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WORLAND--Graveside services for Seth "Sandy"
Sonesen, 52, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Riverview Memorial Gardens
Cemetery, with American Legion Post No. 44 of Worland conducting graveside
military honors.
He died April 30, 1999, at Washakie Memorial
Hospital in Worland. He was born Sept. 28, 1946, to William Edward and Carolyn
Mae (Waddell) Sonesen, in Gillette.
He was raised in Thermopolis, and attended
school there. He attended Central Wyoming College in Riverton for two years,
and worked as a youth alternative director locally, maintaining the fountain at
the Washakie County Courthouse west lawn.
He then served in the U.S. Army and was
discharged in November of 1965. He returned to the Worland area, and began
| driving trucks over the road for Dees Trucking. He had also worked for other
trucking companies in the area.
He was married May 11, 1965, to LaDonna Kay
Short, in Thermopolis.
He was an active member of the Floyd Minch Post
No. 44 American Legion in Worland, where he had served on the honor and color
guards. He enjoyed fishing and visiting with friends.
He is survived by his wife; his mother, Carolyn
Starrett of Hayward, Wis.; sons, Andrew Leroy Sonesen of Gillette, and Brian
Keith and Jerome Wayne Sonesen of Worland, and Timothy Allen Sonesen of
Gillette; brothers, Michael Sonesen of Cable, Wis., Kenneth Jay Sonesen of Lehi,
Utah, Bobby Joe Sonesen of Casper, and Lloyd Brown of Turtle Lake Wis.; and
seven grandchildren.
Veile Mortuary of Worland is in charge of
arrangements.
"Casper Star-Tribune" May 3, 1999.
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