of of of of of of of of of of Check with your insurance agent for specifies August 2, 2001 WYOMING AND THE WEST Casper Star-Tribune B3 Rare Darwin book finds long-lost home at Boston library By ELLEN BARRY The Boston Globe BOSTON Scot Cornwall was in his office at the Boston Public Library last Wednesday when a young woman appeared in his doorway and handed him a book swathed in tissue and bubble wrap. As curator of book stacks and reader services, Cornwall is no stranger to the sheepishness of patrons in the face of a longoverdue book. But this time, what he found under the bubble wrap left him speechless. Helen L. Fitzsimmons CASPER Funeral services are pending for Helen L.
Fitzsimmons, 91, who died July 31, 2001, at Poplar Living Center. A complete obituary will be published later. Arrangements are under the direction of Bustard's Funeral Home and Crematory. Marcella Marie Streitz CASPER Memorial services for Casper resident Marcella Marie Streitz, 66, will be conducted at 10 a.m. today at Bustard's Funeral Home, with Fr.
Michael Carr of St. Anthony's Catholic Church officiating. Cremation has taken place and interment of cremains will be in Sentinel Butte, N.D. She died July 20, 2001, at her home. She was born Sept.
29, 1934, in Beach, N.D., the daughter of Joseph and Grace (Wassman) Dietz. The family lived in Sentinel Butte, where she graduated from high school in 1953. She then attended nursing school in Dickinson, N.D., and completed a licensed practical nursing degree. On April 19, 1955, she married Joseph Arthur Streitz in Sentinel Butte, where they lived for many years. She later moved to Casper and had spent the last 13 years in Bullhead City, Ariz.
She enjoyed spending time with her family and was known for her caring ways and sense of humor. Survivors include her former husband of Dickinson; three sons, Tracy Joe of Williston, N.D., Timothy P. Paul and his wife of Bloomington, and Terry Richard and his wife of Casper; two daughters and their husbands, Leona JoAnn Wiles of Casper and Michele Ann Trennell of London, 12 grandchildren; a greatgranddaughter; six brothers, Richard, Edward and James Dietz, all of North Dakota, John Dietz of Oregon and Robert and Charles Dietz, both of Washington; and four sisters, Margaret Farrell and Eleanor Bohn, both of North Dakota, and Doris Dietz and JoAnn Love, both of Washington. Funeral Casper's only home owned funeral service Crematorium Directors and Crematory 600 CY Ave Casper 234-7123 AIDAN ELIZABETH MCFARLAND Graveside services for Aidan Elizabeth McFarland were held 10:00 a.m., yesterday, August 1, at Highland Cemetery with Brother Larry Rhoads of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints officiating. HELEN L.
FITZSIMMONS Funeral services for Helen L. Fitzsimmons, 91, are pending. She died July 31, 2001 at Poplar Living Center. MARCELLA STREITZ Memorial services for Marcella Streitz, 66, will be held 10:00 a.m. today, August 2, at Bustard's Funeral Home and Crematory with Father Michael Carr of St.
Anthony's Catholic Church officiating. ROBIN FAE FAZEL Funeral services for Robin Fae Fazel, 41, will be held 11:00 Friday, August 3rd, at Ryan Mortuary in Salina, Kansas. Interment will follow at Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, KS. Memorials to the Five Trails Adult Day Center, 112 S. Beech, Casper, WY 82601 The young woman had come to return an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," a book that has been missing from the library for at least 80 years.
The typical sale price of one of the 1,250 original copies ranges from $40,000 to $50,000, said a local rare book expert, and at Christie's auction house in London, a copy recently sold for almost $72,000. On Tuesday, library staff were still buzzing with the story of the book and the young couple who returned it, Julie and She was preceded in death by a daughter, Peggy Lee Streitz; her parents; a brother, Thomas Dietz; and a sister, Myrtle Iverson. Memorials may be sent to Central Wyoming Hospice, 319 S. Wilson, Casper 82601; or left at Bustard's Funeral Home and Crematory, which is in charge of arrangements. Sonya Rita (Belt) Morgareidge CASPER A celebration of the life of Sonya Rita (Belt) Morgareidge, 50, will be 2 at of the St.
MORGAREIDGE At place. She died July 31, 2001, at conducted at p.m. Friday Shepherd the Hills Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Tom Johnson of Mark's Episcopal Church officiating. her taken 2001, at Central Wyoming Hospice Home, following a courageous two-year battle with cancer.
