Alexander services held
Funeral services were held Tuesday, July 21 for Lloyd C. Alexander of Pinedale. Lloyd "Shimmy" Alexander died Thursday, July 16 at the Bethesda Care Center in Laramie, Wyoming. He was 82 years old at the time of his death. The following was written by his family.
Lloyd was born near Cora, Wyoming on April 3, 1905 to Charles C. and Grace (Bird) Alexander. He was raised by his grandparents on the 1890 Alexander homestead in the New Fork Valley. His grandmother began "schooling" him when he was about five years old. After the Jenkins-Alexander School was built on the New Fork, he completed his third through eighth grade education in a more formal setting. He had to spend winters in Pinedale to attend high school. Summers were spent back in the valley on the ranch.
Lloyd was about 20 years old when he first met a young lady from Minnesota who had just been hired to teach the Decker-Binning School. He began courting her and on April 30, 1927 he and Celia (Bump) Cady, in his own words: "...slipped off to Green River City and tied the big knot." He spent most of his working life as a carpenter and helped construct a number of buildings in Pinedale before answering the government's appeal for carpenters during World War II. This work took him to several different bases across the country.
He worked on a Naval base in Oceanside, California for about two years before returning to Pinedale in 1945 to work on the school building. Later he purchased a planing mill in Cheyenne, transported and set up the mill in Pinedale.
Over the years he built countless custom cabinets, doors, windows, furniture, boats, houses, a motel (Rivera Lodge) and an apartment house (Alpine Apartments). In later years he earned his pilot's license, operated the Pinedale Airport and held the Artie Cat dealership.
After he retired, he became a familiar sight to many as he traveled the country with his little white dog "Pepper" in his red pickup, as a property appraiser for the Veterans Administration. He is remembered by many as Pinedale's Fearless Forecaster and political prognosticator. He was preceded in death by his wife, Celia; one brother, Lawrence (Jack); and a sister, Thelma Allen. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Rosemary, daughter Anita; two brothers, Earl (Tuff) and Herbert (Tige); two sisters, Helen Moedl and Gloria Lozier; and two grandchildren. He was very proud of his efforts to help establish the Hi-Country Senior Citizens Center. Friends may contribute to the Sublette HI-Country Senior Citizens Center in his memory.
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