Beverly Landrey

A celebration of the life of Beverly Landrey, a 92-year-old Buffalo resident who passed away early Saturday morning, at the Amie Holt Care Center in Buffalo, will be held Friday, June 28^th at 3 pm at the American Legion Hall in Buffalo. A private family interment will take place at a later date. Donations in Beverly’s memory may be made to the Johnson County 4-H Council at 30 Fairgrounds Road in Buffalo or the Hoofprints of the Past Museum at P.O. Box 114 in Kaycee, Wyoming 82639. Online condolences may be made, and the full obituary read at www.harnessfuneralhome.com.

Beverly Yvonne Landrey was born March 20, 1932, in Sheridan, Wyoming to Casper and Theta Odegard. She grew up on her father’s homestead East of Arvada. She walked or rode her horse to the one-room schoolhouse about a mile from home, where her mother taught, until the 7^th grade. She then started riding the bus to Arvada. She graduated from Arvada High School with the class of 1950. Each morning before school, she helped to milk 10-20 cows. The cream was put into cream cans and sent on the train to Sheridan. The milk they kept was used around the ranch and also to make gallons of homemade ice cream which was everyone’s favorite. Bev and her siblings worked everywhere on the ranch. She became an amazing cook at a young age, feeding harvest crews and making up her own recipes, which some of us still use today. She was active in 4-H for years and even won a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago in 1949 for her Food Preparation Project, which she was very proud of. She was an Election Judge at the Tipperary Precinct for several years.

She was married on April 1, 1950, in Hardin, Montana to Roland G. Landrey and they made their home near Arvada. Later they bought a ranch on Upper Powder River from George Jewel, where they spent the next 50 years raising kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, and Registered Red Angus Cattle. The Red Angus herd was sold to their daughter Cheri Graves & husband Ken in 1984.  In 2006 they retired and moved to Buffalo. They loved to travel, including Norway, Hawaii, Archaeology Sites in several states, Music Festivals, and wherever any of kids were living. Roland passed away in 2009 and Bev continued living in Buffalo until the time of her death. Bev’s family was her whole world. She is survived by two daughters, Cheri Graves (Ken) of Kaycee and Wanda Mahoney also of Kaycee; one son, Jerry Landrey (Missy) of Buffalo; one brother Duane Odegard of Arvada; eight grandchildren, Jason Landrey (Megan) Brian Landrey, Quint Gonzales (Amy), Kendi Heinze (Fred), Lyndi Liston, Neteal Graves, Chelsea Landrey, Carlene Crowell (Ryan) and eight great-grandchildren, Kalin Landrey, Trevor Landrey, Adelie Gonzales, Wyatt Gonzales, Audrey Heinze, Reuben Heinze, Cash Liston, & Austyn Sloan.  Several nieces, nephews, and cousins who she adored. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one son, Wayne Landrey; one sister, Phyllis Odegard; one brother, Don Odegard, and one son-in-law Dan Mahoney.