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Barbara "Bobbi" Marie Bolin was born in Newcastle, Wyoming, on August 16, 1954, to Jack Bolin and Melva A. Bay Bolin. Bobbi attended the Homestead School near Hauber Mine for grades 1-5. Bobbi then moved to Hulett with her grandparents, Tom and...

Kari Bonnell Jensen Priewe, 89, of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, passed away May 11, 2022 at the Belle Estate in Belle Fourche. Kari was born October 12, 1932, at Moorcroft, Wyoming, to Thorval Sr. and Lillian (Ballard) Jensen. The family moved near...

Colton Tipton, 19, sadly passed away Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Although it was a brief life, he certainly left his mark. He is survived by parents, Lisa Alberts, Jason Thomsen and Travis Tipton; brothers, Caleb Tipton and Dominic Shepperson; sisters,...

Frank Stanley Lauters, age 68, passed away May 3, 2022. He is survived by wife Frances Jean Lauters of Montgomery, Texas; son Jeremy Staehlin and wife Vanessa; daughter Carly Staehlin and husband Shawn Ackerman; daughter Sheradon Sullivan and...

Sherry Ann H. White, 79, passed away peacefully in her sleep and went to rest with the Lord on Saturday afternoon, April 30, 2022, at the Fountain Springs Healthcare in Rapid City, South Dakota. She was a Wyoming cowgirl through and through. She...

Karen March Ackerman was born October 9, 1945 in York, Pennsylvania to Colonel Richard L. March and Ruth Miller March. She lived her early years in a number of different areas as her father was in the Air Force. In the mid 1950s, the family moved to...

Joan was born December 8, 1935 and was raised in Moorcroft.  Joan lived life to the fullest. She loved her plants and watching them grow.  Joan also adored her RENEW family and spent many happy years working with the team in Newcastle as a paper...

Memorial service for Justin Rea was held on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 in Moorcroft, WY at the Community Hall. Justin Rea, 40 of Rozet passed away on April 20, 2022.  He was born in LaCrosse, WI on October 2, 1981. Justin attended school in Lusk,...

LuAnne Fowles, 68, of Moorcroft, passed away on April 19, 2022, at home in her loving family's arms after a valiant fight with cancer. LuAnne was born on July 21, 1953, to Dale and Luella Workman in Duchesne, Utah. She was the fourth of seven...

Memorial service for Douglas Hardy took place Monday, April 25, 2022 at Walker Funeral Home. Douglas William Howard Hardy, 61, of Gillette, Wyoming died April 19th of complications of diabetes at Campbell County Memorial Hospital. Doug was born...

Lonnie Jay Davis, 70, of Beach, ND passed peacefully on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Lon was born to Clarence and Ruby Davis in Craig, CO on December 17, 1951. Lonnie is survived by his loving wife, Cathy Davis; two sisters, Deborah (Dale) Miller of...

Mr. Thomas R. "Tom" Claytor, 78, of Moorcroft, Wyoming passed away in his home surrounded by family on April 14, 2022 of natural causes. Tom is the son of Sherman Elwood Claytor and Bonnie Marguerite Wolfe Claytor and was born April 12, 1944, in...

Funeral service for Kenneth Duvall will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 8, 2022 at Gillette Memorial Chapel with Pastor Donovan Voigt officiating; interment to follow at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery. Visitation will start one hour prior to services....

Normalee Harrod Materi died on April 7, 2022, at Primrose Assisted Living in Gillette. A visitation will be held Friday, April 15, 2022, from 5 - 7 p.m. at Gillette Memorial Chapel. Funeral service will be take place at Upton Elementary School...

Eileen Garman, age 82 of Alzada, Montana, died Thursday, March 31, 2022, at the Belle Estate in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. The funeral service will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 7, 2022, at the Christian Life Center in Belle Fourche, with...

Marabel F. Gates, 97, passed away peacefully in living faith on April 1, 2022. She was born July 27, 1924, in Sheridan, Wyoming. She was a lifelong member of the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church. She was born to Fred R. and Frances S. (Roberts)...

Joseph "Joe" William Stone, 20, of Moorcroft, Wyoming, passed away February 22, 2022. Joe was born February 8, 2002, in Rapid City, South Dakota, to Scott and April (Robertson) Stone. He graduated from Edgemont High School in 2020. Joseph's...

Edith LaVerne (Wham) Shepherd passed away early Sunday, February 27, 2022, at her home. Born July 25, 1931, to James D and Marguerite (Peg West) Wham, Edith was a miracle baby considering the fact that during the pregnancy a uterine tumor was...

A celebration of the life of Jeane Warax, 79-year-old Buffalo woman who passed away Saturday, February 26, will be held by her family and friends at the Keyhole Country Club in Pine Haven, Wyoming from 1 until 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 20 with...

Edith Shepherd, 90 of Moorcroft, Wyoming, passed away on February 27, 2022. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 11, 2022 at the First Presbyterian Church in Moorcroft. Burial will take place at Black Hills National Cemetery at 2:30...

Lynn Fisher, 82 of Moorcroft, Wyoming, passed peacefully on January 26, 2022. Lynn T. Fisher lived and worked in San Francisco. She married Robert Fisher and relocated to Wyoming, where they shared a love of the outdoors and adventures with old and...

Bradford Glenn Hofland, 80, Piedmont, South Dakota, passed away peacefully Friday, February 12, 2022, at his home in Piedmont. Brad was born in Bowman, North Dakota, April 5, 1941 to parents Glenn Hofland and Dorothy (Rose) Hofland. Brad lived on a...

Fern Ilene (Cordingly) Blakeman, of Sundance, Wyoming, passed away at Crook County Long Term Care on February 12, 2022. Fern was born November 5, 1934, to Vernie and Florence Cordingly in Upton, Wyoming. She was the eighth of nine children. She grew...

A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. at Mt. Moriah Cemetery at Sundance, Wyoming, on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, for Robert Glenn Walkinshaw, aged 98. Robert (or Ol' Bob, as he called himself) succumbed to a stroke at Crook County Hospital...

Ted Alan Harris, 75, of Moorcroft, WY, passed away peacefully Sunday, January 23, 2022, at Big Horn Rehabilitation Center in Sheridan, WY. He was born May 18, 1946 to Keith and Mary (Tolman) Harris in Lovell, WY. Ted's family moved from Lovell to Aur...