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A compilation of obituaries that appeared in the
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   Wyoming Tribune Eagle in the last month.
        March 22 - April 18, 2021

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                               Bernel Alcon                 Sherri L. Hamilton           (Catherine) Hamilton         Arturo Montoya,               Sally Jean
                                                                                         of Cheyenne; grandchil-
                               1941-2021                    1939-2021                    dren, Sherri, Craig, Gary,   Jr.                           (Carlson) Jenkins
                                                 Bernel                      Sherri      Bryan, Justin, Amber,        1947-2021                     1943-2021
                                               Alcon, age                  L. Hamil-     Jasmine, Kyle, Brittany,
                                                                                                                        Arturo Montoya, Jr.,                         Sal-
                                               79, passed                  ton, 81, of   Kevin, Jennifer, Cody,
                                                                                                                      73, passed away on                           ly Jean
                                               away                        Cheyenne      Ashley, David, Keira,
                                                                                                                      March 21, 2021. He was                       Carlson
                                               peacefully                  passed        Kelly and Mikel; 27
                                                                                                                      preceded by his parents,                     Jenkins,
                                               on Sunday,                  away          great-grandchildren and
                                                                                                                      Arturo and Mary Erlin-                       77, passed
                                               March                       peacefully    3 great-great-grandchil-
                                                                                                                      da Montoya; and sister                       away on
                                               21st, 2021                  with her      dren.
                                                                                                                      Esther Wanner. He is                         April 10,
                                               at Garden                   family at       She was preceded in        survived by his siblings,                    2021 in
                                               Square       her side on March 24,        death by her husband,        Joe Montoya and Pau-                         Cheyenne.
                               Memory Care of Greeley,      2021 at Granite Rehab        Col. Robert E. Hamil-        line (Fredrick) Hardy;                       She was
                               CO.                          and Wellness.                ton; daughter, Jeanell       and several nieces and        born June 8, 1943 to
                                  Graveside services are      She was born October       Allen; parents, George       nephews.                      Henry and Geraldine
                               scheduled for 11:00 am       3, 1939 in Laramie to        and Catherine Samuels;         Our beloved brother,        Carlson in Minneapolis,
                               April 24, 2021 at Mount      George and Catherine         and siblings, Pete Samu-     Arty, received his sum-       Minnesota.
                               Olivet Cemetery (801 E.      Samuels. She married         els, Robert Samuels and      mons, God called him            She is survived by her
                               Pershing Blvd. Cheyenne,     Robert E. Hamilton on        Catherine Vavruska.          home, and so he took his      son James C. and daugh-
                               WY) with a celebration of    September 5, 1959 in           Services will be Friday,   leave. The lamp that lit      ter Jacqueline Jenkins.
                               life to follow at Knights    Laramie. She was a           April 16, 2021 at 10:00      his room is out. It broke       Sally was preceded in
                               of Columbus (507 W. 28th     member of the Episco-        a.m. in the Lakeview         our hearts to lose you.       death by her loving hus-
                               St., Cheyenne, WY.)          pal Church and Top Dog       Chapel at Schrader, Ara-       We were abundantly          band James O. Jenkins,
                                  Please visit goesfu-      Vending Dart League.         gon and Jacoby Funeral       blessed to have you, Arty,    whom she married on
                               neralcare.com to share       She enjoyed ceramics and     Home. Condolences            in our lives. Our Lord’s      July 15, 1963, and her
                               memories and condolenc-      sang in musical groups.      may be offered at www.       perpetual light shines on
           Memory
            emoryy

                               es with her family.                                                                                                  parents.
                                                              She is survived by         schradercares.com.           you. Eternal rest is yours.     Sally loved animals,
                                                            her children, Renee                                       We will always remem-         watching and feeding
                                                            Ainsworth of Cheyenne,                                    ber, love, and miss you.      birds, gardening in the
                                                            Tracie Soller of Rock                                     Your brother, Joe, and        summer; and she adored
                               Dale Lee Gerzetich           Springs, Lynn Hamil-                                      sister, Pauline, and their    her family. Sally was a
                               1942-2021
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                                                            ton of Cheyenne, Misty                                    families.                     homemaker and stayed
                                                            (Michael) Anderson of                                       Cremation is under the      at home from the day she
                                               Dale Lee     Cheyenne, Kristy Bur-                                     care of Schrader, Ara-        was married.
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                                             Gerze-         dine (Craig Trott) of                                     gon and Jacoby Funeral          Funeral services are
                                             tich, 78, of   Cheyenne, Audra O’Con-                                    Home and condolences          scheduled for 10:00 a.m.
                                             Cheyenne,      nor of Cheyenne, David                                    may be offered at www.        Friday, April 16, 2021 at
                                             WY passed                                                                schradercares.com.            Cheyenne Memorial Gar-
                                             away on
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                                                                                                                                                    dens Cemetery. A Rosary
                                             March 27,
                                                                                                                                                    is scheduled for 6:00 pm
                                             2021 in
                                                                                                                                                    Thursday, April 15, 2021
                                             Cheyenne.
IN

                                                                                                                                                    at Wiederspahn Ra-
                                             He was
                                                                                                                                                    domsky Chapel. The Ro-
                                             born on
                                                                                                                                                    sary will be livestreamed
                                             August 1,
                                                                                                                                                    at www.wrcfuneral.com
                                             1942 at Ft.
                                                                                                                                                    beginning at 6 p.m.
                                             Warren
                                                                                                                                                      Donations may be
                                             US Army
                                                                                                                                                    made to Food For The
                               Hospital, Cheyenne, WY.
                                                                                                                                                    Poor and the Cheyenne
                               Services will be held
                                                                                                                                                    Animal Shelter.
                               on Saturday, April 10th
                               2021 at Wiederspahn-Ra-
                               domsky Chapel at 2pm.
      Sunday, April 25, 2021

                               A private urn burial
                               with Military honors was
                               held at FE WARREN Air
                               Force Base. Memorial
                               gifts can be made out to
                               the Cheyenne Animal
                               Shelter.
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Bennett Lee “Ben” Christopher                                 Chris was enthralled by                                      He was preceded in
                                                              the music from the 70s
                                                                                           Michael C. Burkey
                                                                                                                        death by his sister, Julie
Allen             Douglas Melko                               & 80s, but none more so      1965-2021                    Anne Burkey, grandpar-
1948-2021         1969-2021                                   than Pink Floyd. His love                     Michael     ents Dr. A.M. & (Marga-
                                                              and appreciation of their                   C. Burkey,    ret) Cox, and Mr. Lester
                 Bennett                         Christo-
                                                              music had a major impact                    55, for-      (Linda) Burkey of Chey-
               Lee “Ben”                       pher Doug-
                                                              on his life. He saw things                  merly of      enne, and his mother in
               Allen, 72, of                   las Melko
                                                              like combs and non-Pink                     Cheyenne,     law, Mrs. Rod (Ginger)
               Cheyenne,                       passed
                                                              Floyd shirts as optional                    died in a     Banks of Murray, Utah.
               Wyoming                         away on
                                                              in life.                                    motorcycle       Michael excelled in
               passed                          April 8th,
                                                                  His first and most                       accident on   computers and IT and
               away                            2021 at the
                                                              favorite job was working                    Sat., April   was employed for over
               Thursday                        age of 51 at
               morning,                                       at the Oklahoma City Zoo     10th, outside Salt Lake      20 years with a single
                                               St. Antho-
               March 25,                                      with his father, Ed Melko,   City, UT.                    company. His first love
                               ny Hospital in Oklahoma
2021 at Aspen Winds            City, OK. He is survived       and stepbrother, Scott.        Michael was born July      was his family. He was an
Assisted Living.               by his parents, Sherry         He also had a mechani-       18, 1965 in Cheyenne. He     involved father coaching
  Ben was born Decem-          L. Yundt and Edward            cal mind which led him                                    soccer and spending time
                                                                                           graduated from Chey-
ber 30, 1948 in Cheyenne,      M. Melko; his brothers,        to earn an Associates of                                  with many family activ-
                                                                                           enne Central HS in 1983.
a son of the late Orla and     Steve R. Melko and Tim         Arts in Lithography with                                  ities.
                                                                                             Michael is survived by
Furne (Vosler) Allen.          A. Melko; his stepsib-         a major focus in Offset                                      His next love was
                                                                                           his wife of over 30 yrs.,
  Ben worked as a              lings, Kim Bailey and          Printing. As printing                                     motorcycles, and more
                                                                                           Kellie (Evens) Burkey,
mechanic for F.E. War-         Scott Bailey; and many         technologies changed,                                     recently he had started a
                                                                                           son Christian, 23, and       successful photography
ren Air Force Base. He         aunts, uncles, cousins,        Chris became adept in re-
                                                              tail services employment     daughter Kayla, 19, all of   business. He lived in SLC
enjoyed volunteering for       nieces, and nephews.                                        So. Jordan, Utah.
Cheyenne Frontier Days             Chris was born on          and had a long, produc-                                   for nearly 40 years and
                                                              tive career working for        Michael was the son        has many colleagues and
and was a recipient of         July 10th, 1969 at the                                      of Barbara (Cox) Ross
                                                              7-Eleven and Walmart,                                     friends who will miss his