She was born Feb. 26, 1951, in Flora, the daughter of Virginia (McNare) and Randle Logan Belt Sr. She graduated from Natrona County High School in 1969. On Jan. 23, 1971, she married Donald James Morgareidge in Las Vegas.
At the time of her death, she was an administrative assistant at Black Hills Bentonite. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends; playing with Kola, the family dog; listening to music; and restoring and showing classic automobiles with her husband. Throughout her encounter with cancer, she maintained a bright and optimistic outlook and never failed to lend assistance, smiles and hugs to those around her. She was a past honored queen and majority member of Job's Daughters Bethel No. 28 of Casper; a past guardian of Job's Daughters Bethel No.
40 of Casper; a past grand bethel guardian of Job's Daughters Wyoming; and a member of Beta Sigma Phi and Rainbow Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. Notices SONYA MORGAREIDGE A celebration of life for Sonya Rita (Belt) Morgareidge, 50, will be held 2:00 Friday, August 3, at Shephard of the Hills Presbyterian Church in Casper, with Father Tom Johnson of St. Mark's Episcopal Church officiating. She died July 31. 2001 at Central Wyoming Hospice.
At her request, cremation has taken place under the direction of Bustard's Funeral Home and Crematory. Memorials to Central Wyoming Hospice or Wyoming Jobs Daughters H.I.K.E. Program. MEMORIAL CHAPEL Funeral Home Crematory A Tradition of 710 East 2nd 234-0234 www.funeralchoice.com HELEN L. SULZLE Services for Helen L.
Sulzle, 76, will be Monday, August 6, 2001 at 2:00 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. Viewing will be Sunday 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
David Geissler. Susan Glover Godlewski, the library's curator of rare books, said "I've never had a book of this importance and value come back." For a few short weeks, the book was Geissler's most valuable possession, she said a little sadly Tuesday from her home in Exeter, N.H. Scrimping to make car and mortgage payments, with an 11- month-old baby and another on the way, Geissler, 25, found herself thinking about the old book she had inherited from her Greataunt Hester Hastings. Hester was one of four childless offspring of William T. Hastings, a Brown University professor.
Because she had been a science major, Geissler got "On the Origin of Species," which was inscribed with William Hastings' name as well as a faded book plate from the Boston Public Library. Two weeks ago, she stopped by the Portsmouth Book Shop to get the book appraised. The store owner told her two things: The book is very rare, and it appeared to have been stolen from the library. Penciled on an inside page Obituaries Obituaries Survivors include her husband, two daughters, Dawn Marie and Jami and her husband, and her mother, all of Casper; three sisters, Karma Thompson and Kathleen Giangiacomo, both of Casper, and Randi Lou Nickel of Anchorage, Alaska; a brother, Randle Belt Jr. of Casper; her grandmother, Alice McNare, and her mother-in-law, both of Casper; six nephews; and three nieces.
She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Vern McNare: father; father-in-law: and grandmother, Margaret Montoya. Memorials to the Central Wyoming Hospice Program or Wyoming Job's Daughters H.I.K.E. program may be left at Bustard's Funeral Home and Crematory, which is in charge of arrangements. Robin Fae Fazel SALINA, Kan. Funeral services for Robin Fae Fazel.
41. will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Ryan Mortuary in Salina. Interment will follow in Bennington, Cemetery. She died July 30, 2001, at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper.
She was born April 6, 1960, in Salina, the daughter of Danny Dale Sr. and Phannitta June (Bolby) Fazel. In 1981, she graduated from the Kansas State School for the Visually Handicapped. She attended Five Trails Adult Day Center, which was the highlight of her day and week. She wrote poetry of her life, family and friends.
She gave to Special Olympics, Veterans of Foreign Wars, St. Jude's Children's Hospital and Feed the Children. She enjoyed her dog and best friend, Forrest; and was loyal, courageous and a joy to have as a daughter, sister and friend. Survivors include her mother and stepfather, Phannitta and Bruce Brugger of Casper; three brothers, Danny Dale Fazel Jr. and David, both of Salina, and Floyd of Mesquite, Texas; three sisters.
Angie Self and Lori Brown, both of Salina, and Carolyn Guffy of Casper: 21 nieces and nephews; a close friend. Dixie Brown of Salina: and many dear friends. She was preceded in death by her father. Memorials may be made to Five Trails Adult Day Center, 112 S. Beech, Casper 82601.
