My sister called today to let me know our last uncle passed
away today.
Chuck Wyatt, Mills, WY was nearly 95 and still productive. About
ten minutes before an aneurism took him, he was reworking his walker.
He leaves
a daughter and three grandsons. His wife preceding him in death about ten years
ago and a son, felled by a stroke and left disabled, died two years ago. They
lost a girl as an infant.
My youngest aunt was a teen when her mother died leaving her
an orphan. Chuck and Kathleen took her in and she
graduated high school while living with them.
Born and raised in Moffat County, CO, he was a WWII vet. My
sister describes him as the finest human being you ever met and I certainly don’t
disagree.
He was always a “blue collar” worker; a self taught jack of
all trades, and was known to be utterly reliable.
An early memory of mine was his propane fueled car. He
worked for a propane distributor and had a sideline converting vehicles to run
on propane.
Come this May we will all gather at the old homestead during
the Sombrero Horse Drive weekend to inter his cremains in the private family cemetery.
My hope is only his cremains will be interred. My sister and
I are down to two aunts, both in their 80’s.
