Obituaries

Sep 11, 2017

Sep 2, 2017

Jared Gordon Lydic, much loved son, grandson, brother, husband, dad, friend, and lover of the outdoors, died on Sunday, September 3rd , 2017. He was 25 years old. Jared was born in Howard County, MD, April 11, 1992 to Brent and Leann Lydic. He was energetic, adventurous and imaginative! He loved playing rough with Dad, 'riverstomping' with G'pa, backpacking, fishing...

Aug 27, 2017

On August 27, 2017, Matthew Harrison Call passed from this life into the next.  He began this life on October 29, 1962 in Sacramento, California.  He was met by his parents, Virgil Harrison and Gloria Jean Lucy Call and an older sister, Cheryl Jean Call.  Later, his family unit was completed by the birth of a brother, Mark Daniel Call.

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Aug 26, 2017

Mary Alyce Whitmore (May 5, 1927 - Aug. 26, 2017) Mary Alyce Whitmore died Aug. 26, 2017 at Powell Valley Care Center in Powell. She was 90.  Alyce was born May 5, 1927, in Byron to Mary Vervean Denney and Alexander Pryde. She attended Byron schools and graduated from Byron High School in 1945. She married Henry Lynn Whitmore...

Aug 26, 2017

OBITUARY

Shirley Williamson, of Powell, Wy, passed away peacefully on the morning of August 26, 2017. She was born to Roy and Ola McGowan on October 26, 1951 in Hebrew Springs, Arkansas.

Shirley grew up and attended school in Arkansas. She moved to Wyoming with her husband David. Shirley and David were married on August 23, 1981. Later in life...

Aug 22, 2017

Isabelle Morrison loved to learn, laugh, and help others in any way she could. She was impishly, joyously playful; as well as a gifted seamstress, teacher, handywoman, storyteller, cook, dancer, loving mother, friend, and could do a drum roll on the head of a dime. She helped re-roof a trailer at age 69, despite being afraid of heights, just to prove...

Aug 17, 2017

Humberto Mendoza 78, passed away Thursday August 17, 2017 at the Powell Valley Hospital. Rosary services will be Sunday evening at 6:30 pm at St. Barbara's Catholic church. Mass services will be Monday August 21 at 6:00 pm. 

Aug 13, 2017

Rolland (Rolly) D. Otto

On August 13th, 2017, Rolly Otto passed from this world into the next.  Rolly was born in Powell, Wyoming on July 10, 1948.  His first home was an apartment in the Japanese Internment Camp.  Fortunately, his parents included him when they moved from Camp to their new homestead on the west end of the Ralston Bench,...

Aug 12, 2017

Mary M. Krause died Aug. 12, 2017, at Westward Heights Care Facility in Lander, Wyoming. She was 95. Mary was born Jan. 29, 1922, in Greybull to Earl J. Hensley and Sarah Vance Hensley. They moved to Powell where Mary was educated; she lived the rest of her life in Powell. On Aug. 13, 1938, Mary married Loyal J....

Aug 10, 2017

Orval Warren Bjornestad died in the early morning of August 10, 2017, at the Powell Valley Care Center; he was born December 29, 1923 in Worland Wyoming, to Ben Bjornestad and Bertha Nore Bjornestad.

The second oldest of four boys, Orval was born on a cold night in the river-rock house of his mother’s doctor.  Shortly after his birth, his...

Aug 10, 2017

Manuel, “Manny” Ibarra passed on to heaven on August 10, 2017. 

Hector Manuel Ibarra Barbeitia was born on November 1, 1929, in El Fuerte, Mexico.  From humble beginnings in Mexico, Manuel immigrated to the U.S. with his beloved mother and brother, Blas, in 1944 at the age of 14.  They wove their way through several states working with seasonal crops,...

Aug 9, 2017

Billie Yates Lynn, age 90, returned home to the loving arms of his parents on August 9th, 2017.

Born November 5, 1926 in the Lovell, Wyoming area, to Leonard Hatch Lynn and Ruthie Ann Yates. Bill was the oldest of 7 children born to his mother. His father's first wife had died, leaving him with 2 children, so Bill's mother,...

Aug 4, 2017

Jakob James “JJ” Buck

August 4th 2017

“Held his whole life and only ever knew love.”

Jakob James Buck, or as we like to call him “JJ,” was born to his loving parents, Chanler and Amy Buck at 35 weeks with full understanding that his time here with us would be limited. He must have been created so incredibly special...

Jul 30, 2017

B.J. ‘Red’ McIntosh

(Aug. 24, 1924 - July 30, 2017)

 

B.J. “Red” McIntosh died July 30, 2017, at his home in Powell. He was 92.

He was born on Aug. 24, 1924, in Burlington, to Ira and Florence Adella (Yorgason) McIntosh.

Red graduated from Burlington High School, and went on to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He...

Jul 28, 2017

In March 1928, Grady Edwin Ivy was born in Decatur, Mississippi.  Eighty-nine years later on July 28,2017 Grady passed away at the Spirit Mountain Hospice in Cody.  Grady and his wife of 63 years, Nada who passed away in 2014, have three children who survived them – Mike, Bev and Becky.  He was a wonderful and loving grandfather to 8...

Jul 28, 2017

Lanny Adair Janney, of Powell, died with his family by his side on July 28, 2017, at Powell Valley Hospital. He was 75.

Lanny was born in Oak Hill, West Virginia, on Jan. 18, 1942, to Francis and Elizabeth Janney. 

Upon completing his education, Lanny helped to build and expand the family cable business — offering not only his time...

Jul 27, 2017

Jul 17, 2017

Jeanette Lennon (Sept. 6, 1934 - July 17, 2017) Jeanette Lennon, 82, died July 17, 2017, at the Hospice House in Cody after a long battle with breast cancer. Jeanette Vere Russell Lennon was born in Worland to Cecil Clifford and Fern Mildred Dye Russell on Sept. 6, 1934. She was the first of three children and had two...

Jul 15, 2017

Mary Jean Farmer died peacefully at her home in Powell on Saturday, July 15, 2017.  She was 83.

Cremation has taken place, and no services are planned at this time.

Jul 13, 2017

Jeanne Ferguson, 94, of Powell, and formerly of Scottsdale, Arizona passed away on Thursday, July 13th in her home and surrounded by loving family.

Born to Sherman and Nellie Breedlove in Fort Wayne, Indiana, her childhood was spent in New York and Indiana the youngest of five siblings. She graduated high school with her baccalaureate from Fort Wayne in 1940....