Elsie L. Reed Ford, 80, of Riverton, Wyoming, formerly of Columbus, Indiana died at 3:40 a.m. Monday, September 22, 2014, at her home surrounded by family.
Mrs. Ford was a homemaker. She worked briefly at A Marlin Lodge & Nashville House in Nashville, IN.
The funeral will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at Barkes, Weaver & Glick Funeral Home on Washington Street with the Rev. Jerry K. Day Sr. officiating.
Family and friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. until service time Friday.
Burial will be at Rest Haven Cemetery in Edinburgh, IN.
Memorial contributions may be made to the donor's choice of charities.
Born in Columbus, September 5, 1934, Mrs. Ford was the daughter of Orville and Margaret Moffitt Reed.
She married Francis Carl Ford March 24, 1949. She lived several years in the Shoshoni and Bonniville area and Nashville, IN; Mount Sterling, NC and Jackson Hole, WY.
Survivors include her husband of 65 years, Carl Ford of Riverton, Wyoming; sons, Albert (Jeanne) Ford of Columbus, Clay (Pat) Ford of Loveland, Colorado, Fairlane Ford of Riverton, Mark Ford of Riverton,Tracy (Melanie) Ford of Oregon, and Rocky Ford of Riverton; daughters, Bonnie (Jay) Crawford of Riverton, Leona (Phillip) Burton of Riverton, and Rosie (Stacy) Hill of Rock Springs, Wyoming; sisters, Mary (Jack) Davis and Ruth Meredith, both of Columbus; 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, James Reed; a sister, Flora Wooley; an infant son; Gerald Ray Ford; daughter-in-law Sharon Ford, and a great-granddaughter, Sasha Burton.
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Funeral Home:
Hudson's Funeral Home
680 Mount Hope Drive
Lander, WY
US 82520