Louis Eugene Hallam

LOUIS EUGENE HALLAM

PASSED AWAY NOVEMBER 2, 2021 AT HOME AT 61. LOU WAS BORN DECEMBER 14, 1959 TO CHARLOTTE E HALLAM AND FRANCIS E. HALLAM IN LANDER, WY HE WAS FIRST BORN AND LATER 2 MORE SIBLINGS FOLLOWED (FRANCINE & SHIRLEY) HIS PARENTS LATER DIVORCED. CHARLOTTE MARRIED PHILLIP AND THEN HE HAD 2 MORE SIBLINGS (JIM & BILL), THERE WAS LOTS OF BICKERING BUT LOT MORE LAUGHS, GROWING UP ON A DAIRY FARM ON THE RESERVATION. THAT IS WHERE LOU GOT THE LOVE FOR COWS AND RANCHING WHICH WAS IN HIS BLOOD.

LOU WENT TO SCHOOL AT MILL CREEK IN ETHETE AND GRADUATED FROM LANDER. THE FAMILY THEN MOVED TO WORLAND. LOU WENT TO WORK ON THE FARMS, FOR A SHORT WHILE, AND THEN WENT TO WORK FOR TOTEM OIL FIELD SERVICE.

LOU WANTED MORE SO HE APPLIED TO JB HUNT TRUCKING FOR TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL, BUT IT WAS IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON-LIKE HE SAID, "TIME FOR CHANGE"- SO LOU LEFT WYOMING, GRADUATING TOP OF HIS CLASS AND WAS ASSIGNED TO A DISPATCHER NAMED TONI-THEY BOTH HAD SOMETHING IN COMMON, COWS-SHE CAME FROM RODEO AND A RANCH OF 1500 HEAD. AFTER 6 MONTHS THEY MET IN PERSON AND WERE TOGETHER EVER SINCE, 32 YRS. THEY WORKED FOR JB HUNT FOR 7 YRS, LOU WAS THEIR GO -TO -GUY, BEING SENT ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES TO PICK UP TRUCKS.

LOU AND TONI CAME BACK TO LANDER, FOR VACATION AND THAT WAS IT, GAVE 2 WEEKS NOTICE, AND BROUGHT THE ZILER PLACE, WHERE THEY RAISED BOTH HEREFORDS CROSSED LIMOUSINES.

LOU WORKED FOR THE WYOMING HWY DEPT FOR 20 YEARS BUT HE WANTED MORE, SO HE WENT BACK TO THE OIL FIELDS FOR A YEAR. THAT WASN'T WHAT HE WANTED EITHER, SO HE CAME BACK AND WENT TO WORK FOR EAGLE LINEN HERE IN LANDER,  AND WORKED THERE UNTIL HIS DEATH, 10 YRS. LOU SAID, "WORKING THERE IT WAS LIKE A NEW ADVENTURE EVERY DAY," BUT HE ENJOYED THE PEOPLE AND IT WAS THE BEST RETIREMENT JOB HE EVER HAD.

LOU BOWLED, FISHED, SNOW MACHINED, ANYTHING OUTDOORS HE WAS GAME.  THE BEST THING, HE WAS WELL LOVED BY IN-LAWS AND HIS FAMILY.

LOUIS IS SURVIVED BY WIFE, TONI OF 32 YRS; BROTHER-IN-LAWS, GARY WILLMS OF LANDER, DAN ALLAN OF CAMAS, WA; SISTERS, FRANCIE (SCOTT) LEWIS OF HUDSON, SHIRLEY (DAN) OF SCHMILL, TX; BROTHERS, JIM HALLAM OF LANDER, BILL (TIM) OF RIVERTON; NIECES, CRYSTAL, CHERLYN, KRISTI, AMY AND KELSEY; NEPHEW, MATTHEW; AND A SPECIAL STEP- SON, DOUG E OF TX.

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO PATTY & LEE SHAFFER.

SERVICES WILL FOLLOW LATER.

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HUDSON'S FUNERAL HOME AND ON-SITE CREMATORY, 680 MOUNT HOPE DRIVE, LANDER, WY 82520