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11/14/2025

Funeral Services for Mack Jones Wardell

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11/11/2025

Mack Jones Wardell

Mack Jones Wardell was born January 11, 1938, to Albert Dalton Wardell and Linnie Jones Wardell in Lovell, Wyoming. Mack was his sister Merla’s 7th Birthday Present. Mack joined Albert Jay, Callis, Preston, Irma, Merla, and Lee. A few years later Joan joined the family. He attended Elementary School in Otto, Wyoming where his mom was one of the teachers. He then attended middle school in Greybull. For high school he decided to attend at Burlington so he would have more of an opportunity to play basketball. He graduated from Burlington High School in May of 1957. After graduation he went on a mission to Canada where President Thomas S. Monson was his Mission President. After he returned from his mission, he started to learn the family trade of being a brick layer.
When Mack was a young boy, he and his brother Lee would go with their dad to the Big Horn Mountains so their dad could log. They would go up in the morning and come down in the evening. Mack and Lee would sled down the road that was covered in ice while their dad was busy cutting the trees. They would build a fire and wait for their dad to come down. His childhood is where he grew his deep love of the Big Horn Mountains.
He met the love of his life, Bonnie Walker. She fed him an amazing home cooked fried chicken dinner. Little did he know her Mom and Dad just stepped out the back door. Mack and Bonnie were sealed for time and all eternity on May 2, 1961, in the Idaho Falls Temple. They were married 64 ½ years.
Mack and Bonnie, early in their marriage, moved several times before settling in Otto, where they raised their family. They were blessed with Alan, Karen, Dan, Kent, Colleen, Chris, Neal, and Mack Curtis.
Mack and Bonnie loved raising their family on the farm. The kids learned to work hard and grew to love horses like their dad. The horses were a very important part of the family vacation every year. Mack always said it was a family vacation to go to the Big Horn Mountains for hunting season. Mack would make sure not to shoot an elk on opening day because the vacation would end. Mack’s CB name was Shortcut.
Mack was a scout leader. For three years Mack and another leader would take the Boy Scouts on a 50-mile hike. They would start near Ten Sleep and come out at the Shell Ranger Station following the Cloud Peak Wilderness trail. The scouts and other leaders are pretty sure it was a lot longer than 50 miles. Mack would say the boys that went on the hike were in great shape for football.
When Neal was hurt, Mack put his career on hold and spent three summer months in Denver, Colorado, at the Children’s Hospital so Bonnie could work. Bonnie had the much-needed medical insurance provided by her job. Mack then continued taking care of Neal and attended school with him for one year.
In the spring of 2021 Colleen sold the family farm and moved Mack and Bonnie to Lovell to be closer to the kids. Mack told people that they sold his house and took his cook, so he had to move kicking and screaming!
Mack was preceded in death by his parents, Albert Dalton Wardell and Linnie Jones Wardell, Stepmom: Anna Wardell, Siblings: Albert Jay (Phern) Wardell, Callis (Eunice) Wardell, Preston Wardell, Irma (Melvin) Neves, Merla (Reanous) Henderson, Martin LaFollette, & and Lee (Jean) Wardell, and brother-in-law Darold Williams. Children: Neal Wardell, Grand Children: Zeke Wardell, Dylan Wardell, Blake Wardell, and Hudson Wardell.
He is survived by Sister Joan (Bruce) Butler. Children: Alan (Jonette) Wardell, Karen Gutierrez, Dan Wardell, Kent (LeAnne)Wardell, Colleen (Rick) Tippetts, Chris (Natalie) Wardell, and Mack Curtis (Jessica) Wardell. Mack had 24 Grandchildren and 23 Great Grandchildren.
Mack passed away in Billings Montana, on November 5, 2025.

Funeral Services will be held on Friday, November 14, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at the LDS Stake Center in Lovell. Visitation will be held 1 hour prior to services. Interment will be in the Lovell Cemetery.

