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FREMONT COUNTY OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES
Monday, Oct. 19, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal - A-6
COUNTRYMAN - Charles Frances Countryman
Countryman services held
Charles Frances Countryman, 73, died at Bishop Randall hospital Friday.
Countryman was born March 13, 1908, on the Sweetwater, the son of Mark Countryman and Ida Irvine.
He and his wife, Kathleen, ran the ranch at Sweetwater Station for many years.
Survivors include his wife, Kathleen; a brother, John Countryman of Lyons Valley; five sisters, Margaret Hart of Lander, Dorothy Kimball of Riverton, Truth Borgogno of Toole, Utah, Virginia Bingham of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Ann Caffall of Salt Lake City.
Services were held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Henry Mortuary Chapel with the Rev. Floyd Schwieger of the Bethel Lutheran Church officiating.
Burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery and a memorial has been established for the Cancer Fund.
Transcribed and submitted by Valorie Wilson.
Monday, Oct. 19, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal - A-6
GOBLE - Mrs. Anna Fossey Goble
Anna Goble services in Casper
CASPER - Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Fossey Goble, 53, a former Lander resident, will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Bustard Funeral Home.
Father Kenneth Kinner of the Church of the Holy Family Anglican Catholic Church will officate. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery.
Mrs. Goble died Saturday afternoon at Natrona County Memorial Hospital following a long illness.
She was born Oct 3, 1928, in Lander, where she was raised and educated. She attended the University of Wyoming, graduating with a degree in business education. She taught school at Evanston.
On Nov. 3, 1956, she married George R. Goble of Casper in Lander.
She was employed at various businesses, most recently for Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co.
Mrs. Goble was a member of the American Association of University Women and Church of the Holy Family Anglican Catholic Church.
She was the daughter of the late Daniel J. and Alo W. Fossey of Lander.
She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.
Survivors include her niece, Willa Jean McOmie of Lander; Her husband, George; a son, Daniel Goble and one daughter, Mary Goble, of Casper; five brothers Leslie Fossey of Lander; John Fossey of Aurora, Colo.; David Fossey of Grandview, Mo.; Paul Fossey of Anaheim, Calif.; Wilson Fossey of Arvada, Colo.; two sisters, Mrs. Elmer (Alo Jean) Kandt of Casper; and Mrs. James (Laurie) Smith of Langley, Wash.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the Blue Envelope Cancer Fund in Casper.
Transcribed and submitted by Valorie Wilson.
November 7, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal
ADAMS - Mrs. Charlie Hannah Adams
Mrs. Adams Dies; One of County's Oldest Pioneers
One of Fremont County's oldest pioneers, Mrs. Charlie Hannah Adams, died Saturday morning at Bishop Randall Hospital. She was 97. Mrs. Adams came to Fremont Country by train and stage 70 years ago, in the early 1890's.
She taught school for several years in the Sweetwater, Owl Creek and Lander areas. She was well known throughout the region, where several of her former pupils still live.
She was born in Boone County, Kentucky, in 1867, the daughter of John and Mahalla Ann Cranor. She was one of 11 children.
When she had reached the age of three, her family moved to Montgomery County, Kansas. There she attended school until her graduation, later completing her education at the Teachers Institute at Independence, Kansas.
She then taught school for several years near her home, until coming to Wyoming to join her brother Sherman, who at that time owned a ranch on the Sweetwater.
Charlie Cranor taught Wyoming schools until she met and married Ellis Henry Adams. They were married on Sept. 22, 1895, in a double-wedding ceremony with her sister, Anna Belle Cranor and Lawrence B. Gaylord. The late Rev. John Roberts performed the ceremonty at Ft. Washakie.
The couple operated the Ft. Washakie Hotel for some time before moving to a ranch on East Fork now known as the Duncan area. They later moved to their ranch in Sinks Canyon where the family lived for aproximately 40 years. Five children were born, Dolly and Edwin, both now dead, and John, Gladys, and Sherman.
Mrs. Adams was preceded in death by her husband Ellis, who died in 1946. After that she made her home with her daughter. Gladys Rasmussen. In recent years she had lived at the home of her son Sherman, at 850 West Canyon in Lander.
