Ethel Stone

Ethel Joyce Stone (Galloway)

Funeral services for Ethel Joyce Stone (Galloway) will be 1:00pm Thursday July 19th at Newcomer Family Funeral Home in Casper, Wyoming. Visitation will be Wednesday July 18, from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. Ethel Joyce Stone died July 14,2007 in Gillette, Wyoming. She was born December 7, 1914 in a log home south of Kilgore, Nebraska on the Niobrara River, to Peter C and Emma Celia Galloway.

She spent her youth working and playing on the family farm alongside her eight siblings.

She graduated from Kilgore High school in 1936, and in 1939 married Walter Albert Stone in Chadron, Nebraska. She had two children Walter Lee Stone and Terry Lane Stone, the family moved to Casper, Wyoming in 1945; in 1956 she graduated from Casper College with an AAS and from Chadron College. She was a fourth grade teacher
Starting in North Casper eventually retiring from Fairdale elementary school, after 30 years of teaching. She loved to teach her students, her favorite subject was Wyoming history. She spent most of her time off and retirement mall walking, arrow head hunting, reading, camping in the Bighorn Mountains, teaching Sunday school, attending the 1st Baptist Church, and traveling home to the family farm on the Niobrara River in Nebraska. Where she liked to ride horses fish and reminisce. She loved to travel, loved to garden, and especially loved her roses.

She is survived by her sons Walter wife Shirley of Gillette and Terry wife Ann of New Mexico, 5 Grandchildren and 6 Great Grandchildren. She will be remembered for her love of family, speaking her mind, and a mean game of marbles.

She was preceded in death by her husband and all eight brothers and sisters.

Newcomer Family Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.