                                                                                                                                                     IN LOVING Memory
the CFD Volunteer of           West Point Military                                         of Cheyenne and Larry
the Year award. He will        Academy in West Point,         respectively. He had a                                    quick wit, compassion,
                                                              great deal of pride in       (Adair) Burkey of Chey-      and solid friendship. We
be remembered for his          NY. He was a kind,                                          enne. He is also survived
love of family and for his     gentle, and caring man         things being orderly and                                  thank them for their kind
                                                              accurate, with spot-on       by his grandmother Mrs.      remembrances.
animals.                       whose passions in life
                                                              inventories and perfectly    Lester (Linda) Burkey,          We are all stunned by
  Ben is survived by his       were both childlike and
                                                              faced shelves, his passion   Aunts Jennifer Merrill       his sudden loss.
loving wife, Fern Allen;       simple, which led to the
                                                              was present in everything    and Cindy McAffrey of           There will be a “Cel-
son, Travis Allen; step-       development of a wide
sons, Corey (Melissa)                                         he did.                      Cheyenne and his father-     ebration of Life” from
                               variety of hobbies and
Penny and Brady Pen-                                              Being very much an       in-law Mr. Rod Banks of      2-4pm on April 24th at
                               pastimes. As a child,
ny; brothers, Sam and          he found excitement in         80s kid and, having the      Murray Utah, as well as      the Jenkins-Soffe Funeral
Jay Allen; sister, Julie       LEGO, jigsaw puzzles,          interest and education       numerous cousins in the      Home in South Jordan,
Ruppert; and four grand-       books, and music. He           in mechanical systems,       Cheyenne, Las Vegas and      Utah. It will also be on-
children.                      developed an interest in       he fostered one of his       SLC area.                    line.
  He is preceded in death      drumming and joined            most passionate pursuits:
by his parents; a brother;     the high school band           collecting and restor-
and a sister.                  the moment he became           ing old pinball & arcade
  Memorial services will       eligible. He would have        machines. He was quite
be held later. Crema-          wanted you to know that        proud of achieving a high
tion is under the care of      his favorite color was red,    score in Pacman, hitting
Schrader, Aragon and           favorite food was pizza,       the 1,000,000-point mark.
Jacoby Funeral Home.           and favorite hairstyle was     In 2012, he helped found
  Condolences may be           ‘just plain messy’.            the DFW Pinball & Ar-
offered on-line at www.             As time moved on,         cade club which now has
schradercares.com              so did his passions. He        over 2,400 pinball and
                               left the drums behind          arcade enthusiasts.
                               in favor of a few new              In 2016, he moved
                               hobbies like collecting a      to Del City, OK, where
                               vast home movie library,       he spent his remaining
                               bowling, playing darts,        years helping care for
                               pool, video games, and         his mother Sherry Yundt,
                               of course, singing ka-         Aunt Rosetta Stroud, and
                               raoke! At an early age,        his cat Tiberius.
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4                            Geraldine Irene              friends and her dear                                       Amber (Anthony) Scott,       Everett D.
                                                           grand dogs.                   Ann Acosta
                                                                                                                      Vernon Shunn, Zack Rob-
                              “Geri” Dancliff                 She is survived by son,    1936-2021                    inson, Whitney (Kevin)       McCowan
                              1924-2021                    Randy Dancliff and wife
                                                           Jan, and daughter, Kathi
                                                                                                         Ann          Frank; 10 great-grand-       1938-2020
                                                Geral-                                                 Acosta         children and 2 great-                         Everett
                                                           Zubrod and husband,                         passed         great -grandchildren.
                                              dine Irene   Ken, all of Cheyenne;                                                                                  D. McCow-
                                              “Geri”                                                   away             Ann was preceded in                       an, 81, of
                                                           four grandchildren,                         March 19,
                                              Dancliff                                                                death by her parents;                       Cheyenne
                                                           Kabe (Laura) Zubrod of                      2021 with
                                              died April                                                              sisters; and son, Michael                   passed
                                                           Cypress, Texas; Mindi                       her hus-
                                              12, 2021.    (Kirk) Pryce of Welling-                                   Acosta.                                     away April
                                              She had                                                  band and         In lieu of flowers, we      5, 2020 at Cheyenne
                                                           ton, CO; Kody (Ruby)                        family by
                                              lived at     Zubrod of Cheyenne;                                        would like donations to go   Healthcare Center.
                                              Primrose                                   her side.                    to the Animal Shelter and      He was born December
                                                           and Rob (Amber) Dan-
                              Retirement Communi-                                           Ann was born in           St. Joseph’s Church Food     9, 1938 in Arlington, VA
                                                           cliff of Cheyenne. She
                              ty for 7 years and had                                     Berchtesgaden, Germa-        Pantry.                      to Everett and Mollie Mc-
                                                           is also survived by nine
                              recently moved to Sierra                                   ny on October 21st 1936.       Services will be 2:00      Cowan. He married Sue
                                                           great-grandchildren,
                              Hills Senior Living Com-                                   As a child she lived on      p.m. Saturday in the         Maddox on May 13, 1961
                                                           Jacob, Madeline, Nicho-
                              munity.                                                    her family farm. Later in    Lakeview Chapel at           in Arlington, VA. He
                                                           las, Syndi, Randy, Logan,
                                She was born March                                       life she moved to Amer-      Schrader, Aragon and         was a veteran of the US
                                                           Rosalie, Aubrey and
                              29, 1924 in Charles City,    Andrew; many nieces and       ica where she met her        Jacoby Funeral Home,         Army and Air Force and
                              Iowa to Etta and Wesley      nephews, and numerous         husband. She worked for      with interment in Olivet     later was in the insur-
                              Koehler. She was united      friends.                      LCSD #1 as a bus driver      Cemetery at a later date.    ance industry. He was a
                              in marriage to Robert           She was preceded in        for many years. She loved                                 member of Grace Church
                                                                                                                      Condolences may be
                              Dancliff at Clovis, New      death by her husband,         to play bingo and was a                                   of Nazarene.
                                                                                                                      offered at www.schrader-
                              Mexico in 1944 during        Robert Dancliff, par-         part of the Red Hat Soci-                                   He is survived by neph-
                                                                                                                      cares.com.
                              World War II. Later, they    ents, and 2 sisters and 5     ety. Family was the most                                  ews and nieces.
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                              resided in Nora Springs,     brothers.                     important to her. She will                                  He was preceded in
                              Iowa. She has lived in          Cremation has taken        be deeply miss by all who                                 death by his wife and
                              Cheyenne since 1975.         place and services will be    knew her.                                                 parents.
                                Geri worked in the         11:00 a.m. Friday, April         She is survived by her                                   Memorial Service will
                              Nora Springs Telephone       23, 2021 at First United      husband of over 50 years,                                 be Friday, April 9, 2021
                              Company, handled the         Methodist Church.             Mac Acosta; daughters,                                    in the Lakeview Chapel
                              bookkeeping for Bob’s           Services will also be      Cheril (Randy) Jewell,                                    at Schrader, Aragon and
                              Standard Service and         held at a later date in       Christine Brown (Ed                                       Jacoby Funeral Home.
                              worked for the Depart-       Nora Springs, Iowa where      German); grandchildren,                                   Interment of his urn has
                              ment of Social Services      Geri will be laid to rest     Monika (Brian) Lujan,                                     taken place in Beth El
                              in Iowa. In Cheyenne,        with her husband, Bob.                                                                  Cemetery.
                              she was an Avon lady and        Services are under the                                                                 Donations may be
                              worked for the Wyoming       care of Schrader, Ara-                                                                  given to the American
                              Medical Society, the         gon and Jacoby Funeral                                                                  Diabetes Association.
                              Wyoming Department of        Home and condolences                                                                      Condolences may be
                              Administration and Fiscal    may be offered at www.                                                                  offered at www.schrader-
                              Control and the Depart-      schradercares.com.                                                                      cares.com.
                              ment of Commerce retir-         Those who wish may
                              ing in 1993.                 contribute to the Chey-
                                She was a member of        enne Animal Shelter
                              the First United Method-     or Black Dog Animal
                              ist Church and a 50-year     Rescue.
                              member of the United            “The Universe is shak-
                              Methodist Women and          ing when Mothers leave
                              the American Legion          this world; for they estab-
                              Auxiliary. She volun-        lish the order of things
                              teered for Meals on          and keep everything in
     Sunday, April 25, 2021

                              Wheels, Laramie County       balance!” May her Mem-
                              Memorial Hospital, and       ory Be Eternal!
                              the Old West Museum. In
                              earlier years, she taught
                              Sunday school, was a
                              Brownie Scout leader and
                              a Cub Scout Den Mother.
                              She enjoyed flower gar-
                              dening, reading, sewing,
                              cooking, and baking. She
                              thoroughly enjoyed and
                              loved her family and
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Seth McGee                       Seth is preceded in        Elco Alonso De La             Malinda R.                    permeated everything
                               death by his mom, Ellen                                                                  they did in service to
1984-2021                      McGee.                       Cruz                          (Haaland) Allen               others. Dan has been
                   Seth          Seth is survived by his    1981-2021                     1948-2021                     waiting at the gates to
                 McGee, 36,    father, Michl McGee;                                                                     give a giant, warm hug to
                                                                             Elco                           Malinda
                 of Laramie,   thirteen brothers and                                                                    welcome his “Bear”.
                                                                           Alonso De                      was born
                 Wyoming       sisters, Scott (Kim), Todd                                                                  She is survived by her
                                                                           La Cruz,                       in Ames,
                 died on       (Dawn), Doug (Anne),                                                                     three children, Jason
                                                                           39, passed                     Iowa to
                 Monday,       Tom, Anne (Doug), Erin                                                                   Allen (Sacremento,CA),
                                                                           away                           Juel and
                 March         (Michael), Adam, Dana                                                                    Tammy (Jay) Fitch
                                                                           Wednes-                        Dorothy
                 22nd. Seth    (Patty), Katy, Matthew,                                                                  (Cheyenne, WY), and
                                                                           day, March                     Haaland
                 was in        Sara, Shannon (Gary),                                                                    Christina Allen (Bill-
                                                                           10, 2021 un-                   on April
the care of the wonder-        and Michl, along with                                                                    ings, MT). Her brother
                                                                           expectedly                     27th,1948.
ful staff at the Medical       many nieces and neph-                       and sur-                                     James (Raye) Haaland
                                                                                             She graduated from
Center of the Rockies          ews including his best       rounded by loved ones.                                      (Highpoint, NC) and two
                                                                                          Nevada High School in
and had family with him        friend, Nichole McGee           Alonso was born July                                     sisters, Martha Ahrens
                               Brommer.                                                   1966. Malinda obtained
when he passed.                                             14, 1981 in Cheyenne,         her nursing license in        (Boone, IA), and Julie
  Adopted by Mike and            In lieu of flowers, the     Wyoming to Lee Lane           Iowa, afterwards she          (Donn) Philips (Norwalk,
Ellen McGee at the age         family asks that you         Morales and Alonso De         worked at the Evangelical     IA), nine grandchildren,
of 2, Seth came home           make a donation to the       La Cruz.                      nursing home in Boone,        eleven great-grandchil-
from the Philippines on        Wyoming Children’s Soci-        Alonso loved to joke
                               ety in Seth’s name.                                        Iowa. In 1971, packed up      dren, several nieces, and
September 11, 1986. Seth                                    and laugh. Family was         all her belongings to find
                                 Services will be 1:00                                                                  nephews. Her family and
grew up in Cheyenne                                         most important to Alon-       adventure and her true
                               p.m. Sunday in the                                                                       friends will greatly miss
and was a graduate of                                       so and he would often         love in Wyoming. Malin-
                               Lakeview Chapel at                                                                       her.
Central High School,                                        spend his time laughing       da continued to work as a
                               Schrader, Aragon and                                                                       She was preceded in
class of 2003. Seth was a                                   with his family. Alonso       Nurse in Laramie for Dr.
student at the University      Jacoby Funeral Home                                                                      death by her parents and