She had suffered a slight stroke about two weeks ago. On Oct. 25, she was admitted to Bishop Randall Hospiital, where she remained until her death on Saaturday, Nov. 4.
Mrs. Adams is survived by three of her five children, John H. Adams and Sherman E. Adams of Lander; and Mrs. Gladys Rasmussen of Kemmerer. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. One great grandchild, Becky Nolene Adams, preceded her in death. She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Anna B. Gaylord of Thermopolis. She also leaves numerous nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at the Darr Funeral Home at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 7. The Rev. James Mullins of first Baptist Church will conduct the service.
Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery.
Pall bearers will be Mrs. Adams' six eldest grandsons, Julius Rasmussen of Ft. Stockton, Tex.; Henry Rasmussen of San Francisco; John Thomas Adams, Alex Edwin Adams, Ellis Adams, and James Sherman Adams, all of Lander. All friends of Mrs. Adams are considered honorary pallbearers.
Instead of flowers, the famiy has asked that memorial be sent to bishop Randall Hospital to be used in aiding convalescing senior citizens.
She was a member of the Neighbors of the Woodcraft for more than 50 years.
Transcribed and submitted by Valorie Wilson.
December 1, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal
HOPKINS - Merritt G. Hopkins
Merritt G. Hopkins, 42, died last Tuesday, Nov 28, at St. Benedicts Hospital in Ogden, Utah. He had been ill since last April with a lung ailment.
Mr. Hopkins had lived in Lander for nine years. He was a surveyor and had been employed by Bishop and Spulock for some time. For the past year he had been with Pomeroy-Bechtel.
He was born Aug 14, 1919, at Big Piney. He married Irene Yeck in June, 1942.
In addition to his widow, he is survived by three sons, Gary, Harold and Terry. He also leaves his father, George W. Hopkins, who owns the Big Piney Examiner; a sister, Mrs. Donald Gray of Big Piney, and a brother Donald in Cheyenne.
Funeral services were held Saturday, Dec 2, at Big Piney. Burial was in the Big Piney cemetery.
Transcribed and submitted by Mary Thompson Saban.
December 1, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal
GEMMILL - William Fayette Gemmill
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Barr Funeral Home Chapel for William Fayette Gemmill of Lander. The Rev. Barry Kimbrough officiated. Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Mr. Gemmill died Friday at 8:15 p.m., shortly after being admitted to the Bishop Randall Hospital. He had been suffering from a heart ailment for the past three years.
Since 1959 Mr. Gemmill had made his home with his sister, Mrs. Marjorie Minshall at 904 South 4th Street in Lander. During this time he was employed by the Lander Creamery and for the past six years worked as a serviceman at the State Training School.
He was born in Ewing, Nebraska on August 19 (?), 1900 (?). He graduted from high school there in 1917 and attended the University of Nebraska.
He served in World War I. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Ewing. Survivors included his sister Marjorie and her husband.
Transcribed and submitted by Mary Thompson Saban.
December 1, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal
ANDERSON - Mrs. Leona Anderson
Mrs. Leona Matilda Anderson of Lander died Sunday afternoon in her trailer home at the State Training School.
Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Thermopolis. Burial will be in Meeteetse.
She is survived by her husband Stanley, an employee at the Training School.
Transcribed and submitted by Mary Thompson Saban.
December 7, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal
WALLOWINGBULL - Fred Wallowingbull
Fred Wallowingbull, 54, of Ethete was killed late Monday afternoon near Ft. Washakie in what Indian police officers are convinced was a hit-run case.
Wallowingbull's body was found about 5:30 p.m. on highway 287 just outside Ft. Washakie. A passing motorist reported it to the Reservation police.
The Darr ambulance of Lander was called and took the body to Bishop Randall Hospital. A doctor said the man was dead on arrival at the hospital. Robert Darr, deputy county coroner, told police he believes the man was dead when the ambulance arrived at the scene.
Marice Fishencord, Reservation police chief, said he thought he detected a faint pulse before the ambulance arrived but could not be certain.
Fishencord said Wallowingbull's body was found on the shoulder of the highway a short distance south of the turn-off that goes to the Chief Lockers, near the edge of Ft. Washakie.
He said the body did not show serious wounds and apparently the fatal injuries were internal.
