Dolores Gesine Childs Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

TORRINGTON, WYOMING...........Memorial Mass of Christian Burial for DOLORES G. CHILDS, 92, will be held at 10 am Saturday, February 29, 2020 at Saint Rose Catholic Church with Father Andrew Duncan officiating. Burial of the ashes in the Valley View Cemetery will follow the mass. Dolores died at Community Hospital on February 17, 2020 and cremation has taken place. Memorials may be given to Saint Rose Catholic Church. A Rosary/Wake will be recited on Friday at 6:30pm. Arrangements are by the Colyer Funeral Home and condolences may be sent to www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Dolores was born September 12, 1927 in Hartington, Nebraska the daughter of Lee and Gesine (Drieling) Morris. She grew up and received her education in Nebraska graduating Albion High School in 1944. She married Gerald “JC” Childs on May 22, 1946 in Albion. She taught school for two years in Nebraska. They moved to McCook for a time before moving to Torrington, Wyoming in 1967. She was a homemaker her whole life caring for her family at all times. She really enjoyed family gatherings, especially Christmas Eve’s when the family was all packed in like sardines and the July 4th lake trips each year, where singing around the campfire was so very important to her. Dolores enjoyed golf, crocheting, bowling and camping. She was a member of Saint Rose Catholic Church. Dolores is survived by her husband Gerald “JC” of Torrington, Wyoming; sons Duane (Jane) Childs of Glenville, Nebraska, Robert (Bonnie) Childs, James (Jackie) Childs, Gary (Marilee) Childs and Steven (Kathy) Childs all of Torrington; daughters Cindy (David) Haught of Spearfish, South Dakota and Julie (Doug) Haught of Torrington; a sister Pauline Pelster of Petersburg, Nebraska; twenty-one grandchildren; forty-eight great grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; a grandson Zachary Childs; great granddaughter Jael Haught; four sisters Viola Buettner, Marjorie Wanek, Maxine Palmer and Shirley Valles; five brothers Glenn Morris, Charles Morris, John Morris, Dallas Morris and Paul Morris.

Dolores Gesine Childs

September 12, 1927 - February 17, 2020