                                                                                                                                                    IN LOVING Memory
                                                            had a troubled child-         Michael Comly for almost      her husband, Dan.
of Wyoming and a Lara-         with a reception to follow   hood and used that as
                               in the Schrader Recep-                                     25 years before she re-         A memorial will be held
mie resident since 2011.                                    his inspiration to have       tired to enjoy additional
Most people know Seth          tion Center. Services will                                                               at a later date.
                                                            a relationship with God       time serving at the VA for
thanks to his musical tal-     also be livestreamed and     and to share his love of
                               may be viewed at www.                                      her beloved veterans.
ent and dedication to the                                   God with his friends and
                               schradercares.com                                             Friends of Malinda and
many bands he played in.                                    family.                       her late husband, Dan,
Throughout his life, Seth                                      Alonso was preceded        share many stories of Ma-
had a natural talent for                                    in death by his mother,       linda’s love of cooking for
music and was known for                                     Lee Jane. He is survived      anyone who dropped by
his ability to pick up a                                    by his father, Elco; his      and Dan’s joy in helping
guitar and play just about                                  life partner, Renee; his      others. The couple had
any song you wanted.                                        children, Angelic, Xavier,    a deep faith in God that
  Seth was a loving and                                     Serenity, Isreal, Hector,
supportive son and broth-                                   Danny, Jr. and Jesus; his
er, a fun and caring uncle                                  sisters, Rachel, Erica,
and a friend to so many,                                    Anjelika; and several
                                                            cousins, nieces and neph-
                                                            ews.
                                                               A memorial service
                                                            will be held at a later
                                                            date. Cremation ser-
                                                            vice is under the care of
                                                            Schrader, Aragon and
                                                            Jacoby Funeral Home.
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6                            Fred E. Rosenberg
                              1940-2021
                                                             of Greeley, Tracy (Tim)
                                                             Severin of Loveland,
                                                             Tanya (Brandon) Stille of
                                                                                         Glenn Paul “Bud”
                                                                                         Gosbee
                                                                                                                       specialist at various local
                                                                                                                       automotive dealerships.
                                                                                                                       He was known as the
                                                                                                                                                     and running in demoli-
                                                                                                                                                     tion races. He remained
                                                                                                                                                     an adventurer all of his
                                               Fred E.       Loveland, Tamara (Dar-      1954-2021                     self-described “part’s
                                                                                                                       God” of Cheyenne and
                                                                                                                                                     life and there was never
                                                                                                                                                     a dull moment when Bud
                                             Rosen-          rel) Frank of Loveland
                                                                                                          Bud          even answered the phone       was around. His later life
                                             berg, 80, of    and Bryan Rosenberg of
                                                             Cheyenne; siblings, John                   (Glenn)        accordingly; demonstrat-      hobbies included rebuild-
                                             Cheyenne
                                                             Rosenberg of Pennsyl-                      Gosbee, a      ing his incredible sense of   ing classic Mopar muscle
                                             passed
                                                             vania, Frances Klimek                      longtime       humor and bravado. He         cars, fixing everything
                                             away
                                                             of Georgia and Ruth                        resident of    was absolutely fearless;      in the most unconven-
                                             March 31,
                                                             Naparsteck of New York;                    Cheyenne,      be it with a car, a mo-       tional way possible, and
                                             2021 in
                                                             eight grandchildren and                    Wyoming        torcycle, or his fists, and    making everyone laugh
                                             Cheyenne.
                                                             fourteen great-grandchil-                  passed         he never backed down          with his own big booming
                                               He was
                                             born June       dren.                                      away on        from either a fight or a       laugh. He was an amaz-
                                             2, 1940 in        He was preceded in        April 5th, 2021, at the age   challenge. On September       ing husband, father, son,
                                             Oil City,       death by his parents and    of 67.                        24th, 2002 he married his     uncle, and brother who
                                             PA to Fred      siblings, Patricia Steele     Bud is survived and         soul mate, Sharon Eskam       possessed a heart of pure
                                             and Wilda       and Rebecca Kerr.           missed by his wife, Sha-      in Las Vegas, Nevada          gold and who will be sin-
                                             Rosenberg.        Visitation will be        ron Eskam, and his sons       with his youngest son         cerely and sadly missed
                                             He mar-         Wednesday 10:00 a.m.-       Buddy (Glenn) Gosbee          perched on his shoulders      but never forgotten, by
                                             ried Patri-     12:30 p.m. in Schrader,     Jr., Jonathan Hampe,          during much of the cer-       everyone who was a part
                                             cia Shields     Aragon and Jacoby           Tucker Gosbee, and            emony because that was        of his life.
                                             on May          Funeral Home followed       Dylan Eskam Gosbee; his       the way Bud did things.          A celebration of his life
                                             11, 1962 in     graveside service at 1:00   mother Elizabeth Gosbee,      Bud always loved chil-        is scheduled for May 1st
                              Morganstown, WV. He            p.m. at Cheyenne Nation-    brothers Steve Gosbee         dren, and with his larger-    at 2:00 PM 60368 County
                              had retired from the US        al Cemetery with military   and Don Gosbee, and           than-life personality, they   Road 19, Mitchell Nebras-
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                              Air Force as a Master          honors.                     sister Donna Gosbee. He       always loved him back.        ka in the Gosbee tradition
                              Sergeant and also from           Condolences may be        adored his grandchildren;       Bud was a true original     of barbeque, beer, family,
                              the Larimer County Med-        offered to the family at    Wyoma Gosbee, Win-            who lived life unapolo-       friends, and reminiscing.
                              ical Examiner’s Office          www.schradercares.com.      ter Gosbee, and Wyatt         getically and on his own         For those unable to
                              in Loveland. He was a                                      Hampe. He was preceded        terms. Bud loved his fam-     attend in person a zoom
                              member of the Luther-                                      in death by his father        ily, classic Mopar cars,      link will be provided.
                              an Church and Masonic                                      David Gosbee, and his         Coors Original Banquet        Please contact a family
                              Lodge #622. He enjoyed                                     brother Pat Gosbee.           Beer, and “tinkering”.        member for the link and
                              hunting, fishing, guns,                                       Bud was born in Mo-         He could make anything        the passcode.
                              long range shooting and                                    bile, Alabama on January      work from an old car to a
                              Model RC aircraft.                                         26th, 1954 to David and       chicken-plucking ma-
                                He is survived by his                                    Elizabeth Gosbee and          chine. He was brilliant
                              wife, Patricia “Patt”; chil-                               graduated from Central        although he kept that
                              dren, Tina (Ed) Schultz                                    High School in Cheyenne,      hidden unless you knew
                                                                                         Wyoming. He attend-           him well, a problem-solv-
                                                                                         ed college at LCCC and        er who worked hard and
                                                                                         earned several comput-        played even harder. In
                                                                                         er certifications later        his younger days, he
                                                                                         becoming an auto parts        enjoyed racing stock cars
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7
Louise Maxine                 Cheyenne, where she           Kelly Ann (Klein)                                          of Ohio; grandchildren,
                              worked for the State of
                                                                                          Connie Jo
                                                                                                                       Devin, Andy, Shawn,
Skyles                        Wyoming as secretary          Klein-Johnson                 Gutierrez                    Tiffany, Caitlin, Colton,
1927-2021                     to the Secretary of State,
                              before retiring in 1987.
                                                            1963-2021                     1950-2021                    Ryan, Tori, and Stefani;
                  Louise                                                                                               great-grandchildren,
                                Over the years, Louise                       Kelly Ann                    Connie
                M. Skyles                                                                                              Kendra and Remington;
                              did volunteer work for                       Klein-John-                  Jo Gutier-
                died on                                                    son, 57, of                                 and many nieces and
                              several organizations,                                                    rez, 71, of
                March 20,                                                  Cheyenne,                                   nephews.
                              as well as being a Girl                                                   Cheyenne
                2021 at the                                                passed                                        Connie was preceded
                              Scout Leader. She was                                                     was called
                Balfour                                                    away on                                     in death by her hus-
                              a member of the Unit-                                                     home to
                Retirement                                                 March 25                                    band; parents; sister,
                              ed Methodist Church,                                                      be with
                Center                                                     after a long                                Jody Halverson; and
                              P.E.O. Chapter AJ, State                                                  the Lord
                Skilled                                                    fight with                                   great-grandchild, Marcus
                              Employees Retirement                                                      on April 4,
Nursing Facility, Lou-                                                     cancer, in                                  Montoya.
                              Group (SERG), two                                           2021.
isville, Colorado. The                                      her home surrounded by                                       A memorial service
                              bridge clubs, and en-                                         Connie was born Feb-
preceding seven years                                       her loving family.                                         will be held at the Caval-
                              joyed attending various                                     ruary 23, 1950 in Coshoc-
she had lived with her                                        Kelly was born in Sac-                                   ry Chapel Cheyenne on
                              concerts, shows and                                         ton, Ohio to Francis and
daughter and son-in-law                                     ramento, CA to Ray Klein                                   Thursday, April 8th at
                              Little Theatre plays at the                                 Geeneva (Kinney) Welk-
in Broomfield, Colorado.                                     and Linda Ewing on June                                    2:00 p.m.
                              Cheyenne Civic Center.                                      er. She married Andy A.
  She was born April 1,                                     14, 1963. She married                                        Cremation is under the
                              She also enjoyed trav-                                      Gutierrez on June 5, 1970
1927 in Mitchell, Nebras-                                   Greg Johnson on July 5,                                    care of Schrader, Ara-
                              elling with her husband                                     in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
ka, the daughter of Clark                                   2003 in Buffalo Wyo. She      Connie enjoyed crochet-      gon and Jacoby Funeral
                              and doing things with her     was a loving mother and                                    Home and condolences
R. Redfield and Marie          friends and family.                                         ing, Bible crossword puz-
Redfield (Roberts). She                                      grandmother. Kelly loved      zles, and baking. She will   may be offered at schrad-
                                Survivors includes two      camping, hunting, and                                      ercares.com.
lived in Scottsbluff Coun-    of her three children:                                      be remembered for all
ty, NE until 1942, when                                     fishing with her fami-         the cinnamon rolls that
                              Sandra L. (husband Tore)

