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Gayla O`Rourke Molatch
Apr 20, 2012
Gayla O'Rourke Molatch died Friday, April 20, 2012 at her Powell home. She was 62. Gayla was born Dec. 11, 1949 in Hayden, Colo., to Freda Gertrude Newell and Lester Leroy Haney. She married Walt Molatch on Aug. 9, 1989 in Buffalo, Wyo. She was preceded in death by both parents. She is survived by her husband Walt Molatch of...
John Bell Hildreth
Apr 17, 2012
John Bell Hildreth, 88, passed away April 17. 2012 at his home near Heart Mountain, Powell, WY At his request cremation has taken place and no services are planned at this time.
Mary Jane Swenson
Apr 11, 2012
Mary “Jane†Swenson passed away on Wednesday, April 11 at St. John’s Lutheran Home in Billings, Montana with family by her side. She was 86 years old. Jane was born on May 10, 1925 to Howard and Adeline Terry in Billings, Montana. She attended school in Billings and graduated from Senior High in 1943. During that time Jane met her...
Pedro Saldana Flores
Apr 7, 2012
Pedro (Pete) Saldana Prado Flores 81 years old son of Pioquento Prado Flores and Enriqueta Medina Saldana. Born in Loma Vista Texas January 31st 1931, passed away April 7th 2012 at Powell Wyoming Express Care. He was resident of Powell Wyoming for 33 years. Pete was an honest man, who worked very hard for every thing he had. He was...
Florene Wanda Martin
Apr 4, 2012
Florene W. Martin of Powell died Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at the New Horizons Care Center in Lovell. She was 89. Florene was born March 16, 1923, in Atoka, Okla., to Bud E. and Eva (Brewster) Cochran. She attended beauty school in San Diego, Calif. On Nov. 14, 1954, she married Forrest B. Martin in Yuma, Ariz., and the couple...
Barbara Hansen
Apr 3, 2012
Barbara Plumb Hansen died Tuesday April 3, 2012 at the Powell Valley Hospital, at the age of 88, surrounded by her family. She was born November 24, 1923 in Greeley, Colorado to Charles and Isabella (Huffsmith) Plumb. She attended Colorado State College of Education in Greeley. She moved to Powell with her sister, Fran, and was a valued employee at the First National...
Chauncey Lee McMillan
Apr 2, 2012
Lifelong Powell resident Chauncey Lee McMillan died Monday, April 2, 2012 at his home. He was 79. He was born in Geyser, Mont., on June 9, 1932, the only child of Louis A. “Mac†and Helen Marie Eschler McMillan. He graduated from Powell High School and attended Northwest Community College and married Sylvia J. Franklin in Billings on Jan. 31,...
Martha Leora Brandon
Mar 28, 2012
Martha Leora Brandon died in Rexbug, Idaho, on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. She was 85. Martha was born in New Brighton, Beaver, Pa. on Feb. 26, 1927 to Fred Forrest Smith and Hilda (Markle) Smith. She married William H. Brandon on May 2, 1953, in Casper. Martha worked for many years as a Medical Lab Technician in Casper. She moved...
Jacqueline Lee Pollard
Mar 27, 2012
Jacqueline Lee Pollard, 76, of Greybull, passed away March 27, 2012 at her home. She was born April 19, 1935 in Greybull Wyoming to Charles “Bunk†and Ruby Frieling Rimer. Jackie grew up in Greybull and graduated High School there. On September 12, 1965 she married George W Pollard in Greybull, they later moved to Kemmerer. In her early years...
Arthur H Barker
Mar 20, 2012
Arthur Hill Baker died Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at Powell Valley Hospital. He was 80. Arthur was born Jan. 22, 1932 in Redman, N.Y., to Florence Virginia Ouzts and William Elmer Barker, Sr. Arthur and Marian Gray McKittrick were married July 11, 1953 in Mountville, S.C. Arthur served in the U.S. Navy, and from 1963 to 1995 he was a...