11/04/2025

Toni Dillon Bassett was born November 29, 1961, to Bill and Loa Dillon, she was the youngest of eight children. Toni passed away at her home on November 1, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.
She married James Cheatham and to that union Josh and Jake were born. They are later divorced.
Toni met the love of her life, Tom Bassett. They were married on April 5, 1986. In 1988 a daughter Jacie was born and soon after Tom adopted Josh and Jake.
In her younger years Toni hod carried, working for her dad. She attended cosmetology school in Billings, went to work for her long-time friend Carol Walker. After doing hair for many years, she went to work for the Lovell school as a custodian and a bus driver. Due to health issues, she retired early to become the best grandma in the world.
Toni was very artistic, and she loved doing crafts. She travelled all over the Big Horn basin going to craft shows selling her creations. She loved the Grinch, and she sold a lot of Grinch items, she was known as the Grinch lady at the craft shows.
She had great love for the outdoors, she loved to hike, rock hunt, loved to bow hunt elk with her husband and Josh, but most of all she loved to camp and spend time with her grand kids.
Toni was preceded in death by her parents, and her beloved sister, Billy Jean.
She is survived by her husband Tom, her son Josh (Maggie), her son Jake, daughter, Jacie, her 2 brothers and 4 sisters. She leaves behind 7 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.
Visitation: Thursday November 6th at 1:30 PM at Haskell Funeral Home
Services: Thursday November 6th at 2:00 PM at Haskell Funeral Home
Burial will follow services at Lovell Cemetery

11/04/2025

Beatrice Aagard Davidson passed away at the age of 98 on Sunday, November 2, 2025, at the New Horizon’s Care Center in Lovell, Wyoming where she had been residing since August 2025.
Her funeral will be Saturday, November 15 at 10:00 a.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Burlington, Wyoming.
Beatrice was a long-time resident of Burlington, Wyoming. She was born on October 9, 1927, to James and Annie Winter Aagard. She was the 11th of their 12 children and the last surviving. Beatrice grew up in a loving family circle learning how to churn butter, make soap, scrub clothes on the scrubbing board, milk cows, herd sheep, w**d gardens, shock grain into sheaves, turn beans and stack hay as well as many other farm chores. She would tell you that she preferred the outside chores to those in the house.
To attend elementary school, Beatrice would walk from her home to St. Joe’s School which was a one-room schoolhouse that had first through eighth grades combined with one teacher for the whole school. To attend high school in Burlington, Beatrice walked 3 miles every day to catch the school bus and upon graduation attended the University of Wyoming for 1 year where she received her teaching certificate. She said she always wanted to be a teacher.
After her year of college, Beatrice married Dennis William Davidson of Burlington on August 22, 1948. During their early married years, they moved around a lot and sometimes the only available house to move into would be old and without running water. Later in life, Beatrice would say that she lived in 19 different houses and hauled a lot of water for drinking, cooking, laundry and baths.
Denny and Beatrice had 11 children: Dennis (Barbara), Rebecca (Dan, deceased), Debby (Jim), Jared (Nancy), Tom (Patty), Mark, deceased (Anne), Carol (Mark, deceased), John (Jeana), Peter (Susan), Matt (Margaret) and Chris (Esther). Beatrice loved having a big family and always wished she could have had a dozen children.
