Former Sen. Larry Gilbertz dead at 82

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) – Rancher and former Wyoming Sen. Lawrence

“Larry” Gilbertz has died at age 82.

     The Gillette News Record reports (http://bit.ly/stFxMY )

Gilbertz’s family says he died Saturday at his home in Gillette.

Gilbertz served as the senator for District 23 from 1993 to 1998.

     Gilbertz also served on several boards, including a local school

board, the Court Reform Committee and the Farmer’s Co-op board. He

served in the Army in post-World War II Germany as part of the

United States’ occupation force.

     And after a stint working for a uranium company inDouglas,

Gilbertz and his wife, Vera Ann, moved back to the Gilbertz family

ranch in southernCampbellCountyand built it into a 10,000-acre

operation by the time they retired in 1986.