                                                                                                                                                    IN LOVING Memory
her father was trans-                                       ly, she graduated from        she lovingly baked. She
                              Arnesen of Broomfield,         Sacramento City College
ferred to Evanston, WY        CO; Robert G. (wife Di-                                     enjoyed the company of
with the Union Pacific                                       with a bachelor’s degree      her family and her pets.
                              ana) Skyles, Windsor, CO;     in nursing, also was a
Railroad. Louise gradu-       and her daughter in law                                       She is survived by
                                                            dedicated quilter.
ated from Evanston high       Kathy Skyles, Fredericks-                                   children, Andy (Tam-
                                                              Kelly is preceded in
school in 1944, and then      burg, VA. Also surviving                                    my) Gutierrez and Pat
                                                            death by her father, Ray
attended the University       are three grandchildren                                     (Michele) Gutierrez,
                                                            and sister, Connie.
of Wyoming, where she         Valerie Webster (Dar-                                       both of Wyoming; sister,
                                                              Kelly is survived by
was a member of the CHI       ren); Robert R. Skyles                                      Crystal (Larry) Regal
                                                            her husband, Greg; sons,
OMEGA sorority, and           (Anne); and John L.           Ron, Ben, Gunner, Wyatt,
where she married her         Skyles; as well as eight      and Josh; grandchildren,
high school sweetheart        great-grandchildren.          Colton, Grayson, and Al-
Robert “Bob” Skyles.            She was proceeded in        exander; mother, Linda;
  After Bob graduated,        death by Robert M. Sky-       sisters, Tammy, Shelly,
they moved to Cheyenne.       les in 2006, her youngest     and Terrell.
In 1956 they moved to         son John S. Skyles in           She will be loved and
Lander, where they lived
for 21 years. During
                              2020, as well as her par-
                              ents, brothers and sisters.
                                                            missed by her entire
                                                            family.
                                                                                          Family Owned & Operated
this period, Louise was         Cremation has taken                                            2422 Seymour Ave, Cheyenne • 307-426-5518
a substitute teacher at       place and she will be bur-                                             www.LandmarkMonuments.com
local schools, and at the     ied beside her husband at
Wyoming State Training        the Evanston, Wyoming                                          Custom Monuments, Traditional Headstones,
School. In 1977 Louise        Cemetery.
and Bob moved back to                                                                       Benches, Bronze Markers, Private Mausoleums,
                                                                                                     Pet Stones, Engraved Signs,
                                                                                                 Cemetery Lettering and Sandblasting

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8                            Pedro Escobedo               Kathy (Kelly Townsend)                                                                  William M
                                                                                       Steven D.M. Lee               . While serving in Ko-
                                                           Escobedo of Brighton,
                              1927-2021                    CO; grandchildren, Mike,    1951-2021
                                                                                                                     rea he married his love,      McKellar
                                                                                                                     Youngsun. Steven was a
                                               Pedro       Andrew, Brandon, Ben,
                                                                                                        Steven       veteran of Desert Storm.      1950-2021
                                             “Pete”        Daniel, Emily, Jared,
                                                                                                      D.M. Lee       In 1998, after 24 years, he                     William
                                             Escobe-       Rachel, Austin, Brooke                                                                                 Mather
                                             do, 93, of                                               Sr. 69         retired while stationed at
                                                           and Aaron; eleven                                                                                      McKellar,
                                             Cheyenne      great-grandchildren; and                   passed         F.E. Warren in Cheyenne,
                                                                                                      away           Wyoming. In retirement                       “Wild Bill”,
                                             passed        siblings, Connie McCal-                                                                                age 70 of
                                             away          lister, Luce Anspauch,                     peacefully     he loved spending time
                                                                                                      at home        with his grandchildren,                      Steamboat
                                             March         Terry Lamm, Paula                                                                                      Springs,
                                             22, 2021      Sheperd and Manuel                         with family    fishing, and working in
                                                                                                                     his gardens.                                 Colorado,
                                             at the VA     Escobedo.                                  by his side
                                                                                                                                                                  passed
                                             Hospital in      He was preceded in                      on March          Steven was preceded
                                                                                                                                                                  away on
                                             Cheyenne.     death by his parents                       29, 2021.      in death by his parents.
                                                                                                                                                   Saturday, March 6, 2021
                                               He was      and siblings, Joe O’Day,                     Steven       He leaves behind his          surrounded by his loving
                                             born June     Eduarda Wiedenback-                        was born       wife Youngsun; children,      family and many of his
                                             29, 1927 in   er, Beatrice Velazquez,                    on May         Lisa (Tao), LeeAnne           close friends. He was
                              Cheyenne to Manuel and       Josie Escobedo, Frank                      2, 1951 in     (Josh), Sherman, Steven       born October 4, 1950 in
                              Guadalupe Escobedo. He       Escobedo and Benjamin                      Coates-        Jr.; grandchildren, Skye,     Dallas, Texas to Ed and
                              married Kay Gutierrez on     Escobedo.                                  ville, Penn-   Myles, Alexia, Tyler and      Alice McKellar. Bill grew
                              May 28, 1955 in Chey-           A funeral liturgy will                  sylvania to    Tydus.                        up in Beaumont, Texas
                              enne. He was a clerk         be 10:00 a.m. Friday at                    the parents      Service will be held        and Westport, Connecti-
                              for33 years of service       St. Mary’s Cathedral                       of Sherman     at 10:00 a.m., Monday,        cut graduating from
                              at the Post Office and a      with interment in Beth El                  E. Lee Sr .    April 5, 2021, in Wieder-     Staples HS in Westport,
                              member of St. Mary’s Ca-     Cemetery, with military                    and Sarah      spahn-Radomsky Chapel.        in 1969. He attended
IN LOVING Memory

                              thedral and the American     honors. A reception will                   Lee of Lin-                                  the University of Texas
                              Legion Post #6. He was       follow the interment in     coln Universit y, Pennsyl-                                  where he met his wife of
                              a WWII Veteran, having       the Schrader Reception                                                                  nearly 45 years, Michele
                                                                                       vania . Steven attended
                              served in the US Navy.,      Center.                                                                                 (King) McKellar. After a
                                                                                       college at Lincoln Uni-
                              then went on to service         Services are under the                                                               few years of living life to
                                                                                       versity. After college, he
                              in the US Air Force and      care of Schrader, Ara-                                                                  the fullest, Bill attended
                              Air Force Reserves. Pete                                 joined the United States
                                                           gon and Jacoby Funeral                                                                  the University of Wyo-
                              loved the great outdoors,                                Air Force in 1974. Service
                                                           Home and condolences                                                                    ming Law School, grad-
                              fishing, camping, hunt-                                   includes the Air Force
                                                           may be offered at www.                                                                  uating in 1982. At the
                              ing, being the camp cook                                 Academy and NORAD                                           time of his death, Bill had
                                                           schradercares.com.          at Cheyenne Mountain
                              and socializing at Jo-Ed’s                                                                                           been a licensed attorney
                              Produce.                                                                                                             in both Wyoming and
                                He is survived by his                                                                                              Colorado for 39 years.
                              wife, Kay Escobedo of                                                                                                   A celebration of Bill’s
                              Cheyenne; children,                                                                                                  life will be held this
                              Chuck Escobedo of                                                                                                    April 8th 2021 at the
                              Cheyenne, Peter (Shelly)                                                                                             Cheyenne Country Club
                              Escobedo of Tempe, AZ,                                                                                               from 4-6pm. Please visit
                              Ron (Kathy) Escobedo                                                                                                 https://www.yampaval-
                              of Cheyenne; Lori (Chip)                                                                                             leyfh.com/obituary/
                              Galles of Cheyenne and                                                                                               william-bill-mckellar to
                                                                                                                                                   view the full obituary.
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Kenneth Grant
Schoene
1932-2021
                             swimming, music and
                             singing concerts, and
                             other school functions,
                             enjoyed travels to Swit-
                                                           Malcolm Emerson
                                                           Campbell
                                                           1937-2021
                                                                                         He participated in cook-
                                                                                         ing classes and Ida’s yoga
                                                                                         classes, attended baseball
                                                                                         games, went on fishing
                                                                                                                        Dorothy Ann
                                                                                                                        Miller
                                                                                                                        1953-2021
                                                                                                                                                     9
                             zerland, Canada, and                                        trips, and other activities.
                  Kenneth                                                    Malcolm                                                    Dorothy
                             throughout the Unit-                                        The Senior Citizens Cen-                     Ann (Dot-
                Grant                                                      Emerson
                             ed States, and a proud                                      ter was instrumental in                      tie) 67 of
                Schoene,                                                   Campbell,
                             member of the American                                      the quality of his senior                    Cheyenne,
                88 of                                                      83, passed
                             Legion for 30 years. Sur-                                   years.                                       died March
                Cheyenne,                                                  away on
                             vivors include his wife of                                    Malcolm is survived                        25th at
                WY passed                                                  March 15,
                             63 years, Lois Schoene,                                     by his children Sharon                       Colorado
                away                                                       2021. He
                             sons; Walter (Anna) and                                     (Doug) Campbell-Jensen,                      University
                March 24,                                                  was born
                             Gary (Lori) Schoene, 5                                      Stephen (Joy) and Jack                       Hospital af-
                2021. Born                                                 August 5,
                             grandchildren; Megan,                                       (Beverly) Campbell, and                      ter a short
                to Elmer                                   1937 in Glenrock, WY
                             Hunter, Skylar (Jazzy),                                     Lea (Lyle) Delay; grand-       battle with cancer. She
                and Letha                                  to George and Minnie
                             Ryann, and Grant, 4                                         sons Kellan, Cody, Lanny,      was born on September 1,
                Schoene in                                 (Sarvey) Campbell. He
                             great-grandchildren:                                        Casey, Theodore, Jason,        1953 and raised in Lara-
                Burns, WY                                  attended schools in Glen-
                             Hailee, Justine, Wayne,                                     Jessie, Christopher, and       mie. Shortly after grad-
                August 2,                                  rock and Custer, SD.
                             Evelyn, and a twin                                          Cody; 15 great-grand-          uating high school she
                1932, he                                      Malcolm lived and
                             brother Keith (Jeannie)                                     children; sisters Mary         moved to Cheyenne and
graduated from Egbert                                      worked in Wyoming and
                             Schoene of Burns. Pre-                                      Havenman and Margaret          married Johnny Miller.
HS in 1950, marrying                                       South Dakota. He was
                             ceded in death are his                                      (George) McClellan; and        She worked for Laramie
Lois Whited on Septem-                                     employed in the mining
                             parents, and sisters; Vir-                                  friend Arlyn Newman.           County School District#1
ber 22, 1957. He served                                    and mineral industries in-
                             ginia Schoene and Ruth                                        He was preceded in           in the Cafeteria. She is
in the Army from 1953-                                     dependently and worked
                             Schroll. Visitation is Sat-                                 death by his parents,          survived by her daugh-
1955 in Salzburg, Austria                                  for mining and milling
                             urday from 9am to 4pm                                                                      ter; Penny Miller and
with the 640th field                                        companies. He operat-         brothers William, George,

