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Wanda Provence
1940 2014

Wanda Provence

October 10, 1940 — May 12, 2014

CASPER – No formal services are planned for Wanda F. Provence. No visitation has been scheduled and cremation has taken place. In lieu of services a temporary Facebook internet account has been set up for 'Wanda Provence Memorial' by family to share in a Celebration of her Life for her friends and family and you are invited to join and participate in sharing memories with her family. In addition Newcomer Funeral Home has managed arrangements and will provide a complete obituary and guestbook on-line.

Wanda F. Provence died May 12, 2014 at home following a short illness. She was born October 10, 1940 to Orville R. Nimmo and Frances L. Riddle in Crawford, CO. She lived many different places in her youth in several western states following her father's work in CO, AZ, CA, WA, OR, NM, and WY.

She married Glenn E. Provence for nearly 50 years on February 11, 1957 in Lander, WY who preceded her in death November 21, 2006 in Casper, WY. With her family she loved to travel, camp, hunt, fish, boat, and motorcycle.

She enjoyed gardening and any variety of crafts from crochet to sewing. She pursued a number of college courses from flower arranging to bookkeeping to business planning she enjoyed using. She worked periodically in a number of different kinds jobs over the years. Her favorite job by far was child care for her grandson and she enjoyed many happy years and activities with him. She especially enjoyed holidays and making the events special to family and friends alike. She was giving and caring and gave of herself to the community and friends and family. Her pursuit of family and their history became a favorite activity in her travels and she enjoyed many years following the trails of her ancestry search and enjoying reunions with relatives.

She is survived by daughter, Debra Provence Meyer, son-in-law Robert Meyer, and grandson Tyrell Meyer.

She is also survived by two brothers, Richard Nimmo and wife Geneva of Alpine, WY and Orville R. Nimmo Jr. of Riverton, WY and one aunt, Ethel Jantz of Enid, OK and many nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Glenn E Provence, her parents, Orville in 1985 and Frances in 1996, a sister Sharon K. Nimmo Covington in 1962 and her husband and child, Travis and Travis Jr., a sister-in-law Mary Tyndall Nimmo in 2004, and a nephew Richard E. Nimmo III in 2012.

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