Beatrice did not ever use her teaching certificate to teach professionally, but she spent a great deal of time and effort teaching her children many wonderful lessons. Good grades were encouraged in the Davidson family and some years a dollar would be offered for every A on a report card. Beatrice and Denny also taught their children a lot of life skills lessons like the value of working hard, being self-reliant, being a good community member, and serving others.
Following in her mother’s footsteps, Beatrice always had a large garden wherever she lived and canned hundreds of quarts of food, some years more than 1500 quarts. She tried to plant fruit trees wherever she could and lots of flowers.
Beatrice enjoyed sharing flowers with others and would also plant and w**d the church flower beds for many years as well as take a different silk flower arrangement for the chapel each Sunday. She also loved taking food around to the elderly and to those in need of extra love.
When Burlington became incorporated as a town, Beatrice served on the City Council and began a city clean-up with volunteers cleaning up w**ds, brush, old machinery and discarded items from vacant lots and she encouraged Burlington residents to clean up and beautify their homes and yards. She initially spent a great deal of time keeping the newly created town park by the post office looking welcoming and in good shape. She would prune the trees and make sure the playground equipment was painted and in good condition. In 1990 Beatrice received the Citizen of the Century award for her many services to the town.
She also worked to get the road to the cemetery paved and she and her dad, James, helped get grass planted in the cemetery with James hauling water out to the cemetery to water the grass until water lines were installed.
Beatrice knew how much her father enjoyed the Burlington pioneer parade held on the 24th of July every year so she became a big supporter of the parade by helping with a family float each year.
During colder months, Beatrice would enjoy making tied quilts for her children and grandchildren. Throughout her life, she continued to sew on her trusty Singer treadle sewing machine. When she got too old to be able to wrestle with quilting, she started sewing fun, decorative pillow cases for her grandchildren.
Beatrice had a reputation for being a fun grandma. Fond memories include tea parties and sleepovers on the living room floor, floating down the canal, hayrack rides, organizing rock hunts in the hills, playing games and choosing candies from the treat bucket. She also had a unique delight in scaring her grandchildren. Family reunions often included a search for the family slurp monster, and Halloween was not complete without a scary costume and spooky encounter with any trick-or-treaters that were brave enough to come to the door.
She is survived by 51 grandchildren, 146 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.
Beatrice felt like it was her life’s work to teach her children about Jesus Christ and to raise them in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She consistently read them Bible stories and took them to church every Sunday. She loved teaching in the nursery at church and would always prepare lots of object lessons and treats. In her later years, she compiled books for her children and grandchildren that had teachings about Jesus and she would mail newsletters to her family that would share family news and also have gospel teachings in them. Even while in New Horizons Care Center for the last couple of months, she would work on her newsletter. Beatrice also set an example of going frequently to serve in the Billings temple and found great joy in the work she did there.

