Hazel Mae Kanzler was called home by our Heavenly Father, Feb. 5, 2026.

She passed peacefully with her loving family at her side at Powell Valley Hospital.

Hazel Mae Warner Kanzler (Lampman) was born May 14, 1959 to Gerald (Jim) and Neva Warner in Laramie, Wyoming. She was the second child, out of five children.Hazel grew up in Laramie and Cheyenne WY. As she would remind us, she was a true Wyoming native.

Hazel was one of the first students to attend the new Laramie High School. She loved talking a lot about the classes she attended. She was known for being the class clown and quite a prankster. One class was French Class that she carried into adulthood and would try to teach it to her children and grandchildren. One story she liked to relay to her children was the time she and her classmates made taffy and ended up pulling it all over the banister at the gym and redecorated the floor emblem with pink and blue taffy. Needless to say, they got the privilege of cleaning the floors the next day with toothbrushes.

Hazel not only learned to play the violin, but also the cello and base cello, and the guitar. She was so excellent, many thought it sounded heavenly. She was always first chair, first row in the high school orchestra.

Her children became aware of her dislike of math classes, that didn’t go too well, until the teacher taught her cribbage. And low and behold she learned to love math and taught her children to play cribbage so math became easier for them also. A favorite memory of hers was that on test day, they would get to play cribbage against the teacher.

Hazel would always convince her siblings to try doing crazy things. Some tricks that were talked about through out her life were: jumping out a barn into a hay stack, that resulted in Harry, her brother, breaking his arm and pushing him off of Grandpa Joe’s tailgate on his truck. She talked her sister, Linda, into riding on the handle bars of their bike to and from their job at the A & W Root Beer Stand.

Hazel graduated from Laramie High School in 1978. After graduating, she moved to Torrington.

Hazel’s first daughter was born in 1979. She met Phillip Lampman and they were married in a double wedding with Tracy and Norma Lampman on June 14, 1981. Phillip and Hazel were blessed with four more children.

She had a passion for hard work and as a result had several jobs which included helping build the Women’s Prison and the overpass in Lusk, Wyoming working for CCI out of Torrington.

Hazel, moved with her family to Rock Springs in 1989 for Phillip’s job with CCI back filling the old mines under the old part of town. One of her other jobs was pit construction where she learned how to operate a twin engine scraper and paddle scraper. In 1990, she became disabled due to a severe back injury.

She moved back to Torrington in 1997. Not long after that Hazel divorced Phillip Lampman. She met Randy Kanzler and married him on June 2, 1999. Even though they didn’t have children of their own, he welcomed hers with open arms. They moved to Powell to be closer to her sister, Linda Martin. While in Powell, they became grandparents to seven grand children.

Hazel is survived by her husband, Randy Kanzler; her five children, April and Gary Eccker of Rock Springs, Sugar and Brian Price of Springfield, MO, Cecilia Ibanez of Bryon., Kimberly and Roosevelt Parish of Kingston, GA and Levi Lampman of Torrington. She is survived by three sisters; Linda (Grant) Martin of Powell, Alice (Dennis) Heilburn of Torringrton, and Mary Lampman of Sterling CO. She is also survived by seven grandchildren: Tyler Iceis Pendley, Zain Younas, Isable Grace Warfield, Allen Parish, Lane Dean Lampman, Phillip Eccker, Rosemary Eccker.

Hazel was preceded in death by her parents, Jim and Neva Warner; her brother Harry C Warner; and other loved ones-Aunt Reva and Uncle Skip Houston; mother-in-law, Donna Johnson; her great niece, Catiebug, Ronnie Lampman; Dede and Eddie Lampman, Dylan Warfield, and Clyde and Pat Trout.

Cremation has taken place and a Celebration of Life will be held July 18, 2026.