PINEDALE -- Services for Gloria A. Lozier, 83, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday Sept. 6, 2008, at Covill Funeral Home.

She died on August 24, 2008, at the Wyoming Medical Center in Casper.

She was born on Nov. 23, 1924, in Rock Springs, to Charles and Grace (Bird) Alexander, the youngest of eight children. She was raised on the family ranch on the New Fork and part of her schooling was in the Alexander-Thompson country school and the rest in Pinedale where she graduated in 1942.

After graduation she wanted to join the Navy, but her brother would not sign the necessary paperwork for her so she went to Provo, Utah, and took an electrical course. They sent her to Hill Field Air Force Base to repair airplane generators.

The next year she was a 'Rosy the Riverter' on cradles for airplane wings in Spokane, Wash.

In October 1944, she married Robert L. Lozier and 3 children were born to this union. They were divorced in 1981.
Besides being a partner on ranches, she was a waitress, bookkeeper, bartender, a clerk in a western store and at a motel, prepared income taxes and was a clerk in 3 Port of Entries 'Kemmerer, Sheridan and Casper).

She retired from the State of Wyoming in 1994 after 10 years of service.

She is survived by her sons, Jim and his wife of Wellton, Ariz., Tom and his wife of Kemmerer; daughter, Linda and her husband of Casper; four grandchildren and two great- grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Lloyd 'Shimmey', Earl 'Tuff', Lawrence 'Jack', Robert 'Buddy', Charles 'Tige'; and sisters, Thelma 'Semmey' Allen and Helen 'Pudge' Moedl.

Contributions may be made to charity of choice.