Verlan George Holbert
Mar 17, 2012
Ben Holbert of Powell died of natural causes on Saturday, March 17, at Powell Valley Healthcare. He was 95 years old. He was born Feb. 7, 1917, in Neilsville, Wis., to John and Stella (Heller) Holbert. He married Willie Mae Harper in Hardin, Mont., and they spent their honeymoon at the first annual Sturgis, S.D., motorcycle rally 72 years ago...
Loise M Moore
Mar 16, 2012
Loise M. Moore of Medford, Ore., died Friday, March 16, 2012. She was 92. Loise was born April 29, 1919 in La Harpe, Kan., to Minnie Marvel Parkhurst and Clarence Chester Pollet. She was educated in Kansas, and in 1938 she married Kenneth Crumrine. They later divorced. She married Logan W. "Bill" Moore in 1957. Loise worked for JC Penney...
Mark Perkins
Mar 14, 2012
Mark “Kid†Perkins, 56, a longtime resident of Powell, died unexpectedly but peacefully on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. At the time of his passing, he had been 19 years old for more than 37 years. He was ugly and his mother dressed him funny. Mark was born Oct. 20, 1955, in Amsterdam, N.Y. His parents were Jo Anne and Bernard...
Byrul Darwin Franklin
Mar 13, 2012
Darwin Franklin died on March 13, 2012 at Powell Valley Healthcare. He was 90 years old. Darwin was born on November 16, 1921 on the family farm east of Garland to Blanche (Atchison) and Byrul Franklin. He was the 5th child in a family of 5 sons and 1 daughter. He especially enjoyed participating in football and FFA in high...
Evelyn C Carlsen
Mar 8, 2012
Evelyn Catherine Boysen Carlsen Evelyn Catherine (Boysen) Carlsen passed away at home Thursday, March 8, 2012 in the company of her family. She was born June 17, 1926 in Libertyville, IL, to Eda Mathilda (Schreck) and Henry Hans Boysen. On January 10, 1948, she married Robert Theodore Carlsen in Libertyville, IL. They made their home in Mundelein, IL. Evelyn and Bob were...
Jewell "Jake" Jacobs
Mar 7, 2012
Jake passed away peacefully early March 7, 2012 at the Powell Valley Healthcare Center. Jewell Harris Jacobs was born January 9, 1918 in Daykin, Nebraska to Harrison(Harry) and Harriet (Fogg) Jacobs, the second of seven children. He attended school in Western, Nebraska graduating from high school in 1935. In 1936 on his way to Idaho he traveled to Powell, stopping to visit...
Violet Ruth Brittain
Feb 29, 2012
Violet Ruth Dalton Brittain died Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. She had been diagnosed with hydrocephalus in January of this year. She was 87. Violet was born Sept. 8, 1924 in Jenny Lind, Ark., to Ruth and Emery Dalton. Violet met the love of her life, Raymond Brittain, at Narbonne High School in Lomita, Calif. They were married Sept. 12, 1942...
Helen L Decker
Feb 17, 2012
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Friday, February 24 at Thompson Funeral Home for Helen Louise Phillips Decker, who died at age 97 on Friday, February 17 at her home in Powell with family by her side. Helen was born in Columbia City, Indiana, December 21, 1914. She was the second of five children born to Homer L. and Effa Jones Phillips. She...
Betty S Brandt
Feb 10, 2012
Betty S. Brandt, 91, died Friday, February 10, at the Rocky Mountain Manor. She was born August 28, 1920 in Powell, Nebraska to Benjamin and Fern (Helvey) Steele, sixth of twelve children. She attended school thru Seventh grade in Nebraska when she moved to Powell, WY at age 14, living with her sister Opal (Walt) Buchli. She forged her age obtaining a...
Constance (Connie) June Kovach
Feb 9, 2012
Memorial services for long time nurse at the Powell Hospital Constance (Connie) June Marie Kovach, 78, who died at Riverstone Hospice in Billings on February 9, 2012 will be held Wednesday, February 15 at 10:45 a.m. at the Nelson Auditorium on the Northwest College Campus in Powell. A reception will follow at the DeWitt Student Center on Campus. Â She...
