All Obituaries

Sunday, September 5, 2021, John Edward Strong, loving husband and father passed away in Upton at the age of 59. John was born April 30, 1962 to George and Alice Strong. He was the youngest of ten children. John graduated from Upton High School in 1981. He married Laurie Boyles and to this union two children were born, Roberta Paulette and Tristan Lee. Roberta passed away in November of 1984 from SIDS. Laurie and John were later divorced. John went to work at American Colloid Company. In...

William "Bill" LeRoy Anderson was born in Ethel, WA in 1933, to Harold and Elsie Anderson.  There were three boys born to this family.  Bill was in the Air Force where he played football, then served in the Korean War for three and a half years.  He was then a logger and high climber in Alaska, Washington and Oregon.  After moving from Alaska to South Dakota, he met and married Gerldine (Pooley-Woodward) in 1963 and helped raise her seven children. Bill worked...

William Darrel Townsend III (Butch) of Newcastle, WY passed away August 26, 2021 at Monument Health Hospital in Rapid City, SD.    William was born in Newcastle, WY October 1, 1938 to Bill and Katherine Townsend. He was the 3rd of five children. Kay Linton, June Brown, Charles and Mark Townsend. He attended school in Upton and graduated in 1956.     William joined the Air Force in 1959, he was honorably discharged after four years of service to his country....

Gerry Linda Clark Gerry was born April 25, 1956 to Charles and Lavonne Clark.  She came home to Red Water near Spearfish, S.D.  She also lived in Moskee in the summer and the family eventually moved to Newcastle when she was about three.  She received some of her early education at Gertrude Burns School and later had an in-home tutor.  She also attended school in Thermopolis and college classes at Sheridan College.  Her next home was Billings, Montana where she...

Visitation for Vernon Clyde will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at Gillette Memorial Chapel. Celebration of Life will be held at 12:00 p.m., Friday, August 6, 2021 at Kitty Mote Complex, Osage, WY. Vernon L. Clyde born April 15, 1953, was tragically lost to us on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.  Born in Sundance, WY the sixth child of Orren and Mary Rankin Clyde McCollom.  Vernon lived most of his life in Osage, WY.  Even when he had to be elsewhere, he...

Memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 31, 2021 at 10:00 a.m, at the First United Methodist Church in Newcastle, WY, Pastor Ron Sample officiating.  Roy Andrew Borgialli passed away peacefully from complications from Parkinson’s disease on July 22, 2021, at the Weston County Manor in Newcastle, WY. Roy was born August 6, 1934, to Lorena (Weaver) and Joe Borgialli as the fifth of seven children, in a rock house on the Borgialli ranch 18 miles southwest of Newcastle. He...

Funeral Services for Chrisjen L. McIlvain will be held Saturday, July 17, 2021 beginning at 4:00 p.m. This service will be live-streamed here. See the streaming player below.   

Helen Agnes (Morris) Knipp was born the third in a family of eight children of Ben and Edna (Pridgeon) Morris. She had six brothers and one sister. She attended grade school at Knobby Knoll and graduated from Newcastle High School in 1950. She married neighbor, and lifetime sweetheart Richard (Dick) Knipp in 1951. They moved to Osage, where Dick worked for Black Hills Power and Light for 41 and a half years. They raised five children, Shirley Ann, Bonnie Joyce, James Richard, Linda Lou and...

Cyndy G. Singer, 66, of Newcastle, Wyo., passed away on June 24, 2021, at her longtime residence in Newcastle, after a seven-month illness. She was born in Upton, Wyo., on Dec. 6, 1954, to the late Paul Elmer and Velma “Collene” Patterson. She is survived by her spouse, John Robert Singer, and his three sons, Daniel, David, and Jeffery Singer. She is also survived by three siblings, Kathryn “Marie” Poor, Elizabeth Anne Elder, William Neil Patterson, their spouses,...

Kim Francis Zorn, 63, passed away June 12, 2021 at the Weston County Manor. Kim was born August 18, 1957 to Louis and Stella Schimetz in Bottineau, North Dakota. She graduated from Dunseith High School in 1975 and then met the love of her life, Bill Zorn. The couple married August 12, 1977 and were blessed with their two daughters, Nicole and Jaclyn. Kim enjoyed deer hunting with Bill, camping, fishing, shopping and spoiling her kids and grandkids. Family was extremely important to Kim, she...