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Betty May Dahlke passed away November 15, 2016 surrounded by family at Central Wyoming Hospice in Casper, Wyoming. A former resident of Saratoga, Betty ran and operated the Corral Drive-In for several years. Betty was born in Antigo, Wis. to Arthur and Marie Moore on May 2, 1926. She married Ernest Dahlke on July 20, 1944 in Wisconsin. Ernie served in the US Navy during World War II and after the war was over, Betty and Ernie moved to Wyoming. Betty was a proud stay at home mom. Betty enjoyed...
Joseph Anthony DiGregorio, 61, of Denver, Colo., died unexpectedly at home on November 10, 2016 Joe was born in Trinidad, Colo., June 16, 1955 to Julius and Frances (née Amato) DiGregorio. He attended Holy Trinity Catholic School. After graduation he attended Trinidad State College and University of Colorado Boulder earning a BS in economics before heading back home to head the Huerafano/Las Animas Council of Government for several years. In 1986 Joe earned his Doctorate of Juris Prudence at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. He worked in...
Marcella Ellen "Pat" (née Gilligan) Johnson was born on a farm in eastern South Dakota (Estelline) on September 30, 1910. She lived to be 106. Pat was the last surviving sibling of 14 children. In 1935 Pat married Oren Johnson and moved to Cripple Creek, Colo., a mining town. The adjustment in elevation of over 8000 feet was only matched by the cultural change from an agriculture area to a mining area. Here she gave birth to two children, Marlys and Robert. In 1942, they moved to Laramie to...
1SG Martin George "Marty" Clever Jr. (Ret.) passed away October 29, 2016 in Aurora, Colorado. He was born on June 14, 1936 in Hemet, Calif. He grew up in Southern Calif. Marty joined the U.S. Army in 1953 at Age 17 and was drafted into Company A, 350th Infantry Regiment. He was an Army Ranger and served in Austria, IndoChina and Vietnam. When he returned from the War, Marty was a drill sergeant, training and influencing hundreds of young soldiers over the years. He retired from the Army in 1973...
Graveside services for Carbon County native Jean Marie (Peterson) Garnett will be held Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, at 11 a.m. in the Mountain View Cemetery east of Riverside. A celebration of life with full military honors was held Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Clearmont Community Church in Clearmont, Wyo., with Pastor Shane Haynes officiating. United States of America flag presentation and a 21-gun salute were conducted by the honor guard from Ellsworth Air Force Base. Jean passed away on Thursday,...
Recently the Saratoga Airport Board held a “regular” meeting at a non-publicly announced time. The board’s regularly scheduled meeting is supposed to be held 1 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month at Saratoga town hall. The last meeting was held four hours later than was normal with no advance notice given to this newspaper. So what’s the big deal? The big deal is that any actions taken at an unannounced meeting may be, by Wyoming law, null and void. At its last meeting, the board unanimously voted to approve a transfer of the Fixed B...
Marilyn, 89, of Saratoga, died Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 at the Afton Care Center in Afton, Iowa. Private family memorial services will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to the Naja Shrine Travel Fund, Naja Shrine, 4091 Sturgis Rd, Rapid City, S.D., 57702. Online condolences can be given at www.powersfh.com. Marilyn Louise Rummel was born October 29, 1926 in Minneapolis, Minn.; a daughter to Helen Louise (Forney) and Clayton Arnold Guenther. She graduated from Winterset High School in...
A memorial service commemorating the life of JoAn Everist Fugate will be held 11 a.m. Oct. 8, 2016 in the Valley Chapel at Saratoga Cemetery. JoAn passed away unexpectedly on Sept. 7, 2016 after suffering a stroke. JoAn was born Oct. 30, 1929 in Trinidad, Colo. to George and Ollie Everist. At age 7, JoAn moved to Saratoga with her family. There, she met and married Raymond Johnson in 1947. JoAn and Raymond had three daughters, Kathleen, Marci and Charmaine. They lived in multiple towns across Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana as Raymond...
