All Obituaries

James “Jim” Michael Strickland passed away on January 8, 2019. Jim was born on November 12, 1953 in Rome,Georgia, to Alvin Donald Strickland and Jeanette Pauline Werdeo . He became a resident of Jackson,Wyoming in 1983.  Jim spent his career working in telecommunications and was employed by Spectrum Charter .   Preceding him in death are his parents, a son, Robert Matthew Henderson and a brother, Paul D.Strickland. Jim was a devoted and loving father to his...

  Carolynn Riggan Hawtin passed away peacefully on December 29, 2018 at home surrounded by family.  Carolynn was born on May 4, 1946 to Beulah and Garl Riggan at St. John’s Hospital, a log building on the grounds of the current St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jackson, Wyoming.  She was welcomed home by her older sister Marilynn Riggan Mullikin.  Growing up on Kelly Street, she attended schools in Jackson graduating in 1964 from Jackson-Wilson High...

Kirby Williams left Jackson on Christmas morning in the midst of a winter snow storm, the most fitting departure for a man who loved the snow and loved to ski. He was at home surrounded by all his loved ones and his dogs as he left on a sigh. Kirby was born in May of 1943 to Kenneth and Jeanne Williams in Ogden, Utah. He remained their only child. He and Jeanne moved to Jackson in 1949. Jeanne met and married Byron Jenkins in 1951 and thus began a life on the Jenkins ranch. He grew up with...

Nina Wood Smith passed away on December 21st, 2018 at St. Johns Living Center in Jackson Hole Wyoming at the age of 85. Nina was preceded in death by her husband Jimmie Rae Smith in January of 1990. They were married on January 2nd 1951. She was also preceded in death by her parents Lucille Hammond Wood and Gordon Earl Wood of the Lindale community; her brother Edward Earl Wood, her sister Colleen Freeman Self and sister Nancy Smith Freer. She is survived by her sister Remola Green also of...

Jackson resident Bonnie Brown Koeln died of complications from multiple myeloma on Nov. 2 at her home. She was 78 years old. Ever organized, and frequently teased about it by her friends, Bonnie prepared her own obituary. Bonnie Brown was born May 23, 1940, in Easton, Pennsylvania, the first child and only daughter of John and Lillian Brown. Her early years were spent in Easton and, from ages 7 to 13, in various locations in southern Florida, after which the family returned to Easton. A...

Eva was born in Lindsay, Nebraska on August 2nd, 1925 the fourth of the six children (four brothers and one sister) to Danish immigrant parents Karsten and Emma Clausen. She met her husband, Harvey Jepsen, who was a local softball pitcher and farmer, and they were married on October 10th, 1948. They had one child, a son, Bill Jepsen who retired in Jackson and now lives in Rigby ID.  Harvey and Eva lived on and worked their farm in Platte County, NE. raising "row crops" on...

Mark Andries Mol, 38, passed away in Jackson, WY on October 9th, 2018.  Mark was born in Easton, PA on August 5th, 1980 to Alice and Adrianus Mol.   He attended Pocono Mountain Senior High in Swiftwater, PA and Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He worked winter seasons as a winch cat operator at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, this summer as a project manager at The Tree and Landscaping Company, and several years for Westwood Curtis Construction. Mark was a member of the JH...

Barbara J. Shervin’s valiant heart stopped beating on Sunday, September 16, 2018.  Her family gathered around her sharing love, memories and stories to the end.  Barbara was born in Newcastle, Wyoming on June 3, 1935 to Elza (E.A.) and Laura Decker, the fourth of five children.  The family soon moved to a homestead in Big Piney, Wyoming where Barbara spent her childhood in a pioneer home.   Barbara said she met her destiny pumping gas just before she graduated...

Funeral services for Mark Thomas Uptain, 37,  will be held on September 19, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, 90 W. Kelly, Jackson, Wy.

A True Cowboy   Loal Jacobson was born January 9, 1923 and passed away in his sleep on September 11, 2018 in Jackson at the age of 95.  He was the youngest of nine children with four brothers and four sisters who were born to Oliver and Lydia Jacobson. Loal’s first 16 years were spent on the family’s ranch homestead in the Grand Valley where the confluence of Elk Creek and Little Elk Creek came into the Snake River.  In 1940, around age 17, the family ranch was...