Katie Joanne Peterson

Katie Peterson, age 46, of Lusk, Wyoming, passed away peacefully in her home on Saturday April 26, 2025

A Memorial Service will be held Friday, May 9, 2025at 1:00 P.M. at the Prairie Hills Community Center in Lusk, Wyoming.

OBITUARY

Katie JoAnne Peterson passed away Saturday, April 26, 2025, in her mother’s home in Lusk, Wyoming.

Katie was born June 6, 1978, in Torrington, joining her loving
family, Steve and Jeanne Peterson, and sister, Rosemary Peterson. She
was active in 4-H during her elementary and early high school years.
Her picture graced the cover of the Wyoming Woolgrowers Magazine when
she was three years old, embracing her lamb, Pet. She loved animals of
almost every kind. Katie provided child care in her home and loved each
child she cared for as her own. She graduated from Niobrara County
High School in 1997, loving art, and assisted Jerry Walsh, a position
she greatly enjoyed. She attended Laramie Community College in
Cheyenne. The weight loss story was shared on NBC, inspiring many to
seek treatment.

Katie was blessed with two children she deeply loved: Dmitri, who
ranked with her dad as her favorite cowboy, and Elyse, the
tender-hearted one who cared for others. Katie returned to live with her
mother, Jeanne, last August. The house will be quiet in her absence.

She was preceded in death by her father, Steve Peterson of Lance
Creek, and her grandparents, Julius and Mary Peterson of Lance Creek and
Norman and Doreen Hauge of Wheatland, Wyoming. She is survived by her
mother, Jeanne Peterson, her children, Dmitri Richards, both of Lusk,
and Elyse Richards of Pierce, Colorado, and one sister, Rosemary Henry
of Harrison, Nebraska.

Interment will take place at Lusk Cemetery. The funeral service will
be held on May 9, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. at Prairie Hills Church in Lusk,
Wyoming.

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