Nancy Renee Pruett GREEN RIVER Graveside services for Nancy Renee Pruett. 19. will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday in Riverview Cemetery. Funeral services were held Aug.
1, 2001, in Fausett Mortuary Chapel in Castle Dale, Utah. She died July 28, 2001, in Price. Utah, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. She was born Oct. 27, 1981, in Ogden, Utah, the daughter of Wayne and Carolyn (Massey) Pruett.
She graduated from Emery, Utah, High School in 2000 and was a student at the College of Eastern Utah. She loved doing volunteer work and spent many hours maintaining trails in Wyoming and working as a tutor with the Emery County School District. She loved life and all it had to offer. Survivors include her parents and a sister, Jennifer, all of Orangeville, Utah; grandparents, Gene Pruett of Byron, Carolyn Pruett of Price and Joe and Sue Massey of Green River; and greatgrandparents Burl Richards and Florence Massey. was the price $61 which Geissler's great-great-uncle probably paid when he bought it.
But plates identify it as a library, book. For her part, Geissler said her family had always assumed the book had been acquired legally and the library agreed. Darwin's classic text. which introduced his theory of evolution, revolutionized 19th-century thought when it was published in 1859. In 14 chapters, Darwin he argued that all species are in a constant state of slow change and engaged in a struggle to survive.
Geissler said parting with the Survivors include her husband, Walter Tidzump Sr. of Johnstown; three daughters, Sandra Delane June and Sheri Lyn Tidzump, all of Kinnear; four sons, Walter Dick Jr. and Norman Reed Tidzump, both of Kinnear, Marvin Dion of Bar and Thad Tidzump of Browning, five sisters, Regina Sage, Rowena Hebah and Beverly Thomas, all of Fort Washakie, Katherine Shongutsie of Albuquerque, N.M., and Juanita Urban of Vernal, Utah; three brothers, Peter Aragon Jr. of Bar and Don and Oliver Aragon, both of Fort Washakie; 18 grandchildren; a greatgrandchild; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents; six sisters, Julia Smith, Susie Aragon, Clara LaRouque, Linda Dorance and Mable and Elaine Aragon; three brothers.
Lawrence. John and Charlie Aragon; and grandparents, John and Julia Hereford and Jesus and Juanita Aragon. Services are provided by Wind Dancer Funeral Home of Fort Washakie and Davis Funeral Home of Riverton. Erma Evelyn (Yohe) Dickinson LANDER Funeral services for Erma Evelyn (Yohe) Dickinson, 89, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday at the Lander Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.
Burial will follow in Mount Hope Cemetery. She died July 30, 2001, in her Lyons Valley home near Lander, following a lengthy illness. She was born Feb. 20, 1912, in Eddyville, Mahaska County, lowa, the daughter of Bert Samuel and Elsie Margaret (Van Fossen) Yohe. The family moved west to homestead near Douglas.
She started school in Douglas and continued in Casper, when the family moved there, and later in Sheridan, where she graduated from high school. On July 27. 1928, she married Ivan Charles Dickinson in Hardin. Mont. In addition to various ranches in the area, the couple owned and operated the Wyoming Electric Store in Sheridan.
During World War Il. the sale of appliances was limited and the family returned to ranching near Big Horn. They moved back to Casper, where she ran the cosmetic counter of Sunrise Shopping Center. Over the years, the couple ran the Skelly Car Wash and Blue Spruce Motel and. for about 10 years.
had a custom hay business until her husband's death in 1975. She then lived in Lander for a time, in Oregon for three years. and then back to Lander. She was an expert seamstress and accomplished artist and was a member of the LDS Church. book was bittersweet.
She added, though, that she and her husband decided to return it to the library soon after they discovered its value. Geissler's gesture was cheered by Mayor Thomas Menino, who last year launched a public information campaign encouraging library patrons to return overdue books. The campaign emphasized that the maximum late fee is $1.25. Even that is negotiable. When he was informed of the return of "On the Origin of Species," Menino offered to waive the fee.
Ellen R. Gunter SHERIDAN Funeral services for Sheridan resident Ellen R. Gunter, 86, will be conducted at 10 a.m. today at Champion Ferries Funeral Home, with the Rev. Wilbur Holz officiating.