10/27/2025

In Loving Memory of Olga Marie Russell Reynosa
March 7, 1972 – October 23, 2025
Our beloved Olga Reynosa, also known as Olga Russell, passed away peacefully on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at Spirit Mountain Hospice Home in Cody, Wyoming.
Olga was born on March 7, 1972, in Powell, Wyoming, to Ramona R. Frias and William John Russell. She was the second oldest of four children and brought laughter and light to her family from the very beginning. Olga graduated from Greybull High School, where she spent four joyful years as a cheerleader — always full of energy, smiles, and school spirit.
After graduating, Olga ventured to Minnesota, where she met Victor Jose Reynosa. They married in 1990 and had two beautiful daughters, Catalina Belen Reynosa and Moriagh Irene Reynosa.
Throughout her life, Olga worked in many roles that reflected her giving spirit — from helping children at the migrant schools in Sidney, Montana, and Greybull, Wyoming, to serving others with warmth and kindness at the Hamilton Restaurant, Lisa's Restaurant, and the VFW in Powell. No matter where she worked, she brought joy, humor, and a friendly smile that made everyone feel welcome.
For the past decade, Olga shared her life with her beloved partner, David States.
Olga adored her five grandchildren — Nevaeh LeeAnn Reynosa, BellaBlue Patina, Gabriel Angel Patina, Isaiah Lyric Patina, and RomeoSaint Andres Reynosa — who brought her immense joy.
She had a special love for animals, often referring to them as her "four-legged babies." If there was a Mexican dance, you could count on Olga being there — she rarely missed one! She also loved makeup, purses, jewelry, perfumes, and all things stylish. Olga enjoyed Asian aesthetics and was a devoted Denver Broncos fan.
Olga had a gift for connection. She made friends everywhere she went — she truly was a social butterfly. In her own words, she "had flow." Her laughter was contagious, her nicknames unforgettable, and her heart was always open. She loved to give — whether it was a gift, a hug, or kind words — she found happiness in making others smile.
Olga is survived by her daughters Catalina B. Reynosa and Moriagh I. Reynosa; her grandchildren Nevaeh L. Reynosa, BellaBlue Patina, Gabriel A. Patina, Isaiah L. Patina, and RomeoSaint A. Reynosa; her mother Ramona R. Frias and stepfather Ramon V. Frias; brothers Angelo Russell and Oscar Frias; sister Blanca Garcia (Manuel Garcia); nieces and nephews Daniel Ortiz, Selinda Russell, Angelo Russell Jr., Roman Wilkerson, Miciah O'Conner, Elena Garcia, Erminia Garcia, Anthony Garcia, Oscar Garcia, Evalina Garcia, and Junior Garcia; her significant other David States; and numerous cousins and relatives.
A celebration of Olga's life will be held at Lovell Bible Church, 56 East Main Street, Lovell, Wyoming, on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Olga's bright spirit, laughter, and love will live on always and forever in the hearts of all who knew her.