                                                                                                                                                     IN LOVING Memory
                             with services Monday at                                                                    granddaughter; Nikki of
maintenance company. In                                    ed a tourist business in      Jr, and Edward Camp-
                             Wiederspahn-Radomsky                                                                       Cheyenne, brothers; John
1991 they had a reunion                                    Keystone, South Dakota        bell, and grandson Kyle
                             Chapel at 10am. Burial                                                                     (Deb) Sopr of Cheyenne,
in California, with many                                   for seven years. Malcolm      Campbell.
                             at Cheyenne Memorial                                                                       Robert (Emma) Sopr
more extending east and                                    enjoyed gardening, fish-         Services are scheduled
                             Gardens.                                                                                   of Laramie and a sister
west coasts until 2010.                                    ing, hunting, woodwork-       for Thursday, March
Kenneth was employed                                                                     25, 2021 at 2:00 pm at         Mary Hartgrave of North
                                                           ing, cooking, and rock
by Wortham Machine                                                                                                      Platte, NE. She was
                                                           and mineral prospecting       Wiederspahn-Radomsky
                                                                                                                        preceded in death by her
Company (Caterpillar)                                      in the Rocky Mountain         Chapel. Interment will
                                                                                                                        husband; Johnny Miller,
from 1955-1969, which                                      Region. He loved listen-      be at Lakeview Cemetery
                                                                                                                        daughter; Paula Miller,
changed to Wyoming                                         ing to other people’s life    in Cheyenne immediately        parents; John and Hazel
Machinery Company,                                         stories.                      following the service.         Sopr and a brother; Rich-
retiring after 25 years.                                      His life defined the type     In lieu of flowers,           ard Sopr. Cremation has
He loved his grandchil-                                    of person he was, incred-     donations can be made to       taken place. A memorial
dren and watching them                                     ibly strong with a beau-      Laramie County Senior          service will be held at a
participate in baseball,                                   tiful spirit and smile to     Citizens. The service will     later date.
                                                           match. He had the most        be live streamed at www.
                                                           delightful, offbeat sense     wrcfuneral.com.
                                                           of humor and you never
                                                           knew what he was going
                                                           to say next; just that it
                                                           was always something
                                                           that would have everyone
                                                           laughing and possibly
                                                           scratching their heads.
                                                              He was deeply grateful
                                                           for the senior programs
                                                           available in Cheyenne.
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10                            Joyce L Dailey
                              1946-2021
                                                Joyce
                                                              Joyce is survived by
                                                            her husband, Bernie
                                                            Dailey; children, Bob
                                                            (Shannan) Dailey of
                                                                                          Marilyn J. Everitt
                                                                                          1940-2021
                                                                                                           Marilyn
                                                                                                                       Ivan B. Flanary
                                                                                                                       1933-2021
                                                                                                                                        Ivan B.
                                                                                                                                                    Sheila I. Lutz
                                                                                                                                                    1961-2021
                                                                                                                                                                   Sheila I.
                                              Lynn Dai-     Cheyenne, Becky (Brady)                     J. Ever-                      Flanary,                   Lutz, 59, of
                                              ley, 74, of   Morris of Gillette, and                     itt, 81, of                   87, passed                 Cheyenne
                                              Cheyenne      Bill Dailey of Cheyenne;                    Cheyenne                      away                       passed
                                              passed        siblings, Gene (Donna)                      passed                        March 16,                  away
                                              away April    Noel of Martin, South Da-                   away                          2021 in                    March 28,
                                              5, 2021       kota, and Elaine Noel of                    March 29,                     Gilbert,                   2021 at the
                                              surrounded    Cheyenne; grandchildren,                    2021 in                       Arizona.                   Cheyenne
                                              by family.    Grace and Ava; and many                     Cheyenne.                       He was                   Regional
                                Joyce was born Decem-       nieces and nephews.                            She was                    born June                  Medical
                              ber 23, 1946 in Pampa,          Joyce was preceded in                     born Janu-                    5, 1933 in    Center.
                              Texas to Earl and Elea-       death by her parents.                       ary 5, 1940                   the Moun-       Sheila was born Sep-
                              nor (Reese) Noel. She           A visitation will be held                 in Nash-                      tains of      tember 21, 1961 in Gree-
                              married Bernie Dailey         at Lakeview Chapel at                       ville, GA                     Kingsport,    ley, Colorado to Wayne
                              on November 6, 1976 at        Schrader, Aragon and                        to Ralph                      Tennessee.    and Lois (Rice) Lutz.
                              St. Mary’s Cathedral in                                     and Ora Sizemore. She        He joined the US Air         Sheila earned a Master’s
                                                            Jacoby Funeral Home
                              Cheyenne. Growing up,                                       married LeRoy Everitt        Force at 16 years old. He    degree and worked as
                                                            Thursday, April 8th, at
                              Joyce enjoyed raising an-                                   on August 4, 1963 in         served in Vietnam and        an accountant for many
                                                            4:00 p.m. A Vigil for the
                              imals for 4H on the small                                   Japan and was a teacher.     retired in 1972. After       years.
                                                            Deceased will be held
                              farm in Carpenter with                                      She is a member of Grace     retirement, he worked          Sheila is survived by
                                                            at Lakeview Chapel at                                                                   her brothers, Geoffrey
                              her brother and sister.                                     United Methodist Church      as a civilian contractor
                                                            Schrader, Aragon and                                                                    (Tammy) Lutz of Colora-
                              She would help her broth-                                   and the United Methodist     retiring again in 1998.
                                                            Jacoby Funeral Home                                        He enjoyed fishing and        do and Gregory (Cathi)
                              er on his farm, driving                                     Women.
                                                            Thursday, April 8th, at         She is survived by her     gardening.                   Lutz of Cheyenne and
IN LOVING Memory

                              the tractor even after she    7:00 p.m. Funeral Litur-
                              was married and had kids                                    husband, LeRoy Everitt;        He is survived by his      many nieces and neph-
                                                            gy will be held Friday,       son, Lee (Kirsten) Everitt   wife, Catherine; children,   ews.
                              of her own. Joyce worked      April 9th at 1:00 p.m. at
                              for the State of Wyoming                                    of Orlando, FL; siblings,    Kay, Patricia, Donald,         She was preceded in
                                                            St. Mary’s Cathedral,         Pat Foster of Atlanta, GA,   Michael, Ivan II, Gordon     death by her parents.
                              in Medical Claims for
                                                            with interment to fol-        Ted Sizemore and Glen        Dale and Josh; over 20         Private family service
                              Medicaid and Workers
                                                            low at Olivet Cemetery.       Sizemore of Ocilla, GA;      grandchildren and over       will be held at a later
                              Comp. But, the job Joyce
                                                            Reception to follow at        and two grandchildren.       20 great-grandchildren.      date.
                              was the proudest of was
                                                            the Schrader Reception          She was preceded in          He was preceded              Condolences may be
                              the 19 years she spent be-
                                                            Center.                       death by her parents.        in death by his sister,      offered at schradercares.
                              ing a stay-at-home mom.
                                Joyce was a wonder-           In lieu of flowers,            Visitation will be Fri-    Margaret; and sons, Carl,    com.
                              ful mother and wife.          donations may be made         day 3:00-7:00 p.m. in the    Floyd, Ed and Mark.
                              She was very involved         in Joyce’s name to Davis      Schrader, Aragon and           Services will be Sat-
                              with her kids, from PTA       Hospice Center.               Jacoby Funeral Home.         urday, April 24, 2021 in
                              and school activities           Services are under the      Funeral Services will        the Lakeview Chapel at
                              and thousands of soccer       care of Schrader, Ara-        be Monday 10:00 a.m. at      Schrader, Aragon and
                              games and practices, she      gon and Jacoby Funeral        Grace United Methodist       Jacoby Funeral Home,
                              was always there. She         Home and condolences          Church with interment to     with a reception to follow
                              loved her granddaugh-         may be offered at schrad-     follow in Mountain View      in the Schrader Recep-
                              ters and loved playing        ercares.com.                  Memorial Park.               tion Center. Interment of
                              with them and she was                                         Those who wish may         his urn will be in Moun-
                              a great snuggler. The                                       contribute to the Shri-      tain View Memorial Park.
                              girls loved taking naps                                     ner’s Hospital for Chil-       Condolences may be
                              with grandma. She was                                       dren.                        offered to the family at
                              a wonderful baker and                                         Services are under the     http://www.schrader-
                              her carrot cake was well                                    care of Schrader, Ara-       cares.com.
                              known. She always stayed                                    gon and Jacoby Funeral
                                                                                          Home and condolences
     Sunday, April 25, 2021

