Obituary - Milton Blair Friel

MILTON B. FRIEL

The Rev. John Marley offered the funeral mass Thursday for Milton B. Friel in Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church. The rosary was recited Wednesday night in the Rogan mortuary chapel and burial was in St. Joseph’s cemetery.

Mr. Friel died Sunday, October 1 in Sweetwater Memorial hospital where he had been a patient for one day.

Milton Blair Friel was born Nov. 13, 1903 in Chicopee, Kan. He had lived in Rock Springs for 36 years and for several years was employed by Union Pacific Coal company. For the last three years he was a part time employee of the state highway department. At one time he served his UMWA local as president. Mr. Friel and Eva Virginia Dominiski were married in Rock Springs 32 years ago.

Survivors are his wife who resides as 1206 Elk; two sons and one daughter, Hugh J. Friel of Worland, Milton Jr. and Mrs. Larry (Nancy) Hickerson, both of Rock Springs; two grandchildren, Stephen Hickerson and Kevin Friel. Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Schmitz of Colorado Springs, Mrs. Kathleen Wilbert and Mrs. Marjorie Rogers, both of Pittsburg, Kan. Mrs. Schmitz and Mrs. Wilbert attended the funeral and burial services.

--Rock Springs Miner, Oct 9, 1960

Learn more about Milton on the Van Valkenburg Family History website:

https://sites.google.com/site/vanvalkenburgfamilyhistory/families/friel/milton-blair-friel-1904.

Obituary - Richard Larry Hickerson

R. LARRY HICKERSON

Services for R. Larry Hickerson, 45, of 1317 McKinley St., Rock Springs were conducted Monday, Dec. 20 at the Our Lad of Sorrows Catholic Church. The Rev. Eugene Sullivan officiated.

Burial was in the Paul J. Wataha Memorial Park.

Mr. Hickerson died Thursday, Dec. 16 at his home following a six-month illness. He was born in Rock Springs on Feb. 12, 1937, the son of Richard Joseph and Ansta Phillips Hickerson. He attended schools in Rock Springs and was a graduate of the Rock Springs High School with the class of 1955. Mr. Hickerson graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1964 with an engineering degree.

He married the former Nancy Lee Friel in Rock Springs on Sept. 6, 1958. Mr. Hickerson was employed as an engineer for the FMC Company for the past 17 years. He was a member of the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church.

Survivors include his wife, Nancy; his mother, Ansta Hickerson; one son, Steven Larry Hickerson; four daughters, Mrs. Michael (Cheryl Lee) Mackey, Mrs. Neil (Nancy Lenee) West, Ruth Lynn Hickerson and Cathy Laine Hickerson all of Rock Springs; one sister, Mrs. James (Marilynn) Noble of Rock Springs; four grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Mr. Hickerson was preceded in death by his father.

Rock Springs Daily Rocket-Miner, Dec 25, 1982.

Learn more about Richard on the Van Valkenburg Family History website:

https://sites.google.com/site/vanvalkenburgfamilyhistory/families/hickerson/richard-larry-hickerson.