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Guadalupe Cortez
Nov 13, 2013
Guadalupe Cortez, 71, passed away November 13, 2013 at the Billings Clinic. Funeral Mass Services will be held Monday November 18, 2013 at the St. Barbara’s Catholic Church 115 E 3rd St. at 10:00am Vigil Services will be Sunday evening at 6:00 pm also at the Church Viewing will be one hour prior to services Sunday and Monday. Burial will...
William W Zane
Nov 12, 2013
William Walace Zane died Nov. 12, 2013, at Powell Valley Hospital. He was 86. He was born in Basin on Sept. 5, 1927, to John Parker Zane and Nance Winford Brown. He graduated from Basin High School in 1948. William married his high school sweetheart, Frances Minnie Ruhl, in Billings that October. The couple lived in Greybull until 1950, when...
Mary Elizabeth Bever
Nov 11, 2013
Mary Elizabeth Floan Bever passed away November, 11 at the Powell Care Center. She was 96. Mary was born in Gardiner, Montana, on June 15, 1917, the first of 4 children to Al and Eunice Floan. Her family moved to Powell in 1928. She gradutedfrom Powell High School in 1935, where she met her future husband Jim Bever. They married...
Eugene Lee VanDyke
Nov 9, 2013
Eugene (Gene) Lee VanDyke, 76, of Powell, WY passed away peacefully on November 9, 2013 in Billings, MT in his daughter's home surrounded by family. Gene was born to Pearl Dull on September 25th, 1937. Pearl later met and married the only father Gene knew, Fred Gragert. At age 3, Gene had a bout with Polio from which he recovered....
Anna Francis Nelson
Nov 6, 2013
Anna Francis (Muir) Nelson quietly passed away November 6, 2013, in Cheyenne, WY. She was born February 3, 1920, in Mentor, Kansas, to Joseph A. and Gladys (Stephenson) Muir. She had two brothers, Joseph C. Muir and Eugene Muir, who preceded her in death, along with her parents. Anna attended elementary school in Mentor and high school at Smalan, KS, where she graduated...
Darrel Lee Blevins
Nov 6, 2013
Darrel Lee Blevins passed away in Powell, WY on November 6, 2013 after a courageous battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis. Darrel was born in Powell, WY on September 18, 1942. After graduating from high school in Helena, MT, he began college at Northwest Community College in 1961 before marrying Janet Kaye Cavalli on August 5, 1962. Darrel and Janet met when they were 15-years...
Barbara A Satterlee
Oct 30, 2013
Barbara Ann Satterlee, 79, died Wednesday, October 30, at the Crest Nursing Home in Butte, MT. Barbara was born July 15, 1934 in Lamont Iowa to Edward and Beulah (Cole) Belzer. Barbara was the oldest of three girls, Barbara, Bonnie and Beverly. She attended school in Independence, IA and graduated in 1952. In 1956 she also became older sister to Jody...
Gale Dean Kindred
Oct 12, 2013
Gale Dean Kindred, born November 13, 1927 passed away peacefully on October 12, 2013 at the age of 85. Gale was born to Fred and Alice Kindred in Watertown, South Dakota. He graduated from high school in Lake City, Iowa in 1946. Gale met the love of his life, Joan Schliesman, at a rival football game in high school. They were married in St....
Robert Edward Morrison
Oct 6, 2013
Robert E. (Nelson) Morrison, 62, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, October 6, 2013. Bob was born February 13, 1951 in Powell to Thomas and Darlene (Cline) Nelson. Thomas passed away in 1954 when Bob was just 3 years old. Later that year Darlene married Harold H. Morrison of Cody and Harold adopted Bob and older sister Rebecca. The family resided...
Lola Virginia Frank
Oct 5, 2013
Lola Virginia Caskey Frank died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, at Powell Valley Care Center. She was 100. Lola was born May 20, 1913, in Big Springs, Neb., to Daniel Earl and Alma Theressa Olson Caskey. She received her teaching degree at Hastings College in Nebraska and was a schoolteacher in a one-room school house in Nebraska for several years. Lola...
