All Obituaries

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...

Jeffrey A. Davis, 77, of Heck of a Hill Road, passed away on September 4, 2018, at his home in Wilson, WY.  He was born in Queens, New York on June 16, 1941, to Phillip K. Davis and Evelyn Dieber Davis.  Jeff lived in Newburgh, NY as a child and graduated from high school there.  Jeff was an avid skier and he was always chasing the snow.  His passion for The Isle of Man World’s Deadliest Race took him to Ireland many times to watch the TT Races.  In his...

Virginia E. Richards, 89, died peacefully on August 20, 2018 in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, of complications from Alzheimer’s.  Ginny, as she preferred, the daughter of Lloyd and Ardith VanDeBurg, was born on January 6, 1929 in Grainton, Nebraska. Searching for work, Ginny’s parents, relocated to the Snake River Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1930 during the great depression.   Ginny graduated from high school and started college in Laramie where she met and...