Interment will be in Sheridan Municipal Cemetery, Masonic No. 8 Section. She died July 30, 2001. at Memorial Hospital of Sheridan County. She was born June 23.
1915, in Leipzig, Germany, the daughter of Josef and Maria (Seliger) Reinisch. The family immigrated to the United States in 1927 to live in New York. She graduated from high school and business school in New York City. She worked as a bookkeeper for an architectural firm until returning to Germany in 1937. She worked as a in Leipzig.
In 1947, she taught German to children of the American armed forces in Bremerhaven, West Germany, until returning to the United States in 1951, when she came to Eaton's Ranch near Sheridan. She was a bookkeeper at Eaton's until 1954, when she moved to Sheridan and worked as a at N.A. Nelson Construction until 1960. On July 29, 1958, she married Albert Gunter in Sheridan. They lived in Lander and Gillette and returned to Sheridan in 1967.
She worked as a bookkeeper for Panetta Brothers until 1977. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Daughters of the Nile and Does Drove No. 127. She enjoyed reading, travel and animals. Survivors include a stepdaughter, Jean Richards of Denver; a brother, Stephen Moser of Rexburg, Idaho; two step grandchildren; a step grandchild; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1995. a brother and a sister. Memorials may benefit the Dog and Cat Shelter. 325 Fort Road. Sheridan 82801.
Pauline Rachel 'Bunkey' Tidzump FORT WASHAKIE Traditional Indian funeral services for Pauline Rachel "Bunkey" Tidzump. 71, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday in Rocky Mountain Hall in Fort Washakie, with Harrison "Bunny" Shoyo and Starr Weed officiating. Burial will be in the Aragon Family Cemetery in Kinnear. Evening services will be at 7 p.m.
today at the family home. No. 186 Johnstown Valley in Kinnear, with a wake to follow. She died July 30. 2001.
at Lander Valley Medical Center. She was born April 9, 1930, in Fort Washakie, the daughter of Peter Sr. and Lucinda (Hereford) Aragon. She was raised on the Wind River Indian Reservation. She was a homemaker and foster grandparent at Wind River School and served on the board of Shoshone Credit for six years.
She enjoyed camping, the mountains, attending the Shoshone Sundance every year, and watching her grandchildren compete in sports; and was a big fan of the Wind River Cougars. Memorial Service for CLYDE LILIAN "MEG" SMITH Graveside services, August 4th, 11:00 a.m. at Monument Hill, in Thermopolis, WY. Cal Voight will be officiating along with the V.F.W. Honor Guard.
Both Meg Clyde served in World War HI and Clyde in the Korean War. All are welcome. Survivors include two daughters, Duveene Hamilton and her husband of Lyons Valley and Donna Cranor of Bonnie Lake, five grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; and two greatgreat -grandchildren. In addition to her husband. she was preceded in death by a brother.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Fremont County. George Emile Spracklen DOUGLAS Graveside services for Douglas resident George Emile Spracklen, 79, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in Douglas Park Cemetery, with Pastor Mike Parker of the Assembly of God Church officiating. Military graveside rites will be accorded by Samuel Mares American Post No. 8 of Douglas.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday in Converse Funeral Chapel. He died July 31, 2001, at his home. He was born Jan.
2. 1922, in Douglas, the son of Willis R. and Mildred L. (Poirot) Spracklen. raised and Douglas and Glendo schools," graduating from Glendo High School in 1939.
He entered the Army and served during World War II. On June 6, 1949, he married Norma Arlene Swickhamer in Newcastle. Through the years, they lived in Newcastle and Douglas. He worked for the United Buckingham Trucking Co. in Newcastle for 20 years.
He was a member of the Teamster Union in high standings. He then worked for the city of Douglas for 12 years. He enjoyed fishing and dancing at Esterbrook and loved sports and watching children and his grandchildren participate. Survivors include eight children. John Spracklen of Denver, Judy Chaffin of Cheyenne.
Willis Spracklen of Douglas, Delina Schafer of Waldorf, Amy Larson of Douglas, Patti McDonald of Phoenix. Mari Schaefer of Rozet and Marji Parker of Tucson, three sisters-in-law; 15 grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife on Sept. 14. 2000; five brothers.
Richard. Willis. Quentin. Doug and Eugene Spracklen; and a sister. Patricia Magee.
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