Bonnie Hiller
Oct 4, 2013
Bonnie Hiller, 95, a lover of angels and butterflies, peacefully earned her wings on October 4, 2013. Born, Bonnie B. Brown, on a farm near Garland, WY., September 11, 1918, she attended school through 7th grade at the Garland school. She continued her education in Powell and graduated with the Powell High School class of 1936 where she was valedictorian...
Glendon Maynard Kriese
Sep 23, 2013
Glendon Maynard Julius Kriese, 90, of Powell, died on September 23, 2013 at Powell Valley Healthcare. Glendon was born on July 9, 1923, in Britton, South Dakota to Herman and Jeannette (Nobles) Kriese. Glendon grew up in South Dakota and North Dakota, attending schools in Lake City, South Dakota and Ambrose, North Dakota. He attended college at Valley City State University...
Adam Black Christiansen
Sep 21, 2013
Adam Black Christiansen died Sept. 21, 2013, in Orem, Utah of an accidental drug overdose. He was 19. “We lost a hero and incredible young man, but heaven has received an outstanding warrior,†his family said. Adam was born Sept. 29, 1993, in Cody, to JoanE Black and Steven Aagard Christiansen. He then lived in Meeteetse and Burlington. From age...
Keith Bloom
Sep 20, 2013
Beloved Powell coach and athlete Keith Bloom died Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, in Powell. He was 86. He was born to Carl and Minnie Bloom in Powell on Sept. 4, 1927. Keith graduated from Powell High School in 1945, having earned 12 letters and all-state honors in football, basketball and track. After a stint in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he...
Leonard F Whitlock
Sep 17, 2013
Longtime Powell general contractor Leonard Frank Whitlock, 74, died Tuesday, Sept. 17, at Powell Valley Hospital. He based his contracting business out of Powell for 46 years and accomplished many building projects in the area. His company performed the 1993-1994 downtown beautification project that transformed Powell with a new streetscape that included retro lighting, trees, benches, bicycle racks and red...
Linda Kay Hoffmann
Sep 17, 2013
Linda Hoffmann of Powell died at her home on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. She was 66. She was born May 29, 1947, to Opal (Steele) and Walter Buchli in Powell. Linda grew up in Powell, attending local schools and Powell High School. Over the years, Linda lived in Wyoming, California and Colorado. She married Arthur Nelson on March 7, 1970,...
Nicholas James Kerwin
Sep 11, 2013
Nicholas J. Kerwin of Powell died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, at St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings. He was 62. Nick was born in Deadwood, S.D., on Feb. 28, 1951, to Ila and Martin William Kerwin. Following high school, he attended college and lived in Spearfish, S.D., and Casper. He married Patricia Ann Welborn on Jan. 3, 1976, in Casper, and...
Dorothy I Borud
Sep 6, 2013
Dorothy Imogene Oswald Kylander Borud Dorothy I. Kylander Borud, 93, died September 6, 2013, with her family by her side at West Park Hospital in Cody, Wyoming. She was born on November 10, 1919 in Hollenberg, Kansas to Fred and Nina (Hall) Oswald. She graduated from Hollenberg/Morrowville High School and then moved to Powell, Wyoming in 1937. She married Emil A....
Betty Ellen Reed
Sep 2, 2013
Betty Ellen Loberg Reed, 86, died September 2nd in Cheyenne, WY. She was born July 19th, 1927 in Minneapolis, MN to John and Alma (Larson) Loberg. She attended Minneapolis schools and graduated in 1945. In the summer of 1948, she worked at the General Store in Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park where she met Clarence Orville (Babe) Reed. They...
Raymond Teitsch
Aug 26, 2013
Raymond C. (Ray) Teitsch of Powell died Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, at St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings, Mont. He was 74. Ray was born Dec. 11, 1938, in Bremen, Ind., to Francis Wilcox and Raymond F. Teitsch. Ray would travel out west on his hunting trips and liked the area very much. He found work in Wyoming and eventually moved...