                              positive throughout her
                                                                                          may be offered at www.
                              battle with M.S. and her
                                                                                          schradercares.com.
                              patience was amazing.
11
Codie “Kilee”               Elsie V. Trujillo            Sandoval, Christopher        Rhodolph Leslie              Kaylee Marie
                                                         Trujillo, Marissa Hernan-    Esmay
Smith                       1931-2021                    dez, Salina Hernandez,
                                                                                                                   Fitch
1990-2021                                   Elsie        Cory Randall, Joseph Lu-     1945-2021                    2021-2021
                 Codie                    V. Trujil-     cero, and Jackson Lucero                       Scotts-                     Kaylee
               “Kilee”                    lo, 89, of     of Cheyenne; brother Eu-                    dale- Rh-                    Marie Fitch
               Smith,                     Cheyenne       gene (Tina) Vigil ; and a                   odolph Les-                  of Chey-
               30, of                     passed         sister, Mary Lou Lucero.                    lie Esmay                    enne was
               Cheyenne                   away at           She was preceded in                      Jr,75, of                    born March
               passed                     home           death by her husband,                       Scottsdale                   27, 2021 at
               away                       March 29,      Greg Trujillo; son, Joseph                  passed                       3:17 a.m.
               March 22,                  2021 in        “Joey” Trujillo; son-in-                    away on                      and passed
               2021 in      Cheyenne.                    law, Jerold “Jerry” Vigil                   April 2,                     away at
               Cheyenne.      She was born Septem-       and several siblings.                       2021.                        4:25 a.m.
  She was born August       ber 16, 1931 in Ledoux,         In lieu of flowers,                       Rhody         at Cheyenne Regional
13, 1990 in La Junta, CO.   NM. Cheyenne has been        please make donations                       was born      Medical Center.
She was a loving moth-      her home after marrying      to St. Joseph’s Catholic                    October         She was born to Joshua
er to Kyler and TJ and      Gregorio Trujillo on No-     Church.                                     23, 1945 in   and Amy Fitch and as a
a diesel mechanic. She      vember 1, 1946 in Mora,         A Funeral Liturgy will                   Cheyenne,     family belong to Family
loved camping and work-     NM. She loved cooking;       be Tuesday 10:30 a.m.        WY. Rhody is survived        Harvest Church.
ing on trucks.              not only professionally,     at St. Joseph’s Catho-       by his brother, Dr. John       She is survived by
  She is survived by her    but for her family. She      lic Church. Masks are        Esmay of Cheyenne,           parents, Joshua and Amy
father, Dean Smith of       owned and operated           required. A reception        WY, wife of 47 years,        Fitch; sisters, Avalynn,
Lamar, CO; mother Jen-      Elsie’s Café for many        will not be held due to      Sandra of Scottsdale and     Janice, Madison and
nifer Haskell of Tulsa,     years; retiring with the     COVID.                       his son John of Denver,      Jorie; grandparents,
OK; step-father, John       Veteran’s Administration        Condolences may be        Co. Rhody was graduate       Dale and Sandy Price of
                                                         offered at www.schrader-     of ASU and a US Army

                                                                                                                                                 IN LOVING Memory
Burchett of Cheyenne;       in 1982.                                                                               Cheyenne and John Fitch
grand-parents, Opal Reed      She is survived by her     cares.com.                   veteran and served with      of Cheyenne; numerous
of Wichita, KS, Eugene      daughter, Irene Vigil;                                    the 2nd Armored Di-          aunts, uncles and cous-
Smith of Kingman, KS        grandchildren, Anissa                                     vision in Germany. He        ins.
and Richard Haskell of      (Cory) Martinez, Natalie                                  was employed by Pon-           Kaylee was preceded
Newalla, OK; siblings,      (Samuel) Hernandez,                                       tiac Motor Division and      in death by her grand-
Amber Haskell, Shawnee      Greg (Stephanie) Trujillo,                                later served clients as      mother, Catherine Fitch.
Smith and Ryan Burchett     Sarah (Chris) Lucero of                                   an investment advisor.         Funeral services will
all of Cheyenne; nieces     Cheyenne, William (Tr-                                    A founding member of         be 10:30 a.m. on Tues-
and nephew, Aspen, Avi-     isha) Vigil of Loveland,                                  Scottsdale North Rota-       day at Family Harvest
anna and Lincoln.           CO; great-grandchildren,                                  ry Club, Rhody will be       Church with a private
  Services will be 5:00     Jared Sandoval, Jordan                                    remembered by his many       interment in Cheyenne
p.m. Friday in the Lakev-                                                             friends for his sense of     Memorial Gardens.
iew Chapel at Schrad-                                                                 humor and his larger           In lieu of flowers,
er, Aragon and Jacoby                                                                 than life personality.       please make donations
Funeral Home. Addition-                                                               Donations can be made to     to LifeChoice Pregnancy
al funeral services and                                                               the National Parks Foun-     Care Center. We would
burial will be in Lamar,                                                              dation or the Cheyenne       like to honor Kaylee’s life
Colorado.                                                                             Frontier Days Old West       by helping mothers expe-
  Condolences may be                                                                  Museum. Services are         rience the joy of life.
offered to the family at                                                              pending.                       Services are under the
www.schradercares.com.                                                                                             care of Schrader, Ara-
                                                                                                                   gon and Jacoby Funeral
                                                                                                                   Home and condolences
                                                                                                                   may be offered at www.
                                                                                                                   schradercares.com.
12                            Dorothy K. Baker
                              1919-2021
                                                          stenciling and Japanese
                                                          brush painting. She and
                                                          Dale enjoyed travel both
                                                                                       Larry Daniel Peck
                                                                                       1958-2021
                                                                                                         Larry
                                                                                                                      ismatic and loving man
                                                                                                                      who truly never knew a
                                                                                                                      stranger.
                                                                                                                        Larry is survived by his
                                               Dorothy    within the US and to
                                             K. Baker     Germany, Czechoslova-                        Daniel         daughter, Angela Marie
                                             died April   kia and Australia to visit                   Peck, 62, of   Peck; parents, David and
                                             4, 2021 in   family.                                      Cheyenne,      Marlene Peck; brothers,
                                             Cheyenne,      After her husband’s                        Wyoming        Kent and Mark Peck;
                                             Wyoming.     death in 1988, Dorothy                       passed         sister, Stacey Kulish; and
                                             She was                                                   away           two grandchildren, An-
                                                          returned to Cheyenne
                                             born in                                                   suddenly       drew Adam Apodaca and
                                                          and made her home at
                                             Richmond,                                                 on Tues-       Neaveh Theresa White.
                                                          Pointe Frontier. She was
                              Indiana, on May 22, 1919,                                day, April 13, 2021 at his       A visitation will be held
                                                          a member of First Unit-
                              to Walter and Harriet                                    home.                          on Saturday, April 17,
                                                          ed Methodist Church in         Larry was born July 25,
                              (McMullen) Knollenberg      Cheyenne.                                                   2021 from 11:00 a.m. to
                                                                                       1958 in Colorado Springs,      1:00 p.m. at the Lakeview
                              and grew up on the fami-      Dorothy is survived        Colorado, a son of David       Chapel at Schrader, Ara-
                              ly ranch near Crowheart,    by her daughter, Ani-        and Marlene (Nobles)           gon and Jacoby Funeral
                              Wyoming.                    ta Cervenak, of Tor-         Peck.                          Home with a funeral ser-
                                Dorothy graduated         rington, Wyoming (Ed           Larry moved to Chey-         vice to follow at 1:00 p.m.
                              from the University of      Verplancke); nephews,        enne in the late 1970s and       Condolences may be
                              Wyoming. She married        Wesley (Kathy) and Eric      worked at the Kmart Auto
                              Dale Baker of Laramie,      (Marilynn) Knollenberg;                                     offered to the family
                                                                                       Service Center where he
                              Wyoming, on Decem-          and three great-nieces;                                     on-line at www.schrader-
                                                                                       met his now former wife,
                              ber 27, 1941. During the    and a great-nephew. She                                     cares.com.
                                                                                       Sharon Goodman. His
                              years of World War II       was predeceased by her       knowledge of automobiles
                              she was employed in the     sister Gertrude Peter-       led him to work for NAPA
IN LOVING Memory

                              personnel office of United   son of Cheyenne and her      Auto Parts and he fin-
                              Airlines in Cheyenne.       brother George Knollen-      ished his career with the
                              Dorothy and Dale had        berg of Mechanicsville,      Board of Public Utilities
                              one daughter, Anita.        Virginia.                    as the maintenance su-
                                In 1948 the family          There will be no public    pervisor, retiring after 25
                              moved along with the        services, at her request.    years of faithful service.
                              United Airlines Main-       Cremation is under the       He will be remembered
                              tenance Base to the San     care of Schrader, Ara-       as a hardworking, char-
                              Francisco Bay Area.         gon and Jacoby Funeral
                              They lived in San Carlos,                                Shirley M. Larson                In 1956, she and her
                                                          Home and condolences
                              California, where Dor-                                                                  husband accepted teach-
                              othy was a homemaker
                                                          may be offered at schrad-    1925-2021                      ing positions in Cheyenne
                                                          ercares.com.                                  Shirley       where she taught until
                              and community worker.
                              She was active in PTA,                                                  M. Lar-         1984. During that time
                              served as guardian for                                                  son, 95, of     she was part of the facul-
                              her daughter’s Camp Fire                                                Cheyenne        ty at Fairview and Bain
                                                                                                      passed          schools.
                              Girl group, and taught
                                                                                                      away              Formally, she had
                              Sunday school. She was
                                                                                                      March 27,       been a member of pro-
                              talented at crafts, sew-                                                2021 at
                              ing most of her own and                                                                 fessional organizations:
                                                                                                      Granite         CTA, WEA, NEA, and
                              many of her daughter’s                                   Rehab and Wellness.
                              clothes and being pro-                                                                  CRTA. Also, she had been
                                                                                         She was born in Pueblo,      a member of the Delta
                              ficient in embroidery,                                    Colorado on August 11,
                                                                                                                      Kappa Gamma Profes-
                                                                                       1925 to Joseph and Fran-
                                                                                                                      sional Society.
                                                                                       ces Trontell. On February
                                                                                                                        She had been a mem-
                                                                                       14, 1953, she was married
                                                                                       to Robert Larson, who          ber of Cheyenne Mineral
                                                                                                                      and Gem Society and the
     Sunday, April 25, 2021

