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Hubert Lee Reid
Dec 27, 2011
Hubert Lee Reid died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 at Powell Valley Care Center. He was 87. Hubert was born April 21, 1924 in Burlington to James Douglas and Amy Ann (Tanner) Reid. He attended school in Burlington and served in the Army during World War II in Europe. Hubert and Leah Jean Phillips were married Sept. 16, 1949 in Powell...
Doris M Cunningham
Dec 15, 2011
Doris M. Cunningham of Powell died peacefully Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 at the Powell Valley Care Center. Â She was 86. Doris was born Oct. 16, 1925 in Briggsdale, CO to Oris Claycomb and Dorothy (Schnepf) Â Turney. Â Her mother and stepfather (Donald Turney) moved her to Powell in 1931 where she attended school. She married Harvey E. Cunningham...
Carol E Vandersnick
Dec 14, 2011
Carol E Vandersnick, 82, passed away December 14, 2011 at the Powell Valley Health Care . Cremation has taken place and no local services are planned at this time. The family has requested that Condolences be sent to them online at www.thompsonfuneral.net. Or to P.O. Box 807 Powell, Wy 82435
Ignatius John I.J. Frank
Dec 14, 2011
Ignatius John ‘I.J.’ Frank died Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011, in Powell. He was 97. I.J. was born Nov. 16, 1914 in Milwaukee, Wis., to Frances and Katherine (Lechman) Frank. He went to school through the eighth-grade. On Dec. 27, 1938, I.J. married the love of his life, Lola Caskey, in Julesburg, Colo. The couple was approaching their 73rd wedding anniversary....
Felix J Bessler
Dec 13, 2011
Felix J. Bessler, Jr. On December 13, 2011, Felix Bessler passed away at the Spirit Mountain Hospice in Cody, Wyoming. He was born March 18,1931 to Felix and Nannie Bessler and grew up on the family farm in the East Willwood area South of Powell, Wyoming. Older siblings Rosemary, Grace and Raymond, along with younger ones including Lucille, John, Hugo, James and...
David Dayton Denney
Dec 11, 2011
David D. Denney of Clark died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 at Spirit Mountain Hospice in Cody. He was 88. David was born Feb. 22, 1923 in Bearcreek, Mont., to Russell and Hilda (Dayton) Denney. He attended school in Belfry, Mont., and on April 23, 1949 he married Elmarie (Badura) Denney in Clark. After graduating from high school, David worked as...
Norma Louise Phillips
Dec 9, 2011
Norma Louise Phillips (Aug. 1, 1931 - Dec. 9, 2011) Norma Louise Phillips, 80, died Dec. 9, 2011 in Powell. She was born Aug. 1, 1931 in Powell to Erma E. (Bushey) and Kenneth W. Graham. She grew up in Powell and attended Powell's schools. After graduating from high school, Norma attended and graduated from the University of Wyoming with...
Esteline Frazier
Dec 6, 2011
Esteline Nunnery Frazier died Tuesday, Dec. 6 in Powell. She was 92. Esteline was born Dec. 11, 1919, in Mossy Bottom, Kent. She was the third of five children born to George and Florence Nunnery. During the dust bowl years, she and her family moved to Lamar, Colo. She and J.A. “Al†Frazier were married on Feb. 27, 1939. In the...
Lloyd William Killam
Dec 4, 2011
Lloyd William Killam Lloyd William Killam of 777 Avenue H, Powell, Wyoming passed away on December 4, 2011. Lloyd was born in Western Mound Township, Hettick Illinois on August 8, 1919 to the late William Roy and Alice Dugger Killam. When Lloyd was a year old, the Killam family moved to Garland and where Lloyds father owned and operated Killam's Garage for...
Gloria Gutierrez
Dec 3, 2011
Gloria Cortez Gutierrez died Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 in Billings. She was 51. Gloria was born March 7, 1960 in Powell to Guadalupe (Gonzales) and Moises Cortez, Jr. She attended Powell schools and Northwest College. Gloria married Victor M. Gutierrez on May 4, 1992 in Aurora, Ill. She worked as a pharmacy tech. In her spare time, she enjoyed reading...
