianaola, Neb., in Red Willow County, to Osma Paul Hatcher and May Morosic. She graduated from Red Willow High School in 1942, and then went on to McCook Junior College in McCook, Neb. She...
Robert Allen McKay
Jan 11, 2013
Robert McKay (March 4, 1931 - Jan. 11, 2013) Robert McKay, 81, of Powell, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 in Powell. Robert was born in Nebraska City, Neb. on March 4, 1931 to Martha (Smith) and Clifford McKay. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1952-56 during which time he met his wife, Jacqlyn Jones. They were married June 15,...
Gwynn Wilbur Marshall
Jan 7, 2013
Gwynn Wilbur Marshall April 22, 1924 — January 7, 2013 G.W. Marshall was born the youngest of five children, on April 22, 1924 in Zuni, New Mexico to Jesse Gwynn Marshall and Mary Elizabeth Griffin Marshall. His dad was a doctor on the Zuni reservation. The family moved back to Canton, Oklahoma when he was very young. His dad died...
Richard Charles Thorne
Jan 2, 2013
Richard C Thorne 58, passes away January 2, 2013 at his home in Deaver, Wy Memorial services will be held Monday January 7, 2013 at the First United Methodist Church in Powell. Arrangements are being handled by Thompson Funeral Home and Crematory. Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.thompsonfuneral.net or to P.O. Box 807 Powell, Wy 82435
Wilma M Groen
Dec 25, 2012
Wilma Marguerite Rimbey Groen (June 6, 1908 - Dec. 25, 2012) Wilma Marguerite Groen, 104, died peacefully at Rocky Mountain Manor on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Dec. 29 at 10:30 a.m. at Union Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Wilma was born June 6, 1908 in Deerfield, Mo., the daughter of...
Francis "Frank" Burgener
Dec 24, 2012
Francis “Frank†Earl Burgener Frank Burgener passed away peacefully at his home on Monday, December 24, 2012. He was 72. A rosary is planned for Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 6:00 p.m., followed by funeral services on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. Both will be held at St. Barbara's Catholic Church in Powell. Frank was born in Powell, Wyoming on...
Lucy Cozzens
Dec 19, 2012
Lucy Cozzens, 87, died in Powell on Dec. 19, 2012. She was born in Michigan in 1925. Lucy trained as a registered nurse and received her RN degree from the Blodgett School of Nursing in Grand Rapids, Mich. Seeking new horizons and adventure, she came west to Wyoming on her way to Alaska. She worked for Dr. Lester F. Allison,...
Reginald Denny Hall
Dec 18, 2012
Reginald Denny Hall, 87, passed away December 18, 2012 at his home. Memorial Services will be held Friday December 21, 2012 at 10:00 am at The First United Methodist Church.
Jay Farrell Buxton
Dec 17, 2012
Jay Farrell Buxton was born on September 13, 1932, in Driggs, ID, and passed away December 17, 2012, in Provo, UT, surrounded by his family. Farrell, was born to Orvel J. “Jack†& Estella Louise Bates Buxton and lived most of his life in Bates, Idaho. He was the third of five children. Farrell grew up in Bates, Idaho, where...
Forrest Dale Cordes
Dec 15, 2012
Forrest “Frosty†Cordes Forrest Dale Cordes known to most simply as “Frosty†went home to his Father in Heaven Saturday December 15, 2012. He was born on March 3, 1925 in Guthrie, OK. He was the second of three children born to Henry and Fairy Cordes. Frosty was introduced to his future wife Victoria in the fall of 1947, four...
Heber H Hart
Dec 14, 2012
Heber H. Hart passed away at Spirit Mountain Hospice in Cody on Friday, December 14, 2012. He was 71. Cremation has taken place, and a memorial service is planned for Thursday, December 20, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. at Thompson Funeral Home in Powell. A full obituary will follow.