A celebration of life memorial service for Leon Roy Hetherington is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Saratoga with the Rev. Susan Dyer officiating. Internment will follow at 2 p.m. in the family plot at the Green Hills Cemetery in Laramie. Mr. Hetherington died Aug. 31 in the Carbon County Memorial Hospital in Rawlins following several years of illness. Born July 24, 1933, to Arthur and Viola Hetherington in Laramie, Leon moved to Saratoga with his...
Scott Ross Peterson, 94, reached the end of his long earthly adventure on Sept. 24, 2016, at his home in Surry, Maine. Scott was born in the family home in Oakley, Utah, on April 29, 1922, to Mark Harper and Marie Irma Ross Peterson, both descendants of early Utah pioneers. A 1940 graduate of South Summit High School, Scott attended Utah A & M and the University of Utah, served in the U.S. Navy, and graduated from Colorado A&M, now CSU, with a B.S. in animal science in 1952. Later, Scott...
Mildred 'Millie' Pickett-Anderson, 87 years, passed away Friday September 23, 2016 at the Rawlins Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Rawlins. A memorial service will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 at the Valley Chapel in Saratoga Cemetery with a gathering of friends starting at 12:30 p.m. She was born in Saratoga Oct. 26, 1928 to the late Joe and Nettie Helms Silva. She married James D. Pickett Sept. 15, 1948 and he passed away Oct. 24, 1979. She later married E. Oakley Anderson March 12,...
Glenn Leavengood fought a seven-year battle with cancer that ended on Oct. 19, 2015. Glenn was born in Kansas, but got to Wyoming as quick as he could as the adopted child of Slim and Bird (Stockwell) Leavengood. Glenn attended Saratoga schools K-12, and worked on several local ranches from age 14 until he was employed by Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Conservation District in the 90s. Glenn worked for the SERCD until the day of his death. His most passionate work at SERCD was the living snow fence...
John Heinrich, age 73, of Loveland, Colo. passed away peacefully at home on Sept. 7, 2016 after a long struggle with lung disease. John was born in Denver, Colo. on March 3, 1943 to "Heinie" and Dorothy Heinrich. He was a Navy Veteran. After serving four years, he met and married Linda Voeller of North Dakota in 1964. They shared 52 loving years of marriage. John's career of 43 years was spent as a manufacturers sporting goods representative. He was an avid outdoors enthusiast, enjoying hunting,...
Sonja L. Hamblin passed away Aug. 23, 2016 in Elko, Nev. She was born March 28, 1938 in Laramie. She was raised in Laramie and attended Beauty School there. She married Ross Hamblin in 1968 and moved to Saratoga shortly after. After spending almost 20 years in Saratoga, the mining industry brought Sonja and Ross to Elko, Nev. She would eventually retire as a hairdresser there after working for many years. She will be fondly remembered for her determination and being such a compassionate and...
Memorial services for long-time Saratoga resident Marie Huntley were conducted Friday, Aug. 19, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. in the Saratoga Cemetery Valley Chapel with the Rev. Stephen Niccolls of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Music was presented by Teense Willford. Marie died Sunday, Aug. 14 in Cheyenne, Wyo. She had suffered with serious illness the past several months. Born Dec. 16, 1935, in Davis, West Virginia to Ernest Clyde and Vivian Edna Winters, in her younger years Marie moved...
Shawn Renae (Garretson) Janson July 11, 1967- Aug. 15, 2016 Memorial services for former Saratoga resident Shawn Renae (Garretson) Janson, 49, will be conducted Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 at 10 a.m. in the Valley Chapel at the Saratoga Cemetery. Teense Willford will be performing the service, with Carbon County Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. An additional memorial service will be held in Brush, Colo. on Monday, Aug. 29 at 2 p.m. at the Calvary Assembly of God Church with Pastor Chris...
Bluefield, WV – Richard Louis Sharp, 95 passed away August 16, 2016 at his home in Bluefield, WV. Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming on April 25, 1921, he was the only child of Seymour S. Sharp and Mary E. Hysell Sharp. He grew up in Saratoga, Wyoming, valedictorian of his high school class, attended University of Wyoming and University of Colorado in Boulder obtaining a degree in Civil Engineering. He was a veteran of World War II, U.S. Army Air Corps. His 30-year career was spent in Wyoming, C...