10/27/2025

Louis James Tebbs Welch
Son, brother, sweetheart, husband, dad, grandpa, gpa and great-grandpa are just a few of the names that Louis James Tebbs Welch has been known in his family. He was born on October 2, 1933, the second child and first son of Louis Belmont Welch and Hazel Tebbs Welch, at their home in Cowley, Wyoming. Jay passed away surrounded by family Sunday afternoon on October 12, 2025, shortly after partaking of the sacrament at his home in Lovell, Wyoming. His family had just celebrated his 92nd birthday with him.
There was a beautiful girl from Lovell that he fell in love with. Carol Joyce Sessions and Louis James (Jay) Tebbs Welch were married March 25, 1953. They were sealed for time and eternity in the Idaho Falls Temple in 1957. They lived a full, laughter-filled life and were deeply in love.
Before our mother passed away earlier this year, she had jotted down an obituary for Dad. She started out with “BEEN THERE – DONE THAT!!.” Most of this is from Mother’s notes.
There are 23 exceptional grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren. Family meant everything to them, and they loved having family around them.
Jay grew up milking cows and other chores every morning and evening, with various other responsibilities. Through Junior High and High School, he was on a winning basketball team, football team, and wrestling. He was one of two from Cowley High School that were named “All State” basketball, and man, could he wrestle! In fact, one time Jay wanted to use the car. His father, Louis B. Welch, challenged Jay to a wrestling match. Jay won, took the car, and his father went to Billings the next day and bought boxing gloves!!
Carol and Jay were incredible dancers, many times becoming the center of attention on the dance floor. While attending Montana State University, they had the opportunity to dance to Louis Armstrong, who came up to them after the dance and told them how impressed he was with their dancing.
After Jay’s father became ill, he returned to Cowley to run Welch Construction Company. Some of the projects included building Worland High School, the Gypsum Plant, building cabins in Yellowstone at Lake and Canyon Villages, and gas stations throughout Northern Wyoming. They also worked on various large additions and remodeling projects. Many young men worked for the company for summer employment.
Jay had a strong testimony and held various church positions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. One of his favorite positions was when he was teaching the 9-year-olds for quite a few years in Cowley. The class had many parties of which some were tobogganing, evening parties and wiener roasts. The class had to have perfect attendance to qualify for a party. Finally, Jay had to change it to perfect attendance for a month to qualify for a party, which they definitely qualified for with 100-135% attendance each month. He also served as Scout Master for many years. He developed a great love for the youth of the church, employing many during the summer months.
Jay also held many community positions, some of which included School Board, City Town Councilman, Chairman of Cowley Pioneer Days and temporary Justice of the Peace. Everyone knew that they could come to the house any time of the day or night for help or assistance.
They were members of the Cowley Riding Club and enjoyed many exciting outings. Jay was an avid hunter and always looked forward to their annual hunting expeditions. They had many friends, enjoyed square dancing, playing cards and playing pranks on each other.
When they moved to Utah, Jay had a job working for Jacobson Construction, traveling the western states building/remodeling LDS churches. Every two weeks they would fly Carol to or Jay back home. One of the jobs was building a new addition to Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City. One day, while on top of the building, he watched a tornado touch down a block away.
Jay purchased a building lot in South Jordan, drew up his own plans, and built the home of their dreams. After a two-month retirement an opportunity came up, and he went for it. This became one of his most memorable jobs helping supervise the new construction of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Conference Center. He met with various church authorities on a weekly basis and often the prophet. He has various memorabilia, including a piece of oak from the podium, a rarity (even the sawdust was vacuumed up and saved).
He was always known throughout the family and community for his ear biting (chewing on their ears). When talking to anyone that knew him, and having experienced it, the memory always puts a smile on their faces. It was a fun way of teasing and showing his love because it was always accompanied with a hug.
Jay has always enjoyed figuring out manual puzzles, jigsaw, and mind teasers. It was amazing how he could solve them all! He has a pretty full collection of John Wayne movies, authenticated autograph, and three limited edition pictures. (please, no more, kids!). That is the Cowley cowboy in him!
Mother said he had lost his hearing tone (only his wife’s voice - LOL). Jay has been blessed with exceptional good health and work ability. Outworking and outlasting most younger guys, even with his bulging stomach muscles (LOL). He was so strong that even his grandkids would not arm wrestle with him.
He is preceded in death by his beautiful wife, Carol Joyce Sessions Welch, (their son) Mark Sessions Welch, (their granddaughter) Wendy Forbush, (his parents) Louis Belmont Welch and Hazel Tebbs Welch, (his sisters) Alyce Welch Jones, Linda Welch Croft, Joan Welch Welch, and (his brother) Richard William Tebbs Welch.
Jay is survived by his children: daughter Debra Forbush (Craig), sons Louis Gary Welch and Wendell Welch (Heidi), daughters Nancy Jo Nazer (Bert), Tracey Haskell (Brad) and Terri Brosious (Dusty), they also helped raise two grandchildren, Bradley Welch (Julie) and Bailey Welch, and nephew, Jon Strahan. They have 23 grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held November 8, 2025, at the Lovell Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints chapel with visitation from 9:00-9:45 am and the funeral services beginning at 10:00 am. Interment will be at the Cowley Cemetery.
Dad struggled with kidney failure for many years, and the Lovell Senior Bus transported him three times a week to the dialysis center. With this in mind, the family would ask that in leu of flowers you make a donation to the Lovell Senior Citizens Center.
The funeral will be available for watching on Facebook, through “Haskell Funeral” home page.

