No services are scheduled for Fremont County resident, Leonard Dale “Bus” Ingwerson, Sr., 83, who died May 3, 2013 in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Cremation has taken place under the direction of Davis Funeral Home.
He was born September 19, 1929, in Minatare-Scottsbluff, Nebraska, son of Harley and Henrietta E. (Stowell) Ingwerson.
On November 12, 1951, he married Julie E. Castro in Lander, Wyoming.
He loved to mechanic, farm and cowboy.
He worked in the family dairy ranch until the death of his father. He then worked as a heavy equipment mechanic at Union Carbide, Brassil & Sims, and Fremont County Road Department. For 30 years, his specialty was Hydraulics and spent 6 months in Nigeria teaching hydraulic skills to them. He worked hard every day to take care of his family.
His family says that Bus was the last of the real cowboys.
Survivors include his wife of Riverton; 3 sons, Leo Ingwerson and his wife, Penny of Casper, Joel Ingwerson of Riverton and Wesley Ingwerson of Riverton; daughter, Avis Nash of Casper; 10 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren and his sister, Erma Jean.
He was preceded in death by his parents, grandsons, Tony Lloyd Ingwerson and Kenneth Wesley and granddaughter, Julie Ann Ingwerson.
On-line condolences for the family may be made at: theDavisFuneralHome.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Davis Funeral Home of Riverton.
He was born September 19, 1929, in Minatare-Scottsbluff, Nebraska, son of Harley and Henrietta E. (Stowell) Ingwerson.
On November 12, 1951, he married Julie E. Castro in Lander, Wyoming.
He loved to mechanic, farm and cowboy.
He worked in the family dairy ranch until the death of his father. He then worked as a heavy equipment mechanic at Union Carbide, Brassil & Sims, and Fremont County Road Department. For 30 years, his specialty was Hydraulics and spent 6 months in Nigeria teaching hydraulic skills to them. He worked hard every day to take care of his family.
His family says that Bus was the last of the real cowboys.
Survivors include his wife of Riverton; 3 sons, Leo Ingwerson and his wife, Penny of Casper, Joel Ingwerson of Riverton and Wesley Ingwerson of Riverton; daughter, Avis Nash of Casper; 10 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren and his sister, Erma Jean.
He was preceded in death by his parents, grandsons, Tony Lloyd Ingwerson and Kenneth Wesley and granddaughter, Julie Ann Ingwerson.
On-line condolences for the family may be made at: theDavisFuneralHome.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Davis Funeral Home of Riverton.