Fishencord is convinced Wallowingbull was the victim of a hit-run driver. There was no evidence of other violence. He said there were no skid marks or other signs to indicate which way a car may have been traveling.
The chief said he has contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation which is expected to make a thorough probe of the death.
Deputy Coroner Darr said that unless the FBI or Indian police request an inquest, none will be conducted. The case is under Federal jurisdiction because it happenen on the Wind River Indian Reservation.
The dead man was born at Ethete on July 6, 1907. His wife died in 1959.
He was one of the Arapahoe tribe leaders and was the Keeper of the Pipe in Arapahoe sun dance ceremonies.
He was carried on the tribal rolls as Wilfred Bull, but was more widely known as Fred Wallowingbull.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Irma Groesbeck, Mrs. Vivian Lucy Goggles and Aurelia Bull, all of Ethete; and three sons, Clayton, Joseph Tatrick and Leroy Bull, all of Ethete.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 8, at 10 a.m. at Our Father's House in Ethete. The Rev. Ware King will officiate. Burial will be in the Wallowingbull family cemetery at Ethete.
Transcribed and submitted by Mary Thompson Saban.
December 12, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal
GALLINGER - Ken Gallinger
County Coroner Larry Lee has called an inquest into the death of Ken Gallinger of Lander in a car crash south of Riverton last Wednesday morning.
The inquest will be held in Riverton at the Davis Funeral Home
Gallinger, 38, partner in the City Bakery at Lander, died when his bakery truck was struck head-on by a car driven by Theodore Goggles of Riverton.
Officers who investigated the crash said Goggles was driving on the wrong side of the road at the time. He was injured and was treated in Fremont Memorial Hospital in Riverton.
Funeral services for Gallinger were held Saturday morning from Trinity Episcopal Church in Lander with the Rev. William Watson officiating.
Pallbears were Ken Rathbone, Jim Guschewsky, Wayne Bybee, Tom Davey, Charles Schneiter and Lew Lee. Burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
The combined color guard of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars conducted military rites at the graveside. Mr. Gallinger was a former commander of the VFW Post here.
Organ music was played by Mrs. Robert Dunkin.
Mr. Gallinger was the father of four children. He is also survived by his wife, Elaine, his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gallinger of the North Fork, and three brothers.
Transcribed and submitted by Mary Thompson Saban.
December 14, 1961 - Wyoming State Journal
BREITENSTEIN - Frank Breitenstein
Frank Breitenstein Dies Here at 84; He Lived in Lander Since 1936
Frank Breitenstein died at his home here Tuesday night at the age of 84. He had been ill for some time. Doctors believe he suffered a heart attack.
Mr. Breitenstein was born in 1877 at Creston, Iowa. He came to Wyoming with his parents at the age of 9 years. They settled in Laramie where he attended schools. He also worked for the Union Pacific Railroad in Laramie and Cheyenne until 1903.
He went back to Iowa and engaged in the automobile business and then returned to Pareo Wyoming, which is now Sinclair. He was postmaster there.
The family came to Lander in 1936 and he was lived here since then. He and Mrs. Breitenstein were married in Lander in 1902 and would have observed their 60th wedding anniversary next June.
Mr. Breitenstein worked in the County Treasurers office for some time and also in the office of the Noble Hotel.
He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Mrs. J. E. Kidd of Amarillo, Tex. A son, Harold died in Detroit in 1953.
Funeral services have tentatively been set for the Darr Funeral Home with the Rev. Barry Kimbrough officiating. Burial probably will be in Rawlins.
Transcribed and submitted by Mary Thompson Saban.
April 9, 1963 - Wyoming State Journal
GAYLORD - Mrs. Anna Bell Gaylord
MRS. GAYLORD DIES AT THERMOPOLIS
Mrs. Anna Bell Gaylord, who lived in Lander many years, died March 31 at the Rest Haven home at Thermopolis.
Mrs. Gaylord was the widow of Bob Gaylord, who died in 1940. He was Fremont County Sheriff 16 years, County Commissioner 4 years, and served one term in the Legislature.
Mrs. Gaylord was born in Havana, Kansas, Dec. 14, 1874, the daughter of Mahallia and John Cranor.
