Fredrick Crimmel

TORRINGTON, WYOMING.................Memorial services for FREDRICK L. CRIMMEL, 70, will be held at 2:00p.m. on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at the United Methodist Church with Reverend Ora Dailey officiating. Cremation has taken place and private family burial of the cremains will take place at a later date. Fred died at Community Hospital on Tuesday, August 15, 2006. A memorial has been established to the United Methodist Church. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Fred was born May 8, 1936 in Pittsburg, Kansas the son of Henry and Nellie (Hamblin) Crimmel. At the age of five they moved to Wyoming and he received his early education at schools in Nebraska and Wyoming. He graduated from Torrington High School in 1954. He attended one year at the University of Wyoming before marrying Delores Porter on September 4, 1955. They moved to Riverton, Wyoming where he worked as a radio announcer and a Junior Chemist for Susquehanna Western for eight years. They moved back to Laramie where he graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1965 with a Bachelors Degree in Education. They moved to Lusk, Wyoming where he taught school for two years and then to Sheridan, Wyoming where he taught for eighteen years. During that time he attended summer school and in 1983 he received a Masters Degree in Administrative Education. They moved to Torrington in 1985 and opened Captain Clean and he operated that until he retired in 2000. Fred loved to golf, fish, and bird hunt. He was a member of the National Education Association, the Wyoming Education Association, the Retired Teachers Association, and the United Methodist Church. Fred is survived by his wife Delores of Torrington; two daughters, Diane Amos and her husband Michael of Atlanta, Georgia, and Catherine Kenworthy of Bakersville, California; a son, Keith Crimmel of Greeneville, Tennessee; one brother, Raymond Crimmel of Hernando, Florida; and nine grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Joe; and one sister, Beth Ernst.

Fredrick Crimmel

May 8, 1936 - August 15, 2006