Edith "Dee" McCoy
Nov 30, 2011
Edith Delphia “Dee†McCoy died Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. She was 97. Dee was born on July 15, 1914 to Fred F. and Alma W. Paulson in Blackduck, Minn. Dee quit school after the seventh grade to help care for her younger brother, who was ill. Her family lived in several locations, including Lovell. She married Jack Dover from Lovell...
Betty Lee Wensky
Nov 29, 2011
Betty Wensky (March 19, 1940 – Nov. 29, 2011)  Betty Lee Wensky, 71, died November 29, 2011 at Billings Clinic Hospital after a short, but courageous battle with cancer.  Betty was born March 19, 1940 to Asa Lee and Mary Alice Johnston at the Lovell Hospital, coming into the world weighing only three pounds. The family moved from...
Randy E Tolman
Nov 26, 2011
Randy E. Tolman, 51, has thrown his last loop and caught his last horse to ride to join his sister and two brothers on November 26, 2011 at St Vincent Hospital in Billings, MT. Randy was born on June 2, 1960, in Fort Collins, CO. Just two years to the day after his brother Rocky. He was preceeded in death by...
Henrietta Josephine Mathews
Nov 22, 2011
Henrietta J. Mathews passed away at the Powell Valley Care Center on November 22, 2011. She was 92. Cremation has taken place, and no services are planned at this time.
Bonita Faye Jansson
Nov 11, 2011
Bonita ‘Bonnie’ Faye Cooley Jansson (June 21, 1940- Nov. 12, 2011) Bonita “Bonnie†Faye Cooley Jansson, a longtime Powell resident, died Nov. 12, 2011 at her home in Powell. She was 71. Bonnie was born June 21, 1940, in Powell, to Alfred Robert Cooley and Effie Jurgensen Cooley. She attended Powell schools and then married Karl Edward Jansson. They lived...
Charles Holladay Shumway
Nov 6, 2011
Charles Holladay Shumway, long-time Powell resident and lifelong farmer, passed away of natural causes at the North Big Horn Hospital, Lovell, on November 6, 2011. Charles was born in Penrose, Wyoming on August 25, 1920. He was the youngest of nine children to Hyrum and Rosabell Shumway. He was a graduate of Powell High School participating on the varsity football...
Deloris Grace Good
Nov 5, 2011
Deloris Grace (Reed) Good died Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 at Powell Valley Hospital. She was 91. Deloris was born Sept. 1, 1920 in Powell, to Anna Rose (Hartman) and Niles Adrain Reed. She attended Powell schools and one year of post-graduate courses. On Sept. 5, 1941, she married Ernest Ray Good in Billings. The couple made their home on the...
Mae Irene Shanahan
Oct 15, 2011
Mae Irene Shanahan died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, at the Powell Valley Care Center. She was 91. May was born Oct. 31, 1919 at Karval, Colo., to Ira Walker and Ebba Marie Collins. She graduated high school from Mount Saint Gertrude in Boulder, Colo., and attended cosmetology school in North Platte, Neb. She came to Powell with her husband after...
Mabel O Albin
Oct 11, 2011
Mabel Ojanen Albin died Tuesday, October 11, in Billings, MT at the age of 74. Born in Wing, ND, on January 12, 1937, she was the youngest child of Walter and Fannie Ojanen. She graduated from Bismarck High School in 1955. She was still in touch with her close friends from those years. Mabel returned to school at North West...
Albert Glen Stewart
Oct 10, 2011
Albert Glenn Stewart, 69, died Monday, October 10, 2011, at Cody Hospital following a courageous battle with heart disease and diabetes. Â Al was born Dec. 11, 1941, in Meeker, Colorado, the first of nine children born to Stanley Hardin Stewart and Nellie Randall Stewart. He spent his school years in Meeker, and then enlisted in the Army, serving three...
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