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The Campbell County Observer July 27 - August June 17 -3, 24,2012 2011

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Last May, my wife and I had been one month exactly into our newly founded newspaper. I had made a phone call on Glenn Wood’s show talking about the trials and accomplishments of our new business, which resulted in 4 phone calls ordering subscriptions and one from a man named Ken McCoy. “I heard that you may need some help. Well, I’m retired, a fellow veteran, and would like to help any way I can.” So we met, and I fell in love with Ken from the first moment I met him. He was my kind of person, the kind that you can instantly trust with your entire soul. You could look deep into his eyes and know that he was an honorable spirit with an angelic light that would protrude whenever he entered a room. My children took an instant liking to “Mr. Ken,” and for a good reason. The man loved children, and would put his kids, his grandchildren, and any other children above all else at all times. He was the first person to chastise you if you did wrong, but he was also the first person to praise you when you did right. And to other people, he did right! People talk about other giving people, but Ken would truly take the shirt off his back in a Wyoming blizzard to save another life, and would give until there was nothing left. Ken was an outstanding woodworker and an even better welder. He loved to work and worked on his own projects consistently throughout his retirement. His favorite job in life was working for Ed and Skip Eldridge at Eldridge Excavation in Gillette. “That ol’ boy Skip,” he would tell me “wouldn’t let you do all the toughest work. He’d push me out of the way, we’d

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