Karen Elise Rowe
Feb 2, 2018
Karen Elise Rowe, 73, of Lander went to be with Jesus on February 2nd, 2018 after a brief battle with cancer at the Help for Health Hospice in Riverton. She was born August 26th, 1944 to Carl Edwin and Irene Olga (Buchs) Stenquist in Stamford, Connecticut. She married Jimmy R. Rowe on April 18th, 1962 and was divorced 1997. She...
Jerald Grant Wilson
Jan 17, 2018
Jerry died Wednesday, January 17th at his home. He was 74 years old. Per his request, there will be no funeral services. Cremation has taken place. Jerald Grant Wilson was born September 14, 1943 at Deadwood, SD, the second of four children born to Charles and Lyla Wilson. He graduated from Fermont County Vocational High School in 1961. He will...
Dyllis Mae Gose
Jan 13, 2018
Dyllis Mae Gose, age 97, passed away Jan. 13, 2018 at Westward Heights under hospice care with family present. Dyllis was born Oct. 9, 1920, in Sundance, WY, to Mabel (Harvey) Wakefield and Bert Wakefield.She was the oldest of three children.Along with younger brother Harvey Sutton and sister Delcie, she grew up hardscrabble in a large extended family on several...
Ruth Esther Scott
Jan 10, 2018
Ruth Esther (Lewis) Scott was born November 2, 1921, in Chicago, Illinois, to Tom and Esther Lewis.Ruth was joined three years later by a sister, Madeleine. After graduating from high school, Ruth attended business school for training in office machines, and from there worked at Acme Steel as a comptometer operator, then at the Oriental Institute at the University of...
James (Jay) Cleveland Parker
Jan 7, 2018
James (Jay) Cleveland Parker, 79, a resident of Lander, Wyoming, passed away Sunday, January 07, 2018, in a health care facility. A Visitation will take place from 5:00pm-7:00pm on Monday 15th in the Chapel of Mount Hope at Hudsons Funeral Home in Lander. Funeral Services will begin at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 16th in the Chapel of Mount Hope at...
Elsie M. Griffin
Jan 5, 2018
ELSIE GRIFFIN: Elsie passed away at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Spring Creek, NV on Friday January 5, 2018, surrounded by family. Memorial Services for Elsie (Hinkle) Griffin will be held on Friday January 12, 2018 at 10:30 am at the First United Methodist Church in Lander.A lunch will be held at the church immediately following the...
Russell Leroy Savage Jr.
Jan 3, 2018
Russell Leroy Savage Jr. left this world on January 3, 2018 at his home after a lengthy illness. He was born December 1, 1954 in Cloquet, Minnesota the son of Russell Savage Sr. and the late Corrine Compton. He attended Fort Washakie Elementary School and graduated from Lander Valley High School. Immediately after High School he joined the U.S. Army...
Catherine Annie Smail
Dec 25, 2017
Beloved Mother and Grandmother, Catherine Smail, died in the late evening hours of Christmas day, 2017. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at the United Methodist Church in Lander, Wyoming. Catherine and her twin brother Kenneth were born on May 12, 1927 to Scottish immigrant parents, Margaret Mackay and Kenneth Finlayson. She...
John Dee Darnell
Dec 19, 2017
John Dee Darnell (J.Dee), 67, of Jeffrey City, WY died on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at his Home in Jeffrey City, WY. Funeral Service will be held at 10:00 am, Thursday, December 28, 2017 at Lander Valley High School Auditorium at 350 Baldwin Creek Road in Lander, WY. Visitation will be held 5-7 pm Wednesday, December 27, 2017, at Hudsons...
Adele Phila Hessling
Dec 18, 2017
Adele Phila Hessling was born in Billings, Montana to Delbert and Ada Wardell. She was the twinkle in her fathers eye. She and her two sisters (Sally and Karen) grew up with a great appreciation for the outdoors and wildlife, camping often in the mountains with their parents. Throughout her entire life she enjoyed visiting the Tetons and other beautiful...
