From our files: New church for Deaver in 1950

100 years ago, May 30, 1925

The Cowley Progress

Albert Olson, who last year was burned out at Lovell and who has since been in business on a Lovell side street, this week finished the work of moving into a Main Street establishment just east of Nylen’s Pharmacy, where he is stocked up with an up-to-the-minute line of furniture and shelf hardware. He has always had the reputation of giving an honest dollar’s worth of goods for every honest dollar. He will no doubt enjoy a much increased trade in his new location.

Being also still in the undertaking business some of us may need his services at any time in that strange and to most people unpopular business. One never can tell, you know. It’s a mighty fine thing to be on good, friendly terms with the undertaker.

75 years ago, June 1, 1950

The Lovell Chronicle

Sunday, June 4, will be Dedication Day for the new Community Methodist Church in Deaver. The day’s program will begin with the morning worship service at 11 a.m. with Bishop Glenn R. Phillips of the Denver area bringing the morning sermon. At 1 p.m. there will be a community dinner in the basement of the new church. At 3 p.m. the church will be dedicated by Bishop Phillips and Supt. J. Clyde Keegan.

50 years ago, May 29, 1975

The Lovell Chronicle

Rhonda Grant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Grant, will represent Lovell High School at this year’s American Legion Girls State on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie. Grant, 16, is a junior at Lovell High School. She is vice president of the drama club, a member of pep club, girls triple trio and high school chorus. She was a runner up in the 1974 Miss Wyoming Teenage contest. She will be in Laramie June 1-7 studying the government and learning to understand and preserve it.

25 years ago, May 25, 2000

The Lovell Chronicle

Lovell High School senior Carrie Parmer received a rare honor Tuesday, May 16, when she received the John Philip Sousa Award as the top ranked student at LHS for the second straight year. Parmer, the daughter of Rick and Pat Parmer of Lovell, plays the clarinet in band and saxophone in the jazz band. 

A three-year member of the Wyoming All-State Band and the Wyoming All-State Marching Band that played at the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, Parmer has had a busy senior year. She was also a member of the District Music Band in Powell and the University of Wyoming Festival of Winds Band and performed solos and ensembles at the North Big Horn Basin Music Festival.

10 years ago, May 28, 2015

The Lovell Chronicle

Sixty-five years is a long time to do anything, let alone something on a volunteer basis. But that’s about how long Lovell veteran Frank Wilkerson has served his community as a member of the group of local veterans, who regularly perform services on Memorial Day, on Veterans Day and at funerals with military honors.

Wilkerson is especially proud of being a member of the rifle squad for decades before the aging weapons were retired. As a boy, Wilkerson was itching to serve as World War II was raging, so on the day before his 18th birthday – June 20, 1944 – he enlisted, choosing to not finish high school. He chose the Navy as his branch of service and enlisted with his twin brother, Fred.

Wilkerson spent the bulk of his service aboard the USS Jerauld, an amphibious personnel attack ship – APA-174. The young gunner manned the Quad 40, a four-barrel, 40mm anti-aircraft gun. “I’ll never forget it,” Wilkerson said. “I shot down several including the first three that came at our ship. You had to get them or they’d get you.”