Maureen Kay Powers

Maureen was born on September 27, 1942, to W. Harold Graham and Muriel G. (Donohoo) Graham, in Mountain View, Wyoming. Maureen grew up in Mountain View, Wyoming, the oldest of seven siblings. Along with school, she helped with her younger siblings and cooked for Grandpa Donohoo’s hay crew. She thrived in school, where she was a Band Majorette, played saxophone, and was crowned homecoming queen.

At a dance in high school in her junior year, her pretty blue eyes caught the eye Victor L. Powers and they started going steady. They were married on October 22, 1960, and spent the following 65 years in love and inspectable. Maureen and Vic moved to Evanston, Wyoming after marriage to work at the state hospital together. They then moved to a logging camp to cut timber, and then back to her beloved Bridger Valley to start a family.

Two daughters graced this home, Shannon (Ben) Stoll and Sherry (Mark) Corthell, Maureen was blessed with seven grandchildren: Kyla Maestas, Levi (Sharon) Stoll, Travis Stoll, Melyssa (Christopher) Lee, Brandan (Ashley) Corthell, Carsen (Natalia) Corthell and Crystal (David) Martin. Eleven great-grandchildren complete the family: Keenan, Tayllar, Adaelyn, Embry, Carter, Oliver, Mabel, Rozlyn, Lucy, Gwen, and Lennon.

Maureen showed up for the big moments and the little moments in between. Never missing the milestones of her large family. She enjoyed all the events the grandchildren participated in and made sure they saw her smiling back them. Maureen loved to show up for them. In big family gatherings you could find Maureen at the card table, where the game of choice was always the game her father taught her, Solo.

Maureen never stopped exploring her career path, working in many different occupations from server to senior transport driver to loans officer, insurance agent to substitute teacher. Along the way, she took college courses and was a self-taught early adopter of computers at work and home, always striving to better herself.

If you were looking for Maureen, you had to look long and far as her hobbies ran from inside to the great outdoors. Maureen loved to dance, and you could always find her and Vic on the dance floor. She loved horseback riding, snowmobiling with the grandkids, attending car races with the great grandkids, gardening, hunting and fishing, to name a few. She was very creative with her inside hobbies as she loved to crochet, tat, knit, sew, quilt, draw and paint. But her favorite pastime was making music on her organ or keyboard, where she would spend hours just playing songs from every genre.

Maureen loved to travel, from train rides, cruises, driving across country, to exploring the world. With Vic she traveled from coast to coast, from Mexico to Canada and Alaska. Her thoughts were always the more the merrier, taking anyone who wanted to join in on these adventures. One of her favorite things to do was to just get in the car and go for a drive. Maureen and Vic decided to become snowbirds, first moving to Richland Springs, Texas and then to Overton, Nevada, but always returning to her beloved Bridger Valley.

Maureen leaves behind Vic, her husband of 65 years; her daughters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren; her sisters, Jerilynne Mitchell and Jennifer (Robert) Georges; her brothers, Darold Graham, Barry (Kim) Graham and Erroll Graham; her Sisters-in-law, Bonnie Borhman; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. 

Maureen is preceded in death by her grandparents and parents; her brother and his wife, Wesley and Judy Graham; her sisters-in-law; Kaye Sorensen, Vicki Graham and Lynda Graham; her brothers-in-law, Dwight Mitchell and James Borhman; two nephews and a great-nephew.

Maureen packed her 83 years full of adventure, fun but mostly love.

Her memory will last within us all of us.