Ruby May Cozzens

Ruby May (Sykes) Cozzens, Daughter, Wife, Mother (MOM), Grandmother, Great Grandmother and Friend Ruby passed away peacefully on November 30, 2025, at the Powell Hospital with family at her side.

Born on May 29, 1941, in Lovell, Wyoming to, Victor and Georgia Hogan Sykes Ruby grew up in Powell where during her youth she worked at the movie theater and Elephant Head Lodge.

A proud 1959 graduate of Powell High School, she married the love of her life Rex Cozzens, on June 2, 1959. They were able to share nearly 55 years of marriage together and they built a life full of love, laughter and family.

Ruby worked as substitute for the Powell schools until they moved to the Cozzens family farm in Deaver in 1973, where gardening was her great passion.

In 1983 they moved to Cowley, Wyoming where she remained until 2015 when she moved into the Rocky Mountain Manor in Powell. Known for her spirit and joy in simple pleasures like playing cards and bingo. She was a talented seamstress, gardener and painter. She took pride in crafting her husband's shirts and would then make quilts out of the leftover material. One of her other passions was daily crossword puzzles and jigsaw puzzles which there seemed to be a new one on the table every week

Ruby was preceded in death by her parents Victor and Georgia Sykes, Husband Rex Cozzens and brother Kenneth Sykes

She is survived by her sister Agnes of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, son Lewis Mark of Powell, Daughter-In-Law Leanne of Powell, 4 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and one on the way. When told that, she said, "I Love being a Great Grandmother”!

Funeral Services will be held on Monday December 8, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. at the

Thompson Funeral Home in Powell, Wyoming. Graveside service to follow at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Powell, Wyoming.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Rocky Mountain Manor in Powell, Wyoming