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- Ella Babe Gustin
Lander – Services for Ella Babe Gustin, 92, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday at Faith Lutheran Church by Father Harold Luxon. Burial will be in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander.
Mrs. Gustin died march 1, 1993, at the Lander Valley medical Center. She was born April 30, 1902, in Arminto to Dan and Clara (Hayes) Tracy. The family traveled around Wyoming by wagon, horseback and on foot while her father explored for gold.
Her father and older brother, Jack, died in an influenza epidemic during World War I, and she was sent to live with an aunt in Livingston, Mont. After two years, she returned to Hudson and married Sherman Gustin on April 2, 1921.
The couple spent most of their lives on the Ethete Ranch. Mrs. Gustin was called “Granny” by people from the Lander area and was known for her veterinarian skills. She enjoyed hunting, fishing and spent her last years in business with her daughter, Peggy, outside of Lander. She was preceded in death by her husband who died July 3, 1980, and a daughter, Rosalyn Hedges.
Survivors include three daughters, Shirley Fraser of Fernley, Nev., Peggy Gustin of Lander and Ada McDonell of Fort Washakie; one son, Orville Gustin of Ainsworth, Neb.; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Hoopes Funeral Home in Lander on Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Thursday morning until noon.
Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming. Wednesday, 3 March 1993.
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