Occie Laird

February 1, 1926 - October 18, 2014

Funeral services for OCCIE LAIRD, 88, will be held at 10am Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at the East Gate Baptist Church with Pastor Tim Sparks officiating. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Occie died October 18, 2014 at the Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Memorials may be directed to the Golden Manor Carport Fund. The casket will be open briefly prior to the service at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Occie LeElla Laird was born February 1, 1926 in Big Springs, Nebraska to Guy and Bertha (Armstrong) Morse. Her early years were spent there, at White City, Nebraska and at Esterbrook, Wyoming where her family farmed and trucked. After her father’s passing when Occie was sixteen, her mother married Chris Jurgens, and the family resided at Mitchell, Nebraska. On January 17, 1946 Occie married LeRoy Laird in Gering, Nebraska. Occie was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, and homemaker. She and LeRoy loved to square dance and garden. Both were raised in very large families and were surrounded by family and friends their entire lives. They lived in Torrington, Wyoming for most of their fifty-one year marriage. After LeRoy’s death in 1997, Occie moved to Golden Manor. Occie is survived by sons Gary Laird and his companion Linda, and Bruce Laird and his wife Joan; granddaughters Tammy Laird, Rachelle Laird, and Danielle (Daniel) Stafford; great grandchildren Shaylea and Skyler Nuse and Shaiden Casner; and a sister Irma Jean Nolette. She was preceded in death by her husband; siblings Lenora, Buck, Dorothy, Darlene, Sylvia, Cliff, Bonnie, and Wanda; half-sisters Leota and Chloma; and step-siblings Emil, Mary, Claudine, and Evelyn.