                                                                                       had been recalled to the
                                                                                       military and assigned to       Wyoming State Historical
                                                                                       serve in Kaiserslautern,       Society.
                                                                                       Germany.                         She was a member of
                                                                                         She received a B.A. De-      Holy Trinity Catholic
                                                                                       gree from the University       Church since 1957.
                                                                                       of Colorado in 1947 and          Services will be an-
                                                                                       MEd from the University        nounced at a later date.
                                                                                       of Wyoming in 1964. Her
                                                                                       first teaching experience
                                                                                       was with the Littleton
                                                                                       School District. From
                                                                                       1950-1955 she received
                                                                                       an assignment to work
                                                                                       with American children
                                                                                       who were dependents of
                                                                                       the military personnel in
                                                                                       Germany.
James C Patton
1941-2021
                               to complete his associates
                               degree. After completing
                               his training, he became a
                                                            Andrea Marie
                                                            Martinez
                                                            1982-2021
                                                                                         Louis (Skip)
                                                                                         Bruce Anderson
                                                                                                                        Larry Thomas
                                                                                                                        Wier                     13
                  James
                C Patton,
                               locomotive engineer and
                               continued for another 29
                                                                                         1945-2021                      1936-2020
                                                                             Andrea                        On             Larry Thomas Wier
                79, of         years with the UPRR.
                                                                           Marie Mar-                    Thursday,      died Oct. 30, 2020 at his
                Cheyenne,      In total, he was with the
                                                                           tinez, 38,                    March          home in Roy, WA. He
                known to       railroad for 36 years.
                                                                           of Chey-                      18, 2021       was a Christian and loved
                his family       Jim loved the out-
                                                                           enne, died                    at 10:25       the Lord.
                as “Butch,”    doors, especially fishing,
                                                                           on March                      p.m, Louis       Larry was born Dec. 8,
                to his         camping, and hiking.
                                                                           24, 2021 in                   (Skip)         1936 in Cheyenne, WY to
                friends and    He was a beloved father
                                                                           Cheyenne.                     Anderson       Herbert and Sylvia Wier.
                coworkers      and was always there
                                                                             She was                     of Mesa,       He spent his childhood
as “General,” left this life   for anyone who needed
                                                                           born on                       Arizona left   in Cheyenne, WY. It
to be with our Lord Jesus      him. His infectious smile
                                                            July 9, 1982 in Cheyenne.      this earth to join our       has been said that as a
Christ and his daughter        and quick wit made him
                                                              Andrea liked arts and      heavenly Father. Skip          child he broke numerous
Jamie on, April 4, 2021.       fun to be around. He had
                                                            crafts, loved doing make-    was born and raised in         bicycles by launching off
Born in Cheyenne on Oc-        such a disarming person-
                                                            up, spending time with       Cheyenne Wyoming,              jumps and as a teenager
tober 7, 1941 to Clifford      ality that anyone- people
                                                            family and friends, her      attending                      he would drive his pickup
“Bud” and Agnes Pat-           he just met at everyday
                                                            boys, cooking with fami-       East High School and         truck across the frozen
ton, his family moved to       places like the grocery
                                                            ly, and quoting movies.      the University of Wyo-         reservoir doing 360’s.
Santa Rosa, California a       store, might find them-
                                                              She is survived by her     ming. He was a member,         Larry was an avid HAM
few years later. When he       selves in a conversation
                                                            mother, Helen, R Mar-        Jr High youth leader, and      radio operator for as long
was 10 years old, he and       with him, laughing and
                                                            tinez and stepdad, Mike        Elder at North Chris-        as anyone can remember.
his younger brother Bob        joking as if they were old
                                                            Johns; father, Curt Klink    tian Church in Cheyenne,       The impressive antenna
came to live with their        friends. He was preceded
                                                            and stepmom, Holly           Wyoming.                       array he built allowed
Aunt Mary and Uncle            in death by his daughter

                                                                                                                                                     IN LOVING Memory
                                                            Klink; her sons, Bryson        Skip Anderson was sur-       him to speak to people
Karl Perry in Cheyenne.        Jamie Lynn, his brother
                                                            Lewis Bird, Jacob Mat-       vived by his wife, Linda,      all over the world. Larry
As a star football player      Dave, and his parents. He
                                                            thew Hill; her sisters,      three children, Brian          was an electrical engi-
in high school, his talent     is survived by Bergetta,
                                                            Frances Martinez, Gene-      Anderson of Fort               neer and spent his career
was recognized by UW           his wife of 57 years, his
                                                            vieve Martinez, and Ka-        Collins CO, Kris Uribe       working for Boeing.
and UNC who offered            brother Bob Patton and
                                                            rina Perez Gonzalez; her     of Omaha NE, Wendi             Larry was married to
him football scholarships      Sister Sherrie Morrison,
                                                            brother, Matthew Klink;      Rozzi and her husband,         his wife, Louise, in 1956.
upon his graduation.           his sons Mike, Perry and
                                                            brothers-in-law, Aaron       Christopher Rozzi, of          They spent 63 years
He attended UW in the          Joe, Mike’s wife Kathy,
                                                            Jenkins, Juan Simons,          Milford CT, and one          together spending the
pursuit of a psychology        his grandchildren Jor-
                                                            and Angel Sanchez; her       step-son Lamont Bankson        majority of their adult
degree.                        don, Jake, Emilee, Abby,
                                                            aunts, Patricia Perez,       of Mesa Az. As well as 12      lives in Bellevue, WA and
  In 1962, he married his      Jack, Brandon, his wife
                                                            Jessica Perez, Geraldine     grandchildren,                 Roy, WA.
high school sweetheart,        Tracy and their daugh-
                                                            Haight, and Betty Ann          one great grandson,            Larry is predeceased
Bergetta Carley. After         ters Madison and Chaney.
                                                            Tafoya; her uncles, Rob-     and his sister Barbara         by Louise Wier (wife),
a few semesters, they          Memorial Services will
                                                            ert Ortiz, Phillip Tafoya,   Wells (Johnny Wells) of        Larry R. Wier (son), and
decided to move back           be held at Cheyenne E
                                                            and Mark Haight; and         Tampa, Florida. Skip was       Barbara Loudon (sis-
to Cheyenne where he           Free Church, 7006 N Col-
                                                            numerous nieces and            preceded in death by         ter). He is survived by
took a job as a Carman         lege Dr. at 3PM April 19,
                                                            nephews.                     his parents, Lou and Ruth      Michael Wier (son), nine
with the Union Pacific          2021. In lieu of flowers
                                                              Andrea was preceded        Anderson, his brother          grandchildren, and eight
Railroad. He worked for        please make donations to
                                                            in death by her grand-       Jack Anderson, and his         great-grandchildren.
seven years in the car         www.samaritanspurse.
                                                            parents, Jesse and Julia       sister Peggy Garber.           His remains will be
shop and attended LCCC         org
                                                            Perez.                       Donations can be made          buried at the Burden
                                                              Visitation will be         to the                         Cemetery in Burden, KS
                                                            Tuesday, 9-5, at Wieder-       American Cancer Soci-        with his wife.
                                                            spahn-Radomsky Chapel.       ety in lieu of flowers.
                                                              Services will be
                                                            Wednesday, 2:00 p.m., at
                                                            Wiederspahn-Radomsky
                                                            Chapel with a reception
                                                            to immediately follow at
                                                            The Gathering Place.
14                            Donlad L. Yeo
                              1934-2021
                                               Donald
                                                              He was a long-time
                                                           Cheyenne resident and
                                                           dedicated Denver Bron-
                                                                                        Jennifer Hastings
                                                                                        1959-2021
                                                                                                          Jennifer
                                                                                                                      Eleanor A. Hanson
                                                                                                                      1922-2021
                                                                                                                                        Eleanor
                                                                                                                                                    the world and learning
                                                                                                                                                    about their culture. She
                                                                                                                                                    collected egg cups from
                                                                                                                                                    many of her travels. She
                                                           cos fan. He held season
                                             L. Yeo                                                    “JJ” Hast-                     A. Hanson,    also enjoyed the Arts,
                                                           tickets for over 50 years.
                                                                                                       ings, 61, of                   98, passed    reading, walks in Lions
                                             passed           He is preceded in death
                                                                                                       Cheyenne,                      away          Park, and her cabin
                                             away in       by his parents, brother,                    passed                         March         near Fox Park. She
                                             his home      youngest son, and wife.                     away April                     1, 2021       encouraged educational
                                             on April 9,      He is survived by old-                   5, 2021.                       at Davis      goals for her family and
                                             2021 sur-     est son, Chet (Lori) Yeo;                   She was                        Hospice       thoughtfulness for others.
                                             rounded by    daughter, Julie (Ryan)                      born on                        Center.         She is survived by two
                                             family. He    Herrington; and numer-                      September        Eleanor was born on         daughters, Ellen (Dan)
                                             was born      ous grandchildren and        8, 1959 in Cheyenne,
                                             in Cañon                                                                 November 27, 1922 in          Schreiner of Casper, WY
                                                           great-grandchildren.         where she lived her
                                             City, Col-                                                               Highland Park, Michigan       and Sylvia (Jerry) Barnes
                                                              A celebration of life     whole life. She graduat-
                                             orado on                                                                 the eldest of six children.   of Newton, KS; four
                                                           will be held later. In       ed from East High School
                                             November                                                                 After graduating from         grandchildren, Pamela
                                                           lieu of flowers, donations    in 1977. She retired from                                   (Andrew) McLeod of Al-
                                             2, 1934 to                                                               Highland Park High
                                                           may be sent to the Aaron     the Wyoming Depart-                                         ton Bay, NH, John (Leah)
                              Chester and Orpha Yeo.                                                                  School, she attended
                                                           Lee Yeo Memorial Fund,       ment of Audit after 33                                      Barnes of Maywood, IL,
                                He graduated from                                                                     Highland Park Junior
                                                           University of Wyoming        years. JJ was a member                                      Kendra (Beau) Grande
                              Cañon City High School                                                                  College and Laramie
                                                           Foundation.                  of the Cheyenne Boat and                                    of Parker, CO and Eric
                              and Colorado State Uni-                                                                 County Community Col-
                                                              Cremation is under the    Ski Club and the Saddle                                     (Dawn) Barnes of Wich-
                              versity. He served in the                                                               lege.
                                                           care of Schrader, Ara-       Tramps. JJ loved her                                        ita, KS; along with eight
                              United States Army and                                                                    She married Rodney
                                                           gon and Jacoby Funeral       family with all her heart                                   great-grandchildren; one
                              was stationed in Wash-                                                                  Hanson in 1943 at Christ
                                                           Home, located at 2222        and spending time with                                      brother, Paul Zetye of
                              ington D.C., Japan and                                                                  Lutheran Church in
                                                           Russell Ave., Cheyenne,      them. JJ never knew a                                       Farmington Hills, MI; as
                                                                                                                      Detroit, Michigan. They
IN LOVING Memory

