Max Lee Brittenham

September 4, 1935 - January 13, 2017

Funeral services for MAX LEE BRITTENHAM, 81, will be held at 11am Monday, January 23, 2017 at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Rick Cederholm officiating. Burial will follow in the Fort Laramie Cemetery. Max died at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January 13, 2017. Memorials may be given to Regional Food Bank, the City Rescue Mission, the Saint Stevens Indian Mission Foundation or the Free to Live Animal Sanctuary. The Colyer Funeral Home is assisting the family and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Lee was born September 4, 1935 in Torrington, Wyoming the son of Ellis and Gladys (Potter) Brittenham of Ft. Laramie, Wyoming. Lee and Dorothy (Hood) both attended school in Ft. Laramie and were married in 1952 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. They had five sons and were later divorced. Lee worked as a heavy equipment operator in the Platte River valley, as a rotary driller in the Rockies and Mid-Continent oilfields and as a laborer, small business owner and farmer in Oklahoma. Lee is survived by his brother James Ellis (Jim) of Drumright, Oklahoma; two sisters Marilyn Meyer of Wood River, Nebraska and Norma Cummings of Shattuck, Oklahoma; three sons Terry (Jeanie) of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Rick of Casper, Wyoming and Douglas of Hawk Springs, Wyoming; a grandson Roman (Dusti) Brittenham of Bailey, Colorado; granddaughters Danielle (Aaron) Diment of Oklahoma City and Jamie (Clae) Bilek of Casper; and great grandchildren Stacy Brittenham of Green River, Wyoming and Mila and Henry Bilek of Casper. He is also survived by several special nieces and nephews including Linda, Carla, Larry, Randy, Craig, Kathleen, Mark, James, Suzanne, Paul their spouses and numerous very loved children and grandchildren. Lee was preceded in death by his parents; his sister Bonnie Machan; his sons Kim and Kelly; his brothers-in-law Leo Machan, Vernon Meyer and Billy Cummings; his sister-in-law Ruth (Walker); his niece Connie (Brittenham) Osterhout; and nephew Chris Meyer.