Prominent Rawlins businesswoman and community leader, Della Maier Vivion, died August 11, 2016 in Casper, Wyo. Born in Sheridan, she was the daughter of Edna Fauver and Joseph A. Maier. Active in a wide variety of civic and community affairs, Della served as the first woman Mayor of Rawlins from 1987-1989. She was devoted to her family and the community, and worked tirelessly on behalf of innumerable causes including the revitalization of downtown Rawlins, historic preservation, and fostering...
Anna Mae Prather entered heaven on February 10, 2016 from Fort Meyers, Fla. A time of remembrance for Anna Mae, a long time resident of Carbon County and business owner in Saratoga, will be held Saturday, Aug. 6 at 10 a.m. at the Saratoga Cemetery Chapel. Anna Mae's friends are encouraged to join her family with their favorite memory of her, with a story, picture or song. A gathering to celebrate Anna Mae's steadfast love and commitment to her heavenly Father, His Son and her Savior, Jesus...
William "Will" Speer, beloved husband, father and brother, passed away suddenly Saturday, July 16, 2016 at his home. Will was born in 1940 in Rockford, Ill. to Roy J. and Rhoda Jane Speer. In his teens he guided fishermen at a resort located in the Boundary Waters between Minnesota and Canada. During his college years at Iowa State University as a forestry major, he fire jumped for the USFS in the west. He came to love the west and after college moved to Oregon and never looked back. He helped...
Edward M. Dettinger, a resident of Rawlins, Wyo., since 1991 (and previously from 1977 until 1985) passed away at his home June 8, 2016. Edward was born in 1942 in Saratoga, Wyo.(Parents James and Serene Dettinger). He attended school in Encampment and Ryan Park. Edward and his family moved to California in 1951, where he graduated from South Torrance High School in 1960. He served in the U.S. Army from 1963 until 1966 (stationed in Korea and Dominican Republic). Following his honorable discharge, he went to school and became a journeyman...
Mary Margaret was born Sept. 25, 1944 in Cheyenne, Wyo. Her parents, W. Dillard "Pic" and Frances E. Walker were pioneer Wyoming aviators. When "MM" was just five, the family moved from Cheyenne to Saratoga, Wyo. where she spent her formative years. Her parents built the Saratoga Inn Resort there and operated several ranches in the Platte River Valley raising cattle, horses, and sheep. In 1958 the Walker Family moved to Scottsdale, Ariz. where MM continued her education graduating from Scottsdal...
Vivien Lee Campbell from Encampment, Wyo. passed away on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from complications of pneumonia. Vivien was born on July 10, 1941 in Illinois to parents Roy and Emmalee (Brown) Kerr. Vivien married Ken Campbell on July 24, 1982 in Idaho Springs, Colo. After retiring in 2000, Ken and Vivien moved to the Encampment area. Vivien loved the mountains, snowmobiling and 4-wheeling. She loved to spend part of the winter in Arizona and Utah, where she and Ken 4-wheeled and explored the deserts and old mining towns. Vivien loved to play...
Jack T. "Bud" Knoell of Saratoga, Wyo. died June 1, 2016 in Rawlins, Wyo. He was 81. Bud was born in Fremont Nebraska on November 15, 1934. Bud is survived by his wife, Clara Mae (Quealy) Knoell of the family home; a daughter, Ramona Beach, and her husband, Jay of Rock Springs; four grandchildren, Andrew Apostolou and wife Katy, Tessa Beach, Griffin Beach and Hayden Beach; three great-grandchildren, Glenn, Thomas and Hayden; sister-in-law, Mary Jo Knoell of Torrington Wyoming; special cousin,...
Mary Alice Sjoden, 85, of Saratoga passed away peacefully at home, with her children by her side May 16, 2016. She was born May 30, 1930 to Clarence and Winifred Shaw in Rawlins, Wyo. The family moved to Saratoga, Wyo. in 1935. Mary attended the Saratoga schools graduating from Platte Valley High School in 1948. She was active in band, Glee Club, pep club, dramatics, played softball and basketball, 1947 TAA Queen, chosen for Girls State 1947, editor of PLAVALHI annual, society editor of the...