Jerry Chamberlain

Jerry Chamberlain Jerry Chamberlain, 76, died Thursday, August 14, 2014 at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming.Funeral services will be held at 10am on Tuesday, August 19, at the Guernsey United Presbyterian Church with Reverend Beth Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in the Prairie Rest Cemetery in Guernsey. Memorials may be made to the Guernsey Senior Center Meals on Wheels, the Festival of Hope organization in Scottsbluff, Nebraska or the Independent Living Specialists in Wheatland, Wyoming. Visitation will be Monday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the funeral home and prior to the services at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send their condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com . Jerry was born March 21, 1939, at his family’s home in LaGrange, Wyoming, the son of Horace and Opal (Lewis) Chamberlain. He attended school in the area and graduated from LaGrange High School in 1957. Jerry married Mayrene Lowry August 4, 1957 at the Kiowa Community Church. To this union four children were born; Tim, David, Kim and Tina. After the couple was married they resided in LaGrange and then various places until they came to live in Guernsey, Wyoming the past 16 years. Jerry worked at the LaGrange Grainery and at Stickey’s Auto Supply Store. In 1958 he joined the Wyoming National Guard and did his basic training in Fort Leonard in Missouri. He worked at General Dynamics Astronautics as a Production Planner with the Atlas Missile Program which took him to Wyoming, New Mexico and Texas. Jerry also worked at Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas as a Production Planner. He was the Town Marshall and town maintenance man for the Town of Yoder as well as a ditch rider for Bump Sullivan – Springer Reservoir Irrigation and he drove school bus. Jerry was also a member of the Yoder Volunteer Fire Department while they lived in Yoder. Jerry enjoyed camping and fishing. He also liked tinkering, building bird houses, yard work and gardening. He enjoyed and later missed farming and all of his animals. Spending time with his family was important; he especially enjoyed the time spent with his grandchildren. He was a member of the Wyoming Rural Water Association of Wyoming. Survivors include his son Tim (Linda) Chamberlain of Guernsey; son David (Dena) Chamberlain of Guernsey; daughter Kim (Tim) Adkins of Holdrege, NE; daughter Tina (David) Ramsey of Wheatridge, CO; sister Donna (Marlin) Walters of Cheyenne; nine grandchildren, Paige Chamberlain, Tonya Anderson, Amanda Brown, Larissa Chamberlain, Tracy Chamberlain, Jamie Provance, Rebecca Adkins, Hailey Adkins, Corey Ramsey and three great grandchildren, Roslynn Provance, Damon Provance and Rowyn Marshall. Preceding him in death were his parents; wife Mayrene; and sister Eva McGraw.

Jerry Chamberlain

March 21, 1939 - August 15, 2014