All Obituaries

It is an honor for me to write about my brother Michael Willford. He was born on January 14, 1962, in Jackson, Wyoming.  He passed away on April 27, 2019, in Jackson. This was a place he loved living his life and the only place in the world he would want to be when his life was over.   To Colleen and I he was our little brother. To Connie, he was her big brother.   We grew up on the East side of Jackson where the Senior Center stands and where Wayne May's property...

Avery Leland Rogers, 33, of Jackson, Wyoming died May 5th, 2019. Avery was born December 12th, 1985 in Laramie, Wyoming to Marty and Judy Rogers. Avery grew up and was homeschooled in Conrad, Iowa. He was active in high school football, playing fullback, and wrestling where he consistently competed in the state championships. He received his associate’s degree in business at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming where he wrestled for three years. He worked various jobs in the...

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For years, Ron Raykowski correctly answered every trivia question asked of him at Jackson’s Town Square Tavern on Wednesday nights. Early in the morning of April 29th, God asked my dad to play on his trivia team and my dad accepted.   A true wilderness warrior and master of sailing the high seas, he has left us with his insane outdoorsman stories like surviving the Alaskan tundra to track a grizzly or maneuvering grand ships at midnight through high swells in the South Pacific....

Vogelheim, 55, Mother, Surfer, Silver Saddle Rancher Jackson Hole Resident Rebecca Carlsberg Vogelheim passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, with comfort and dignity at home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on April 26, following a 19-month battle with brain cancer.  She was 55. Becky, the daughter of Richard and Barbara Carlsberg, was born at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in the San Fernando Valley in California, and was raised in Los Angeles.  She began her days surfing at...

Jonathan “Johnny” Thomas Trotta, age 28, of Mount Kisco, NY, passed away on April 6th  in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Johnny was born to Bonnie and Tom Trotta on September 1st, 1990.  He went to high school at Horace Greeley in Chappaqua, NY. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in public relations. He was an avid athlete, including football and baseball. He loved snowboarding and spent five years in the mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Johnny...

Dietrich Oberreit, 95, Teton Village Pioneer Long time Jackson Hole resident Dietrich Hermann Oberreit passed away peacefully on April 6th, with family at his side. Dietrich was born on March 8, 1924 in Paterson, New Jersey, to Wilhelm Oberreit and Gertrud Louise Limpert. Upon the loss of his father when he was 8 years old, his mother moved the family (Dietrich, 2 brothers and a sister) to Switzerland to be near family. In 1942, when he was 18, they returned to New Jersey via diplomatic...

Helen Cecilia (Dabkiewicz) O’Leary, age 99, died April 1, 2019 in Jackson, Wyoming. She lived a long and adventurous life. Helen was born March 8, 1920 in Evanston, Illinois to Vincent and Pauline (Wierniewski) Dabkiewicz; both her parents emigrated as children from Poland to the United States. She and her brother Ralph exercised polo ponies growing up, as her father worked as a chauffeur for the family of the Edward Hines Lumber Company. As a child her family lived in Illinois and...

Billie Garnick, age 100, passed away on March 13, 2019.

Andrea Jane Duffy passed away at her home in Jackson on March 8, 2019 after a short battle with cancer. She was 79 years young. Andrea was born in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota on Feb 15th, 1940 to Stan and Ann Berkland. Andrea’s father, Stan, was a carpenter, and as it was toward the end of the depression, Andrea’s family traveled to find work. Her family moved to Heron, South Dakota where she spent her early school age years. After that, her family moved throughout South Dakota...