She came to Lander in 1893. She made the trip from Casper to Split Rock, in the Sweetwater Valley, by stage. She was met by her brother, Sherman, who had a homestead on the Sweetwater which is now a part of the P.J. McIntosh ranch.
She taught at the Iiams school at Boulder Flats and the Borner Garden school.
She married Mr. Gaylord Sept. 25, 1895 at Ft. Washakie, with Rev. John Roberts officiating. The horse-and-buggy trip from Lander, which should have taken 2 or 3 hours, took 8 hours as 21 inches of snow fell the night before.
They had 6 children, Joshua and Spencer of Lander, and Ora of Eagle Creek, Oregon, wo survive her; and a daughter Ina (Mrs. Roy Clark) and two sons William and Frederick, who preceded her in death. She also leaves 12 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
Transcribed and submitted by Valorie Wilson.
December ?, 1963, Source Unknown
LOGAN - Mrs. Nina B. Logan
MRS. NINA B. LOGAN DIED MON., DEC 9
Mrs. Nina Belle Logan, 64 of Lysite, Wyoming, died on Monday December 9, in an Evanston hospital after a heart attack.
Mrs. Logan was visiting in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ray Moss during Thanksgiving week when she became ill. She was born March 31, 1899, at Old Lost Cabin, Wyoming, a daughter of Daniel and Harriet Thompson, Root. She married Floyd H. Logan on July 1927 in Denver, Colo. She was a member of the Eastern Star of Shoshoni, Wyoming, and the Methodist Church.
Surviving are two daughter, Mrs. Don (Velda) Crites, Casper, Wyoming; Mrs. Ray (Lorraine) Moss, Evanston, Wyoming; two stepdaughters, Mrs. John (Dorothy) Kohler, Riverton, Wyoming; Mrs. Nick (Bertha) Hollander, Denver, Colo; 15 grandchildren, five great grandchildren; one brother, Lloyd Raymond Root, Chico, California; and one sister, Mrs. Lessie Murray, Riverton, Wyoming.
Funeral services and burial will be in Riverton, Wyoming on Thursday, December 12
NINA B. LOGAN
1899 - 1963
FUNERAL SERVICES CONDUCTED
in the
DAVIS FUNERAL HOME
Thursday, Dec, 12, 1963 - 11 A. M.
OFFICIATING
The Rev. J. Stanley Fixter
Merrill Womack, Recordings
INTERMENT
The Mountain View Cemetery
Riverton, Wyoming
Transcribed and submitted by Virginia Root Rose
Tuesday February 8, 1966 Riverton Ranger
BEULAH P. CRAIG SERVICES TODAY
Rev. J. Stanley Fixer will officiate this afternoon at funeral services for Beulah Peral Spencer Craig. The 2 o'clock services are being held from the Davis Funeral Home and burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery.
Mrs. Craig died at 9:15 a.m. Friday February 4, 1966, at the Coe Hospital in Cody. She was 60.
Born November 1, 1905 at Lost Cabin, she was the daughter of Bert and Rosalie Lewark, Brasket.
On December 6, 1958, she was married to Clarence Craig in Thermoplis. He died in May, 1964.
Also preceding her in death was a son, Dean Spencer, Jr., and a sister Goldie Wenchester
Survivors include children Bernice, Ruby, and Harold (Corky) Craig; brothers, Van Brasket of Paradise, California, and Albert Brasket of Scottsdale, Arizona; sisters, Marie Nicholas, Laura Brumley, Lillian Dudley, all of Riverton, Cora Vogelsang of Mesa, Arizona.
Mrs. Craig was a member of the Legion Auxilliary and a past member of the B.P.O. Does.
Mrs. Craig died Saturday of injuries received last Thursday in a scuffle at her home in Meeteetse.
Lester Langley, 34, of Cody, pleaded innocent when arraigned in Justice Court of Cody yesterday on a manslaughter charge filed in connection with the death of the 60-year-old Meeteetse woman.
Langley was being held by Park County authorities today in Lieu of $2,000 bond. His preliminary hearing has been scheduled February 18.
Park County Attorney Haney Jones said Mrs. Craig died when a broken rib received in a beating punctured her lung. Jones said he did not know what precepitated the scuffle.
Transcribed and submitted by Virginia Root Rose.
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