John Sigurd Kvenild

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JOHN S. KVENILD

CASPER –A family memorial service for John S. Kvenild, 95, will be conducted following cremation in the mountains of western Wyoming later this month, on a date to be determined.

John died Aug. 3 at the Life Care Center of Casper following a short illness. He was born Oct. 6, 1911, in Omaha, Neb., to Berger Kvenild and Margit Tessmann Kvenild shortly after they had emigrated from Norway. He graduated from high school in Omaha and attended the University of Nebraska for one year before taking a job with Standard Timber Co. at its tie camp on Horse Creek, west of Daniel, Wyo. This is the area where he and his brother spent several summers in their high school days.

During the years with Standard Timber Co., he married Helen Jenkins and then joined the Jenkins family ranching operation, west of Big Piney. He and Helen were divorced in 1957. He then married Margaret M. Pape and continued ranching until he sold the ranch in 1966. They retired to Carmel, Calif., near his brother, where they lived until moving back to Wyoming in 2000.

He enjoyed the outdoors all of his life – hunting, fishing, skiing and golf, all of which he did into his 80s.

Survivors include sons J.R. Kvenild and wife Dorothy of Casper, Wyo., Bill Kvenild and wife Paula of Laramie, Wyo., step-son Spencer Reynolds and wife Joy of Princeton, N.J., sister-in-law Sally Kvenild of Hawaii, 10 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, one daughter, a brother and his parents.

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