All Obituaries

Ina Louise Wheaton May 13, 1927 - October 22, 2018 Ina Louise Wheaton, age 91, of Lusk, Wyoming passed away peacefully October 22, 2018 at Niobrara Community Hospital. Louise was born May 13, 1927 in Pawnee, Oklahoma to Russell and Hope Toler. On November 27, 1945 she married Gordon (Bud) Wheaton in Miles City, Montana. He preceded her in death on August 18, 1984. Louise is survived by her two daughters, Connie (Jesse) Halligan, of Lusk and Laurie (Jim) Stratton of Phoenix, Arizona. Louise...

  Funeral services for Benjamin George ‘Benji’ Brozovich will be held at 10:00 A.M. Mon., Oct. 15, 2018, at the Niobrara County Fairgrounds Auditorium, with Father Andrew Duncan, of St. Leo Catholic Church in Lusk, officiating. Interment will follow in the family plot at the Lusk Cemetery.  He died Thursday, Oct. 4, in a train crash west of Cheyenne, WY. Ben was born in Lusk Jan. 11, 1979 to Art and Madeleine (Kalamaja) Brozovich, and grew up on the family...

Jeraldine M. Hineman, 75, of Lusk, passed away on October 2, 2018.  Born August 3, 1943 to Irene Isabelle (Edwards) and Howard Enos Hladky in Sheridan, WY.  Jeraldine grew up in Emmett, Kansas and after completing high school she moved to Sheridan, where she worked in a photograph shop until she married. Jeraldine lived in Gillette and Casper prior to moving to Keeline in 1975 and subsequently to Lusk.  She is survived by her husband, Allen Hineman of Lusk.  She is the...

Dale Robert Gunn, beloved husband and father, passed into eternal life on September 14, 2018 at the age of 89.    Funeral service for Dale will be 10:00 AM, Saturday, September 22, 2018 at the Niobrara County Auditorium in Lusk. Interment will follow in the Lusk Cemetery.   Dale was born in Crawford, NE to Alex and Helen (Ring) Gunn on March 22, 1929.  The young family lived on the Ring Ranch 20 miles north of Harrison for the first two years of Dale’s...

Michael P. Polen passed away Sunday morning, August 26th, 2018, at Niobrara Community Hospital in Lusk, Wyoming. He was born December 28th, 1962 to Paul Willis Polen and Sally Jean Smith in Alliance, OH. He graduated from Oregon City High School in 1981. Michael married his high school sweetheart, Heather Leigh Stewart, on January 15th, 1994. Together, they owned Pacific Restoration, a fire and water restoration company before moving to Wyoming in 2005. In 2007, he began work for Baker...

 Beverly Jean Hoy Beverly passed away at the age of 84 on August 7th 2018. She was born in her family home in Lusk, Wyoming on November 11th 1933. Beverly married the love of her life, Richard Keith Hoy, on June 14th 1951. Beverly stayed in Lusk until Richard finished his basic training for the Navy, then they moved to Puerto Rico. That is where they had their first child. She was so happy. They then moved to the Leo Thompson Ranch north of Lance Creek for 14 years. They then moved to...

Marry Joan Stoner, 80, passed away Sat., Aug. 4, 2018, at Douglas Care Center in Douglas, Wyo. A Remembrance will be held at Lusk Elks Lodge 1797 Fri., Aug. 24, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. Mary was born in Aug. 9, 1937 in Lusk to Floyd Alton and Emily Mary (Baker Sheldon) Baughman. She married Harry Stoner. Survivors are daughters: Sharon Mary (Caster), Lucille Diane (Reese) LaPage, and Donna Louise (Reese) Harris; brother Bill Kennedy, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Memorials may be...

A celebration of life for, Barry Dale Travnicek, age 49, of Keeline, Wyoming, will be held on Friday, August 10, 2018 at the Niobrara County High School in Lusk at 10:00 am.   Barry tipped his hat good-bye as he lost his battle to Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (BvFTD) on Friday, August 3rd at the Douglas Care Center.  Barry was born October 13, 1968 in Altus, Oklahoma. He was the first son born to parents Dale and Sharon (Rising) Travnicek of Harrison,...

Funeral services for Lurene Rabern were held Tue., July 31, 2018, at the Congregational Church in Lusk.  She passed away Thur., July 26, 2018, at her home in Lusk. Lurene Angela (Hunt) Rabern was born July 9th, 1931 in Philip, S.D. to Ennis “Jack” and Jennie (Annis) Hunt.  Lurene’s childhood was spent on the family ranch south of Eagle Butte, S.D. where she spent a lot of time horseback with her brother Geno.  One childhood experience she shared was her and...