WHEATLAND - Funeral services for Ruth Ella Ashenhurst, 94, will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008, at Gorman Funeral Homes n Platte Chapel of Wheatland. Interment will be held privately at a later date in the Wheatland Cemetery.
She died Jan. 17, 2008, at her home in Wheatland.
She was born March 18, 1913, in Limon, Colo., the daughter of Joseph A. and Ella (Hubbartt) McLees.
Her father worked for the railroad and the family moved with him when he was transferred. They homesteaded at Campstool southeast of Cheyenne then moved to Slater where Ruth attended grade school and then to Cheyenne, where she went to high school.
On Oct. 18, 1933, she married Hal L. Ashenhurst in Greeley, Colo. They made their home in Cheyenne until 1938 when they moved to Slater and farmed until her husband's death in 1999.
She was a member of the Slater Woman's Club, past matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Chugwater, guardian of Job's Daughters in Wheatland, and a member of Daughters of the Nile.
She was an avid bowler and golfer. There were many times when she temporarily cared for children in the family who had lost a parent.
Survivors include her children, Charlene Starrs and husband of Cheyenne and Larry Ashenhurst and wife of Wheatland; sister, Bernice Goertz of Riverton; brother, Murray McLees of Loveland, Colo.; six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, James, Frank, Joseph, Andrew, and Robert.
Memorials to Shriners Hospitals for Children, Fairfax Road at Virginia Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, would be appreciated by the family.
Family and friends may call at the chapel on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Gorman Funeral Homes n Platte Chapel of Wheatland is in charge of the arrangements.
Published in the Casper Star Tribune on Jan. 20, 2008
Obituary courtesy of Beverly Dunn, March 2017.
She died Jan. 17, 2008, at her home in Wheatland.
She was born March 18, 1913, in Limon, Colo., the daughter of Joseph A. and Ella (Hubbartt) McLees.
Her father worked for the railroad and the family moved with him when he was transferred. They homesteaded at Campstool southeast of Cheyenne then moved to Slater where Ruth attended grade school and then to Cheyenne, where she went to high school.
On Oct. 18, 1933, she married Hal L. Ashenhurst in Greeley, Colo. They made their home in Cheyenne until 1938 when they moved to Slater and farmed until her husband's death in 1999.
She was a member of the Slater Woman's Club, past matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Chugwater, guardian of Job's Daughters in Wheatland, and a member of Daughters of the Nile.
She was an avid bowler and golfer. There were many times when she temporarily cared for children in the family who had lost a parent.
Survivors include her children, Charlene Starrs and husband of Cheyenne and Larry Ashenhurst and wife of Wheatland; sister, Bernice Goertz of Riverton; brother, Murray McLees of Loveland, Colo.; six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, James, Frank, Joseph, Andrew, and Robert.
Memorials to Shriners Hospitals for Children, Fairfax Road at Virginia Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, would be appreciated by the family.
Family and friends may call at the chapel on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Gorman Funeral Homes n Platte Chapel of Wheatland is in charge of the arrangements.
Published in the Casper Star Tribune on Jan. 20, 2008
Obituary courtesy of Beverly Dunn, March 2017.
WHEATLAND - Funeral services for Ruth Ella Ashenhurst, 94, will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008, at Gorman Funeral Homes n Platte Chapel of Wheatland. Interment will be held privately at a later date in the Wheatland Cemetery.
She died Jan. 17, 2008, at her home in Wheatland.
She was born March 18, 1913, in Limon, Colo., the daughter of Joseph A. and Ella (Hubbartt) McLees.
Her father worked for the railroad and the family moved with him when he was transferred. They homesteaded at Campstool southeast of Cheyenne then moved to Slater where Ruth attended grade school and then to Cheyenne, where she went to high school.
On Oct. 18, 1933, she married Hal L. Ashenhurst in Greeley, Colo. They made their home in Cheyenne until 1938 when they moved to Slater and farmed until her husband's death in 1999.
She was a member of the Slater Woman's Club, past matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Chugwater, guardian of Job's Daughters in Wheatland, and a member of Daughters of the Nile.
She was an avid bowler and golfer. There were many times when she temporarily cared for children in the family who had lost a parent.
Survivors include her children, Charlene Starrs and husband of Cheyenne and Larry Ashenhurst and wife of Wheatland; sister, Bernice Goertz of Riverton; brother, Murray McLees of Loveland, Colo.; six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, James, Frank, Joseph, Andrew, and Robert.
Memorials to Shriners Hospitals for Children, Fairfax Road at Virginia Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, would be appreciated by the family.
Family and friends may call at the chapel on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Gorman Funeral Homes n Platte Chapel of Wheatland is in charge of the arrangements.
Published in the Casper Star Tribune on Jan. 20, 2008
Obituary courtesy of Beverly Dunn, March 2017.
She died Jan. 17, 2008, at her home in Wheatland.
She was born March 18, 1913, in Limon, Colo., the daughter of Joseph A. and Ella (Hubbartt) McLees.
Her father worked for the railroad and the family moved with him when he was transferred. They homesteaded at Campstool southeast of Cheyenne then moved to Slater where Ruth attended grade school and then to Cheyenne, where she went to high school.
On Oct. 18, 1933, she married Hal L. Ashenhurst in Greeley, Colo. They made their home in Cheyenne until 1938 when they moved to Slater and farmed until her husband's death in 1999.
She was a member of the Slater Woman's Club, past matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Chugwater, guardian of Job's Daughters in Wheatland, and a member of Daughters of the Nile.
She was an avid bowler and golfer. There were many times when she temporarily cared for children in the family who had lost a parent.
Survivors include her children, Charlene Starrs and husband of Cheyenne and Larry Ashenhurst and wife of Wheatland; sister, Bernice Goertz of Riverton; brother, Murray McLees of Loveland, Colo.; six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, James, Frank, Joseph, Andrew, and Robert.
Memorials to Shriners Hospitals for Children, Fairfax Road at Virginia Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84103, would be appreciated by the family.
Family and friends may call at the chapel on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Gorman Funeral Homes n Platte Chapel of Wheatland is in charge of the arrangements.
Published in the Casper Star Tribune on Jan. 20, 2008
Obituary courtesy of Beverly Dunn, March 2017.
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