The following obituaries and death notices appeared in the April 16, 2025 edition of the Star Valley Independent.
For more area obituaries, please visit Schwab Mortuary.
For more resources including headstones, please visit the Star Valley Historical Society.
Nada Fluckiger
Nada White Fluckiger was born at home in Thayne, Wyoming on September 11, 1933, a beloved daughter of Gordon Myron White and Hilda Verena Clark White. She died of natural causes on April 8, 2025 in the same home. As a child, she grew up without indoor plumbing or electricity. She began baking bread at the age of eight in a wood and coal stove. A water-filled ditch by the house was where cans of milk from her father’s hand-milked cows were kept cold and where Nada got water to heat on the stove for cooking, bathing, and washing.
Nada dreamed of her high school sweetheart, Henry LaMont Fluckiger, while gazing at the stars under the purple lilac bushes in the front yard. LaMont and Nada were married in the Idaho Falls Temple on December 27, 1950 and raised their family in the San Francisco Bay area in California. Nada sang, played and taught guitar, piano, organ, and accompanied many church and civic groups.
When her husband LaMont died on June 16, 1997, she deeply missed him every day. She often thought of him while sitting by the kitchen window overlooking the side yard. She loved to watch the sprinklers sparkle water over the manicured green lawn and the colorful flowers. She thanked the lawn guy for his work and her parents and grandparents for the beautiful homestead they built. Her favorite color was green, the color of the alfalfa hay she’d buck raked with a team of horses as a girl.
Nada often expressed gratitude for her faithful parents; their teachings of tithing, being frugal and staying out of debt. She lived economically on the income provided by her hard-working husband who worked for years at Del Monte Corporation in California. One of Nada’s greatest blessings was to live and grow old in the house where she was born. She did just that, after LaMont retired in 1985, their family moved back to the homestead in Thayne, Wyoming.
Nada is survived by her brothers: Gordon White (Donna), Reldon White (Doreen, deceased), her sister Vona White Hunsaker (Lyle ) and her children: Jarene Fluckiger, Kellan Fluckiger (Joy), Markell Fluckiger (Ellen), Ialen Fluckiger (deceased), Ezdan Fluckiger (Lisa), Deulene Fluckiger Petrie (Craig) and Celynn Fluckiger Pulsipher (Bart).
Funeral services will be held on April 14, 2025, 11am at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thayne, Wyoming.
Nada will be laid to rest at the Bedford Cemetery in Bedford, Wyoming.
Yvonne Putnam
Yvonne Putnam was born February 6, 1961 in Afton Wyoming to Noel and Barbara Putnam. She had four brothers and one sister.
She served a mission to Korea. She had a strong faith in her Savior and Heavenly Father. After her return she began working for Western Wyoming Community Outreach and loved working with people.
Yvonne never married but had many nieces and nephews that she considered her children. She was excited to take care of two nephews.
Yvonne peacefully joined her parents in our heavenly home Saturday morning on April 12. She is survived by two brothers and one sister.
Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, April 19,2025 at 11 a.m. in the Afton 4th Ward chapel. A Viewing will be held prior to the service at the church from 9:30– 10:45 a.m.
Florence Seegmiller
Florence Porter Neuenschwander Seegmiller passed away on April 12, 2025 in South Jordan, Utah. She was born on March 6, 1929 in Smoot, Wyoming to Wilford Austin and Alice Elnora Johnson Porter.
Funeral service will be held on Friday, April 18, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. at the South Jordan Stake Center located at 2450 W. 10400 S. South Jordan, Utah. A viewing will be held prior to the service from 11:30 – 12:45 p.m. at the same location. Burial service will be held on Monday, April 21, 2025 at Noon at the Bedford Cemetery in Wyoming. For full obituary and to watch the live stream of the funeral services, please visit jenkins-soffe.com/remember/
Pauline Vannoy
Graveside Services for Pauline Vannoy will be held on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11 a.m. in the Thayne Cemetery.
Gladys Gardner
Funeral Services for Gladys Gardner will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 11 a.m. at the Afton Tabernacle.
A Viewing will be held prior to the service from 9:30 -10:55 a.m. at the church.
