Geneva Hughes

July 25, 1927 - September 4, 2015

Memorial services for GENEVA HUGHES, 88, will be held at 2pm Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Brian Kroeger officiating. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Geneva died September 4, 2015 at the Goshen Care Center and cremation has taken place. In lieu of flowers memorials may be given to either Community Hospital or the Goshen Care Center. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Geneva was born July 25, 1927 in Lincoln, Nebraska the daughter of George and Augusta (Kettleman) Bingham. Her family farmed in western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming near Henry, Nebraska and Ft Laramie, Wyoming. She married Orval Salmon and they were married twenty-one years before divorcing. She married Bill Hughes in 1965 and they lived in Lingle, Wyoming where he worked for a dairy. She was a homemaker, raised her kids and worked at the Stage Coach Restaurant in Lingle. She later worked at the Safeway Store in Wheatland, Wyoming where she retired. Geneva enjoyed playing bingo, hunting, fishing, gambling, and watching television. Geneva is survived by a son Gail (Sherry) Salmon of Cheyenne, Wyoming; a daughter Linda (Bob) White of Torrington, Wyoming; three brothers all of Torrington, Sam (Wilma) Bingham, Richard Bingham, and Kenny (Carol) Bingham; two sisters Beverly Schwartzkopf of Torrington and Edna (Jim) Dudden of Morrill, Nebraska; five grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a sister Sue Carey; and two brothers Clarence "Tuff", and Henry "Hank".