Wendell Ellis

LINGLE, WYO.... Funeral services for WENDELL C. ELLIS, 81, will be held at 10:00am on Thursday, February 16, 2006 at the Community Presbyterian Church in Lingle with Reverend Curtis Hill officiating. Burial with Military Honors will follow in the Hillcrest Cemetery. Mr. Ellis died on February 11, 2006 at his home west of Lingle. Visitation hours will be held on Wednesday at the Colyer Funeral Home from 10am to 7pm. The casket will be open prior to the church service. In lieu of flowers the family would request that memorials be directed to the Lingle Presbyterian Church Handicap Access Fund. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Wendell was born on April 9, 1924 in Lincoln, Nebraska the son of Glen and Carolyn (Sanborn) Ellis. The family moved to a farm south west of Torrington, Wyoming and Wendell received his education at Torrington; graduating from Torrington High School in 1942. He then attended the University of Wyoming at Laramie for two years before going on to serve in the U.S. Army during WWII in the Quartermaster Corps in China, Burma, and India. Wendell was discharged in 1946 and returned to the University of Wyoming for a short time before moving to Torrington to farm with his parents and later on his own. On September 19, 1954, he married Barbara Swalstad at Shelly, Minnesota. The couple then farmed south of Torrington until 1959 when they moved to their present-day farm west of Lingle. Wendell enjoyed reading, welding and metal work. He was a long time member of the Lingle Presbyterian Church where he served as an Elder, Trustee, and on many other committees. Wendell was a member of the Lingle American Legion Post and he had served on the School Board of the Lingle School District. He also served on the board of the Lingle Rural Fire District, the Lucerne Canal, the Lingle Ft. Laramie Soil Conservation District, and nine years on the Eastern Wyoming College Board.. He is survive by his wife, Barbara of Lingle; three daughters, Lindy Fuson and her husband Ron of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming; Becky Upchurch and her husband Jim of Santa Monica, California; and Kathryn Miller and her husband Larry of Lingle, Wyoming; one son Daniel Ellis and his wife Karri of Lingle, Wyoming; 10 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Orma Lou Oberg.

Wendell Ellis

April 9, 1924 - February 11, 2006