10/25/2025

Funeral Services for Scott Allen Caturia

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10/24/2025

Scott Allen Caturia was born on July 28th, 1942, in Cody, Wyoming to William “Bill” Thomas Caturia and Flossie Ruth Longsdorf. He passed away on October 20th, 2025, in Buffalo, Wyoming at the age of 83. Funeral services will be held at the Lovell Stake Center, Saturday, October 25th with a viewing at 9am followed by funeral services and interment at the Lovell Cemetery.

Scott grew up in the Powell/Cody area and graduated from Powell High School in 1960 with a scholarship to wrestle at the University of Wyoming where he earned his teaching degree. Scott taught industrial arts and coached wrestling in Wyoming high schools for 35 years. He was a teacher, a farmer, and a builder who taught his children and others many lessons through the work that he did. He was always fixing or building something or making improvements to his home or the homes of his children. He valued hard work and being self-sufficient.

Scott’s family was the center of his life. He was a wonderful husband, father, and grandfather, who loved all of his children deeply. He spent much of his time teaching his children valuable life lessons and showing them what is truly important. Throughout his life he worked hard to serve those in his church and community. He was a good neighbor and enjoyed visiting with people and making friends wherever he went.

He was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and served in many capacities. He was devoted to studying the scriptures and teaching his family and others the values and principles of the gospel. Later in his life, he served a temple mission with his wife, Priscilla, in Cochabamba, Bolivia and served as the bishop of the Lovell 4th Ward for 5 years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, William Thomas Caturia and Flossie Ruth Longsdorf, his sister Karen Smith, his son Robert Caturia, and his granddaughter Kaitlyn Caturia. He is survived by wife, Priscilla May Caturia, his children Robin Griffin, Joy Osbon, Krista Howe, and Kade Caturia, 19 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great grandchild.

10/21/2025

Billey Jay Welden was born September 1, 1941, in San Diego, California. He attended a university to become a PA (physician's assistant). He then would marry Becky Brinkerhoff on July 3, 1974. He gained brothers-in-law and a sister-in-law, Bob, Herb, and Lonnie Brinkerhoff and Julie McDonald. Bill was a stepfather to Christine Poole and a grandpa to Sophia, Corbin, Quentin, and Adelia Poole. He then became a great grandpa or aka Bapa to his great grandkids - Liam Twomey in 2013 and Braelyn Poole in 2023. His and Becky's marriage would be just shy of 50 years when Becky passed in February 2023.

His family meant everything to him. He would do anything for his family and for anyone else. Whether he would be doing yard work, being a mechanic or rebuilding a computer for a family in need. He was a very generous man to all of those around him.

His is also survived by his brother George Foshey, sisters Diane Foshey and Karen Wolford.

He was preceded in death by Becky his wife of 49 years. He is now back with his true love Becky. He will be greatly missed by those that are survived by him.

10/17/2025

Funeral Services for Glen Rice Howe

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10/17/2025

Death Notice for Sean Richard Thomas

Sean Richard Thomas, 55, of Lovell, passed away at his home in Lovell on Saturday, October 11, 2025. Cremation has taken place, and no services are planned at this time.

10/16/2025

Glen Rice Howe, age 72 of Lovell, Wyoming, entered this life on March 10, 1953, in Lovell, Wyoming at the North Big Horn County Hospital. He was the son of the late Newel Freer Howe and Dora Emma (Rice) Howe. He was raised in Kane, Wyoming until he was eleven years old. Thereafter, until he passed at the age of 72, he lived and died on the family farm Southwest of Lovell at 1374 Road 8 on Highway 32, Lovell, Wyoming. He was a graduate of Lovell High School.
Glen was united in marriage on January 5, 1996, with Ruth Ward (Walker) at the LDS Temple, in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
When Glen was a year old, he fell out of a highchair and broke his leg. By the age of three they had discovered that the leg bone had not healed correctly and would have to be amputated just below the knee. In years that followed, he had some unique prosthetics including a John Deere and a Case Tractor branded leg.
Glen loved a good laugh and a funny story, never missing a chance to play pranks with friends and family. His good humor and unparalleled generosity made him a friend to everyone.
Glen spent countless hours working on the family cattle operation, Big Horn Cattle Company. Additionally, Glen was employed by the Lovell Canal, working as a ditch rider for over 40 years to ensure local farmers received their irrigation water. During that time, he also worked at the Great Western Sugar Company for 30 plus years; a familiar face, meeting and assisting local farmers as they delivered their sugar beet crops each year.
Glen will be dearly missed by his family. Glen is survived by his son Bob Middleton, partner Wil Cabo, his daughter, Tammy (Middleton) Twitchell, husband Sam Twitchell, his son Steven Walker, and his daughter, Ella May Bazemore (Walker). Also surviving are his brother, Grover R. Howe, wife Joy Howe, his brothers-in-law Jeffery Robertson, George Ward, and Scott Ward; his sisters-in-law Lydia Lefforge (Ward), and Earlene Ward; and a loving extended family of numerous nieces and nephews, 13 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by this wife Ruth (Ward) Howe, his father, Newel Freer Howe, his mother, Dora Emma (Rice) Howe, his sister, Grace Ann (Howe) Robertson, and his granddaughter Hope Walker.
Visitation will be held from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Friday October 17, 2025, at the LDS Chapel in Lovell, Wyoming. Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. by Bishop Anderson at the LDS East Chapel located in Lovell, Wyoming. Interment will be in the Lovell Cemetery.

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