Joan Elaine Hess
Dec 17, 2017
Joan Elaine Hess, 73, was born in Chicago on May 18, 1944. She passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, December 17, 2017. Her parents were John & Alice Monsen of Lander, and her sister is Margaret Monsen-Johlic of Lander. Joanie graduated from Mather High School in 1962 and was very active in Symphony Choir, The Madrigal Choir, the...
Velva Rose Baldes
Dec 14, 2017
Our loving gracious mother, grandma, sister, and auntie passed away on December 14, 2017. She was born on November 1, 1933 to Jule Joseph and Gladys Hickey Lahoe. When she was an infant she won a beauty contest. She was very energetic and she loved her family more than anything. She loved to have her family come to visit her....
Ila Ann Bennett
Dec 14, 2017
Ila Ann Bennett, 80, of Lander, Wyoming died on December 14, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ila Ann Bennett was born on August 22, 1937 to Ila Ann Groesbeck in Provo, Utah. She graduated from Springville High School. She married Kay Bennet on December 5, 1959. Ila was a member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, local chapter and...
Rose "Sue" Hallett
Dec 7, 2017
Surrounded by her family, long-time Lander resident Rose Suzanne "Sue" Hallett went to be with her Lord on December 7, 2017.Services were held at Lander Valley Baptist Church on December 15, 2017 at 10 a.m. Sue was born September 28, 1943 in Hammond, Indiana to Lester K. and Margaret (Medvesany) Kelley.She attended Hammond primary and secondary schools and graduated from...
Gregory Dean Hanks
Dec 5, 2017
Greg Hanks, 66, of Lander passed away on December 5, 2017 at his home in Red Canyon with his family by his side. Per Gregs request there will be no services. Greg worked at Western Nuclear and U.S. Steel mines and in construction for several years. He was a locksmith in Fremont County for 35 years. He is survived by...
Peter Piplica
Nov 29, 2017
Peter Piplica,89, ofLander,peacefully passed away onWednesday,November29,2017, withhisfamilyathisside. Peter was born November 10, 1928, in the region of Lika, Croatia. His parents, Rade and Saja, had a home in Brezovac. When he was 12 years old, Ustashe soldiers moved through Yugoslavia. His grandfather, a sister, and an aunt were executed at his grandparents home in Suvaja. Shortly after, the Serbian resistance...
Robert "Bob" Benda
Nov 29, 2017
Robert L. Benda of Hudson, Wyoming died in Lander on November 29, 2017. There will be a visitation at 9:00 am in the Chapel of Mount Hope in Hudsons Funeral Home. Funeral service will immediately follow, starting at 10:00 am. Robert was born on May 15, 1937 in Verdigre, Nebraska to Louis Benda and Albina Stavinoha Benda. He married Jeanette...
Gaynell Turner Findley
Nov 29, 2017
GayNell Turner Findley, 95, of Lander, WY died on November 29, 2017 at Westward Heights Nursing Home with her daughters by her side. A celebration of life will be held at 11 am, Saturday, December 9, 2017 at Sunrise Baptist Church, 3990 S McKinley St, Casper, Wyoming. Her ashes will be buried next to her son in Commerce, TX in...
Mary Eloise (Louise) Mayhew
Nov 19, 2017
Mary E. (Louise) Mayhew was born April 27, 1928 in Huntington, West Virginia to John and Sallie Meadows Lemings. She spent part of her youth in Chester, West Virginia. In 1951 she married Reason Mayhew of Georgetown, Pennsylvania where they spent their lives together raising their family. She worked at Homer Laughlin China Company in Newell, West Virginia until she...
Fredric Jay Kemme
Nov 19, 2017
Frederic Jay Kemme, 88, died at his home in Dubois, Wyoming on November 19, 2017. Per his request no services will be held. Jay was born to Frederick and Marguerite Kemme on March 19, 1929 in Midwest, Wyoming. He married Edna M. Hornecker in 1950. After service in the military they made their home in Lander and then in Casper,...