                              Korea.                                                    stranger, but she called
                                                           Wyoming, 82001.                                            lived in California while     well as numerous nieces
                                He married Judith                                       everyone friend. She
                              Louise Lee on October                                                                   he was in the United          and nephews.
                                                                                        was always full of life, an                                   She was preceded in
                              3, 1959. He started his                                   animal lover, and enjoyed     States Navy, then in
                              career as a parole officer                                                               Michigan and moved to         death by her parents,
                                                                                        the great outdoors.                                         Paul and Margaret Zetye;
                              for the Colorado Depart-                                    She is survived by a        Cheyenne in 1949.
                              ment of Corrections. Lat-                                                                 She was employed by         husband, Rodney; daugh-
                                                                                        son, Zachary Ray (Tri-                                      ter, Priscilla Berwick;
                              er worked for the NCIS                                    cia), a daughter, Stacy       the former Memorial
                              and then retired from the                                                               Hospital for 30 years,        and brothers, Walter,
                                                                                        Journey (Justin), six                                       Louis, Robert and Carl
                              Defense Investigative                                     grandchildren, Michaela,      with 19 years as Director
                                                                                                                      of the Medical Record         Zetye.
                              Service after 25 years of                                 Christopher, Chandler,
                                                                                                                      Department, retiring in         A memorial service will
                              service.                                                  Isabella, and Cylus; one
                                                                                                                      1988. In later years, she     be held Thursday, April
                                                                                        great granddaughter,                                        8, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. at St.
                                                                                        Lulu; father, Pinky Zeiler    was an active volunteer
                                                                                                                      at the Cheyenne Regional      Paul’s Lutheran Church
                                                                                        (Barb); brother, Scott                                      with interment in Chey-
                                                                                        Zeiler (Julie); sister,       Medical Center.
                                                                                                                        She was a lifelong Lu-      enne Memorial Gardens
                                                                                        Stephanie Peña; best                                        following the service.
                                                                                        friends, Diana Daei and       theran, with membership
                                                                                                                      at St. Paul’s Lutheran          Memorials may be
                                                                                        Mike Hastings. She is
                                                                                                                      Church since 1949 where       given to St. Paul’s Luther-
                                                                                        preceded in death by
                                                                                                                      she served in many            an Church or Cheyenne
                                                                                        grandson, Noah, mother,
                                                                                                                      capacities as President       Botanic Gardens.
                                                                                        Betty Lou Walker (Ross)
                                                                                                                      of the Church Council,          Condolences may be
                                                                                        and grandparents.
                                                                                                                      Sunday School Superin-        offered to the family
                                                                                          A memorial service for
                                                                                                                      tendent, member of the        on-line at schradercares.
                                                                                        JJ will be held on Mon-
                                                                                                                      choir and many of the         com.
                                                                                        day, April 12 at 2:00 at
                                                                                        Wiederspahn-Radomsky          church committees.
     Sunday, April 25, 2021

                                                                                        Chapel.                         She served as board
                                                                                                                      member of Meals-on-
                                                                                                                      Wheels, Wyoming Senior
                                                                                                                      Citizens, Inc., Zonta Club
                                                                                                                      of Cheyenne, and Friend-
                                                                                                                      ship Force of Cheyenne.
                                                                                                                      She had a lifelong love
                                                                                                                      of gardening, meeting
                                                                                                                      people from around
15
                               quor Commission, then            God loved Toni so          Carol Ann (Meier)             Ann Marie Caspersen;
Antionetta                     to federal service with                                                                   two grandsons, Luke and
                                                             much, He couldn’t live        Caspersen
Elizabeth Oliver               the United States Postal      without her another day.                                    Jonah Caspersen; two sis-
1950-2021                      Service and finally the        Antionetta has gone to        1945-2021                     ters, Betty Ann McCann
                                                                                                                         (Garold) and Sharon Mei-
                               Veterans Administration.      join her grandmother                          Car-
                  On Mon-      She was known for being       Lessie Bea Gaston, her                                      er; and a brother, John
                day, Febru-                                                                              ol Ann
                               detail-oriented in her        uncle Sylvester, her                                        Meier.
                ary 8, 2021,                                                                             Caspers-
                               work and highly precise       father Elijah and so many                                     Carol was preceded
                Antionetta                                                                               en, 75, of
                               with numbers. Toni re-        beautiful mentors of faith.                                 in death by her parents,
                Elizabeth                                                                                Cheyenne,
                               tired in 2019 after over 25   She is survived by her                                      George and Alma (Uden)
                Oliver (aka                                                                              died on
                               years of service with the     mother Ruby Lee, aunt                                       Meier.
                Toni), lov-                                                                              March 21,
                               federal government.           Johnnie Marie, sister                                         Visitation will be
                ing mother                                                                               2021 in
                                  Toni was a civil rights    Theresa, brother Clif-                                      Thursday, 10-5, at Wie-
                of three                                                                                 Cheyenne.
                               warrior and even walked       ford Tyrone, and other                                      derspahn-Radomsky
children, was carried by                                                                                   She was
                               during the Montgom-           siblings, cousins, niec-                                    Chapel.
the angels to Heaven at                                                                                  born on
                               ery Bus Boycott. Toni         es, nephews, and loving                                       Services will be Friday,
the age of 70. Toni was                                                                                  May 26,
                               always had a heart for        friends. Her legacy lives                                   1:00 p.m., at Peace With
born in Montgomery,                                                                                      1945 in
                               service and caring for        on in her oldest son, Lam-                                  Christ Lutheran Church,
Alabama on August 15,                                                                                    Grand
                               others. She was active        ont (wife Charlene), and                                    1412 West Swallow Road,
1950. She graduated from                                                                                 Island,
                               with Stonecroft Ministries    his children, Demetrius,                                    Fort Collins, CO 80526.
Booker T. Washington                                                                       Nebraska.
                               in the Cheyenne After         Keisha, Khalil and Luca;                                      Burial will be in West
high school near the top                                                                     Carol received her
                               5 Club and Bible study                                                                    Lawn Memorial Park in
of her class with honors                                     second oldest son, Le-        Bachelor of Science
                               group, Second Baptist                                                                     Grand Island, Nebraska.
and received her bache-                                      andre, and his children,      degree from Concor-
                               Church (where she was a                                                                     To send the family
lor’s degree in education                                    Keenan, Elisabeth, and        dia College in Seward,
                               Sunday school teacher),                                                                   condolences please visit
with honors from the                                         Isaiah; and her daughter,     Nebraska. She was a
                               Love and Charity Club                                                                     www.wrcfuneral.com
Alabama State University                                     LeNitra.                      teacher at several schools
                               (who sponsors the an-

                                                                                                                                                      IN LOVING Memory
in 1972. Toni received                                          Toni had a sharp mind      in Nebraska and North
                               nual Cheyenne MLK, Jr
her Master of Business                                       and wit, with a good sense    Dakota before teaching at
                               walk), Blacks in Govern-
Administration with a                                        of humor. One of the          Trinity Lutheran Church
                               ment, National Council
concentration in Health                                      last things she said was,     in Cheyenne from 1987-
                               of Negro Women, Delta
Care Management from                                         “We ride together, we die     2007.
                               Sigma Theta Sorority,
Regis University in 2006,      Inc, Top Ladies of Dis-       together. Bad boys for          Mrs. Caspersen is
where she graduated            tinction, Inc, the NAACP      life.” We are still riding    survived by her husband,
with honors and became         and Habitat for Human-        for you, mom. We’ll see       Rev. David Caspersen;
a member of the Alpha          ity. Toni loved reading       you on the other side.        son, Jonathan Caspers-
Sigma Nu Honor Society.        and passed her love of           Toni’s funeral will be     en (Jennifer); daughter,
Toni was married to L. D.      reading down through          May 1, 2021 at 11:00
Oliver, Jr (initials only)     the generations. She also     am at Second Baptist          Rev. John Rexford             Faith Lutheran Church
for 13 years, who retired      enjoyed quilting, sewing      Church, located at 2403                                     in St. Petersburg, Fla. He
a Major from the United        and good music. She was       Snyder Ave, Cheyenne,         Kenyon                        attended Northwestern
States Air Force.              known for “adopting” any      WY 82001. An Angel Wall       1959-2021                     Preparatory School and
  Toni was dedicated to                                      visitation will take place                                  Northwestern College in
                               neighborhood child in                                         Rev. John Rexford
her children, Lamont,                                        on May 1st, Saturday,                                       Watertown, Wis., before
                               need and assisting them                                     Kenyon, 61, of Stevens-
                                                             at 10:30 am at Lakev-                                       graduating from Wiscon-
Leandre and LeNitra, as a      in their growth and men-                                    ville, Mich., died Monday,
                                                             iew Cemetery, located         March 22, 2021, at Michi-     sin Lutheran Seminary in
stay-at-home mother for        toring them to be their
                                                             at 2501 Seymour Ave,          gan Medicine Hospital in      1985.
the first few years of their    best selves. Following in
                                                             Cheyenne, WY 82001. To        Ann Arbor.                      John married Debra
lives. After divorce, as a     the leading of her grand-                                                                 Kae Fischer-Cook on
single mother, she proud-      mother, Mrs. Lessie Bea,      donate to her namesake          A Memorial Service
                                                                                           will be held 11 a.m. Sat-     August 9, 1987, in Apple-
ly raised a small busi-        with whom she shared a        scholarship fund (https://
                                                                                           urday, April 10, at Our       ton, Wis. He shepherded
ness owner/high school         close bond, Toni believed     www.gofundme.com/leg-                                       congregations in Bothell,
football coach, electrical     strongly in social justice,   acy-scholarship-in-mem-       Savior Lutheran Church,
                                                                                           2973 E B St., Torrington,     Wash., Moorhead, Minn.,
engineer, and acute-care       doing what was right, tell-   ory-antionetta-e-oliver)                                    North Fort Myers, Fla.
                                                             and see her full biog-        with Rev. Randy Bader
pharmacist who all adore       ing the truth, and fighting                                                                and Bangor, Mich. and
                                                                                           officiating. A luncheon
her as their number one        vigorously for her beliefs.   raphy, please visit her                                     served as a Christian
                                                                                           will follow the service.
mom. From there Toni           If any person was in need,    website at https://www.       Interment limited to fam-     Giving Counselor for the
began her career in Wy-        she could be counted          dignitymemorial.com/          ily members will occur        Wisconsin Evangelical
oming, working initially       on to offer support and       obituaries/mesa-az/antio-     at a later time. In lieu of   Lutheran Synod.
with the Wyoming Li-           words of encouragement.       netta-oliver-10051515.        flowers, memorial con-           John is survived by his
                                                                                           tributions may be made        wife Debra, children Jac-
                                                                                           to Wisconsin Lutheran         queline (Erik) Nordwald,
                                                                                           Seminary, 11831 Semi-         Linda (Grant) Sorcic,
                                                                                           nary Dr., in Mequon, Wis.     David (Emily) Kenyon
                                                                                           53092.                        and Kimberly (Nicholas)
                                                                                             The son of the late         Barber, brother Chuck
                                                                                           Charles Rexford and           (Cindy) Kenyon and son
                                                                                           Alice Marie (Korhonen)        Thomas Charles (Taylor)
                                                                                           Kenyon, John was born         Kenyon, uncle John (Liz)
                                                                                           and baptized October 22,      Korhonen and aunt Betty
                                                                                           1959, in Evanston, Ill. He    (Bill) Law.
                                                                                           was confirmed in 1973 at
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