All Obituaries

Celebration of Life for Charles R. Rankin will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 16, 2019 at Upton Elementary Auditorium. Charles R. Rankin was born on January 6, 1925, to Robert and Louella Rankin on the Rankin Ranch south of Upton.  He joined a sister, Ada May Whitten, and brother, Harold Rankin.  Another sister, Mary Clyde, joined the family a short while later.  Charles spent his life at the family ranch.  No stranger to hard work, Charles quit school in the...

Betty Price passed away January 31 at Weston County Health Services following a short illness. Betty was born May 31, 1937 to Jacob and Claudia (Gardner) Parks in Holdenville, Oklahoma. Upon graduation, she married Bill T. Price September 15, 1955. In the fall of 1963, they, along with their three kids, Kim, Billy Jr., and Steven moved to the oilfield near Osage, Wyoming. While waiting for Shawn to be born, the family moved back to Oklahoma for 2 years before moving back to Osage where they...

Frederick Hans Hansen passed away January 4, 2019, at Weston County Manor from complications of Alzheimer’s. Fred was born January 17, 1936, in Newcastle to Carl and Ella (Toth) Hansen. He was the seventh of eight children born to this union. Fred was raised on the family ranch outside of Newcastle and graduated from Newcastle High School in May, 1954. After graduation Fred worked in the oilfields around Newcastle. Fred married Barbara Judd on December 28, 1957. To this union three...

Mass of Christian Burial for Margaret Trosello will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, January 5, 2019 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Newcastle, WY. Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Friday, January 4, 2019 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Newcastle, WY. Rosary to begin at 7:00 p.m. Margaret Patricia "Pat" Trosello passed away at the Weston County Manor in Newcastle, Wyoming on December 30, 2018.  "Pat" was born to Dominico and...

Helen Louise Daly Wright, 95 years, 11months, passed away on Thursday, August 16, 2018 at her home on the family ranch south of Newcastle. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, August 23 at the First United Methodist Church in Newcastle, Wyoming with Micah Popma officiating. Burial will follow at the Newcastle Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation is from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, August 22 at Worden Funeral Home in Newcastle. Helen was born September 6, 1922 in Springfield, Illinois to James...

Gertrude Lavonne (Conger) Clark was born at Red Owl, South Dakota to Troy Ellsworth "Bun" and Elizabeth Amy "Betty" (McGinnis) Conger on February 26, 1931. She attended country schools riding to and from on horseback with her siblings. She graduated from Sturgis High School in 1948 and later took a job in Sundance, Wyoming. It was there she met her future husband, Charles Clark and they married October 30, 1948. They lived in the Sundance and Spearfish areas where Charles worked for...

Robert "Bob" Bruce Jones, 80 of Newcastle, Wyoming passed away Wednesday July 18, 2018 in his home town of Newcastle. He was born on September 17, 1937 in Deadwood, South Dakota to Cable and Vera Jones. As a young child, he moved to Newcastle with his family. During high school he began working for his father. On December 5, 1959 Bob married the love of his life, Donna Hedrick Jones. They had four beloved children together. Bob worked for MJT Trucking before finishing his career at Dixon...

Michael Lazarus Feist, age 92, of Newcastle, WY, passed away June 23, 2018, at the Weston County Manor in Newcastle. He was born August 23, 1925, to Conrad and Rose Feist, at home on a farm near Selfridge, ND. On June 8, 1948, he and Bessie Snyder were married in Selfridge. The couple moved to Newcastle in the mid 1950's where Mike worked in the oil field as a heavy equipment operator. His farming heritage always stayed with him and he planted large gardens. He liked making sausage from...

Bryan Stanley Stroh, 62 years old, was a resident of Newcastle, Wyoming. He went on to his heavenly home on June 12, 2018 after a long fight with cancer. He was a life-long rancher carrying on the family business of raising cattle. Bryan was the third of four sons, born to Donald and Evelyn Stroh on March 17, 1956. A resident of Kiowa, Colorado, he graduated from Kiowa High School in 1975, then attended DIT where he studied in auto mechanics. In 1977 he married the love of his life,...